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January 30, 2023

Your Church Hospitality Team's Sample Welcome Letter [+ Online Fellowship Ideas]

A welcome letter to new church members invites members into the church. Here's a sample welcome letter to new church members from your hospitality team...

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January 23, 2023

Top 11 Church Giving Tools 2023

What are the best online giving platforms for small churches? Which church giving app you should be using? Here's a list of the top church giving tools.

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January 10, 2023

Online Church Software Review: Top Church Software for 2023

The online church software you use impacts how you engage with your virtual church. Here's a summary of the best software for church services for 2023...

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January 4, 2023

What Makes A Good Online Church Platform For Virtual Events?

How to run successful virtual events for church? For your church's virtual run events & virtual team events to be successful, here's what you'll need:

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December 22, 2022

New Host Features and Seating Fixes

As the new year fast approaches, we want to equip you with a few new features to make online church engagement even smoother than before. Now you can quickly move your attendees from room to room, and upload your pre-event slides with ease!

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December 21, 2022

Virtual Fellowship Ideas For Church Streaming Services

Virtual fellowship ideas can be hard to come up with. Church streaming services for virtual church, need the right goals, engagement ideas, and tools.

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December 8, 2022

How To Start An Online Ministry For The Future

Ministry for the future is digital. We need online ministry. If you are entering into online ministry, or ministry jobs, here are key things to consider.

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November 22, 2022

5 Ways to Make the Most of Announcement Templates in Altar Live

Announcements in online meetings keep everyone on the same page during your services conferences and events. Announcement templates make this seamless.

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November 23, 2022

Use Poll Templates in Online Church Meetings (+ Sample Poll Questions)

Polling for online meetings keeps church services and small groups interactive and lively. With Poll Templates, online engagement is now effortless.

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November 16, 2022

Public Product Roadmap

Welcome to Altar Live's public roadmap! You can find a summary of the capabilities we plan to introduce here.

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November 15, 2022

Updates to Mobile Apps & Analytics

We're so glad to get to share with you all the bugs we've fixed and updates we've made. Hopefully, you're as excited as we are that the Android app has been updated. We're grateful for both your patience and the perseverance of our development team while working through these persistent issues.

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November 9, 2022

7 Reasons Why a Zoom Church Service Isn't Good For Engagement 

Is it time to say farewell to your Zoom church service? Find out 7 ways that using Zoom may be keeping you from achieving your church's potential for online engagement and community building.

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November 22, 2022

Live Stream Ministry: How To Start A Church Online

From zoom church service to live stream ministry, digital church is now a reality. But is it real church? Why learn how to start a church online?

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October 20, 2022

How Are Online Conferences Helping Churches To Grow?

Online conferences have made it easier for churches to bring everyone together in one place, interact with their followers and become a source of spiritual and emotional support in times when it was not possible to visit churches physically.

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October 14, 2022

How To Start A Church Online With Minimal Budget

For anyone looking to start a church, going digital is a great option that comes with plenty of advantages, especially when compared to the costs of starting a traditional church. If you're currently deciding between the two, or working for a brick-and-mortar church and looking to move into the future affordably, this article is for you.

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October 7, 2022

Why Every Live Church Service Needs An Online Counterpart

Hybrid churches are churches that offer both traditional and online services. This allows them to reach a wider audience and build a stronger community along with a host of other advantages - this article explains why every church needs an online counterpart.

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October 21, 2022

New Templates Feature & Improvements!

We've added two new features - templates and favicons! Tired of typing the same announcements every week? Want to ask your audience members to fill out a poll every session, but don't want to constantly copy and paste? Try out our new announcement and poll template creation feature! Plus, make your community your own with favicons.

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September 30, 2022

The Benefits And Disadvantages Of Church Streaming Services

Digital church and church streaming services are here to stay, and while they hold many advantages it’s also a key decision that no church should take lightly. Here are the benefits and disadvantages to be aware of before your church starts live streaming services.

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September 23, 2022

Running A Live Online Church With The Altar Church Platform

Just because you're live streaming your services doesn't mean that you can slack off on the quality of your content. In fact, it's even more important to make sure that your online church services are top-notch if you want to attract new members and grow the number of people in your digital pews.‍

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September 9, 2022

The Best Church Platforms Online

Choosing the right church platforms online with churches in mind can be challenging, that's why we put together this easy guide to the top church live streaming platforms and how they work for congregations here.

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September 2, 2022

How Do You Do Virtual Worship?

Starting an online counterpart to your in-person services can prove challenging if you don't know how to do virtual worship. That’s why in this quick two-minute guide we’ll be teaching you how to do virtual worship the right way and make it just as great as your in-person services.

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September 19, 2022

Can I Start An Online Church And How Do I Do It?

Ever wondered what it would take to start an online church and how you would do it? This special 5-minute guide will tell you everything you need to know from hardware to software to marketing and more.‍

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August 2, 2022

How To Build The Best Church Media Team

Many churches have run their online services like live streams or social media pages themselves but most churches don’t have much money to dedicate to an outsourced media company or hire a group of professionals to run this aspect of their ministry for them. This is how to build a solid internal media and communications team for your church online.‍

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July 25, 2022

How Do I Know When it’s Time to Switch to a New Technology Platform?

One of the most frequently asked questions people in church technology get is “How do I know when it’s time to switch to a new technology platform?”‍What some people don’t realize is that choosing a technology for your church is towards the end of the process. It may be that the problem you’re trying to solve can’t actually be fixed by new software. 

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July 22, 2022

Things To Consider When Starting A Church Today

When most online churches took the scene, it was out of necessity or an option. Now, the online church is becoming a new form of community expression. It’s not just an option anymore, it’s a new way to start a community. 

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