Those boxes of old photos we have in closets around here are great. Before our director of programming left a few years ago she dug through all sorts of archive boxes to pull together lots of old photos and items from the churches history. She had been here for 18 years, starting as the children’s minister.
There were a lot of pictures, but not piles of them. They were taken on film cameras and only the best ones were saved. Many of them had been lost or glued onto big poster board displays where they were linked into context.
This came to mind today as I was looking through the directory of our missions department. The director of missions recently went back to work at a church closer to where his family lives. A lot of things have changed over the 7 years he has been here, and one of them is noticeable by the pictures he left behind. Lots of them. As more and better digital cameras went out on missions and service trips our number and size of photos increased.
Between our missions and sports ministries we have more than 100GB of photos and videos. Our student and children’s ministry has a large collection, and our adult ministries have quite a few as well. We are starting to update our Arena database with many of the plain images of individuals, but that still leaves a lot of photos that we don’t want to just delete.
Is there a program out there to help us manage all of this content? Something we can dump it into and find it in the future?
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