church video

As a church, you are constantly looking for ways to make an impact in your community. How do you reach people with the good news of the Gospel? Are there ways that are more strategic than others? What are the ‘out of the box’ ideas that can make us unique? We’ve heard your plea for new ideas and we’ve come up with one stellar way to help your church “go and make disciples of all nations.” What is this brilliant idea? Creating a missional church live stream.

In its third year, Capture Content Creation and Filmmaking Summit 2019 is a one-of-a-kind conference for Christian filmmakers and storytellers. Hosted by Church Production Live Events, Capture is an excellent resource for any Christian videographer, church tech, or media director.

Creating custom church videos was out of reach for most churches in the past. Today, things are quite different because the cost of cameras, talent, and technology have decreased. This is good news for the Church. A research from Cisco shows that by 2019, video traffic will account for 80% of all consumer internet traffic, up from 67% in 2014.

Over the last two decades, congregations have engaged in worship through added visual elements during services.  Eyes that once were focused down on a hymnal are now more often looking up at wall-projected content.  Lately, many churches have decided to take this a step further by installing LED video walls in their sanctuaries.  These video walls enable church leaders to share customized videos, images, and text (such as worship lyrics or scripture), live feeds, and other content.

While many churches have a person on staff in place to oversee church communication, having a trained graphic designer in-house to create custom church graphics remains rare. Church’s graphics needs have continued to increase as modern church communication requires more overall professionalism. Emphasis on visuals in worship, social media, and video are now critical to a well-produced Sunday service. Having a relationship with a custom church graphics provider can greatly help.

Technology plays a vital role in the modern church, and "smart" technology is starting to transform how church buildings and facilities are managed. Smart church building technology also supports and provides new levels of church security which is a welcome benefit.

Facebook's free live streaming services have opened up a world of opportunity for churches to reach out to their audience through live video content. Churches love the number of people who are able to watch their Facebook live videos, however, there are problems with accurately tracking the number of attendees. Often these numbers are even inflated and may rarely include new people which can be bad news for churches. So what is this service actually providing and is it worth it? 

The church I serve as pastor, Brushy Creek Baptist in Taylors, South Carolina, recently began testing the idea of Facebook Groups. We began with...