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Using Mogulus or Video for Worship
Posted on July 16th, 2008 in Church Life, Technology by Fred McKinnon
Hey Everyone,
So today I got a wild idea literally 30 minutes prior to our Wednesday noon “Prayer and Worship” time. I sent a “twitter” message about going to prayer and worship and a friend from our church sent a message back saying she’d be praying with us from her desk at work, but couldn’t make it over to the church.
I got this idea that maybe we should try and make it available online by using Mogulus.com … so I take this wild idea and I call Chris from my cell … it went something like this:
Me: Chris, hey man I’m on the way to the church now to setup for prayer … I got this wild idea about broadcasting the service live on the internet.
Chris: cool … sounds like a good idea.
Me: so, how long would it take us to get the video camera out of the media booth in the main auditorium?
Chris: not long I’ll go get it now.
15 minutes later, I’m there, setting up my keyboard, and Chris and Jim are setting up the camcorder. It’s noon, time to start, and I ask (well … tell, in my bossy kinda way that I don’t mean to be when I’m in the “intense, let’s do this mode”) Chris to login to my Twitter and send the invite. Between my invite and his, we have 9-10 people join us for this experiment.
We didn’t have time to get the sound setup properly, so the audio wasn’t great … but it managed. Best of all, we captured some people, and from the response I got – they were just checking it out – they were engaged in it! So now we’re excited about trying this again, and perhaps even testing it on our Sunday AM services.
So how are you using video streaming technology to make your worship times more accessible to others? Were you one of the dozen or so people who stopped in?
Fred
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It was pretty stinkin awesome. Getting to be back on the virtual prayer room bringing a couple requests that were only found in the chat sidebar of the video. I can’t wait till next week.
I popped in towards the end. Right as everyone walked out.
I stream using mogulus occasionally. About a month ago I streamed a live Wednesday night rehearsal, don’t think if anyone actually caught it though.
I stream some times when I’m cooking a big meal, at the office, or just random stuff. I’ll get a few viewers here and there. I do think it’s a great idea to stream services live.
I’ve got a coffee house gig coming up in a few weeks that I’m thinking about streaming live.
Russ, let us know when you do the coffeehouse gig, that would be cool to watch (and hear!)
Hey Fred – I was able to swing in for a minute. Good stuff – I enjoyed being a part of it. Thanks – and looking forward to next time!
i wanna be there next time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i mean, on the internet. or live.
we had a week of revival-type services on campus last spring… we streamed the afternoon worship room, and i was one of the leaders. one of my blog friends was able to sit at her desk and watch me lead worship in real time for an hour. it was crazy and awesome.
will there be a stream next week?
Hey Mandy,
Yeah, join us. I hope they will do it next week … I will be in Austin, TX at the National Worship Leader Conference, so maybe Kim or Shannon will be leading it next week. We definitely hope to refine/perfect it, and keep doing it.
If I can get permission, I hope to stream live my Worship + Web2.0″ talk at the NWLC too.
This is a great tool. I really like the concept of using it. Thanks for the example.
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i like that idea fred. i’ll have to think about when would be appropriate to do something like this.
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That is a very cool idea. One more way to reach the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ.