Innovation for a church organization simply means to create something to effectively communicate the love of Jesus, often in a new way.
Mission
Communicate Christ’s message of love, forgiveness and redemption through digital resources
Goal
We seek to foster a culture of reliability, transparency, and creativity by reinforcing existing communication channels and enterprises as well as establishing new initiatives.
Not only do we strive to communicate the latest developments of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Texas through all our current channels, but we also motivate Texas churches to connect effectively with their communities through training and tools. We work together with churches, schools, leaders and members to share stories that impact, inspire, and connect our church members and communities.
- Click here read about live-streaming on a budget
- With the latest advances in technology, the gospel message is just a few clicks away. One of the most effective ways churches can utilize technology is through web streaming.
- Trying to set up a church stream, but don’t know where to begin? Download this guide for initial set up, techniques and helpful resources.
- If your church is ready to start streaming, click here to view a comparison of different providers.
- English and Spanish instructions on how to connect microphone computers and phones for live-streaming/recording videos
- Click here read about live-streaming on a budget
- With the latest advances in technology, the gospel message is just a few clicks away. One of the most effective ways churches can utilize technology is through web streaming.
- Trying to set up a church stream, but don’t know where to begin? Download this guide for initial set up, techniques and helpful resources.
- If your church is ready to start streaming, click here to view a comparison of different providers.
- English and Spanish instructions on how to connect microphone computers and phones for live-streaming/recording videos
Additional Resources
High tech does not mean your church has to lose its high touch attributes. On the contrary, technology can create new ways to connect with your church members, your community and possibly a larger audience than you had before. Below are some ideas that can be adapted for your church.
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Sabbath School
- Zoom, GoToMeeting or other platforms for small groups or Sabbath School discussions
- Mail quarterly to older members | share online options with others.
Worship
- Stream your service on FacebookLive
- Post your worship service on YouTube
- The Worship Ministry Toolkit by Churchfront
- PR_TechTools_eBook
Online Giving
- Download Adventist Giving App: visit the Apple App Store or Google Play Stores
- Giving Online via Website
- How To Create an Adventist Giving Account (English)
Children’s Ministries
- Pre-record Sabbath school lesson, children’s story to share on church social account
- Offer weekly craft idea
- Create a monthly Zoom birthday party for those in your class
- E-Sabbath School | Beginner | Kindergarten | Primary | Junior
- Kids Button Challenge
- Wednesday Live Art Tutorials
- Monday Kids Prayer Meeting
- Sabbath Kids Q&A
- Find more resources at txadventistkids.org
Community Service
- Drive-thru Food Pantry or other services for the community
Men’s Ministries
- Group text connection (i.e. Bible text or simple word of encouragement)
Prayer Ministries
- Offer a place for prayer requests with a set time for prayer requests
- Consider a prayer app
Women’s Ministries
- Create a Facebook page for women to connect and share ideas
Youth
- Friday night meeting (i.e. praise team, speaker, Bible or activity challenge)
- Youth Leader Resources
Young Adults
Five tips to not only embrace, but engage and empower young adults for local church ministry by Justin Yang, Texas Conference Young Adults Director.
1. Reverse-mentoring: This is when young adults are paired with seasoned church members and the young adults mentor or coach the seasoned members in the realm of technology, digital and online spaces and platforms. (i.e. video conferencing setup, online ordering, Facebook or Instagram live setup and engagement, website/blog creation, online sermon transcripts, online giving platforms, podcasting, etc.).
- San Marcos Seventh-day Adventist church has two college students that are part of a connect team. The goal of this team is to call all church members to see if they need assistance in online connection and subscription (to YouTube channels).
2. Ministry Opportunities: Whether they be production of children’s story videos, online Bible studies, online prayer meetings, and even mask-creation projects to name a few, scores of churches are engaging and empowering young adults to be frontline workers for their church ministries.
- Tyler Seventh-day Adventist Church has young adults that are leading online prayer meetings and other various ministry gatherings. And, there are quite a few churches where the young adults are producing weekly children’s story videos.
3. Personal Calls and Texts: In our surveys, what is valued most from their pastor or local church leaders are personal calls and texts. Not mass communication, but personal check-ins to see how they are doing.
- Southwestern Adventist University leadership team is on their way to personally call all of their enrolled students to see how they are doing.
4. Outreach engagement: From babysitting for healthcare workers to packing and loading care packages for lower-income families, young adults are ready to be engaged to serve the community. Listen to them for ideation. Then release them to be innovative in their efforts to reach the community.
- Some churches have young adults shopping for the elderly and those who are most vulnerable to Covid-19.
5. Mentoring: Now is a great time to FaceTime your young adults or get on a Zoom call with them and go through “Financial Peace University” with them or help them learn a new life skill. The key is to help them and mentor them through the adulting and growing journey. The younger generation are looking to grow and maximize the time that they are given through Covid-19.
#GrowingYoungAdventists Resources | #GYA blogpost
Top 5 Prayer requests and 5 Bible study topics young adults are requesting
Find more resources at youngtexasadventist.org/youngadults