Covid-19: Digital Tools for Church

A crowdsourced index of useful digital communication tools for church leaders, communications teams and church staff to refer to during the coronavirus outbreak.

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Starter Guide

Where to start and what to consider.

Digital Platforms for Churches During Coronavirus

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  • Source: Mark Crosby
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Keep Church going through Covid-19

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  • Source: iKnow Church
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Top tips for doing church digitally

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  • Source: Mark Crosby - Evangelical Alliance UK
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Digital communion

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  • Source: John Dyer
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Taking Church Online in a Coronavirus Age

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  • Source: The Gospel Coalition
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COVID-19 and your church

Article

  • Source: Justin Dean - Sunday Mag
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The New Church

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  • Source: Chuck Scoggins - Sunday Mag
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The Ultimate Coronavirus Guide For Churches

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  • Source: Ryan Wakefield - Church Marketing University
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Running Digital Small Groups

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  • Source: Vineyard Churches
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Getting started with filming

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  • Source: Vineyard Churches
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10 ways churches can help during the coronavirus pandemic

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  • Source: Krish Kandiah - Premier Christianity
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Free Consultation to help implementation in your church

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  • Source: Digital Church Toolkit team
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The Impact of the coronavirus on Church Comms

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  • Source: Digital Church Toolkit
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UK government advice on religious gatherings not meeting

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  • Source: UK Government
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Quick Filming Tips for Busy Pastors

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  • Source: Catalyst Vineyard
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COVID-19 Church Online Summit

Webinar

  • Time: 26 March 2020 to 27 March 2020
  • Host: Wheaton College, US National Association of Evangelicals
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Latest Advice from UK Government

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  • Source: UK Gov
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Prayer

Prayer is not our only response, but it should be our first response.

A guide to praying for Coronavirus #PrayToEndCov19

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  • Source: SIM
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Prayermate

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  • Source: Discipleship Tech
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Time to Pray

App

  • Source: Church House Publishing
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Virtual prayer room for the coronavirus pandemic

Website

  • Source: 24-7 Prayer
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A coronavirus prayer and other resources

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  • Source: Pete Greig - 24-7 Prayer
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Easter Pastors Prayer - Global Gathering

Webinar

  • Time: 6 April 2020 at 08:00 PDT
  • Host: Rick Warren, Nicky Gumbel et al
  • Source: Rick Warren
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Easter Pastor Prayer Gathering (with Rick and Kay Warren)

Webinar

  • Time: 6 April 2020 at 8:00:00 AM
  • Host: Rick and Kay Warren
  • Source: Saddleback Church
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Church Admin

ChurchSuite ChMS

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: ChurchSuite Ltd
  • Country: United Kingdom
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iKnowChurch ChMS

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: iKnow Church
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Church Service Planner

Software or Online Tool

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Church Management

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Planning Center
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Churchbox (church address book and comms)

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Church Box
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Church Response

Best practise examples of how churches, key leaders and networks have responded to the coronavirus, either continuing services, cancelling services, sharing encouraging words, direction or providing language around this pandemic.

Historical context for pandemics

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  • Source: Vineyard Columbus
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What does exiting a lockdown look like for churches?

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  • Source: Mark Crosby
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Assemblies of God official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Assemblies of God
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Baptist Union official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Baptist Union
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Catholic Church official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Catholic Church (England and Wales)
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Church of England official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Church of Scotland official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Church of Scotland
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Co-Mission: Facing Coronavirus In Christ

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  • Source: Co-Mission
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Elim Churches official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Elim
  • Country: United Kingdom
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FIEC official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Methodist official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Methodist Church
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Presbyterian Church official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Presbyterian Church (Ireland)
  • Country: Ireland
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Quakers official response and guidelines

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  • Source: The Quakers
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Salavtion Army official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Salvation Army
  • Country: United Kingdom
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United Reformed Church official response and guidelines

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  • Source: United Reformed Church
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Vineyard Churches official response and guidelines

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  • Source: Vineyard Churches
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Response to the coronavirus

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  • Source: Vineyard Columbus
  • Country: United States
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Causeway Coast Vineyard

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  • Source: Causeway Coast Vineyard
  • Country: United Kingdom
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A Christ Centred Response to the Coronavirus

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  • Source: Evangelical Alliance
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Responding well to the Coronavirus

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  • Source: Gavin Calver (Evangelical Alliance)
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Love in the Time of Coronavirus

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  • Source: Andy Crouch
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Covid Hackathon - Technologists working to serve the church during Covid-19

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Faithtech
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2030 Plus - Church Beyond Covid

Webinar

  • Time: 16 April 2020 at 11:00:00 AM
  • Host: Mal Fletcher
  • Source: Mal Fletcher (Futurist)
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Community

Video Calls: Zoom

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  • Source: Zoom
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Video Calls: Skype

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  • Source: Skype
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Shared bible plans

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  • Source: YouVersion
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Shared Prayers

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  • Source: YouVersion
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Prayermate - Prayer Groups and Feeds

App

  • Source: PrayerMate
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Dwell - Free for churches

App

  • Source: Dwell
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Leveraging Facebook for Online Church During COVID-19

Article

  • Source: Head of Global Faith-Based Partnerships at Facebook
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Running a digital small group

Article

  • Source: Vineyard
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Four ideas to be for your community during COVID-19

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  • Source: Sunday Mag
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How to stay connected during coronovirus

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  • Source: Sunday Mag
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Ministry From a Distance

Webinar

  • Time: 25 March 2020
  • Source: Indigitous
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Five ways to keep your church connected

Webinar

  • Time: 2 April 2020 at 12:00 GMT
  • Host: Labs Learning, Church of England
  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Make the most of your A Church Near You page

Webinar

  • Time: 2 April 2020 at 14:00 GMT
  • Host: Labs Learning, Church of England
  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Q&A with Nona Jones: how to use Facebook to grow communities

Webinar

  • Time: 3 April 2020 at 15:00 GMT
  • Host: Labs Learning, Church of England
  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Q&A with Matt Hogg: Connecting digitally during physical distancing

Webinar

  • Time: 26 March 2020 at 19:30 GMT
  • Host: Labs Learning, Church of England
  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Facebook pages for churches

Webinar

  • Time: 23 April 2020 at 12:00 GMT
  • Host: Labs Learning, Church of England
  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Ministry From a Distance

Webinar

  • Time: 25 March 2020 to 27 March 2020
  • Host: Indigitous
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Small Group Training

Website

  • Source: Fusion
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Crisis Management

Guidance for churches

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  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Communicating your response

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  • Source: CPO
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All Things Coronavirus

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  • Source: Northshore Church
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Templates for Public Statements; emails, social posts, etc

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Offering Hope in a Time of Crisis

Webinar

  • Time: Invalid DateTime at 7:30:00 PM
  • Host: Amy Norris, Tim Dennis, Michael Ots, and Simon Munsie
  • Source: Building community in a Crisis - relational sustainable online church
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Giving

ChurchSuite: Donate via SMS

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: ChurchSuite
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Donr

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Donr
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Givt Giving App

App

  • Source: Givt
  • Country: Netherlands
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Elvanto and Tithe.ly Service

App

  • Source: Elvanto
  • Country: United States
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Generous Church Giving

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Generous For Good Pty Ltd
  • Country: Australia
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iKnow Church

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: iKnow Church
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Live Streaming

Songs in the Public Domain and Livestreaming

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Restream - stream to multiple platforms at once

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  • Source: Restream
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Everybody Welcome Online

PDF

  • Source: CPAS
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Video Teleprompter Lite

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Teleprompter for Video

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  • Source: Norton Five
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Teleprompter mobile apps

App

  • Source: BigVu
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Teleprompter App

App

  • Source: Prompster
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Open Source Streaming Platform

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  • Source: OBS
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Be Live

App

  • Source: Be Live
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Stream Yard

App

  • Source: Stream Yard
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Switcher Studio - multi camera streaming

App

  • Source: Switcher Studio
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How to Livestream Your Church Service

Article

  • Source: Gospel Coalition
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How to stream your Church service on Facebook Live

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  • Source: CBN
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Live streaming worship music & staying legal

Article

  • Source: Bespoke Records
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Recording, streaming and podcasting your services

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  • Source: CCLI
  • Country: United Kingdom
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A note about live streaming and song licensing in churches

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  • Source: James Doc
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Licences to live stream worship

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A beginner’s guide to going live with your service or event for free

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  • Source: Church of England
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How to Livestream Your Church Service: A Practical Guide

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Livestream to Youtube with just a phone - tutorial

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  • Source: Alex Robinson
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Best practices for going Live from a Facebook Page

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  • Source: Facebook
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Live Streaming: Facebook or YouTube

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Streaming Guide for Churches

PDF

  • Source: Digital Church Toolkit
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The most affordable live streaming cameras for churches

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  • Source: ProChurchTools
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Web based teleprompter

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Church Online Platform

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Life Church
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Vimeo Live Stream Service

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Vimeo
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How to speak to camera 

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Virtual Church 101

Webinar

  • Time: 18 March 2020 at 18:00 GMT
  • Host: Chris Lim, TheoTech
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Livestream question and answer session

Webinar

  • Time: 1 April 2020 at 15:00 GMT
  • Host: Labs Learning, Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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How to Keep Uninvited Guests Out of Your Zoom Event

Article

  • Source: Zoom
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Scheduling YouTube Premieres

Article

  • Source: Church of England
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Digital Church: What do the metrics actually mean?

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  • Source: Mark Crosby
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Outreach

GodTools

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  • Source: Cru
  • Country: The app allows a primary and parallel language so you can communicate with somebody who speaks or prefers another language.
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Living & Telling Online - a highly interactive video-led discipleship course for small groups

Website

  • Source: Agapé UK
  • Country: English language speakers
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Free Online COVID-19 Course for Nonprofit Ministries & Churches

Website

  • Source: Andrew Sears and City Vision University
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Viral kindness neighbourhood print out

PDF

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Love our street print out

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Viral Kindness print out

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  • Source: Vineyard Churches
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Introduction to Instagram for churches

Webinar

  • Time: 23 April 2020 at 14:00 GMT
  • Host: Labs Learning, Church of England
  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Alpha Online

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  • Source: Alpha
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How to run Alpha Online (101)

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  • Time: 9 April 2020 at 15:00 GMT
  • Host: Alpha
  • Source: Alpha (password Alpha101)
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Media Production

Podcasting Sermons

App

  • Source: Anchor
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Affinity Design tools (free for 3 months)

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  • Source: Affinity
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A note about live streaming and song licensing in churches

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  • Source: James Doc
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Recording with anyone, anywhere

Article

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Songs in the public domain

Directory

  • Source: CCLI
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Filming For Pastors Made Simple (e-course)

Service

  • Source: Digital Church Toolkit
  • Country: United Kingdom
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The Church Comms Collective UK

Facebook Group

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CMG / Visual Church Media

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Church Tech UK

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Good church graphics

Media Assets

  • Source: Canva
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Custom Video Announcements

Media Assets

  • Source: GoChatter
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Coronavirus Graphics

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  • Source: Sunday Social
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Updates and Cancellation Graphics

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  • Source: Pixel Preacher
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Coronavirus Photos

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  • Source: Unsplash
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Christian BSL - Prayers and Reading videos in Sign Language

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  • Country: United Kingdom
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Sing. Stream. Speak. Setup (recording)

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  • Time: 30 March 2020
  • Host: Speak Life
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Church Comms create

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  • Source: CPO
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Coronavirus Tech Handbook

Directory

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Church Website Builder (church123.com)

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Church123
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Mental Health

Coronavirus and Anxiety

Article

  • Source: Will Van Der Hart
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Joy - Support for people self-isolating

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Toucan - Relationship App for couples to strengthen relationships

App

  • Source: Agape Ministries
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Grief Resource directory (new)

Directory

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Joy Resource Directory (new)

Directory

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Offline Challenges

How-to: Set up sermon recordings to play from a phone line

Article

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Remote Working

Microsoft Teams - Team messaging

App

  • Source: Microsoft
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Slack - Team messaging

App

  • Source: Slack
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Facebook Workplace - Team network

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  • Source: Facebook
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Trello - online Project Management

App

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Tips from 7 years running a remote team

Article

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4 Tips for staying productive

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  • Source: Google
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Google Drive - Shared document storage

Software or Online Tool

  • Source: Google
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AirTable - simple custom databases online

Software or Online Tool

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Youth and Kids

Bible App for Kids

App

  • Source: Life Church
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A new era for Youth Ministry

Article

  • Source: Vineyard
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Youthscape liveblog and resources

Blog

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Youth Department handbook

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  • Source: Church of Ireland
  • Country: Ireland
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Using Zoom with under 18’s

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Complete Online Kids Services

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  • Source: Life Church
  • Country: United States
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Children & Youth in London (Recording)

Webinar

  • Time: 17 March 2020 at 11:30 am GMT
  • Host: Diocese of London Children & Youthwork
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Youth and young people: Keeping connected; Christian Cole, Ben Jones (Missional generation), and other guests TBC

Webinar

  • Time: 27 March 2020 at 13:00 GMT
  • Host: Labs Learning, Church of England
  • Source: Church of England
  • Country: United Kingdom
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