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Church Spotlight, continued...
How long have you been using multimedia in your church service,
and why did you start using visual imagery?
We have been using multimedia in our church service for 4 - 5 years. We
began by running down the motorized screen in the middle of the stage and
only putting the texts on-screen. Once we had convinced the congregation and
our senior pastor about the viability of this process, we purchased two
projectors and multimedia became part of our service. It is important to
reinforce the message that the person up front is presenting. If we can
allow folks to read along, or enhance the words of a song with graphic
images, we feel that those in attendance will come away with a deeper
understanding and greater blessing. Also, our congregation is comprised of
people with different learning styles and adding graphic images is one way
to touch those who have a visual learning style.
What presentation software/equipment do you use for your multimedia?
We use MediaShout. Our pastoral staff does not want to prepare their sermons
in PowerPoint, so we enter all texts, quotes and graphics ourselves.
MediaShout allows us the flexibility to have a second monitor to display to
the projectors while having the first monitor available to work on - even in
the middle of a service. MediaShout also has over 50 versions of the Bible,
so we can easily use the one that the speaker prefers. It also contains a
song database, and as songs are either edited or added, that number
continues to grow. Media Shout also has “BOB,” the Big Online Bible. This
allows us to find a text quicker than most people can find it in their
Bible. So, we can fire a text up that hasn't been given to us ahead of time
if necessary.
What has been the response to using graphics with your sermons?
We have seen a positive response, not only as people mention how they like
it, but because more families are emailing pictures of their newborns to be
used on-screen when the birth is announced. And, people are coming to the
Media Center to ask if it is too late to “get this announcement in.”
 What is one Oxygen image that has been particularly powerful in your ministry setting?
During a special song to close one of our services I used the picture of the
young girl clinging to the foot of the cross. That whole sequence was very
moving and received many positive comments.
Where are you headed with multimedia in your worship services?
I would like to get to the place where we have a graphic or logo that
communicates the theme of the service, and have that graphic on-screen any
time that we now would simply fade to black. It would help to focus the
attention back on the subject matter for the day.
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Here are the results from last month’s survey when we asked, ‘When do you start planning for your Christmas programs? ’
Answer |
Results |
Already Have |
8% |
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Summer |
19% |
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Sept.-Oct. |
39% |
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Nov.-Dec. |
12% |
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Day Before |
5% |
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June’s Question
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