23) I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. 24) Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25) Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
1 Corinthians 9:23-25 (New International Version)
Our Team
Our entire team is dedicated to enabling an easier approach to producing a weekly worship experience. Each team member brings years of experience in the church with a passion in the areas of creativity and the arts as spiritual expression.
Josh Cordle
A former multimedia director at his home church, Crossroads UMC, he is passionate about creating life-changing moments each week in worship. Currently he serves on a creative arts team designing worship services for Northminster Church in Richmond, VA where he lives with his wife and son. In addition he consults in the areas of communication technologies for businesses and non-profits through his company, Core Image, Inc. During the day Josh works for a large retailer. His creative work has garnered several awards which he keeps on a dusty shelf in his office.
Kiere el-Shafie
With 9 years of web development experience, Kiere has built web applications in several languages and frameworks including ASP, ASP.NET and his new favorite, Ruby on Rails. He currently serves on the creative arts team designing worship services for Northminster Church in Richmond, VA. When he is not developing software, he likes to hike, play on boats and ride mountain bikes with his wife and dog.
Christopher Redinger
An Extreme, Test-Driven Software Developer, Christopher has been programming since the mid-90s, when he cut his teeth on Perl while working his way through college in Maine. After putting in his time in the dot-com world, with the stock options to prove it, he made the jump to consulting. During that time he used the myriad of available Java based web frameworks and came to the conclusion that there must be a better way. That better way for him started with the ?Agile Manifesto?, and peaked with ?Getting Real? and Ruby on Rails.
Christopher is now running his Ruby on Rails consulting business in balmy North Carolina where he resides with his wife Amy and daughter Inara, to whom he devotes much of his free time. More can be read at his online presence at http://www.agiledisciple.com.
Mike Shipman
Born in raised in Canada, he's been in church ministry in the U.S. since 1997 when he went to college (Houghton College). After receiving his BA in Religion he went on to co-found a para-church ministry called RFM Ministries, which was a nationally recording and touring band. For the last 2+ years he has served as Creative Arts Director at Crossroads Church in Pittsburgh, PA where he resides with his wife Rachel, soon to have their first child (its a girl!).
worship relay is a creation of core image, inc. in Richmond, VA