in this video I'm gonna share with you two incredibly simple and affordable
church live-streaming systems plus my co-host Tess is gonna share an amazing
tip for sharing your live streams with your local community that's right to
start things off let's just think about one question should houses of worship be
using live streaming should they open their doors to the community beyond
their place of worship we would argue yes absolutely they should we know that
a large amount of time each week very large amount of time goes into producing
these sermons services for your communities why not make the most out of
that well spent time and expand your reach as much as possible to invite new
members of the community to come in and join you both virtually and physically
live-streaming can absolutely do that a number of different ways we're gonna
tell you about that today yeah it's just so great to be able to
have a window into your church on those amazing Sunday services and this tip
that actually comes from Tom Sinclair of streaming Idiot's Tess why don't we show
this off and how to use the check-in feature to allow all of you the people
that are at your church to share with their friends where they are and give
people a window into the church yeah it's a great idea from Tom regarding
geolocation and social media so once you do decide to start live streaming your
services whatever the production quality may be a great idea is to reach out to
your community that is physically there that day and ask them to check in to the
live stream to your Facebook page on social media this way their family and
friends are going to be able to see that they are actually there in your church
at that period of time and they'll be able to tune in to the live stream live
we know that a lot of churches are looking for people who are obviously
local to join their community this is a great way to reach people that are local
to you so we're going to just show you how to do the check-in feature right
here so you see at the top of your Facebook newsfeed on your Facebook app
there's a check-in button simply press the check-in button and then there's
going to be options of recent places you've been
but if it's your house of worship you could go ahead and type that into the
search browser let's do what's the what's the preschool I went to
Episcopal is this how you spell Episcopal I try st. Agnes that's a hard one for me
there it is say name is church there's st. Agnes convent pops right up don't
judge me for not knowing how to spell Episcopal and there you're able to post
this on your wall check in at Saint Agnes tag them in that social media post
so those around you will be able to tune in the stream live while it's happening
whatever day your service is so now let's talk about two quick and easy
live-streaming systems that almost any church can take advantage of churches
are large spaces and ptzoptics cameras are one of the most popular cameras for
churches because they allow you to zoom in from the back of the church get over
the heads of the congregation and show what's going on clearly for the
livestream so one easy situation is if your church has a computer we have a 20x
optical zoom camera that plugs directly into your computer with USB and you most
likely have a audio system that you can use to also plug in USB now there's a
free live streaming software called OBS it's available at OBSproject.com we'll
put a link below it's available for mac or pc or linux and all you have to do is
go into that software add your webcam your PTZ optics USB camera or webcam
your USB audio interface and then you simply log into Facebook and click start
streaming now if you are using your audio system for a digital audio
workstation like Ableton or something else you can actually take the XLR audio
output from one of the buses on your audio mixer plug it into a very
affordable this is the Behringer you see 202 XLR mixer that converts XLR to USB
but again that's only a $50 box to get that audio into your free live streaming
software thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video we have a
free course on church streaming that goes over all of these details in more detail
you can learn more at PTZ optics.com/churches where you
can actually put your church on our directory for free and have people find
you around the world thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video
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