Simcoe Immanuel CRC has been posting video to our website for just over a year. We have a surveilance style camera that pans and zooms - adequate video quality for our purposes. You can check out our website at www.imaginegod.ca and look for sermons at the bottom of the page (direct link: http://www.imaginegod.ca/index.php/church-service/sermons )
We actually post our videos on youtube and link them to our website. The editing (ripping) is done using Xilsoft software although I have since found other resources. Ripping the DVD produced when we record the entire service takes only a few minutes. Youtube restrictions require us to break the sermons into 15 minute segments although I think we could probably find other sites (vimeo?) that allow the entire sermon in one segment. The uploading to Youtube takes the most time, but it doesn't need a "babysitter" while it is uploading. I do this all at home within a couple of days of the service.
I can provide more specifices as regards equipment, (make, model, cost etc.). Just contact me via the e-mail address given on our website ([email protected].)
A couple of other things to note: We only post our own pastor's sermons (unless the guest pastor specifically provides permission). We have, in the past clipped out segments that, in hindsight, were preferably not posted (ie: referring to personal situations that were appropriate within the context of the congregation but not for public consumption).
Are there others who are wrestling with selection criteria for qualifying or disqualifying nominees for serving as Elders or Deacons? Often the (unwritten) criteria is more subjective than objective - ie: frequency of attendance; financial support. 1 Timothy 3:1-7 raises the bar so high that most, if not all, serving office-bearers feel inadequate. Has any Council developed written selection criteria for the nomination process?
I'm part of our church's video team. Wouldn't it be interesting to have video clips of members' baptism and/or profession of faith attached to their membership credentials - something they could take along with them wherever they go? And suppose they had some of their children baptised and received a video clip of that occasion to pass along to their children? And suppose that clip became part of the occasion for the profession of faith of those children? Today's technology presents a whole new realm of "remembering" possibilities!
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Simcoe Immanuel CRC has been posting video to our website for just over a year. We have a surveilance style camera that pans and zooms - adequate video quality for our purposes. You can check out our website at www.imaginegod.ca and look for sermons at the bottom of the page (direct link: http://www.imaginegod.ca/index.php/church-service/sermons )
We actually post our videos on youtube and link them to our website. The editing (ripping) is done using Xilsoft software although I have since found other resources. Ripping the DVD produced when we record the entire service takes only a few minutes. Youtube restrictions require us to break the sermons into 15 minute segments although I think we could probably find other sites (vimeo?) that allow the entire sermon in one segment. The uploading to Youtube takes the most time, but it doesn't need a "babysitter" while it is uploading. I do this all at home within a couple of days of the service.
I can provide more specifices as regards equipment, (make, model, cost etc.). Just contact me via the e-mail address given on our website ([email protected].)
A couple of other things to note: We only post our own pastor's sermons (unless the guest pastor specifically provides permission). We have, in the past clipped out segments that, in hindsight, were preferably not posted (ie: referring to personal situations that were appropriate within the context of the congregation but not for public consumption).
hope this helps. blessings ... mark ...
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Are there others who are wrestling with selection criteria for qualifying or disqualifying nominees for serving as Elders or Deacons? Often the (unwritten) criteria is more subjective than objective - ie: frequency of attendance; financial support. 1 Timothy 3:1-7 raises the bar so high that most, if not all, serving office-bearers feel inadequate. Has any Council developed written selection criteria for the nomination process?
Posted in: Our Problem With Infant Baptism
I'm part of our church's video team. Wouldn't it be interesting to have video clips of members' baptism and/or profession of faith attached to their membership credentials - something they could take along with them wherever they go? And suppose they had some of their children baptised and received a video clip of that occasion to pass along to their children? And suppose that clip became part of the occasion for the profession of faith of those children? Today's technology presents a whole new realm of "remembering" possibilities!