Category: Online Church
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Running a Christmas service in-person and online
By The Rev’d Michael Calder: A simple carols service is one of the most effective ways to share the Good News of Christmas with a range of people from both inside and outside the church. Incredibly, almost everyone (even secretly) loves coming along to sing carols! Despite living in an era in which fewer people…
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What comes after online church?
By Evan Englezos: This year most churches around the country shifted very quickly from familiar face-to-face services to an all-online experience. In doing so, churches have grown in capability, learning about and implementing additional technologies. In fact, this challenging season has been a monumental opportunity to make much needed changes to the way churches think…
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COVID-19 Ministry Support ‘Help Desks’
By Kerryn Smith: A cross-commission Resource Collaboration Group was formed in late March to assist parishes and ministries with resourcing and to provide COVID-19 related guidance and information. In an Ad Clerum sent out just before Easter, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall said that the most important and immediate priorities were: Pastoral care for your people; Care…
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Praying for our parish clergy and lay leaders
By The Ven. Keith Dean-Jones: When I was ordained a priest 43 years ago, I believed that the clergy were the shop keepers who ‘sold’ a religious product and that the people were the customers who ‘purchased’ the necessities for the spiritual life. The price of the transaction was the weekly freewill offering envelope, and…
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BIBLE360: Exploring the Gospels via webinar
By Fiona Hammond, Lay Ministry Education Projects Officer An Impressionist artist and a Cubist artist walk into a bar…no wait that’s the wrong intro! What if you asked four artists, an Impressionist, a Cubist, a Realist and an Expressionist to paint your portrait? Would you expect that each would produce exactly the same image of…
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‘Caremongering’ in our communities
By Jen Basham, Justice Unit Coordinator Churches around Australia recently suspended public worship and gatherings, and other civic and business life is operating remotely or shutting doors to mitigate the risk of coronavirus spreading. A key to preventing the spread is ‘social distancing’. The word itself is a striking oxymoron, much like telling someone to…
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Good advice for taking your church online
If you are in the midst of moving your church online there is a lot to think about: Adrian Jackson (@adrianjackson) shared the following great advice on twitter. As a former Asst Media Director for a mega church I have spent most of the last ten years being asked to think about ways to take…