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Online Church: How the world worshipped<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. Information here about using worship songs in livestreamed services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What follows is a compilation of the photos and comments shared on the Musicademy Facebook Group<\/a>. Credits for the photos and copy in square brackets.<\/p>\n

Using Zoom<\/h2>\n

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Church led by my husband from home. It was All Age service for us! [Caroline Bushman]<\/p><\/div>Combination of videos of drama, reading and songs pulled together by my husband with live prayers from things sent in on the Chat function in Zoom. 49 devices dialled in so about 75 people…. first time for everything!<\/p>\n

\"Zoom<\/a>

We met again on Zoom this week. As a small, highly participatory church, streaming just isn’t going to work for us, so we find zoom better. No special set-up or equipment, just a mix of laptops and phones, one per household (as the one who does a lot of our regular set-up at the school we usually meet in, I must say I am finding this to be a wonderful break!). [David Gibbons]<\/p><\/div>This week we had a couple more people join, and people are getting better with the technology–remembering to mute their mics when not sharing, etc..<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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]<\/p>\n

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The pastor (my hubby) delivering his sermon on Zoom. We shared screens to see the PowerPoint for notes and Scripture reading. [Heather Perry]<\/p>\n

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Alastair Middlemist using Zoom for his services. One person played piano in their home and then had a recorded video of someone doing a Bible passage. We used shared screen for song words and video projection. We also shared all of this live onto Facebook which seemed to work well.<\/p><\/div>\n

Using Facebook Live<\/h2>\n
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Hazlemere Church (High Wycombe), Vicar Mark Meardon leading on Facebook – accomplished preacher and worship leader all in one! Very simple, from his lounge at home via iPhone. {Arthur Davis]<\/p><\/div>\n

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A virtual Palm Sunday procession [Mike Whitaker]<\/p><\/div>\n

The more technical home set-up<\/h2>\n
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Mike Whitaker’s home set-up for livestreaming services<\/p><\/div>\n

Mike Whitaker’s set-up<\/strong><\/p>\n