Aug 29

Christ Is Mine Forevermore

Here is the lyric video I made for City Alight’s Christ Is Mine Forevermore for rehearsal, hopefully it matches up with the sheet music:

 

Mar 19

Podcasting a Service

Before the Service:

  1. Login to the faith-higginsville.org blog website
  2. Click +New Post from the top menu bar
  3. Title it “Worship Service MM/DD/YYYY”
  4. Click in the content box and hit a return
  5. Enter the following lines after the return:
    • Preacher: theNameOfThePersonPreaching
    • Text: theTextsHeIsPreachingFrom
    • Theme: theThemeOfTheSermon

 

After the Service:

  1. After you have saved the file in Reaper, go to File>Render…
  2. File Name YYYY-MM-DD (you may not need to enter a filename, it may already be there)
  3. Output Format>MP3 (encoder by LAME project)
  4. Click Render 1 File…
  5. After the file renders go back to the blog post
  6. Click in the top of the content box
  7. Click Add Media
  8. Click the Upload Files tab
  9. Click Select Files
  10. It should already be nagivated to last weeks’s folder, so just move up one directory and select this week’s folder
  11. You should see two files, select the one that you just saved (YYYY-MM-DD)
  12. After it uploads, click the Copy URL to Clipboard button
  13. Click Insert into Post
  14. Now scroll down past the end of the post and paste the URL you just copied into the Media URL box and click Verify
  15. Publish the blog post

 

Jul 19

Books: Create: Stop Making Excuses and Start Making Stuff

Here is the book I referenced on Sunday: Create: Stop Making Excuses and Start Making Stuff

 

Apr 25

Streaming a Sermon in OBS

  1. Wake up the camera keyboard by clicking the CAM ON/OFF button
  2. Wake up the camera itself by clicking and holding the CAM ON/OFF button for 3 seconds
  3. Launch Chrome and go to YouTube
  4. Make sure the Faith Baptist Church account is logged in (look for shield in top right of window)
  5. Click on Create button (the little movie camera), then click Go Live
  6. Click on the Schedule Stream button
  7. The next window may ask to use the last streaming settings; click Create New
  8. For the new stream enter the following:
    1. Worship Service [Date]
    2. Optional: Title the message with the sermon title and date, eg, “Fear vs Faith – 03/22/2020”
    3. Public
    4. Nonprofits & Activism
    5. Set the service start time
    6. Yes, It’s made for kids
    7. Save
    8. Now if you open YouTube on a different device, you should see the thumbnail for the stream
  9. In the next window, look for “Stream key (paste in encoder)” and click the Copy button
  10. Launch OBS
  11. Click Settings
  12. Click Stream
  13. Paste the stream key into the “Stream Key” box and hit Apply
  14. About 15 minutes before the service set the Scene to Overhead
  15. click ‘Start Streaming’ (NOT ‘Start Recording’)
  16. Go to the YouTube page and click the red “Start Stream” button (it may take a couple of minutes)
  17. After the sermon click ‘Stop Streaming’ in OBS
  18. Click the red “End Stream” button in YouTube

Mar 28

Recording A Sermon in OBS

  1. Launch OBS
  2. Launch PowerPoint
  3. Hit F5 to play PowerPoint presentation
  4. Alt-Tab to go back to OBS
  5. Have the speaker test the mic and make sure you see input on the Mic/Aux audio input
  6. Make sure everyone’s phones/watches/devices/keys are silenced
  7. Let the speaker know you will give them a 3-2-1 countdown with your fingers
  8. Click ‘Start Recording’ (NOT ‘Start Streaming’)
  9. Alt-Tab back to the PowerPoint slideshow window (the black full screen one) (otherwise the clicker won’t work)
  10. After sermon, alt-tab back to OBS
  11. Click ‘Stop Recording’
  12. Open Chrome
  13. Go to YouTube
  14. Make sure YouTube is logged in as the church’s account
  15. Click Create
  16. Click Upload
  17. Title the message with the sermon title and date, eg, “Fear vs Faith – 03/22/2020”
    Follow the prompts
  18. Once it is ready to finish uploading, you can just leave it.
  19. A 1GB video will take about 2 hours to upload to YouTube, and about 30 minutes for YouTube to process.

Nov 15

WorshipMatters: Music Stands

To Use or Lose the Music Stands: Is That the Question?

Oct 18

10 Essential Rules for Projecting Worship Lyrics

10 Essential Rules For Projecting Worship Lyrics

Oct 03

Wayfaring Stranger

Wayfaring Stranger is nearly 150 years old, and there are a lot of versions. It’s a bittersweet song, hoping and  trusting in the sweet eternal state promised in Scripture, while admitting the bitter realities of this current sin-stained life.

I tried to select the most gospel-centered lyrics for the version I compiled.

Stylistically we are just shooting for acoustic/folk/Americana, not trying for a country music flavor.

Here is a link to the lyrics sheet.

Here are three sets of guitar chords; I don’t play guitar, so hopefully they may be helpful:

 

And here is sheet music, but I think it is in a different key.

Here is a version with excellent soprano/alto harmony with supporting guitar:

 

Here is Johnny Cash’s version, with nice violin/fiddle intro & solo:

 

Here is Emmylou Harris’s version:

 

 

Sep 29

OpenLP: Presenting a Service

Sep 27

Definition of Ministry Roles

This post defines the roles and responsibilities used in WorshipTrac.

  • Video / Overhead Production: Create the overheads in OpenLP to be used in the worship service
  • Video / Overhead Presentation: Run the overheads, ensure the wireless remote is located and charged and given to the pastor at the beginning of the song service, start the PowerPoint at the end of the song service
  • Sound: turn on all equipment except the video computer, record the sermon, run the sound board, and mic up the pastor
  • Piano Backup / Video Presentation Backup / Sound Backup: prepare ahead of time and be ready to step in in case the primary piano/video/sound person can’t be present. You likely won’t have to do anything, but you’re ready just in case.