Communication

Using tech to connect with people in your church should be high on your priority list during the summer months. Various tech solutions can help you maintain a connection with your people so that they feel supported and thought of by you, and it will kick off the church’s fall season stronger, too.

How do we get a sense of what’s happening with our churches’ collective presence on YouTube? There currently isn’t a one-click YouTube category to find religion & spirituality content like over on Apple Podcasts. That’s why we’ve rounded up the 23 most popular YouTube channels for churches, both in the United States and other countries too, sorted by the number of subscribers.

For all churches, the pursuit of efficiency is high on the list of things to achieve. When churches and Sunday services run efficiently, the church serving experience is far less stressed and everyone is released to be more Kingdom-focused than system-focused. This is why churches must use integrated ministry platforms to aid their tasks.

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Theological instructors, relative to those in many other disciplines, have perhaps had more experience with online education. However, there are still many for whom online education represents uncharted territory or a medium for which their skills and use of resources are “good enough.”

Gone are the days where online ministry was only about recording a sermon and making it downloadable on your church website. These days, the term ‘online ministry’ encompasses a variety of ways churches reach people through social media, courses, podcasts, and video (to name just a few).

Since millions of people consume content on various social media platforms it makes sense to show sermon recaps there. However, this space is saturated with people vying for your attention. To gain more visibility, use creative design and animation techniques to arrest attention. In other words, it needs to stop the user in the middle of their scroll and invite them into the message.

In this video, watch Jay Kranda, the online community pastor for Saddleback Church, perform a church website audit for Grace Community Church in Arlington, VA.