With Covid-19 forcing much of the world into lockdown, churches have responded by diving into online services. Whether using Zoom, Facebook Live, YouTube or more complex set ups such as OBS, tech, pastoral and worship teams have found themselves in a steep learning curve in recent weeks.
This article celebrates those people and shares the photos of the services that they were part of creating. Be inspired and if you want more info on the tech solutions check out this article. Information here about using worship songs in livestreamed services.
What follows is a compilation of the photos and comments shared on the Musicademy Facebook Group. Credits for the photos and copy in square brackets.
This week for the first time we had a full teaching, which I gave, looking at the four different accounts of the triumphal Entry and what the differences can tell us. I had a Powerpoint prepared and shared my screen while I spoke. The only problem is that I couldn’t see the presenters view, so had to remember the order of the points I wanted to make. Next time, I’ll print out the slides for myself first.
The picture was captured by one of the attendees during a time of prayer. Names and some faces have been “stickered” where requested. [David Gibbons]
The pastor (my hubby) delivering his sermon on Zoom. We shared screens to see the PowerPoint for notes and Scripture reading. [Heather Perry]
Mike Whitaker’s set-up
Essentially, people send me bits of service, our AV team screen grab the liturgy off Easy Worship (saves typing!) and I edit it all together. Synology’s QuickConnect is a lifesaver for file uploads – it saves massive headaches with ‘this is too big’, ‘I can’t get Dropbox/One Drive/Google Drive
OBS- with lyrics being controlled by one foot pedal, power music another, and a keen worshipper by my side lol [Thomas James]
I recorded on Thursday to give time for my tech man to get it all together. Recording was too stressful (keeping my kids out of the room, just a camera and tripod, but having all my props and notes to hand as well as water) to get photos but these are the finished result. I included lots of different contributions – dancing, prayers, readings and message – all filmed at homes and pulled together by our miracle man. [Sarah Webb]
Obviously only for areas not on lockdown.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this article. So inspiring to see all these different resources in action.