While church members are taking children out of the service to various classrooms, visitors are encouraged to go to a room where they can enjoy refreshments and the video. After the break, the adults go back to the sanctuary for the rest of the service. Seven Rivers Presbyterian Church in Lecanto, Florida, chronicled church events on video for more than a year. Now it's working that footage into a 20-minute outreach tool. Each member of the church will receive a video, says Tara Bryant, who is working on the project.
People can pass the video along to people who want to know more about the church.
For example, if you want to reach out to people with children, you'll want to emphasize children's ministries in your video. If you want to stress the interpersonal strength of your congregation, you could show people interacting in small groups. You can use a video-based system to edit videotape into a final product. Some home camcorders have this capability. A computer-based linear editing system provides various editing functions.