﻿The Church of God is a little flock, but we do a very big work. Media Production
Services is a small group of people producing a lot of content each year. We take on each project
and think, how can we be more efficient? How can we be more effective? We utilize a lot of software
and hardware tools. We gain the skills to use those tools and by doing that, we can actually
do a lot more faster. Mr. Willard, the Head of our IT Department gets his work cut out for him
because we are running these machines as hard and as fast as we can. We are actually utilizing all
the assets that we have here at headquarters in order to turn around a project as quickly and
as efficiently as we can so that the brethren get to see it sooner. Being the Church of God
it's very important that we produce biblically based content, both for the public and for the
membership. The Doctrinal Introduction videos are fun small ways that we can introduce people to
the many teachings that the Church has. The reason we produce these videos is that we are striving
to reach out to those God might be calling and it's another avenue for them to lead them to the
RCG website or the literature. We record a message in English and then have that transcribed,
which is taking the audio and typing it out. That document is then sent to our translators,
who turn it around and give it back to us and we then turn that into audio through software.
The reason we transcribe and translate is to feed the flock and some of those brethren speak French,
they speak Spanish. They're hard of hearing. It's very important to us in the department that we
make sure that they are kept up to speed with all the teachings of the Church has, that they are fed
just as much as everybody else is. We can actually take a message that was recorded at headquarters
in English and within 24 hours, deliver that message in the language of French and Spanish
to the brethren all over the world. The only difference between being at headquarters and being
on another side of the planet is that we heard it one day sooner. That's the only difference.
The transcription process is very time consuming. It takes a lot of mental energy and focus.
We put out a notice in the announcement bulletin and asking for volunteers to help with the
transcription process. And the response we got was very overwhelming, overwhelming in a good way,
that there were so many people all over the world who were willing to donate their time,
their energy, to be able to help the work. And what they're really doing is helping their
fellow brethren. Within a day of the announcement going out, we'd already gotten several responses.
Every day, more and more responses were coming in, more and more responses and by the time the week
passed, we had to tell website services, "Please take this announcement down. Our plate is full.
We have tons of people to choose from." They have already been helping us out. They've been turning
around projects way faster than we thought we would possibly get. We've been trying to find ways
and think outside the box of how we can utilize these new assets that we have in the department
to be able to do things that we hadn't thought of previously. Godly love and the brotherly
love of the brethren is very evident when they crawl out of the woodwork to serve and to help.
The new software we have that turns transcripts into French and Spanish voice
has been a game changer. It really frees up the translators in the field, the men that used to
take French and Spanish messages and record it with their own voice that would take
days for them to do. Now, software can do that inside 15 minutes. We can turn
that a message around very quickly and free up the ministers to do their ministerial duties.
Media Production Services is a services department so it's really important that
all of us work together to provide that kind of assistance and help to one another.
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