Does your church live stream? If not, you can skip the rest of this post and read this on why you should. If you do stream your worship services, are you greeting your online guests? If not, keep reading. Your church may be missing out on an opportunity to enter into relationships with new people….
Your church should be considering live streaming your worship services. The barriers that made this option available only to large churches and churches with big budgets have been eliminated. The thing keeping many churches from streaming their services live on the web is the fact that they simply don’t know where to start. Let’s begin. Before…
A new year is nearly upon us. Time for all those year-end round-ups. What was the best story, movie, show, app, trend, etc. of 2017? Let’s look forward instead. What are you going to do in 2018 to help your church reach more people and have a better impact in your community? Here are five…
More and more churches are adding a whole new audience on Sunday morning through live streaming their worship services. Some churches haven’t considered the possibility or shrugged it off as being out of reach or unnecessary. Here are four reasons your church should be streaming worship services. 1. Live Streaming allows potential visitors to get…
In my last post, I wrote about how important it is for your church to be able to stream live. First thing this morning, I walked into the studio, turned on the lights and camera and started streaming live to YouTube Live. You can watch the live stream here if you want to but I…
I get a lot of calls, texts, emails, and Facebook messages from churches needing help. Often the help is needed right away. I don’t track this but one of the most common last-minute needs has to do with live streaming. There are two main reasons churches find it important to be able to stream live…
I am going to get back to my series on the Gospel and Social Media. But first, I want to write about General Conference 2016. There are plenty of tweets, posts, and blogs about the legislative issues before the conference, but I want to talk about the tech. I want to give a big shout out…
At the risk of putting myself out of a job, I still have to tell you, technology is not going to grow your church… all by itself. You still have to tell people about Jesus. That doesn’t mean that technology doesn’t have an essential role to play for the modern disciple. My mission is…
This week a colleague of mine shared a fantastic post by Carey Niewhof entitled, “5 Disruptive Trends That Will Rule 2016.” It is a great piece, if you get nothing else out of my post, go read his. I was really struck by the first trend he shared, “Church online will become an advance, not…
Whether or not you are one to make New Year’s resolutions, the end of the year is a good time to take stock and think about the year to come. For church folks (and my non-profit friends,) this might be a good moment to think about some plans for 2016 in the area of technology….
