In this week’s training mailbag segment, we’re sharing some more answers about using Faithlife Sites. As usual, whether your questions are answered below or not, we’d love to hear from you! Add a comment below with your questions, and we may answer them in an upcoming mailbag segment.
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“Is it better to give or to receive?”
Without hesitation, most church members would answer “To give!” Yet, when it comes to actually giving? You know how it goes. . . .
There’s considerably more hesitation, and even people who absolutely want to give don’t always follow through with their intentions. For example, the majority of church members don’t tithe. Only a scant 1 percent of millennials do.1 [Read more…]
By Adam McLaughlin
There’s no shortage of ideas to communicate to our church members, and they all seem to creep into our announcements and church emails. Soon we’re communicating everything about everything—which becomes noise—instead of communicating a few things with intentionality. [Read more…]
Ready for the most important insight about moving to online church services? It’s not simply live streaming a church service.
I like how Benjamin Windle, founder and pastor of Lifeplace Church in Australia, puts it: “Adding a live stream and thinking that’s the solution is like a university adding a camera into a lecture room and calling it ‘online campus.’ It’s not the full expression of what a campus is; it’s just a camera feed.”1 [Read more…]
What if people who came to your live stream service felt like they were a part of it? Felt connected?
From that live stream connection, you could build an online church community that engages all week long. The foundation for that is making your live stream service feel more like an in-person service. [Read more…]
In this week’s training mailbag segment, we’ll be fielding additional questions about using Faithlife Proclaim. As always, whether we’ve addressed your questions or not, we’d love to hear from you! Add your questions as new comments below, and we may answer them in an upcoming mailbag segment. [Read more…]
So your church is live streaming—or will be soon. Great!
You can reach people anywhere and give them a taste of what your church is like. Church members who can’t be there in person will love worshipping with their church family as the service takes place live. [Read more…]
Greet your members with a warm welcome to church—whether you’re meeting in person again or holding live stream church services and events. June’s new Faithlife Media will help you do it! [Read more…]
This year brought rapid change for churches. When physical doors closed, churches got creative as they swung open the digital doors to reach people where they were—on the phones, tablets, TVs, and computers they use daily. We’ve even heard stories like that of a teen who accepted Christ because of a church’s gospel presentation on TikTok. [Read more…]
Live streaming is alive and well for churches everywhere. Members are watching—and nonmembers are, too! How does your church’s live stream look?
Give it a boost with these quick tips. [Read more…]