What is “Pastoral Blogging”? What is a “Church Blog”? Is blogging still relevant today? Pastor blog trends that don’t work Inconsistent – There’s no one focusing and creating the content A 2nd or 3rd sermon in the week Blogging about things that don’t line up with the church’s mission Blog ideas […]
Apple brought out a slew of iOS product updates recently. Not only are we getting the new iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, but they’ve leap-frogged some levels in both tech and numbering and announced the iPhone X. Kaleb Rutherford, host of Parent’s Press Play and my resident iOS nerd joins in this episode to discuss […]
Churches have had ‘small groups’ or ‘home groups’ for many years. It’s a great way to bring the closeness and intimacy among members – especially in a large church. Small groups are a great way to help ‘the church be the church’. Extend Home Groups with Private Facebook Groups! Facebook groups… heard of them […]
Is your church social enough? Is your church effectively using social media? Does your church even care? Should you?? Being on social media is more than just checking a box and saying “We have a Facebook page”. “Your [church’s] social media pages are actually the ‘front door’ of your church. Maybe even […]
Editing software can be expensive. Believe me, it’s gotten a lot better than it was 10-15 years ago. I used to have to pay like $1200 for each version of the Adobe Master collection (all the apps). Now I pay a small monthly rate for it, and keep all the software updated to the […]
Apple recently rolled out some new podcasting tags to iTunes and iOS 11. The new tags are designed with episodic content in mind. Over the years, many podcasts have been created that are episodic in nature. For years, podcasters have published in the Season / Episode format with the idea that users can better […]
As ministers and church staff, everything we work on during the week seems to be pointed to and focused at our Sunday Morning service. Sunday School teachers, Worship leaders, the Band, the Youth Pastor and definitely the Lead Pastor are all preparing lessons, music and sermons all for the 4-5 hour window between 8 am […]
We’re not sure if we should start live streaming our services. We don’t know how many people will use it. It may not be ‘worth it’… I’ve heard this more times than I really can believe. Many small and medium sized churches, understandably, aren’t sure if putting ministry resources, money and staff or volunteers, […]
Churches around the world are starting to realize that live streaming can and should be an important part of their ministry. For many churches however, it may seem like a HUGE task to undertake. There’s so many bits and pieces to consider. Which camera to buy? Use our phones or even buy a camera? […]
The video camera connected to your computer – yeah, the webcam – is one of your most power tools. Using it properly can make a huge difference for people watching your videos. Do you use Skype, FaceTime, Google Hangouts, Periscope or Facebook Live yet. These are powerful communication tools. We’re living in a time when we can […]
Our church has been live streaming for several years, but to my surprise, we were putting out some horrible quality. With the staff’s permission, I took matters in to my own hands and upgraded our stream to Desktop Mode with the help of my laptop and a couple of cameras. Here’s a quick […]
Live streaming for churches keeps getting better and easier. Newtek showed off the new Tricaster TC1 at NAB 2017 – this is looking to be one of my favourite solutions! The new TC1 brings 4k 60p live streaming at a very affordable price. The TC1 has 4 hard inputs (physical camera) and multitude NDI or […]
Where has this company been all my life?!?! I’m only partly serious. I’ve known, peripherally about Boxcast for a little while, but never given them much thought. Honestly, for streaming, I thought it was TOO simple to be of any real use. Well… I was WRONG! I love live streaming! I’ve been live streaming […]
I’m here at NAB this week working with Livestream and they’ve just announced some GREAT improvements to the awesome MEVO streaming camera. The more I play with this the more I’m loving it. We’ve had one at our church since it came out, and now, the functionality is EVEN more awesome! Here’s a few […]