Aug 24, 2010
Yesterday we signed off on the proofs at the printers for our new book "Hope of the Resurrection". The proofs looked excellent, and we're excited to now see many years of work condensed into this easy to read and important book. We are taking orders now, and encourage you to order your personal copy.

While we're offering this book for free, we also provide the opportunity for those who would like to donate $5 for postage or $15 for printing and postage. (Lots of people have urged us not to give the book away for free, so we feel that this is the happy balance between those who need the good message, and those who can partner to help). The good news must always be available to everyone without cost!

July 23, 2010
The culmination of two years writing and almost fourteen years of filming, our new book, "Hope of the Resurrection" is set to be in print by mid-September.

A big thank you to all who have donated time to help in its proof reading, as well as for your invaluable comments and appraisals. While in Tasmania recently we visited my grandmother's resting place near Devonport. The cover features a photo of Leah by the bronze plaque that reads "Until the Resurrection".

The "Hope of the Resurrection" is available for online order from this website. Pre-order your copy now. We will also host PDF and Kindle downloads for those who would like digital copies.

Author: John Klassek
134 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-646-53966-9
Publisher: MessageWeek Ministries

No cost for Australian addresses. We do, however, request international orders to be accompanied by $5 postage costs.

July 3, 2010
The latest short film "Read the Book" is now available for viewing.

June 29, 2010
Had a wonderfully blessed time while filming in Tasmania and Victoria, here pictured being interviewed by another film crew while working on location in the Melbourne CBD. We were asked whether we believed in "heaven or hell"?

Everywhere we visited and stayed God granted us favour and blessing, safety and success, all contributing to one of the best weeks we've ever spent on location.

We're currently editing three new short films, including an uncut version of this on-the-spot interview which we hope will be available in the next couple of weeks.

June 22, 2010
We're evaluating the strengths and characteristics of Live Streaming. This will give our online audience an opportunity to see and participate in some of the work we're involved with. We hope to facilitate live streaming of services once a month from various locations around Australia. Our test site is streaming from www.message7.org/live.htm and our archives located at www.livestream.com/messageweek

We plan to notify interested viewers of our next planned stream, usually on a Saturday morning. If you miss a live stream, we try to archive a copy at Livestream.

Our cameras and equipent is now packed, ready for the filming in Victoria and Tasmania.

June 21, 2010
The results are finally out!

Hannah's 90 second film entry of "Believe In Me" won first place in the Singaporean film competition, "What Makes a Young Champion". Congratulations Hannah!

We'll be away now for the next week, filming on location in Victoria and Tasmania. Looking forward to the filming, fellowship and the focus as we slowly expand the work and scope of MessageWeek Ministries.

June 8, 2010
Many thanks to Phil Kordahi for the support and warm welcome during our recent visit to Adelaide, South Australia. Phil invited us to share a little about MessageWeek.

The Barossa Valley is truly beautiful this time of year, with a fresh new green growth following recent rains amidst the yellowing hues of autumn. It is an ideal venue for MessageWeek on-location filming, and we look forward to further exploring that option.

May 27, 2010
Over the years we've produced numerous short films discussing "The Hope of the Resurrection", and now we're nearing the completion of a new book of the same title. This is a compilation based on those film scripts, and more, and is designed for the everyday reader. The online survey we've hosted here provides additional insight into what our viewers think. We'll keep you posted once we're closer to getting it published; a PDF version will also be available for download.

This week's news included the purchase of 500 cardboard egg filler cartons that line the walls and ceiling of our film recording studio. The egg cartons, by absorbing normal room echo will contribute to improved audio when filming or recording an audio soundtrack.

We're currently working on a new film script, and look forward to filming it in a couple of week's time.

May 15, 2010
"Don't Put God in a Box" is a new short film that one recent viewer described as "thought provoking". Too often we tend to inadvertently limit God by attempting to define Him in terms that go beyond scripture. We hope you're encouraged and inspired by this film which carefully and honestly discussed attempting to define the "nature of God".

By also now hosting some of our films on YouTube, some bandwidth is relieved from our Western Australian servers.

In the past week, we've also produced another 30 second short film clip, inviting viewers to really find out about God "this Saturday, at a church near you". This is a generic version of the series of short clips we specifically produced last year for the Church of God (Seventh Day), and the credits may be modified to suit by individual church conferences/groups.

May 5, 2010
No doubt you've noticed the new-look MessageWeek website. Gone are the old frames, giving way to a cleaner look with a slightly larger font, and all making it easier to navigate. This upgrade is designed to facilitate the newer, wider LCD screens.

Our technical work has also involved upgrading one of our server's main hard disk drives to an "enterprise" quality one. We have also upgraded Navicat to better manage our MySQL databases. We also feature a PhpMyAdmin service for those who require direct database access. And our online forms are currently being upgraded with improved PHP coding. All this happens behind the scenes to bring you a better media experience.

We've been working on writing two new film scripts, and hope to start filming on-location on Friday morning. Many thanks to all those who remind us that we're in their prayers, who support us financially, and who help out in so many ways. A special thanks to David Pedrotti in his ongoing support covering our utilities and rent costs. Thanks to Bill Hicks for his work in promoting some of our 30 second clips on US media. And a special thanks to Rebecca Klassek for her work behind the camera. Thanks to all those in the Churches of God who often feature our short films in their services, and who encourage us with their kind words of affirmation.

April 18, 2010
You won't want to miss our newest debut film "Believe In Me", written and directed by Hannah Klassek. It's a short parable, just 90 seconds in duration, but one that's easy to love.

March 21, 2010
The latest short film titled "The Face of Change" is now ready for online viewing.

It's a film that speaks to an emerging Australian culture; other countries may also face similar influences and issues.

We hope you find this short film thought provoking as well as informative. Tell your friends about it. And, we always welcome your comments and feedback.

Feb 18, 2010
We are in the process of upgrading our server's uplink speed: www.message7.org may experience some downtime at the end of this month. Our alternative domain at www.messageweek.com will remain unaffected.

We hope you benefit from our recent film, "The Wrath of God".

Feb 15, 2010
We've spent the past weekend "editing and crunching film" after a successful filming session again on Friday. This is the second time we've shot this script, and the improvements have been worth it.

"The Wrath of God" is one of those films (at 19 minutes duration) that may well be an enormous help for many in the years ahead. Our work in this film has been simply to ask what does Jesus say about the Wrath of God, and then take a look at what it means for us.

A big thank to all who, over the past few weeks, have helped us through the writing and development of this important script. Thanks so much for your time and dedication.

The film is currenly being uploaded to our servers, and will be ready later today. The YouTube versions, Part 1 and Part 2 will be available later this week.

Feb 1, 2010
We're working on the next film, and hope to begin filming it later this week.

Most of us choose not to think about the "wrath of God". It's too confusing and rather daunting. Some criticise the very existence of God based on how they perceive Him in this regard. Others prefer a more benign, gentle, grandfatherly figure.

Is Jesus only gentle and suffering, or is He really coming back again but this time as a Conqueror "with a sceptre of iron"? Using nothing else but Jesus' own words, we can gain a remarkable understanding as to what we might actually expect. The truth may surprise you!

Jan 21, 2010
The price of injury can often provide opportunities previously thought inconceivable. A few weeks ago, I caught my finger in a wood planer, and lost the top of my middle finger, half way down the nail. Thanks to those who prayed for me. The doctors and nurses at the hospital did an excellent job. I'm back at work again.

Initially somewhat hindered by this injury, any inconvenience it has caused has been offset by being able to take a break from general IT work; the tyranny of the urgent no longer is so important. And, when we've seen the suffering experienced by the people of Haiti, a missing part of a finger is really inconsequential. What suffering and what devastation!

In Christ we're looking forward to another good year, no matter how bad it gets!

Dec 28, 2009
The upload of our lastest short outreach film "Peer Pressure" is now complete. It's been a busy few weeks, but yielding pleasing results. Instead of taking the expected multiple film shoots, this film was mastered in the first take. We hope and pray that this slightly longer than usual film, being 11 minutes in duration, will permeate the attention and help millions of people.

We have had to edit the YouTube version of this film in order to comply with the ten minute maximum duration; the abridged YouTube version works well even with the edits.

Dec 16, 2009
Upgrade of Server: We've just purchased a rack-mount Dell PowerEdge 2850 Dual Xeon 3.6Ghz server to replace our aging current www.message7.org streaming server. We anticipate the work of installing it to take place over the next month or so. This involves migrating all services, hosting and media archives to the new machine, and then testing it to ensure no downtime or errors at deployment.

We're also working on the proposed scripts for two new films, the first shooting of which may be by this weekend. Some films take multiple takes before we get it to an acceptable broadcast standard; the last film took three shooting over two weeks, before we finally settled on one. Other films are mastered with the first take.

The motivating factor in ministry work is, and one that governs any merit in our work, is simply if one person is encouaraged and helped in their walk with God, then our work is successful. For example, numerous people have been encouraged by our series on the Hope of the Resurrection; other films too have touched lives near and far. Faith in God is being strengthened, one day and one person at a time.

Nov 29, 2009
We hope you find our latest short film, "Grace and Peace" not only encouraging and perhaps inspiring, but that it's deeper apostolic teaching to be clearly apparent. The early church leaders, such as Peter, John, James, Jude and Paul, all had a specific and repeated message for the churches they ministered to. "Grace and peace", or similar reiterations such as "grace, mercy and peace", come from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

It's an extremely important message. The significance of God the Father and Jesus Christ's greetings bears relevance to our experience and understanding today, especially when compared to any primary, developed doctrines in our contemporary faith creeds.

Nov 20, 2009
After more than two years building, the new MessageWeek Ministries film studio set is nearing completion.

The ceilings are now lined; walls painted and finished, and within the next week the electrician fits all the powerpoints, etc.

Over the weekend ahead, we will attempt to re-shoot the "Grace & Peace" film, temporarily transporting our lights, camera, chroma screen etc to the new location from our existing small studio - which will still remain the primary location for all our editing/production work.

We have also upgraded the domain capacity of www.messageweek.com to store 2Gb worth of media streams with a maximum bandwidth of 35Gb per month. This will help our websites with greater redundancy and capacity. The main archive of all our streaming films is on a high performance terabyte platter at www.message7.org

Nov 16, 2009
Today we're filming a short film titled "Grace and Peace", the proposed transcript which has already been posted at our blog site at www.message7.org/discuss

We're in the process of ugrading our film studio's chroma green screen. This is the bright green background screen which we use in our studio filmset. We've used a variety of screens in the past, and the need has been apparent for some time for this upgrade.

News and Updates keep you informed of current events and developments in the production work of MessageWeek Ministries.