I’m the teenager
Hey! This is Evan Doyle, and I’m the teenager on this blog. As Ryan has already mentioned, I am the Technology Director for KidzMatter, and for the Children’s Ministry at our church. I have grown up in Ryan’s children’s ministry since day 1, so we’ve known each other for quite some time. I got started working in ministry in 2003 at the age of 12 running the PowerPoint for our Sunday morning Kids’ Church. At the time, the computer we were running only had a floppy drive, so imagine trying to fit a PowerPoint with pictures and text onto a 1.44 MB floppy drive. Not fun. Since then, we’ve had 2 new computers, moved our entire song library from PowerPoint to MediaShout, and some other fun stuff. But that’s not my entire life.
I am also a home-schooled sophomore in high school (only 2 more weeks!). In 2004, I attended teen camp in 7th grade and felt a strong calling to Children’s Ministry. This has allowed me to take advantage of some amazing opportunities with Ryan. So I’ve taken on a volunteer position with KidzMatter, working in the office on Tuesdays. You may also remember meeting me at the KidzMatter booth at CPC, in both Orlando and San Diego this year. Another position I hold is as the Technology Support guy. If you’ve ever submitted a Trouble Ticket, I probably responded to it. In addition to all of this, I also hold a part-time job at a local Long John Silvers/A&W. So all in all, I have a very busy life.
Ryan, KidzMatter, and the other blog posters here have very much become like friends and mentors, and help me to grow as God would like. I look forward to sharing with you through this blog, and hearing your comments and advice. It is an honor to be given this opportunity, and to be mentored by such great people. See you again soon, and have a great day!
i am your first comment! i am so excited about the kidzmatter blog! it’s sort of like getting to attend a virtual cpc, without actually going (haha). super cool and i look forward to gleaning wisdom… even from the teenager:) nicely done on your first post evan!
Hi Evan,
I’m praying for God to raise up or send your clone to me!!! I’m techno challenged to say the least…
I have a question for you when you have the time…I cannot get microsoft media player downloads to play through my laptop and profector (such as pastor karl’s theater)…
Everything else will play powerpoint etc…but anything i try to play through the media player just shows a black screen even on the moniter in the sound booth…
Any thoughts???
Chris-
Hey, this is Evan. What it sounds like is happening to me is that you are experiencing a common issue with Windows Media Player. There are no really easy solutions, but you can check out 2 sites:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00467.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/mediaadvice/0063.mspx
These sites should give you some tips to get you on your way to getting it to work. If neither of these sites can help, the best thing to do would to be to talk to a “techie” type person in your church or to take it to a local computer shop. However, I have had good success with the two sites above, so they should be able to help you out.
Thanks! Have a great day.
The mandatory mile long legal disclaimer written in a whole bunch of legalese that no one really understands but they take your word for it that it just says that you aren’t responsible for what other people do (what a cop-out):
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(Now wasn’t that fun?)
que??? Ummm the answer is 3??? Thanks Evan!!!