Ongoing Digital Ministry Projects
Digital Artisans
Part-time Associate clergy appointed as Pastor of Media and Communication working with an AV Team (one paid and seven volunteer) of the world's finest techs and three dedicated support staff volunteers as well as a monthly Online Worship Advisory Team
Digital Production
- Livestream Production of all worship, church town meetings, author series events, funerals, and many of our 50 annual rental concerts and events (i.e., Seaside Jewish Community High Holy Days services, preschool graduations and concerts, Beebe school of nursing graduation, local high school concerts, community concerts, community gatherings, and HOA meetings)
- Record, produce, and stream worship services when weather precludes holding in-person services, or in addition to open-house services (Ash Wednesday)
- Production of training videos for Daily Office Volunteers, AV Team, and congregation
Production of promotional/inspirational videos featuring Epworth church, ministries, and people
Online Digital
Church Website: Epworth.Faith
- Easy-to-remember address
- Announcements and calendar (including group and volunteer opportunities)
- Online/electronic Giving
- Fillable online forms, registrations, and payments
- Weekly email sign up link
- Food Ministry Volunteer sign up via website email (typically 1-3 monthly)
- Online PDF library of forms, policies, and church reports
- Digital worship bulletin available Thursday (designed from the ground-up as a digital/linked product, suitable for smart-phone viewing)
- Google Business Site - up-to-date - 800 avg. customer interactions monthly and 4.6/5 star reviews
- Facebook presence (2.3K followers - 94% recommended) - livestream channel - sermon clips, pictures, announcements, congregational sharing
- YouTube Sites (Regular - 802 subscribers and 504 videos - and ASL - 140 subscribers and 321 videos)
- Instagram for picture sharing
Digital AV Suite
- 33 microphones (1/3 wireless), direct organ audio input, seven remote-operated cameras, 56 stage lights, and digital recording deck
- Pro-Presenter lyric overlay for livestream
- Recruiting, training, and scheduling AV team and support staff
- Dedicated sound tech for livestream and another for sanctuary sound
- Dedicated chat monitor (typically Pastor Bo, who cuts into the livestream to directly address participants for communion, prayer, and acknowledgements)
- Mentimeter word walls during sermons
Digital Admin
- Cloud collaboration/file sharing on Office360 for staff (and staff email)
- Owl Camera/dedicated laptop/large screen monitor in Conference Room for hybrid meetings/groups
- Small groups and meetings on Zoom (Epworth owns two accounts)
- Cloud-based One Church Member software with a smartphone app and Quickbooks for financial records
- AI-assist for event/ministry planning, email and blog editing
- Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone system for church and staff (with app)
- Response Computer Group contract for computer security and maintenance for our 15 active and 7 spare computers (also updating network infrastructure)
Weekly Digital
- Sermon Preview video
- Thursday email blast driving traffic to the website (1,089 subscribers - 48% open rate)
- Podcast featuring interviews with members of our church and community (started June 21, 2026)
- Worship graphics (eight annual worship series graphics, and annual worship theme graphics) to promote interest and engagement using Adobe Creative Suite
- Pre-recorded Sunday worship announcements for better engagement with livestream and on-demand viewers
- Outdoor Digital sign (1,466 avg. annual daily traffic in 2025) and lobby monitors (esp. during our weekly rental concerts and events) with curated announcement reel and exclusive event screen updated weekly
- Sermon Transcripts/Outlines
- Clips to share
- Prayer and Devotional Guides
- Questions for conversation/individual or group study
- Chat-GPT option for questions about the sermon or the church
Discontinued Projects (Failures and learning experiences)
- Distribution of DVD recordings of worship
- Archive of pre-covid worship recordings (2008-2019) on in-house server
- Eumcrb.org web address (replaced with epworth.faith)
- Power Point for song word projection (shifted to ProPresenter and completely new infrastructure)
- Daily Lenten Instagram picture sharing
- Daily Lenten Online Devotions
- Online small groups developed to address Technological insecurity and Digital safety (minimal response)
- Church Online Platform to unite in-person and online worshippers in a common chat (this was a big push - including production of video promos - that lasted several months
- Zoom alternatives - Microsoft Teams and Google Meet
- Eero internet coverage work-around
- VGA lobby screen network for announcements
- iPad giving on a lobby kiosk
- Pastors AI podcast (discontinued by Pastors AI)
- Epworth "Hope Floats" monthly Podcast in 2021
- Zoom Coffee and Conversation after worship
- Digital Evangelist position for online promotion of Christmas and Easter
- Sharing chat comments with in-person congregation (shut down after extensive research but before implementation)
- Christian Web Host and Blue Host web service providers