UPDATE: Many church leaders are arriving at this post due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. This post was originally written when I was church planting in NYC. We were making a quick adjustment to live-streaming due to severe weather conditions. Since it seems our church’s are being “providentially hindered” from meeting in many cases, the advice below is still relevant. I provide a couple of additional tips at the end of this post for lessons I’ve learned since then.
This past Sunday, the weather report for New York City was 1° with a wind chill of -19°. The mayor was urging people to stay home and church members were calling to ask if we were canceling.
But church planters don’t like to cancel worship gatherings.
I’ve experienced Sundays when my wife and kids outnumbered everyone else. Even if only a handful of people could come we planned on proceeding with our service. We aren’t about to let a little frostbite stop us!
The good news is more people came than we expected. And due to a last minute idea, we ended up streaming our service online for free and several members were able to jump online and watch.
All I had to do was put my mobile phone on a tripod, make sure I had a strong wifi signal, open the Facebook app and start broadcasting live. It really was that easy and within seconds we noticed that not only were our absent members online and engaging with us virtually, but their friends and people around the world began tuning in as well.
Beautiful! [Read more…] about How To Use Facebook Live To Stream Your Church Services
