Press Release: Northland Webstream Worship

Posted on: March 11th, 2010 by Purple Rock Scissors

Northland, A Church Distributed, has been thrust into the spotlight. After months of building and testing, the Northland Webstream Worship Facebook Application is ready for public viewing. After a soft release with a small group of private beta testers, this one-of-a-kind Facebook application is beginning to draw some buzz. Northland is now scheduling the first official sermon to be broadcast over Facebook.

Below is a snippet of Northland’s official Press Release:

On Sunday morning, Northland, A Church Distributed will officially open the doors to its new Facebook app, which will allow worshipers to invite their Facebook friends to go to church with them—without leaving the familiar Facebook environment. Plus, even when live worship isn’t happening, the opportunity for worship is readily available because the previous week’s service will be posted and available for viewing 24 hours a day.

“We encourage people to be the church everywhere, every day, so it just makes sense to put resources out there that will help people to be that church,” explains Nathan Clark, Northland’s director of digital innovation.

With a congregation of 12,000 worshipers meeting throughout Metro Orlando and worldwide via interactive webcast, Northland first began taking church out of the building in 2001 via “distributed sites”—live, two-way video connections between locations. Northland now operates four of these sites in Central Florida.

With Northland being one of the first churches on Facebook, we’re more than excited to be part of such an amazing project. Purple, Rock, Scissors has helped plan, build, and integrate this custom application from the ground up, and even tied its operation directly into Northland’s existing content management solution.

Mark your Facebook calendars. The first Sermon is scheduled to air this Sunday, March 14. The broadcast is open to the public, so feel free to join in on Facebook.

You can read the entire Northland Press Release over at Pitch Engine:

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