As we are selling or packing up everything we own I found some of our original video podcasts that we did way back in 2003. I was disappointed that I was unable to find the pilot episode, which Brad Davies and I produced in an afternoon, but here is the earliest one I could find.
YWAM Reef to Outback Internet News – 4th Edition – October 2003
Here are the stories that were covered back in October 2003:
- YWAM School of Event Management (SEM)
- October YWAM DTS (Discipleship Training School)
- Discipleship Training School Camping Testimonies
- Role of Intercession in YWAM
I remember making the Monthly Video Podcast was definitely a highlight of my month. We used to keep it short and small, usually under 5MB, as back in 2003 there was still a lot of people on dial-up.
In this episode, and all those before it I would have to write out the news and read it off the paper on my deck. I also thought that my glasses reflected the lights too much, so I always took them off.
Judging by me laughing while trying to start the show I reckon that it was probably David Couper doing the filming. I always had a hard time keeping a straight face when he was around.
YWAM Reef to Outback Internet News – 5th Edition – November 2003
By November 2003 we had started to do the video podcast using a TelePrompTer. It was actually just a PowerPoint slideshow on my laptop, which was propped up under the camera, but it worked.
In November 2003 the news highlights at YWAM – Reef to Outback were:
- Impact Summer
- July and October Discipleship Training School (YWAM DTS) Updates
- The Important Role that Families Play in YWAM
- Birth of Joyous Hope to Luke and Angela Haythorpe
Since then the Video Podcast at YWAM – Reef to Outback has continued on. It’s gone through a few stages of inactivity, but is now running fairly consistently, five and a half years after I started …
Here is the latest YWAM – Reef to Outback Internet News:
YWAM – Reef to Outback inews episode 20
I have no idea where they got the new episode numbers from, I think that they abandoned the episode numbers that I started quite a while ago now. This means you may find a few episodes with the same numbers going.
Reef to Outback also has a lot of Mac lovers / worshippers / cult members. Hence the “i” in inews.