2012 July » Social Media Church podcast

Episode 9: Bernadine Young of Family Life Church

Jul 312012

July 31, 2012 Episodes Tagged with: pastor, woman 1 Response »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:48 — 13.2MB)

Social Media Church chats with the first female Internet Campus Pastor Bernadine Young of Family Life Church. She lives in Houston, Texas, and Family Life Church is physically in Brunswick, Georgia, possibly foreshadowing of an emerging trend for how church leaders can work together from remote locations.

Show Notes

Bernadine Young @bernadineyoung on Twitter and Tumblr blog
Family Life Church and its Internet Campus
Google Map of Family Life Church’s 11 locations
Chris Foster‘s 2010 Interview with Bernadine Young – The first female internet campus pastor
DJ Chuang’s Linsanity board on Pinterest

Episode 8: Nathan Castleberry of Potential Church

Jul 242012

July 24, 2012 Episodes Tagged with: baptism, online 2 Responses »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:21 — 13.0MB)

Social Media Church connects with Nathan Castleberry for a conversation about being deputized as the second Internet Campus Pastor at Potential Church, a multi-site church that started in Cooper City, Florida. Potential Church was formerly known as Flamingo Road Church, and launched an Internet Campus to hold worship online back in 2007.

Show Notes

Nathan Castleberry on Twitter @nathancberry, on Facebook facebook.com/nathan.castleberry
Video of the first internet baptism on February 17, 2008
Potential Church Online is sometimes affectionately called the iCampus
worshipleader.com/nwlcca National Worship Leader Conference, Oct 9-11, San Diego, California
djchuang.com - slides from NWLC 12 social media workshops (basic and advanced)

[update 7/25 10:30am PT] podcast audio changed to have better quality (previous edition was muffled and we sounded like Charlie Brown’s teacher )

Episode 7: The Future of the Internet Church

Jul 172012

July 17, 2012 Episodes Tagged with: church, future, Internet No Responses »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 38:39 — 17.7MB)

On this episode of Social Media Church, I, DJ Chuang, roundup some things I’ve seen recently that point to what the future of the Internet church could look like. I think it’s still too early to call, but there are models beginning to take shape. Segments on this episode: my response to a couple of articles about how social media might shape the church, examples of network churches (organizational churches resourcing organic churches), Internet evangelism, and using Google+ Hangout on Air for online ministry.

Show notes:

Phil Petty’s How will Social Media Reshape the Way we do Church? and Will Mobile Social Media Change How we do Church?
Ryan Kellermeyer’s “Bottom-Up Theology in an Age of Networked Intelligence“
Global Media Outreach (GMO), video introducing their online ministry
LifeChurch.tv‘s NetworkChurches.tv
Northland Church‘s DoingChurchSimply.com
MultiplyMovement.com - Francis Chan’s online discipleship course (beta?)
Jason Morris, Internet Campus Pastor at Westside Family Church (Kansas City)
Google+ Hangout

Episode 6: Seth Farrior on Social Media Church

Jul 102012

July 10, 2012 Episodes 1 Response »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 41:09 — 37.7MB)

At one of the earliest churches to have an Internet Campus, Seacoast Church, is Seth Farrior. On this episode, hear Seth tell about what prepared him to host online worship experiences, how Seacoast makes their Internet Campus carry the same ministry values as its physical campuses, and what they’re exploring next.

Plus, Seth shares the back story that’s led to the launch of a new conference for church leaders that are doing online ministry or thinking of doing

Connect with Seth Farrior on Twitter @sethfarrior and Facebook

Connect with 100s of church leaders at the iMinistry 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas, October 10-11, 2012

Watch raw unedited video of this conversation with Seth Farrior and DJ Chuang

Articles for discussion on an upcoming episode:

Phil Petty’s How will Social Media Reshape the Way we do Church? and Will Mobile Social Media Change How we do Church?
Ryan Kellermeyer’s “Bottom-Up Theology in an Age of Networked Intelligence“

Episode 5: Social Media Church with Vince Marotte

Jul 032012

July 3, 2012 Episodes Tagged with: streaming, technology 5 Responses »

Podcast: Download (Duration: 49:08 — 22.5MB)

This extended episode of Social Media Church with Vince Marotte covers considerable new ground. Vince Marotte is the Internet Pastor at Gateway Church (Austin, Texas) and authored an e-book titled “Context and Voice: communication design in our new media culture.” Vince unpacks his church’s online ministry philosophy, its integration of various technologies for a customized experience, and his rethinking new forms of church that’s contextualized in an Internet-connected culture.