Good Friday morning Church Requel!
We continue to work to improve our weekly Sunday worship stream. We recognize that more of you now participate online than actually attend in person. And we greatly appreciate your loyalty, patience and continued support!
Last week we changed the streaming software we use to broadcast our services. Those of you who use Facebook to watch our weekly worship services will still be able to tune in just like always. And that won’t change.
Now - IN ADDITION - we will begin broadcasting our weekly worship services on our YouTube Channel. How can you watch on YouTube? Here is the YouTube link for this Sunday. You can also go to YouTube and search for our Church Requel channel.
Why might you prefer to watch on YouTube rather than on Facebook? Well, we wondered that too. So last Sunday we asked you that very question. Several of you responded and told us why. Many of you have a big screen smart TV with YouTube included. That means you can watch on your larger screen TV rather than on your smaller screen phone or tablet with Facebook.
There is another advantage too. YouTube gives us the opportunity to reach a larger viewing audience than we would ever likely have with Facebook. So if you do choose to watch on YouTube, please give us a “thumbs up” and click the Subscribe button. The more people who do that, the more YouTube will offer our worship video to other potential viewers.
Regardless of whether you watch on Facebook or YouTube, make sure you comment with your affirmations and/or prayer requests. We will do our best to actually share those on the stream itself in the lower third so that the rest of the church can see and pray - regardless of which platform they use.
We also are continuing our efforts behind the scenes to improve both the sound quality and the picture quality. We are working with multiple microphones and cameras to achieve a better sound and look. We are learning one week at a time what is working and what isn’t - so we ask for your continued patience and feedback!
This Sunday At Church Requel. Our worship experience will be awesome! We can't wait to praise our Lord Jesus together with you. We'll sing praise songs including "Revival Anthem" by Rend Collective, "Mighty To Save" by Hillsong, "Evidence" by Josh Baldwin, "Unstoppable God" by Elevation Worship, "Living Hope" by Phil Wickham, and "Made New" by Lincoln Brewster.
Yours truly will also begin a new sermon series that will take us through Easter. The new series is called "Hard Times, Holy Living" and will come mostly from 1st Peter. I’m very excited for this study together with you. I encourage you to begin reading 1 Peter. It is a short little New Testament book with only 5 chapters. It is filled with hope for those who are going through life challenges. I believe you will be greatly encouraged!
We'll also pray for our congregation's needs and share communion together. Whether in person or on Facebook or YouTube, join us 11am EST Sunday morning, January 31st!
As always, I thank you for your continued support and participation. You encourage me and I hope I am returning the favor. May God bless you richly this weekend. Love you much, Pastor Mark
