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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?

Do tell.

Fred