Today I created a new commercial for the Elevate 2004 Conference in Dallas, TX and Charlotte, NC - This is a great opportunity for WisdomTEK Media Services - NewLife Industries - and Me, Tom Roe - Your humble artist. NewLifeShopper is featured in the ad which is a minute and 5 seconds long. This is our first commercial so I spent a lot of time getting it right. The first DVD we sent was almost done but I finished editing version two today, Thursday, January 8th, 2004.

Elevate is something that... "was initially in the mind and heart of Bob Reccord, president of the North American Mission Board. As a result of his vision, courage, and leadership a team of people filled with passion and armed with a long list of credentials began to piece together Elevate. Under the direction of NAMB, OnCore was retained to provide a turnkey conference." {Excerpt from their website}

I created this commercial on a 2 GHz Dual P4 Xeon computer with one Gig of RAM which I built myself using parts from www.micropro.com and a DigiSuite MAX/DTV board array installed. The Chassis and Motherboard were from Super Micro I think. It's been well over a years since I built this. I use Adobe Premiere 6.5 to edit and create 3d animation and models with Lightwave 7.5 from NewTek. I will be posting a streaming version of this commercial at WisdomTEK Media Services - The company created by Richard Humble (President of NewLife Industries) and myself in November 2002.

This conference is an awesome idea. It was produced by the North American Mission Board - NAMB - which is a Southern Baptist organization. I've never seen anything quite like this. They seem to be looking outward more, and having grown up in the Baptist church this seems to be quite a deviation from the norm. I like this trend. The more we can abandon our ritualistically organized religions and think outside of that box the better we will be able to meet the needs of others and expand the Kingdom of God.