You are not alone.
After Utah children ‘Zoom-bombed’ with porn during an elementary school meeting, here’s how to secure your Zoom meetings.
Whether you are on Zoom for church staff meetings or your small groups are using it to meet, people have rushed to the video chat platform in the wake of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders — and journalists, researchers, and regulators have noticed its many security and privacy problems.
If there was ever a time we needed to pray for our neighbors and to offer them the hope of Jesus, it is now in the midst of this pandemic. Steve Bradshaw shares how the Bless Every Home tool can help you care for your neighbors while practicing social distancing. To access the resources he’s talking about, visit sbcv.org/blesseveryhome.
The coupon code you can put on your website for your churches to receive 2 months of the Bless Partner Church is SBCVBEHPARTNER2M. This coupon can be applied up through July 31 and will give the church 2 months free from whatever date they submit the coupon, without having to put in a credit card.
We’ve created a customizable contact card to help you reach out to those nearby. Simply download the card, input your family’s contact information, print on your home printer, and pass out to your community.
Hundreds of churches do not have worship staff and use tracks or videos for their worship sets. Now, it’s even more difficult with COVID-19 restrictions limiting in-person services.
That’s why Charles Billingsley and the worship team at Thomas Road Baptist Church have pre-recorded worship songs for churches who may need help with their online Sunday services and do not have worship teams.
If your church needs a worship leader to lead your congregation in their living rooms, consider this useful tool.
DISCLAIMER: We have received a number of questions regarding licensing. In order to broadcast these worship sets, churches will need a CCLI broadcast license. For more information on a CCLI license, visit us.ccli.com/copyright-license.
The hosts at Doxology Matters Podcast desire to help Christians think deeply about God’s Word as we praise Him. This resource comes from Bethel Baptist Church, Yorktown and is for worship teams and leaders.
Offer an online presence Sunday mornings, even if it is a brief teaching time. People need the spiritual encouragement. Also consider offering an online presence other times of the week (like Wednesday evenings) and also one or two other times a week. Consider offering On-Demand resources. People will need to fill the void with online content as people seek to fill extra time they now will have at home.
You can use social media platforms like Facebook or free church online platforms like Church Online Platform
This webinar covers everything to get your church online.
If you need more assistance, please contact a regional catalyst or church planting strategist and they can work to answer your questions, connect you with a partner church that has capabilities, or connect you with our media team for assistance/guidance on filming and recording your sermon. For general questions regarding online giving, missionary care, family resources, legal concerns, or others, please email notalone@sbcv.org.
We recommend that churches set up online giving (online, mobile app, give-by-text)
Share in many ways, how people can give and make it easy. Including simple links in emails/Facebook/Twitter.
Assign someone older/non-techy members can call for help with giving online.
For some churches mailing a letter addressing needs and include a return envelope(s) for their gifts.
Churches should check their insurance polices to see if the have a rider for closure of the church. Please contact your insurance agency.
If you have additional questions, please contact our chief financial officer for assistance. Eddie Urbine at eurbine@sbcv.org or notalone@sbcv.org
“Basically it’s a 60 second real-life story of a life being changed through the church ministry, and we make the connection that lives are being changed because people give. In this shutdown time, we’re expanding our giving moments to four times a week (online). We’ll continue to share one on Sunday mornings, and I’ll share one when I livestream our Wednesday night Bible studies (as well as providing our online giving link). Then twice a week, I’ll go live, preferably on location where we’re making a difference during this shutdown time. For instance, on Thursday I’m going to go live on Facebook outside of Deer Park Elementary School and share how they are providing meals for at risk kids and how we’ve partnered with them as a church. More than just asking for money, we need to provide them a compelling reason to give. We need to show how their continued support, even when church is “taking a break,” is changing lives.”
MinistryGrid: Training Made Simple
David Spika, Chief Strategic Investment Officer at GuideStone Resources, joins Jonathan Howe of the SBC Executive Committee.
Disaster Relief Spiritual Care
In the midst of COVID-19 and our current situation, we want to provide you with some ideas for Servant Evangelism. These are not the only things you can do but are good starting points and ideas. We can still serve people during this time and show them the love of Christ!
The COVID-19 pandemic, and its subsequent government-sanctioned quarantine, has caused significant challenges for our churches. In the months ahead, many churches can expect a considerable decrease in giving, resulting in large churches, small churches and church plants struggling to make ends meet. So where can pastors and church planters find help? Here are five places to consider amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
“What do you know about pandemics? Some people do not believe it is a real threat. Others believe it will be Armageddon,” says Dr. Naomi Paget, B.C.C., B.C.E.T.S., a fellow at the National Center for Crisis Management. Dr. Paget is one of the primary authors of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Chaplaincy materials. She wrote Ministry During Pandemic: From Awareness to Implementation to help chaplains and ministers be aware and understand the threats, needs, and spiritual issues related to a pandemic.
Link to the NAMB Webinar on CARES Act Thursday, April 2 at noon.
Guidestone questions and answers about the CARES Act.
Watch a recorded webinar on the CARES Act by the ECFA. You will need to register for a free account.
Download notes from the March 30, 2020 ECFA webinar on the CARES Act.
by Russell Moore, president of The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Over the past week, several pastors have asked me the same question: namely, is a church or ministry taking advantage of newly approved government-backed Small Business Administration (SBA) loans wrong to do so? Would such a church be now a government-funded enterprise? I do not think so, and here’s why.
LifeWay offers free at-home supplement for churches impacted by COVID-19:
Ways to use Facebook groups to bridge the gap when social distancing:
This website is home to 400+ original Bible coloring pages. They are all free to download and print in PDF format.
With the ever evolving and changing situation with COVID-19, Reynolds Law Group has been receiving a lot of calls from churches asking questions.
Some of those questions include:
They wanted to take a minute to share some of these questions and answer them for you.
