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Annual Meeting: Services Broadcast on Web
KEYSTONE, CO (June 10, 2005) - There will be live Internet-based broadcasts of
the three evening worship services that are part of the 120th Annual
Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church June 22-24 in Keystone.
"This year's broadcasts will use new equipment and updated software to
produce the highest quality Annual Meeting broadcasts to date," says
Joel Pearson, who will again be overseeing production of the broadcasts
from keystone. "The broadcasts have come a long way since they were
initiated in the late 1990's," notes Don Meyer, executive minister of
the Department of Communication.
"This year we expect to have more than 100 homes and churches from North
America and around the world tune in to each evening's worship service
broadcast," he notes. "As a result, about 10 percent of the
'congregation' will be participating from afar."
The broadcasts will begin each evening at 6:55 p.m. MDT, five minutes
before the services are scheduled to begin. There will be a prominent
link on the front page of the Covenant website leading to information on
how to view the broadcasts. High-speed Internet connections are
recommended for optimum picture and sound quality, but viewers with
dial-up connections will also be able to watch the broadcasts.
News coverage of business sessions will be provided by a five-member
Communications team who will write stories and post photographs
throughout each of the three days of business sessions. That coverage
will be found by visiting the Covenant website and the online news
report of Annual Meeting activities. The onsite work will be
complemented by the work of other staff members working out of Chicago
to assemble picture pages and other special features.
"The Internet has provided the church with one of the most powerful
communications tools imaginable," observed Meyer, who noted that in many
instances, viewers at home will be reading stories and seeing images
that are only minutes old. "It not only informs, but it connects us in
important ways."
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