Portfolio

Parliamentary Prayers Scotland (PPS)

PPS prays for the Scottish Parliament each week they aim to make sure that every MSP is prayed for. Our work for them has included, building and hosting a web site. We have also designed laminated prayer cards for each of the eight regions. These are posted out to Christians throughout the year, given out at a stand at CLAN Gathering and also can be downloaded from the web site. We have also produced a scrolling loop of the MSPs faces and names that allows people to pray for each MSP by name in three minutes. For the last parliament we produced individual credit card sized prayer cards for each MSP and people were encouraged to adopt an MSP and pray for them every day. Through prayer networks like Lydia and Aglow these cards spread through Scotland. Future work on the site will involve trying to make the site a place where MSPs themselves feel very welcome. Most of the MSPs if asked say they are Christian, so there is in opportunity to provide devotional material tailored to the needs of leaders.

Edinburgh Creation Group (ECG)

In the book of Romans Paul say that the invisible qualities of God, his eternal power and divine nature are revealed through nature. Today many belive that science and nature show that there is no God. ECG aims to highlight some of the inconsistencies that are always present in naturalism. They challenge the view that science and naturalism are the same thing. They invite mostly PhD scientist who are Christians to speak on the subject of their expertise. Deep Wide Media designed flyers for the creation group and a web site. We also challenged them to start videoing their talks. After each talk we uploaded them to the web. While a maximum of about 30 would come to the group over some talks have been downloaded by over 1000 people at full screen resolution (TV on demand). The talks were watched by many in the science departments at The University of Edinburgh. Many of the talks at ECG were highly educational in term of scientific content and drew praise from those who disagreed with the conclusions.

An educational lecture on whale evolution, examining the traditional evolutionist viewpoint through the creationist prism. Worthwhile watch even if you sensibly disregard the creationist message entirely.

The speaker is a fairly reasonable creationist: he is happy with the idea that snakes have lost their legs ... nor does he rely on the bible as a crutch. He also includes some of his own reasonable hypotheses about function (which are not inconsistant with natural selection). And suggests creationist biology should be able to make predictions in the future.

His main points of difference with mainstream biologists are largely matters of opinion, and a refusal to simply place what we know into an evolutionary framework, even when it fits perfectly well there.

Worth watching, just for the comparative anatomy lesson.

Another wrote:

I take a different stand on the creation/evolution issue. However I enjoyed your lectures and feel that you present your case very well. Very refreshing. Well done.

The Celtic Tour

The Celtic Tour is a tour of the Royal Mile that brings out the Christian history. The tour is simular in style to the Ghost and Witchcraft tours that dominate the Royal Mile but its content is uplifting and richer in historical detail. Deep Wide Media produce the Flyers and web site for this tour. One week the tour was to be cancelled because none had booked in. The tour guides however decided to get their costumes on, go out onto the street and hand out flyers in the afternoon before the tour. That night was one of their busiest nights with twenty seven people staying for tea and coffee at the end.

Took the tour in May on my last day in Scotland with Memphis Theological Seminary. I thumb tacked some pictures from Glasgow Cathedral and the Celtic tour flier on my office wall in Japan, and that is one of the most talked about items in my office. Keep up the Lord's work, and we are praying for you.

In Christ,

Rev. Jason Chambers, LT, CHC, US Navy Reserve
Destroyer Squadron 15, Command Chaplain
Yokosuka, Japan

University of Edinburgh Atheist Debate

The University of Edinburgh Philosophy Society and Christian union hosted a debate between two Oxford professors: Peter Atkins and Alistar McGrath. Twice as many people turned up as could fit into the lecture theatre. We asked if the cameraman from Edinburgh Creation Group could record video the talk. Within a few days the talk was on the web and those that missed it were able to see it. The video proved very popular and has had over 20,000 views. We also created a small web site for the video so it can be linked to related material in the future.

Can You Put The Moon Into Orbit

Simplest ideas are often the best and this one page web site has had 80,000 views. It makes an subtle argument for their being and intelligent designer based on the moons orbit. The site only works in browsers that support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) e.g. Firefox but not Internet Explorer. This turned out to be a huge attention grabber because people with browsers that support SVG were very keen to see what it could do. When new articles are posted on the Edinburgh Creation Group web site we often link to them from this site.