My church has switched entirely to chairs. I had put out a call for free pews to any CRC church (I think through the Network, but not sure) and also emailed the local churches of all denominations. A local church wanted the pew cushions, but not our solid oak pews, which we gave to them. We ended up offering the pews to the church body and many were taken this way. Some were even cut to a requested size. Remaining pews were picked up to be used for making stairs in someone's home.
What has been successful is pre-recorded Sunday school messages at my church. It has been so successful that we may not go back to the old way of doing things. Many families have gotten involved and have taken off with adding their personal flavour/props/family members to add to the already predetermined weekly message that is following a curriculum. A recent message used a green screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24sQ_H3l34&feature=youtu.be
I think the success of it is: many families have gotten involved, each has made effort and added their "flavour", and our Sunday School leader is willing to edit. It's a learning process. It can be funny at times.
We are using AWS media services to provide an HLS or u3m8 media file. This file url can be viewed directly from most video players. The difficulty I had was finding the proper video player for the web that supported the different internet speeds browsers and OSs.
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My church has switched entirely to chairs. I had put out a call for free pews to any CRC church (I think through the Network, but not sure) and also emailed the local churches of all denominations. A local church wanted the pew cushions, but not our solid oak pews, which we gave to them.
We ended up offering the pews to the church body and many were taken this way. Some were even cut to a requested size. Remaining pews were picked up to be used for making stairs in someone's home.
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What has been successful is pre-recorded Sunday school messages at my church. It has been so successful that we may not go back to the old way of doing things. Many families have gotten involved and have taken off with adding their personal flavour/props/family members to add to the already predetermined weekly message that is following a curriculum. A recent message used a green screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i24sQ_H3l34&feature=youtu.be
I think the success of it is: many families have gotten involved, each has made effort and added their "flavour", and our Sunday School leader is willing to edit. It's a learning process. It can be funny at times.
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We are using AWS media services to provide an HLS or u3m8 media file. This file url can be viewed directly from most video players. The difficulty I had was finding the proper video player for the web that supported the different internet speeds browsers and OSs.