Monday, December 07, 2020

Monday's Catch: The Decline in Online Worship Attendance and More


Seven Reasons Your Online Worship Attendance Is Declining Most churches are seeing a dramatic decline in the online viewing of their worship services. What is going on? Thom Rainer offers seven reasons for this decline, based upon the Church Answers' research.

Navigating the Emotional Impact of Covid The COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely stressful for people of all ages from all walks of life. It has been particularly stressful for pastors.

8 vMix Alternatives For You To Choose From Live-streaming apps? For how many of us live-streaming apps was the last thing on our mind before COVID-19. Now they may be essential to the ongoing ministry of our churches.

5 Energy-Conserving Ideas For Training Your Worship Team Through Micro-Training Micro-Training is… training your team over time with simple, short, consistent, weekly bursts of encouragement, inspiration, and insight – using primarily email, text, private social media groups, and links. Especially during Covid, it’s the way to move everyone forward. 

New Progressive Methodist Denomination Starts Looks like progressive Methodists jumped the gun on conservative Methodists and were first to launch a new Methodist denomination.

Salvaging Christmas amid Coronavirus Concerns Benton, Kentucky is only a 25 minute drive from where I live. With almost all of Kentucky's counties experiencing a high incidence of infections, Governor Andy Beshear has asked churches to temporarily suspend in-person services to the middle of December. Some churches like Murray First UMC have heeded the governor's request. Others are taking risks and continuing their in-person services. The region is divided over the seriousness of the pandemic and what measures, if any, should be taken to contain its spread and mitigate its effects.

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