Snow Storms and Church Service Online
I received this email the other day that reminded me how awesome technology is, especially when it serves a very significant and obvious need.
Check it:
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Greetings!
I wanted to shoot you an email because I though that ChurchCrunch might be interested in what we’re doing this Sunday at Community Church (http://thecommunitychurch.org).
We’re located in Ashburn, VA (a suburb of DC) and from late Friday night until early this morning, a storm that their saying is our areas largest December storm in history, dumped around two feet of snow on us.
As a result, we’ve had to cancel our normal Sunday morning services (9:00 and 10:45 am).
Since we’re unable to all gather together, we’re asking families to gather around the computer and worship with us online. We’ve quickly revamped our online campus (which is usually powered by livestream) for the occasion.
The page is located here.
I blogged about it here: http://www.brianayers.net/2009/12/20/church-online-this-morning/
Anyway, since winter is just getting started I’m sure a number of other churches are going to run into the predicament of what to do when there’s too much snow for service… I know we haven’t done it 100% right (I already know of a few things we need to do better next time) but it might be a fun and useful dialog to start.
Thanks for all you do!
Brian Ayers
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Cool, right? Yeah. I thought so too.
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We also did this at LiquidChurch.com last Sunday – we have two campuses with different service times so we setup two different Live Streams & Players.
Thankfully our current series involved pre-records so we were able to host a Live MC Spot by the campus pastor and then use our pre-records for the messages.
We've found the LiveStream option incredibly useful and will probably fall back on it a few times this winter!
sweet!
that's pretty cool. Unfortunately we didn't have it prerecorded so we had to shoot it Saturday night as the snow was still coming down… I think in the future, when they're calling for a big snow on the weekend, that we'll try to record it earlier in the week.
the best…the best…the best…
pretty neat huh.
Rawr you can't have real service online, RAWR!
Excellent stuff.
haha. online church. puaha.
we dont live too far from ashburn. i work for Fair Oaks Church in Fairfax, VA. We also cancelled both of our sunday services (9:00 & 10:45) due to the snow and also had "online service" – you can check it out at http://www.loudonpurpose.com/
sweet! thanks for sharing this. gonna check it out.
awesome mike! I'm going to check it out.
awesome sauce
We're in OKC – we're packed under 14 inches of snow! I put together a video quickly from my home office! We had 18 computers, about 45 people total join us! It was awesome! Sure it looked pretty rough – I edited some webcam video, added some video elements from worship downloads, and put it all together in iMovie then uploaded to livestream. That allowed me to run the chat live and just push play on the videos in LiveStream. Worked like a charm – even had a couple that recently moved to Austin join us! We'll definitely do it again in inclement weather.
CoffeeCreek.cc is an awesome domain name, btw.