BETTER CHURCH LIVE STREAMING: 5 Powerful Online Church Ideas

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Many of our churches have been live streaming online church for a little while now. So what can we do to improve? To take our live streams to the next level? I've got five real church examples for you. Let's dive in.
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Table of Contents:
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0:00 - Intro
2:27 - No. 1: The Pre-Show
4:28 - No. 2: Service Transitions
8:18 - No. 3: Announcements
9:15 - No. 4: The Sermon
10:26 - No. 5: The Post-Show
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Show Notes:
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- Start your 30-day free trial (no credit card required) of Nucleus here: www.nucleus.church/
- Purest Love Imaginable - Week 2 - Love Yourself: prochur.ch/3osHXD8
- Road Trip - (A Study of Joel) - Week 1 - Lament: prochur.ch/3dWMMzE
- Activist - Week 4 - Authority: prochur.ch/3mpFl7i
- Why Live Streaming For Churches Is Overrated: prochur.ch/35zvIft
- Innovative Worship Sets For Online Church | Worship Ministry Ideas: prochur.ch/35ARtLJ
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Connect With Brady:
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Twitter: / bradyshearer
#LiveStreamingForChurches #OnlineChurch #ChurchLiveStreaming

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@prochurchtools 3 года назад

I've been pretty vocal in the past AGAINST live streaming for churches. Here are some constructive ideas from my own church to show how great online church *can* be when we do it intentionally - rather than just rebroadcasting what's happening in the auditorium. ✅

@lazzaisaac4950 3 года назад

Any tips for hybrid services? Trying to be intentional with addressing those watching from home, but also engaging those in the building?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

My recommendation for you would be to identify "crossover" elements or techniques. Ways of doing a segment that would serve both in-person and live audiences well. The challenge is that the needs of each audience are very different. Try your best not to slip back to just giving your online audience the leftovers. One practical thought - churches have been using pre-recorded segments in their live services for a very long time. Well before the pandemic. Examples of this would be video announcements, sermon bumpers, etc. So what if we pushed that a bit further? Maybe The Pre-Show is pre-recorded. And the announcements. And service transition. But the worship and preaching are live. That would give you the building blocks to create an in-person experience and online experience that perhaps serve both audiences well.

@MidActsPreacher 3 года назад

God is good. God is merciful, and God is kind.

@CrystalParkBaptistChurchBenoni 3 года назад

Loved the blurred screen when you lower third'd in the beginning. Trying it out with a video overlay for our corporate prayer segment this Sunday.

@RevTrevNFL 3 года назад

This was extremely helpful. Thank you for making this video. I'm making changes immediately to our online service this Sunday.

@user-yy1zt5zm6j 2 месяца назад

God will richly bless Your work.

@telsamorgan5369 Год назад

Great video! Some key points were highlighted that I hadn't heard anyone else discuss. Thank you!

@godswill_ezeonyeka 3 года назад

I am so excited to share this. Thanks Brady!

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@Highfivechurch 3 года назад

Very cool ideas!!

@City_Cichlids 3 года назад

Thank you!!! This video is next level!!

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Glad you liked it!

@calebhoffmann5545 3 года назад

Another great video chalk full of great content! I'm ready to start exploring new ideas with my team!

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

You got this!

@Nujja1967 3 года назад

Dude, I wanted to say Thank You for your work on RU-vid. Our Church has gone from no online presence to firstly having a pre-recorded "in Brief" each week during COVID to having live streamed service each week. This would have been MUCH harder without your RU-vid content so THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! God Bless you & your ministry.

@troymillerpgh 3 года назад

I appreciate this Brady. We were going to launch in a conventional "large launch" model this Fall before COVID. We launched online services on Easter and then shifted to having a portion of our launch team in person at my home for a hybrid watch party/small group in the summer. Now, we are doing portions of that live (preaching, offering etc) but our worship vids and other elements are still pre-recorded. We are streaming all of that through ProPresenter 7. I appreciate the fresh ideas here. We are small and just starting out and I need all the inspiration I can get, especially that last discussion slide! Great stuff as always.

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Glad some of this was helpful for you, Troy. 🙏

@ChrisAbbottOfficial 3 года назад

This is brilliant bro. I've already sent this video to several Pastor friends. Amazing content 👊

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Thanks, Chris 🙏

@NRDPastor 3 года назад

This is The Way

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

FRIDAY

@NRDPastor 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools 🙌

@daleewing3949 3 года назад

I was the 500th Like! Yeah!

@Elaine-hm5ud 3 года назад

Brady, I love your videos. They're so helpful. Do you have any videos about how to get people to volunteer/serve. We're a small church and the same people volunteer for everything. Burn out is inevitable.

@joshuaclow427 3 года назад

Practicing the way, "This is the way" Mandalorian

@mrcolbymartin 3 года назад

What an amazing Video with loads of good info! Thanks Brady. I'm curious though, your title is about LIVE STREAMING, yet it looks like all your five points/examples are pre-recorded segments. Is that correct? Do you guys do any parts of the service actually live streamed?

@essequamvideriJohn319 3 года назад

quality flannel is a gamechanger :)

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Honestly, I'm such a sucker for flannel.

@thedrewwitt 3 года назад

This is great. It pops off, as the young kids say. How do you do the text transition where it moves downward and is clipped by a horizontal mask line? Preset or manual key framing?

@MidActsPreacher 3 года назад

God is good. God is merciful, and God is kind.

@bandcampkid07 3 года назад

cool video!

@marriedGary 3 года назад

Hey Brady! I’ve always loved your stuff! Thank you for this! How would you handle both in person gatherings and on line meetings? I’m currently a solo pastor in a small town under 3000 people. It’s a lot of time to do one or the other and even more to do both?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Right now it's just about creating systems and structures that will allow for both to exist. Sometimes there is crossover content. Often there isn't. No magic pill. Just about expanding your output capacity. And taking this pandemic time to develop the workflows that make you most efficient.

@sherllypierre8169 3 года назад

As a teacher, especially those of us who are losing engagement because of Zoom drain, I love your format and approach. Is your platform strictly for churches, or is it available to educators, too? (I'm open to suggestions, as well.)

@brandonbower1081 3 года назад

Love this! My church is starting a weekly digital experience that will be separate from our live experience just like this. Great ideas for ways to make it more engaging and personable. I do have a question as someone who wants to get better at making motion graphics, what or who (whom?) do you recommend for learning After Effects?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

My standard answer to this is always RU-vid University :) Just start working that search bar. Start with an "Intro To After Effects," then dissect individual techniques, and start putting it all together.

@pamelaprice7163 3 года назад

I hear what you're saying about the announcements. Every week for our online stream we have a voiceover reading whats happening each week while each announcement slide comes up on the screen. It literally takes 4 to 5 minutes each time. Even as the one putting it together it makes me sleepy lol. What can we do instead of 5 straight minutes of that? My boss doesn't see a problem with it but I would love a change.

@miodyssey 3 года назад

Thank you so much! How far in advance do you tape and edit prior to airing? And does the pastor use an actual backdrop or is it done in post production?

@gponak 3 года назад

Thanks for this Brady, always appreciate the way you share your expertise with the local church. I see that you have both a live service at Central on Sundays and the Online service option- so you're creating both every week? And Bill is preaching a live service and a recorded version as well? Does an online viewer see a Live Stream Sunday morning? Or what has previously been recorded for Online Church? Also, do you have a video about promotion/reaching more of the unchurched community? Or will excellent quality lead to more word-of-mouth promotion? Are Facebook ads worthwhile in your opinion? Sooooo many questions...thanks for your help :)

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

1. Facebook Ads are great - here's my walkthrough guide on how to do them well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bGl8B_PO_Ow.html 2. We try and use elements in both live services and online church when they make sense. But we also don't force it. So there's no hard and fast rule and it's always evolving/changing with the current landscape. It wouldn't be out of the question to be live in church and see the pre-recorded sermon Bill preached. Nor would it be out of the question for him to preach more than once.

@gponak 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools thanks for the info :)

@abelgeorge4953 2 года назад

Mann the video looks so sharp.. what camera u guys using? I assume the lighting also influences it a lot

@prochurchtools 2 года назад

Video here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y-nKVvxX5Fk.html

@wesdrumaniack 3 года назад

I think these are all great ideas! I'm wondering what you think the advantages are doing this over intentionally including online as an element of the in-person service. If I were watching online, I'd want to see the actual in-person service because I want to know exactly what the church is like and exactly what I could expect if I came in-person. I can definitely see the benefits of being able to edit in post, but I could also see that bit about your pastor singing working just fine if he did that live. (Obviously, not every example would work out that way but.) Part of this is a personal preference, but then, we have also been trying a bunch of things online (similar to your suggestions) and have seen no improvement in retention, and pretty much no improvement in any numbers (likes, shares, comments, and engagement of any kind). What are your thoughts on the perspective that people might want to see the in-person service before attending in-person? To follow up, we are also trying to do other things *outside of the weekend service* to teach and accommodate the online experience. Things that are geared more directly to online audiences during the week.

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

It's certainly complex, Wesley. A few thoughts: 1. The easy fix for those wanting to "preview" what a service at your church is really like is to create a standing welcome video like we explore here - this is MUCH more powerful and flexible because it lets you show what church is like from when you park to when you leave (not just the preaching and music): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z4XS7ZLfzRA.html 2. The great tension here in online church is doing what church folks want vs. following the best practices of digital content. And this is a tension you need to manage. But for me, I always want to create digital content that has the potential to reach more people disconnected from church - than cater to church folks.

@davidoladapo1582 3 года назад

Hey Mr.Brady, I wanted to ask for tips on storing church media, videos, photos. Should you buy thousands of hard drives or other alternatives? It would be much help, thank you.

@jamesfarrell4597 2 года назад

There are lot of good points in this video. I do wonder if a sermon that is exclusively done for online will encourage folks to stay home, rather than attend when they can. Also, and this is a VERY small criticism, but I had to fast forward through 2 1/2 minutes to get to your actual instructions/tips. I get that you want to do a proper intro, but 2 1/2 minutes is too long, IMO.

@kegandewitt4123 3 года назад

What are your tips or best practices for mixing prerecorded segments with live? We aren't as tight on time restrictions so that can hinder various aspects added mid service.

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Making sure your volume output is consistent would be the biggest thing I'd worry about. You don't want to blast your listener's ears on one segment or make one too quiet.

@jeffreychant5976 3 года назад

Brady, we have been producing a online video each week " to camera" and have avoided the live stream for all your objections. Im wondering about equipment - what we need to do a hybrid - some live stream with pre recorded for one seemless live experience?

@livewellleadwell 3 года назад

I like that background behind the preacher at 9:22. Where that come from?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

That's just a paper background. We like Savage: savageuniversal.com/products/seamless-paper/

@livewellleadwell 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools thanks!

@tylergoswick4536 3 года назад

How do you do this with a live service?

@TheDavinci2012 3 года назад

I need Tips, for church service with parallel In-Person-Service and Livestream. It's increasingly difficult to make a good livestream when all is happening in real time :/

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

@gihfe 3 года назад

We have been doing a prerecorded and edited service for 34 weeks. It has been a lot of work to record and edit and post produce a whole service, much more than the work I did to just prepare for them in-person (non-online) worship we had before. We are starting back in-person and will live stream that service because there is no way we could do both a pre-recorded service for online and a live in-person service. I had hoped this video was ways to design a live in-person service with a digital audience in mind. Any adivce on how to engage with online worshippers and in person worshippers simultaneously without doing two weeks worth of work each week?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Great question, Gary. My recommendation for you would be to identify "crossover" elements or techniques. Ways of doing a segment that would serve both in-person and live audiences well. The challenge is that the needs of each audience are very different. Try your best not to slip back to just giving your online audience the leftovers. One practical thought - churches have been using pre-recorded segments in their live services for a very long time. Well before the pandemic. Examples of this would be video announcements, sermon bumpers, etc. So what if we pushed that a bit further? Maybe The Pre-Show is pre-recorded. And the announcements. And service transition. But the worship and preaching are live. That would give you the building blocks to create an in-person experience and online experience that perhaps serve both audiences well.

@brianmaag178 3 года назад

Brady - great stuff. If I'm finding the right place, it looks like your church is measuring views by the hundreds and sometimes thousands. What is the bottom end of viewership that you would put in this much creativity? For example, would you do all these extra things if your church was getting 20 views instead of 200? Asking for a friend, of course. ;-)

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

I hear you, Brian 😇 The numbers are all relative, right? There's always someone that has more views than you. Always someone that has fewer. I always try to approach my videos the same way and do my best regardless of numbers. And I don't think any of these specific online church ideas are big church or small church-specific. A personal example, I published a video last night on TikTok. I woke up this morning and it had more than 250K views. And got me more than 7K new followers. But I didn't do anything different on that video than the previous twenty I published. And I'm glad more people saw this video, but I always give my best whether this video gets 100X my normal views or not.

@irocboy728 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools and when people go back to look at your old content... Bam! It's still awesome!

@RangerGrant 3 года назад

I'm having a hard time translating this to a small church context. There's no way we could pull this off w/o a team completely devoted to scheduling/shooting/editing. What are some of the key systems and schedules you have in place to make sure all these elements are taken care of each week?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

1. We don't record full new worship sets every single week. Sometimes it's just one song. And we create a library of options to go to. 2. Not every idea is applicable for every church, but The Pre-Show, The Post-Show, and The Sermon are all just talking head shots or a still image slide that can be done by anyone. 3. It's important to remember that these are examples from a single church. I included them because they illustrated what's possible - but the bigger idea of this video is to intentionally create *FOR* digital audiences, instead of serving them a second-rate experience. The ways of doing that will/can/should differ for different contexts :)

@RangerGrant 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools Thanks for sharing your insight! It's definitely got me thinking about how we can apply this to our setting. It'd be hard to convince our SP to pre-record during the week and then preach again on Sunday... But I love the idea of the Pre/Post Show before our live stream Sunday Service 🤔 And 100% LOVE the idea that digital audiences shouldn't be served a 2nd rate experience. I really appreciate what you do Brady! Hopefully, our church will be joining the Nucleus community soon 🙌

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

@@RangerGrant Excited to have you, Ranger. We're all doing the best we can. Thanks for serving the church in these challenging times. 🙏

@andrewward242 3 года назад

@@RangerGrant I am part of a smaller church, and it's totally worth it. You may not do all of the suggestions but you could pre-record announcements so everyone whether online or in-person gets the same announcements. We don't want anyone to feel 2nd rate and after we switched everything over and did a central hub model, it's been nothing but positive feedback. Everyone knows where to go and even find the latest announcements. Good luck and blessings.

@caffeineman72 3 года назад

You lost me at "After Effects Template"... is there another way to do this?

@nickwilson2218 3 года назад

This is good stuff, But is this really a live stream? Out of all of this, unless we do something completely production heavy and change our in house service, we could only do the pre-show and post-show, which we do. How would you add this other material in a live setting?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

It's a live stream for us. We use the Premiere setting on Facebook and RU-vid to host a live stream using re-recorded material. It's my preferred way of doing a live stream because it's more flexible, more accessible, and offers more room for creativity. You *can* do all of this live as well (except for the worship from home stuff), it just requires more gear and volunteers.

@AndrewBernardez 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools You bring up a good point, Brady. Does this mean that you are both recording all of these beforehand AND prepping for weekend services as well?

@thatbruh0429 3 года назад

@christlutheranscv 3 года назад

Both you and Carey Nieuwhof are in favor of limiting the online service to message and invitation... Do you think including a special music section with a brief introduction to a song - explaining why it relates to the sermon - would be too much?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Not at all - if you can do it well.

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@siparangahonoratus5258 4 месяца назад

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@damarine1 3 года назад

Just curious... how many team members do you have working on this within the church... are there any solutions for 1-3 person teams with only 2 days of availability?

@patrickdewhurst3378 3 года назад

This.

@PastorFelixCastro 3 года назад

Hi Brady The pre-show, the transitions, the post show, and the sermón everything is pre recorded? Everything?

@PastorFelixCastro 3 года назад

When ur church goes in person did u guys will broadcast the in person service or did u continue to broadcast the prerecorded material?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Currently, we're hosting gatherings in-person that are not full capacity. We're also producing these online church services and hosting them as mock live streams using the Premiere functions of RU-vid and Facebook - so we're doing both.

@chaddonal4331 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools Really good stuff... Does your leadership team have any concern about online viewers not returning to the in-person services? Or have an intentional plan to get new online viewers back onto campus and attending in-person services? From a values standpoint, is the online experience considered an equal substitute for worship and fellowship; or acknowledged as a temporary compromise? I'm getting at ecclesiastical questions...

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

@@chaddonal4331 Those are indeed big questions! Probably best answered in a separate video.

@HezzylMaeChannelSong4U 3 года назад

Praise God.💕💕 Be safe everyone May our Lord Jesus Christ the center of our lives in every Situations we've encounter. Godbless us💓💗

@gabrielrivera5819 3 года назад

Hey! How did you get the countdown in the lower thirds and use a motion overlay as a border? I use Final Cut Pro X is it a plug-in?

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

The countdown is very similar to the breakdown at 7:00. Just add it as a layer on top of your video. And then for the motion overlay border, that's simple too. Just shrink down your main video to reveal the layer underneath - creating a border.

@jeffstormer2547 3 года назад

What?! the pre-show example didn't specify the URL.

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Pardon?

@jeffstormer2547 3 года назад

You recommend starting the church's URL (mychurch.com) rather than saying "visit our website". I know the url.was posted visually but voicing it as well reinforces the retention (2 senses-sight/hearing) for the able-bodied, reinforces the One next step philosophy you teach, and is more friendly for visually impaired folks who depend on more auditory cues. It just surprised me that this happened at your home congregation. I mean....Brady Shearer actually making a mistake? Who'd a thought? ;)

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Well, as I said, I'm not especially involved in these on a granular level 😇

@jeffstormer2547 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools ah...I missed that. Another great vid brother! Loving these ideas.

@RichSchmidt 3 года назад

These are all great ideas for “online church,” but they seem to have little to do with “better church live streaming,” which is the title of the video. Live streaming any event (it seems to me) means showing the live event, not showing a different, pre-recorded event. You used the “watching a sporting event from home” analogy in this video... and I can’t imagine someone tuning into their team’s game would be satisfied with a pre-recorded version of a game that isn’t the actual game being played that day. Again, I think these are all great ideas for online church, and I may try to adapt 1 or 2 of them for our small church livestream... but they’re not at all what I expected based on the video’s title.

@prochurchtools 3 года назад

Thanks for the comment, Rich. Just a couple thoughts, many churches are live streaming using pre-recorded video content. RU-vid/Facebook afford this with their "Premiere" functions. For the end user, it's the same - a live stream. So we've been using these terms synonymously because it varies from church to church. Some host pre-recorded live streams. Some rebroadcast a live service. Others do a little bit of both.

@RichSchmidt 3 года назад

@@prochurchtools - I get that. I guess I'm just questioning whether it really is perceived as "the same" by the end user. In my mind (and I think in the minds of viewers), there's a difference between an event that's recorded "live" and then shown later and an event that is pre-recorded, edited, and not even pretending to be live. (The summer Olympics, for example, rides the line between the two. It starts to feel a bit hinky when it's clear that they're rearranging events and it seems like the commentators know what's coming before it happens.) BTW, while FB and RU-vid provide similar tools for "Premiere" and "Live" events, I think it's telling that they clearly differentiate between the two.

@RichSchmidt 3 года назад

Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way about the term. Maybe most folks are using it the same way you are. I just wanted to give you the feedback, in case others similarly come to the video expecting something different based on the title. Keep up the good work!