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All of our dedicated online church community content is in one category for you to peruse, from digital ministry tips to how you run events on Altar Live.

April 25, 2024

Top 10 Creative Church Welcome Ideas - Online Church Edition

In the digital age, the online church platform has become a gateway for newcomers to explore faith and spirituality from the comfort of their homes. As church leaders, it's essential to create a welcoming atmosphere that embraces new attendees and facilitates their journey of discovery.

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March 14, 2024

Getting Ready for Your Easter Church Events 2024

This year, Easter is coming early. And with Easter Sunday being one of the largest days for church attendance, you’ve most likely already started getting ready for the big day.‍ Whether this is your first Easter Livestream or your 10th, this handy checklist will help you get ready to stream and engage with your community online.

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November 23, 2023

Online Christmas Event Ideas for the Advent Season

Discover delightful online Christmas events to make your Advent season merry. From virtual candlelight services to festive games. Get into the spirit! 🎅🎉

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November 2, 2023

How to Have a High Quality Live stream: Home Studio Setup

Discover tips to improve your home studio setup for a high-quality live stream. From lighting to audio, optimize your live streaming platform for the best service and performance.

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August 28, 2023

Altar Live vs. Brushfire Events for Church: The Right Fit for You

Which platform is best for online church services? Altar Live or Brushfire Virtual Events for church? Explore the best option for your worship service.

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June 30, 2023

Foundations of Faith: Launching a Church Online in 2024

What does it take for a virtual church or digital community to become a thriving online church establishment? What is church planting in the digital era?

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June 19, 2023

How to Stream Church Services Online In 2023

How do you stream church services online in 2023? What are best practices? Let's talk what church live streaming should look like in 2023.

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June 7, 2023

10 Essential Tips for Managing Your Church Livestream

Why does church live stream management matter? What are best practices for managing church livestream? Here are a few key tips for church livestream:

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May 22, 2023

How Much Does It Cost to Start a Church Online?

What does it cost to start a church online? Worship presentation software to live streaming solutions, there's lots to consider for your church community.

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May 10, 2023

Is There Still A Future For Virtual Reality In Church?

What will attending church online look like with the rise of VR? How can your church media team help your digital church maximize it's church engagement?

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April 28, 2023

Your Free Church Follow Up Letter Templates

Ready to build a welcoming church? Here's your free church follow up letter templates, church fellowship ideas, and church welcome letter for new members.

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April 17, 2023

Ideas For Streaming Your Next Church Service

For churches streaming services, to create engaging services on church streaming platforms is key. Here are ideas for live streaming services for churches.

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April 14, 2022

The True Easter Meaning & How To Celebrate Easter Online in 2023

This Easter season, why not take this opportunity to offer your community a new way to engage with your church online? ‍Whether it be a virtual station of the cross or a Good Friday service, Altar Live is the perfect place to keep your congregation engaged, connected, and active. Check out our free downloadable Altar Live Easter guide

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March 8, 2023

The Future Of Online Church Platforms

Streaming live church services is key in digital ministry today. But will this continue to be future of digital communities and online church platforms?

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February 28, 2023

What You Need From An Online Church Platform

For those streaming live church services, choosing the best church streaming service/ online church platform is a game changer. Here's what to look for:

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February 20, 2023

Overcoming the Challenges Of Streaming Live Church Services

Churches face challenges when streaming live services on online platforms Choosing the best church streaming service can help overcome these challenges.

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February 16, 2023

Top Church Presentation Software 2024: A Quick Guide

Top church presentation software options 2024: Guide to key features & top software options to consider: ProPresenter, EasyWorship, MediaShout, Proclaim.

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February 6, 2023

Reasons Why Churches Drop Their Online Services

Churches drop their online services for a few main reasons. But do these reasons justify why churches should drop online services? Is it worth it?‍

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January 30, 2023

Your Church Hospitality Team's Sample Welcome Letter

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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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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July 13, 2022

Why Aren’t People Coming To My Online Services?

Whether you’re trying to solve low church attendance or safeguard against planning an upcoming event that no one shows up to, the root causes are the same. Let’s dig into each of these reasons…

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July 15, 2022

3 Ways this Church is using Altar Live to Increase Engagement

We often talk to churches that use Altar Live to learn about how they increase their engagement and invest in their online community.This week we had the chance to interview La-Neka Brown, Tech Lead for The Mount’s online campus.

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April 14, 2022

The True Easter Meaning And How To Celebrate Online

This Easter season, why not take this opportunity to offer your community a new way to engage with your church online? ‍Whether it be a virtual station of the cross or a Good Friday service, Altar Live is the perfect place to keep your congregation engaged, connected, and active. Check out our free downloadable Altar Live Easter guide

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April 13, 2022

How to Launch an Online Campus with Hope Church

When meeting with pastors and church leaders, the question we hear the most is: “We really love Altar Live, but what does it take to launch an online campus?” ‍Building any community can be daunting especially if there aren’t any set guidelines to follow.

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April 4, 2022

The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Online Communities For Churches

Many pastors and church leaders now are beginning to examine the possibilities that come from future-proofing their churches in this way, believing that it will lead to higher growth in the future. Others fear that this shift will be the end of church as we know it. ‍So if your church is considering launching online communities, make sure you read this first

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March 18, 2022

Virtual Church Fellowship Ideas: Improving Community Engagement

Arguably one of the greatest benefits of attending church is the fellowship you feel with the people around you. It’s that sense of togetherness that you get from being supported by your faith community, an important part of feeling connected and accepted in a world where we’ve been increasingly isolated from each other.‍

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March 9, 2022

What Is Community Engagement And How To Grow It In Online Church

Community is more important to individuals than ever before, and yet it’s also more difficult to facilitate for modern churches. At Altar Live, we’re experts in community building and online engagement, whether it’s for a full virtual event or a smaller online gathering for faith communities. 

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March 3, 2022

Is Online Church Real Church? 

This is the question that has sparked conversation and debate throughout the church world. While this is not a new topic of discussion, the internet is abuzz with discourse. In 2020, online church went from being a novelty to a necessity. Digital services were no longer merely an option, they were the answer.

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January 21, 2022

Best Alternative to Zoom Breakout Rooms

With Altar Live, you won’t have to deal with the struggle of Zoom breakout rooms. With a church platform like Altar Live, anyone can easily create an engaging online church service that has the ability to bring people together regardless of location.

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December 22, 2021

Church Hospitality Team Guide: The Chat

The church hospitality team on Altar Live are called Hosts and Greeters and they are the life source of any event or meeting. Hosts and Greeters create a welcoming experience for first time visitors and regular attendees. They also help with general event management by utilizing the chat, answering questions, and so much more.

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December 8, 2021

A Christmas Eve Church Service on Altar Live

A Christmas Eve church service is the perfect event to hold on Altar Live. Having your service on Altar will allow you to gather your people together no matter where they are. 

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December 6, 2021

Digital Church is the Future

Digital church is future of church community. Altar Live is an platform designed for churches. While other church platforms focus on content, Altar Live focuses on real life connections and deep personal relationships.

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October 29, 2021

Online Church Engagement: We all want it, how do you do it?

Online church engagement is a crucial part of forming a success. It’s easy to watch church online. Actually getting viewers to engage - that’s the hard part.

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September 22, 2021

Zoom for Church?

Zoom for church is now called Altar Live. Explore this top-rated online church platform, made for church live stream and an engaging online church service.

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July 8, 2021

FaithTech Conference: Panel Discussion Meets Mix & Mingle

FaithTech, a global tech community for Christ, gathered 70+ people in Altar Live for an evening of thought provoking discussion.

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June 30, 2021

How to Host a Virtual Church Service

A Virtual Church service is a live streamed church service that allows people to watch and participate regardless of their location. Here is a simple step-by-step guide of how to host a successful virtual church service

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June 10, 2021

7 Ways To Make Your Online Church Service Better Than In-Person

An Online church service is a way to minister to people in a new and intuitive way. If your church were planning a sunrise service, you would tailor the event accordingly. Why would you not do the same for online, which has its own unique opportunities and constraints?

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June 14, 2021

The Top 5 Giving Websites for Your Online Church Service

An Online church service is able to function like most church services. Here is a breakdown of the top 5 giving websites for your online church service

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June 16, 2021

How To Set Up Giving For Your Online Church Service

Online giving is the ability to donate and tithe to your church virtually through your computer or mobile device. Here is a step-by-step guide to setting up giving for your online church service

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June 11, 2021

Why You Should Have an Online Church Service

an Online church service is An online church service is a way to bring people together in community, but without leaving the comfort of your own home. Here are a few reasons why having an online church service is beneficial.

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June 10, 2021

How to Start an Online Church

An online church is a way to bring people together in community, but without leaving the comfort of your own home. With an online church service, it is possible for prospective congregants and members to observe the service and see if the church is right for them. Here is a step-by-step guide to creating a successful online church service

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June 9, 2021

The Top 5 Benefits of Having an Online Church Service

An online church service makes it possible for people to attend church regardless of their location. Here's breakdown of the top five benefits of having an online church service.

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June 8, 2021

Podcast: Practical 'beyond Sunday' use cases for online church

Online church is a church service that people can attend virtually. Rob Perry, Online Pastor for Lifepointe Church, shares a vision for digital church beyond Sunday morning services. It became clear quickly that people were consuming, but not necessarily engaging.

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June 3, 2021

"It will revolutionize your church!"

"There’s a lot of digital tools on the tool belt. But I gotta tell you, one of my favorite right now is a software called Altar Live."

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May 26, 2021

We shut off Church Online, and survived!

Elim Church took the bold step to turn off one of its Sunday livestreams to help create critical mass for engagement in Altar Live.

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November 18, 2020

Presbytery of Boston Review of Altar Live

Presbyterian pastors from around the U.S. gathered to get a first look at Altar Live as it went into beta.

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May 18, 2021

How To Start A Virtual Church

Virtual church is a church service held entirely online. Do you know where to begin when you want to start your Virtual Church? You use this guide and just start...let's go!‍

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May 15, 2021

Improving hospitality & small details

We believe in hospitality, which is why this week we've improved the automated greeter message flow so your online host team's message inbox is more streamlined. You'll also notice lots of small, but delightful improvements across the platform.

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May 11, 2021

Considering Digital Church Planting or Starting a Church Online?

Digital church is the new way to connect and minster. It is not about gathering, but about equipping, sending, multiplying. It’s not about technology, but about relationships. It’s not about reach, but engagement. It’s not about content, but about disciple-making.

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May 1, 2021

New community creation flow

This week, we're also simplifying the new community creation process, an important step in making the creation of an online community easy and seamless.

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April 28, 2021

How To Stream Your Online Church Service -- Top 10 Streaming Solutions

An Online Church service is a service held completely online. A summary of streaming solutions, including how broadly they distribute their feed, tools for interaction and engagement, church-specific features, engagement analytics, and cost. ‍

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April 21, 2021

The Top Ten Ways To Deepen Engagement In Church Online

Church online is best held on Altar Live. A Sunday livestream with lackluster chat interactions was the 2020 model for engagement. Here are the emerging requirements for meaningful online interactions.

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April 19, 2021

Do NOT Ask Your Pastor This Question!

Pastor Aaron Winter of Hearts of Fire International does the teaching -- and trusts the discipling, encouragement and prayer to peer groups.

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April 13, 2021

Does Facebook Prayer Count?

Text-based chat prayer is still prayer. Is there a deeper, more meaningful way to connect in prayer online?

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April 10, 2021

Same vision, new look

Today we’re releasing our biggest update since entering beta last December. We’re confident this update will make your experience of Altar Live delightful and marked by hospitable, virtual conversations.

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April 10, 2021

We're out of beta!

After 5 months in beta, we're excited to share that Altar Live is now fully released. After months of hard work behind the scenes, we're thrilled to introduce you to our new design.

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December 21, 2020

Comparing Facebook Live and Altar Live

Complement your Facebook Live reach with a platform that allows people to go deeper. Use Facebook like your front door, and Altar Live like your living room.

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