Worship Guidelines and Helps
- CTCR Guidelines for Communion Practice During COVID-19 Pandemic
- The Hymnal Project – Hymns, lead sheets, and recordings are available for free to enhance your worship.
- The Hymnal Project Videos – Free videos of Public Domain hymns are available here. These videos are utilizing thehymnalproject.com hymns. New hymns are being added daily.
- Zoom Security – Todd Jones shares some helps regarding zoom and keeping your zoom events secure.
- Conduction of a Congregational Meeting Online – Blog
- Conducting Online Voter’s Meetings – Podcast
Photo, Video & Livestream Helps / Licensing
- Worship Service Tutorial – How to Create an engaging Worship Service for Online Worship
- Online Bible Study Tutorial – How to Create Community in an Online Bible Study using Zoom
- Online Worship: From Zero to Sixty in No Time – blog
- Video & Livestream Options – Video – Jeff Heisner and Pastor Nikolai Gibbons talk about connecting with your congregations, members, and others through video and livestreaming.
- The blog Livestream for Worship looks at two aspects of livestreaming: the technology used to capture the service and the hosting options which enable the congregation to view the stream.
- The blog From Social Distancing to Social Presence discusses how to bring community to online ministry
- Concordia Technology Solutions – Webinars and Helps to Stream Your Services
- Free Photo Library from LCMS Communications: A new, searchable, church art gallery is now available (950+ photos by Erik Lunsford). No permissions needed to use. Click on the “downloadable church art” link at the top to browse them all.
- Social Media Recording Tips
- Zoom – is offering a Free Webinar as well as resources, a guide, and free technology to assist your congregations/schools.
- Licensing Options for LiveStreaming Your Services
- CCLI – Streaming License
- WORSHIPCast – CCS
- ONE LICENSE
- Concordia Publishing House is offering temporary access to the Lutheran Service Builder for streaming your worship services. Start today at https://app.lutheranservicebuilder.com/signup. CPH also has offered free Orders of Daily Prayer with Hymns. License Agreement & Terms