As our conference churches navigate new ways of being the church during the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, they will need helpful tools to accomplish online worship and online giving. We’ll add to this post as we become aware of additional tools. Feel free to email Wende with your favorites.
One License is offering gratis licenses to new users through April 15th to help cope with COVID-19
Vanco is a great site that has many resources for online giving. Here is their welcome guide for ease of reference. (the guide is set up for those who have opted into purchasing their platform, so the language is geared as such. Use this as a reference for decision making.)
Zoom video conferencing step-by-step instructions for new users.
Zoom pricing guide. Click the image above to visit the Zoom website.
Switcher Studio: Once you get comfortable with your Facebook Live streams, take it up a notch. Switcher Studio lets you capture video from multiple camera angles — and edit it in real time — helping you connect with your community in the most engaging way yet. Stream it live or record it for later.
Auto-respond: We’re experiencing an unusually high volume of emails, and you probably are, too! You can set up your email auto-respond message as a FAQ page. See how one SWC church is doing that.
The Southwest Conference staff are working from home. During their deployment, here are some things we thought you’d like to know.