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May 19, 2021

Interactive Church Service. What Does It Mean?

An Interactive church service is an engaging and participatory service that encourages fostering community. The interaction that people generally experienced in pre-Covid days was with each other, not with the people up front. That is the interactivity that is sorely missed online.

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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 24, 2021

5 Best Practices To Running A Church Conference Online

A church conference is a perfect event to hold on Altar Live. Do you have a church conference coming up with more than a couple dozen attendees? Zoom-fatigue setting in? This church wanted something new and exciting. Here's how they did it.

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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 26, 2021

Angela Craig Discusses How To Engage Your Online Church Viewers

Do you want to know how to engage people online? Angie and Angela are experts!

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April 24, 2021

Updating Recurring Links

This week we released even more updates to events on mobile browsers! Plus, we have some important updates to your event links.

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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 17, 2021

Mobile browser support & HLS stream links

Today, we’re making it possible to join events on mobile browsers, an important step in making Altar events easy and seamless to join

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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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April 9, 2021

Does Church Have To Be On Sunday? 

I missed church this Sunday. Can I still gather with people and worship, or do I have to do that alone now?

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April 6, 2021

What is Multi-Modal Church?

Multimodal churches - different church modalities from 100% online church, church watch parties, to microchurches - all present different ways to worship.

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April 3, 2021

Mobile apps are released!

Spring is here and so are the long-awaited mobile apps! Online engagement should be delightful, that’s why we’ve designed frictionless and intuitive apps so your community can join your events on any device. Head to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store today to try them out for yourself.

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April 1, 2021

What We’ve Missed Most During Covid: Meeting with the Pastor

Miss having casual encounters with your pastor? There's some hope online.

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March 27, 2021

Beta apps & pre-recorded video sync

This week we’re introducing a few big updates to our iOS and Android apps, which are currently in beta. (Want access? Send us a message and we'll send instructions.) We’re also making it easier to connect pre-recorded video to ensure synchronization.

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March 20, 2021

Improving event creation

With Altar Live, setting up and running events should be simple and straightforward, and editing should always be effortless. This week, we're introducing more improvements to recurring events, and much more!

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March 17, 2021

Facebook Killed the Watch Party. Will Churches Resurrect Them?

Facebook Watch Parties never provided the kind of engagement church communities crave. What is the purpose of engagement online, and how can a church encourage it? 

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March 13, 2021

Resolving common issues

Each week, we aim to make Altar more intuitive, more stable, and more delightful. With this week's update, we did a lot of work behind the scenes. On your end, you will see improvements!

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March 6, 2021

Recurring & shareable links

It's finally here: recurring events and static URLs! If you want to use the same URL for a certain type of event (i.e. weekly Sunday service, morning Bible study, etc), you will want to create a recurring event series. Plus, we've also changed the links on events so they are shareable on Facebook. Keep reading for more long-awaited updates!

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February 22, 2021

Disruption Stories: Dogs in Church

Everything in your kitchen or living room comes to church with you when you join a videoconference. That changes a lot of things.

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