00:22:58 J. Val Hastings: Welcome and thank you for joining us today. We are asking that all participants mute themselves and turn off their video cameras during the presentation. Please use the chat box to ask questions or make comments. Our hope is that we will have time at the end of the session for Q & A. 00:35:05 J. Val Hastings: If you were to show up as Mr Rogers, what would be different? 00:36:11 Heather Miner: How are people using hymns? 00:36:12 J. Val Hastings: What is one simple step you can take to be more like Mr. Rogers in your worship presentation? 00:37:06 Leigh Lloyd: Break up the sermon into sections, with music or poetry or visuals or something in-between the thoughts or points of the message 00:37:07 Rick McKinley: Be much more intentional about speaking to the audience. Imagine one person and speak to them. Enter their space. 00:37:50 J. Val Hastings: Great ideas Rick and Leigh. 00:38:14 J. Val Hastings: Hymns! Hmm. Good question Heather. 00:38:59 Rick McKinley: I know some that are using video hymns, embedded in the platform. Some are leading the music (and casting copyright issues to the wind) :) 00:39:20 Heather Miner: envision worship has really good powerpoint slides. 00:41:19 Heather Miner: I was told the copyright services are relaxing the rules for us churches right now...CCLI for instance. 00:41:32 Simon Smailus: pexels.com is good for high resolution and free images sometimes with attribution. 00:41:34 J. Val Hastings: In addition to Google and Envision, what resources have you found helpful? 00:41:44 Laraine: How do you spell that program? Canva? 00:41:52 Simon Smailus: canva 00:41:59 Bryan Baker: It’s also important to make sure images are not copyrighted or trademarked especially when putting online! 00:42:15 Simon Smailus: https://about.canva.com/canva-for-nonprofits/ 00:42:19 J. Val Hastings: Thanks for the reminder, Bryan. 00:45:30 roger: where was the children's material? 00:45:48 J. Val Hastings: What additional ideas do you have to increase interaction? 00:46:09 Rick McKinley: In my limited experience, worshiping online creates (demands?) a much more interactive approach. Gathering prayer concerns, inviting responses, questions, etc. This past week I opened with the question: what do you need this space to be today? 00:46:59 Todd Weir: We encourage people to have candles at home and light the with us at home. Also, Zoom coffee hour afterwards for people to share. 00:47:12 Rick McKinley: Nice! Zoom coffee hour! 00:47:12 Simon Smailus: We create playlists of songs for Apple Music, Spotify and Youtube and link them online. 00:47:30 J. Val Hastings: Spotify playlists. Love it! 00:47:47 Heather Miner: We had a community catchup time in FB live during worship where we read the comments and encouraged them to tell us what's going on in their lives. 00:48:26 J. Val Hastings: Catchup time. Nice! 00:49:37 J. Val Hastings: How are you taking the offering? How's that going? 00:50:20 Heather Miner: ACH? 00:50:22 Laraine: we have a giving button - let's people give through their credit card and we receive it through Vanco. 00:50:45 Laraine: We also opened a PO Box for our mail now since people do still give checks. 00:51:13 Laraine: Giving button is on our website - sorry I left that off. 00:51:15 Simon Smailus: We use: https://churchsuite.com/tour/giving 00:51:32 Rick McKinley: Automated Clearing House 00:53:47 Rick McKinley: The offering is also another way for people to participate. They can comment on what they offer God today: their worry, their love, etc.... 00:54:06 Heather Miner: Rick, cool 00:56:11 roger: Using zoom to host prayer meetings and do small groups 00:56:34 J. Val Hastings: Thanks Roger. 00:56:48 J. Val Hastings: How else can we engage people during the week? 00:57:44 Simon Smailus: We also use Facebook workplace which is a private facebook, which can allow your church to connect with calls, video calls, and a closed facebook experience. This is also free for charities: https://www.facebook.com/workplace 00:58:08 J. Val Hastings: Simon - thanks for sharing. 00:58:29 Rick McKinley: Thanks Simon. I need to pass that along to our youth leader! 00:58:57 Leigh Lloyd: We have lots of older members who do not do facebook or other social platforms. I use soundcloud.com to send audio files through email - short devotionals, worship divided into three or four short audio files 01:00:11 Simon Smailus: We have Whatsapp groups of about 10 each that the Pastor is a part of that are great for connection and discussing messages we put online. It's working really well. 01:01:07 Simon Smailus: We also use a group of volunteers who are designated those isolated and high risk and who call them every 3 days. 01:01:36 J. Val Hastings: The good old phone is a powerful tool. Good reminder! 01:03:45 Simon Smailus: If you have a camera with an f1.8-f2.2 you should be able to blur the background when recording. We can't record at church as we're in lockdown. 01:04:01 Simon Smailus: f1.8-2.2 lens 01:06:40 Simon Smailus: Please bear in mind that creating some of this setup could be expensive and delivery dates here in the UK are now generally mid April. Try to use what you have. 01:07:39 Rick McKinley: I appreciate the webinar! Gotta a coaching session coming up so gotta go! 01:08:43 Jennifer Williams: You Version Bible App by Lifechurch.tv 01:10:16 Leigh Lloyd: I need to go. Thanks for the great info. Prayer request for my Father in law, Earl Lloyd - who is in the last days of this earthly life. Blessings to all 01:12:19 Naomi García: Michigan is under Governor order + Bishop directive 'stay home. stay healthy.' only essential travel state-wide. 01:14:08 David Harris: Simon, I'm in a US Continuing Care Retirement community that is fairly locked down. I'm using a simpler worship with a Zoom Conversation and fellowship after worship, then Tues & Thurs Prayer and sharing zoom time. 01:15:11 Phyllis Riney: I’m assuming we will receive access to the video. Will we also receive a copy of Group Char? 01:16:29 Simon Smailus: Broadcasting worship does require more expensive ccli licences 01:16:42 josephfrana: I had the same questions about broadcasting of music 01:17:24 David Harris: What are we learning about ourselves? 01:17:30 roger: If you subscribe to CCS you have the right to broad cast and record 01:17:44 roger: It's not cheap, but well worth it.