Meet these very special Promotion Girls Maria (82), Charlotte (86) and Klara (89). They did promo work for the Diakonie Frankfurt (Ger), the help organization from the Protestant Church.
The Diakonie-grannies walked through the centre of Frankfurt, just as in their everyday lives, and got into situations in which they needed help because of their age: crossing a street, carrying a shopping bag or using a ticket machine. If people helped the grannies, they were thanked with a flyer that said “We are looking for people just like you!” and which referred them to the website www.help-the-oma.de.
“We are recruiting in places where older people often need help: in everyday life. People who offer a hand here are perfectly suitable for voluntary work at the Diakonie,” Burkhart von Scheven, Chief Creative Officer Saatchi & Saatchi Germany, explains the idea behind the campaign. “The ‘help for the Oma’ depicts only a small part of the Diakonie’s work, but it illustrates what all volunteers have in common: the love for people and their desire to help others.”
One video and three print ads from the People of The United Methodist Church.
The campaign directed those inside and outside the church to 10thousanddoors.org to find out how to help after the Haitian earthquake, in any way they could. The point of the posters was simply to convey that faith + action = hope.
“Of all the things earthquakes can destroy, the human spirit is not one of them.
Find out how to to help the people of Haiti at 10thousanddoors.org."
“The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.”
The Charter of Compassion is a cooperative effort to restore not only compassionate thinking but, more importantly, compassionate action to the center of religious, moral and political life. Compassion is the principled determination to put ourselves in the shoes of the other, and lies at the heart of all religious and ethical systems. One of the most urgent tasks of our generation is to build a global community where men and women of all races, nations and ideologies can live together in peace. In our globalized world, everybody has become our neighbor, and the Golden Rule has become an urgent necessity.
The Charter for Compassion is the result of Karen Armstrong’s 2008 TED Prize wish and made possible by the support of the Fetzer Institute.
Posted by Marc | 30-09-2009 20:44 | Category:
Religion
Like, thanks for sunshine, but what about sunburn?
How come the more you have, the more you want?
We’ve got more friends, but less friendship
More convenience, but less patience
More hope, but more uncertainty
A healthy body still isn’t good enough
And how come the best things always have to end?
Jesus Has Answers.
allaboutlife.com.au
The Ask Yourself campaign from Dropping Knowledge is a series of over 100 digital postcards which promote dialogue on social themes of global significance. Answers can be added as comments by clicking on the postcards and each card can be shared through dragging and dropping into emails. Registered users are encouraged to pose questions as well. See more below.
Q&A at its best: participatory, provocative and pertinent.
Bike for Bibles originated in 1984 in Australia with three cyclists, and it now takes place in many countries, including Canada. Money to provide Bibles is raised through the sponsorship of cyclists.
The 2009 Bike for Bibles ride will be in support of Scripture resources for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. The Canadian Bible Society will be distributing New Testaments, the Gospel of Mark, and the Book of Hope youth magazine to thousands of people at the games.
This video isn’t highschool creativity but cycling is my first love…
(Thx @gibarra)
Posted by Marc | 27-04-2009 21:42 | Category:
Religion
St Matthews in the City, a progressive Anglican church in Auckland, New Zealand promote their Easter services with this billboard, about a conversation on the truth of the Christian gospel message around crucifixion and resurrection.
“This billboard will rise again. (Next Easter probably). Gospel. Truth?”
Related post about St Matthews in the City: Pet blessings
It’s a shame I didn’t know about the Global Oneness Project. A great project about sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice.
The Global Oneness Project is exploring how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world. The people behind the project travel around the globe since 2006 gathering stories from creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world.
Ok, same sex marriage bashers have to right to advertise too.
This ridiculous PSA is from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it.
Freedom of speech isn’t it? How about freedom of choice?
Check out the outtakes from the auditions for this ridiculous PSA.
Check also the 2300 + comments at YouTube.
Great combination of religion and humour. A promotion in fitness studios, where people mostly train alone and anonymously, from the German DJK Hamburg e.V., the Catholic sports association. Agency Grabarz & Partner made treadmills with a special cover which lets the athletes run on water. And invites them to train together with others in the DJK in a humorous way.
“Even Jesus didn’t walk alone all the time. Join with us! DJK - The Christian sports club.”
It was World Aids Day yesterday. As every year many new campaigns are launched. The video above is part of a great campaign from the North American Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC).
According to the CRWRC it is time that the Christian community embrace those living with this disease and take it on as a cause that we are willing to do something about.
The CRWRC wants to increase awareness of the Aids/HIV crisis. Main message: “Let’s invite friends to shine their light on Aids.” That is also the main used visual aspect as seen on the microwebsite iEmbraceAIDS.com.
Advertising and campaigning seems so simple to do but it isn’t. I’ve seen so many ads communicating mixed messages or badly described problems.
This video from the Vancouver Union Gospel Mission (UGM) is a great example of good advertising. No budget but the UGM succeed in bringing one simple message: see our Christmas catalogue with gifts for the person who has everything.
Their shop is not for having things but for giving a warm shelter for 5 nights. Giving bus tickets or employment counselling & work wardrobe etc.
The UGM Christmas catalogue was mailed out to thousands of homes in the Vancouver area, and several low-cost newspaper ads were taken out in local papers. The video part of the campaign is entirely web-based.
The low-budget, hand-held promo video was written, shot and filmed in a week by UGM’s in-house Communications team.
Posted by Marc | 9-11-2008 21:21 | Category:
Religion
”The Green Bible will equip and encourage people to see God’s vision for creation and help them engage in the work of healing and sustaining it. With over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, compared to 490 references to heaven and 530 references to love, the Bible carries a powerful message for the earth.”
The Green Bible includes:
- Green-Letter Edition: Verses and passages that speak to God’s care for creation highlighted in green
- Contributions by Brian McLaren, Matthew Sleeth, N. T. Wright, Desmond Tutu, and many others
- A green Bible index and personal study guide
- Recycled paper, using soy-based ink with a cotton/linen cover
Posted by Marc | 26-10-2008 17:08 | Category:
Religion
An exeptional campaign was launched last week at Tuesday October 21 in London. At that day AtheistCampaign.org started to raise £5,500 to run 30 buses across the capital for four weeks with the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
They reached the total just over 10 hours after launch!
“Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”
(William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1939-1975)
At april 8, Easter sunday, bishop Hurkmans blessed this new stained glass window in the St. Jan’s Cathedral Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Nothing special at first sight.
Over 170 buses in Richmond, Virginia USA have one of three signs with Arabic writing promoting silly sayings like, “Paper, Scissors, Rock” and “Paper or Plastic.” The bus company has been getting calls from riders wanting to know what the signs mean.
Sometimes when people see or hear a language they do not understand it scares them. Muslims stare fear and mistrust in the face almost daily. With these bus signs Rethink Bias is saying that even though we fear what we don’t understand we are able to overcome that fear by learning about others. We can rethink bias, but it starts with learning about our neighbours.
For World AIDS day, friday 1 December, some Dutch church towers will be symbolically wrapped with a enormous orange condom. It’s organised by Orange Babies, a charity organisation that initiated from the fashion world to provide support to HIV infected pregnant women in Africa.
Posted by Marc | 8-11-2006 22:35 | Category:
Religion
The United Church of Canada just launched this three-year $9 million campaign called Emerging Spirit.
The ads, created in partnership with Toronto-based communications firm Smith Roberts and Co., are part of an effort to build awareness of the website www.wondercafe.ca, said Howard, executive director of the project.
Posted by Marc | 26-10-2006 22:21 | Category:
Religion
No this not a anti-religious ad. This is a outdoor announcement of an annual event held at the St Matthew in the City, a progressive Anglican church in Auckland New Zealand. Hundreds of people bring along their pets to be blessed by Revd Glynn #####.
See some photo’s from the event.
It’s remarkable that for the first time in many years a lot of protest artwork about the Middle East conflict is going over the net. Of course the war in South Lebanon is the main part of it. That can be sign that the conflict is going totally out of hand.
The next few days I will post ads as many as I could find about it. If you know any protest ads mail me at houtlust@gmail.com.
Of course I think peace is the only solution, but I’m interested in campaigns from both sides, pro or contra in this conflict.
Hi! We are Judith and Gertjan, a Dutch couple with an open heart and mind for the people of South Asia. In 2010 we will move with our two kids towards South Asia to work as volunteers. Judith is a nurse with a medical management qualification and will be involved in a medical training program. Gertjan is an entrepeneur and will start an education program and an IT business. Our Christian faith is an important motive for us in doing this kind of work.
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