Media Outreach

Church Testimonies: Worship Anywhere but Here

A couple of weeks ago, while I was at a conference in Houston, I had a chance to mingle with pastors from across the country. One of them shared a truly unique idea with me that I have been wrestling with since. Once a year the church holds a “Worship Anywhere but Here” weekend. They [...]

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Why does it take so long for my files to upload in Sermon Connect?

With all this unlimited size and quantity, you may run across files that take longer than you would like to upload. While Sermon Connect has been optimized to receive file transfers so there is as little delay as possible, you may still find times when you feel like it is moving too slow. There are several [...]

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Sermon Connect Tools: Unlimited Storage

Sermon Connect offers two different levels of features. Whether you choose the more basic option or decide to upgrade to the ability for blogging and more media pages, you will automatically be able to incorporate audio/video streaming and podcasting. While there are many options out there for utilizing these media elements, many of them come [...]

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First Impressions: New Site Review

First Impressions is facilitated through Guest Reflections. People are asked to pick a website from a church in their area at random and review it. These sites may or may not be powered by faithHighway. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Church Location: Redmond, WA User Profile: Male 30 to 39 years old Hispanic Area resident for more than eleven years Attends church only a few times a [...]

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My Favorite Recent Redesign

I had the opportunity to work with the people at Aldan Union Church to plan out one of my favorite website redesigns. Revolution Student Ministries has gone from a website that was good for its time years ago, to the cutting edge communication tool that it is today. In planning out the scope of this [...]

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Get Your Events Out There!

In the past month, my electricity bill has doubled, I’ve purchased a watermelon for $4.00 even though I live alone, and I made chocolate syrup on my dashboard by leaving a Hershey’s Kiss in my truck while I was in the office. Children are playing in the streets, the municipal pools are jam packed, and [...]

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Your Website: An Owner’s Manual Continued

Let’s continue our survey of basic HTML by taking an in-depth look at one of the HTML elements that you will probably use the most: the EMBED element. The <embed> element is unusual in that it is not an official HTML element as defined by the folks at the World Wide Web Consortium. It was [...]

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Church Testimonies: Vision + Passion = Amazing Results

What is the best part of your job serving the Lord? I’m sure there are several things that pop into your mind. For me, my absolute FAVORITE is hearing from clients that have seen the results of communicating effectively and relevantly for today’s generation. 80% of first time visitors have visited the church’s website [...]

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How does someone subscribe to my Sermon Connect podcast?

While podcasting has become a popular form of medium, churches and ministries will most likely encounter visitors and members of the congregation who are interested but unsure of how to access the podcasts. To access a podcast visitors to the site simply need to subscribe to it, in the same sense someone subscribes to a [...]

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Sermon Connect Tools: Unlimited Podcasts

In the last few years, podcasting has become a very popular form of media distribution. It seems that everywhere you look, someone is using an Ipod or other mp3 player to listen to, not only music, but the latest edition of their favorite podcast. Through Sermon Connect’s media management system, churches and ministries can tap [...]

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