Worship Slides Manager

As part of Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ), I was in charge of making worship slides for a full year. After months and months of making PowerPoint slides that I knew could be auto- mated, I decided to write software that would get the lyrics of a particular song from azlyrics.com and present them against a black background. You can see my initial product here:

Initial Product

This didn't seem to be enough, though. I wanted anyone to be able to use the site and know what songs would actually be available before the day of. So I made a database on MYSQL (you don't need to know what that is, it's okay) and made it possible to save what songs you would want to access, showing you whether they'd be available right then and there.

Updated Version

I made some other minor changes as well. On the slides, I made it so that by clicking the backslash '\' key, you could click on the text and edit it when undesired. This helped because it meant I could change details before/during the worship. Also, I made it possible to upload the lyrics in text form if they weren't available on the azlyrics.com site, and put that in a separate page too:

Custom Version
(The third one is sloppy because I just finished it!)

Online Bible

So I was bored one day, and thought it would be cool if my website had a Bible on it. It seemed fitting, I guess, since it's basically the best book ever and I know there's websites that allow you to access it for free. So I did some digging, and found one website that allowed me to get an API key and get their content for free. So I made this page that shows you a random chapter of the Bible:

Random Chapter

Then, after some hard work, I was able to develop a product that I think satisfies the basic requirements of a Bible - it has all the books of the Bible lined out in buttons at the top of the page, it has arrows to allow you to go from one chapter to the next, and it provides the content in an organized manner. It looks better than a few of the other projects I've worked on, at least! Here it is:

Online Bible
(It's kinda clunky and takes a while to load a new book if you click on it!)

TrueVine: Get Connected!

So I thought it would be cool to have a website that shows you what churches there are in your area. After looking around, I found out Google Places API (for Javascript) is actually free for a certain amount of time. After signing up for an API Key, I 'connected' (lol) and was able to have it show churches near the area of Orange, where I live. Then, I downloaded a funny little icon of a church to show where those spots were.

I also developed a bunch of random other pages because I thought it could be like a one-stop shop for getting plugged in (finding out about the churches below, etc.) but didn't end up populating the other pages, so they're just placeholders. The top bar looks pretty, though.

TrueVine
(If you click on the icons it shows you the name of the church, too!)

Mass Texting

If you know me, you know I like to put on a lot of events. Random events, structured events, informal events, musical events. It's kind of in my wheel house. But something else about me is, I like to be really personal about inviting people to my events. It's too impersonal for me to just make an event on Facebook and expect people to find it - I have to text people and see if they're really interested!

So I decided to make a database of phone numbers, and text them from my website, so I didn't have to individually text everyone, but they could text back if they had any questions or anything! It was a funny project to undertake, but I did it. You can send a text to anyone in the world from here:

Send a Text!

Then, I had a bunch of people sign up with their name and phone number on a form on my site, and over the course of Interterm (a fun one-month semester at Chapman), I texted people about events through my website! You can see the form here:

Sign Up for Texts!
(But don't really haha)