We continued our new series at our church (New Hope) today entitled, “Six-Forty Series”. It centers around the various kinds of spiritual disciplines that help to nurture our relationship with God. The reason we are calling it “Six-Forty” is because of the format we are using to communicate timeless truths.
A few months ago, we came across how some Japanese architects were creatively formatting their design presentations to make them more focused, concise, and memorable. These design presentations, known as Pecha Kucha (which comes from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation), are 6 minutes 40 seconds PowerPoint presentations that contain 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each.
We thought this would be a refreshing way to communicate a Sunday message so we adapted the format to share insights into the spirituals disciplines.
Following this particular 6 minutes 40 seconds presentation entitled “Prayer”, our community of faith entered an amazing time of prayer. As you will hear in the message, prayer has more to do with presence than format/method.
Click here to hear this message on the New Hope podcast (iTunes required) and feel free to follow along with the embeded presentation below. You will have to time each slide at 20 seconds increments if you want the live feel. 
I look forward to hearing your thoughts about this podcast!
This post is tagged Charles Lee, New Hope, Prayer, Six-Forty, Six-Forty Series
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I am really loving these short presentations — thinking of adopting Pecha Kucha myself. It’s so easy to hold my attention for 6:40, easy for me to focus and get a lot out of what is being said. Much better than a 45 minute sermon that meanders. I really dig it.
One suggestion: There is a way to embed artwork into podcasts and have that artwork change as the podcast plays. That, or a video that times the slides to the audio, may be a more effective way of presenting this to the web audience.
Really great idea…
Thanks for your kind words Stephen. I’m glad you’re enjoying these presentations. A lot can be communicated in 640
I did consider embedding the audio, but just didn’t have time. I’m still considering going back and doing that.
This is most practical info. on prayer I’ve heard in years. The 640 format is amazing to me in that it distills the message down to the core components that then can be easily applied to day-to-day life. The time of prayer following Sunday’s presentation was powerful. I have never experienced such personal, intimate prayer in a congregational context.
Thanks for the note Kevin.
Our time together this past Sunday was amazing…loved what God did. Thanks also for your kind words about the series
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