Live Streaming worship

Churches which are live streaming

The website A Church Near You points to churches with an online worship presence.

If your church is live streaming, find out how to tag your service correctly on A Church Near You in this article.

To reach those who are not online, see these suggestions.

Digital streaming: how to

For a Church of England guide on how to live-stream via Youtube, Facebook or Instagram, please read this article here.

If you have questions about equipment, we highly recommend the webinar on this page called ‘setting up a livestream in your church building’.

But if you would rather just stick to one simple way of doing so, all you need is a decent Smartphone and good Wifi, and you can stream a service using Facebook Live. The instructions are as follows:

Facebook Live Instructions:

• Tell those in your congregation and others that you plan to do this in advance, via email, social media and/or text.
• Ensure that those who you are filming are happy for you to do so.
• Go to your personal or your church’s Facebook profile and click the button that says ‘Live’, under the box that says ‘What’s on your mind?’ (personal) or ‘Create a post’ (church page).
• Add a few words of description, and then click ‘Start Live Video’, when you are ready. If you are using your own personal profile, do make sure you’ve set it to ‘public’.

For an entire service, you may also want to make sure that the phone is wedged in place to keep it still (or, even better, use a tripod).

If you are live streaming sung worship from your church’s website, there are issues relating to copyright that you will need to address. You can get more information about that here. However, if you are live streaming via Facebook Live or YouTube, those issues do not apply as both platforms are covered by their own PRS licences.

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