Buzz in the mainstream media picking up about Internet campus -- this St. Petersburg Times article mentions Crossing Church (Tampa), Christ Fellowship of Palm Beach Gardens, and LifeChurch.tv . (cf. Digital's list of churches with internet campuses.)
This excerpt below highlights a few statistics, to give you a sense of the reach:
Fellowship a click away
... Several mega-churches in the Tampa Bay area offer online videos of their services. The Crossing Church, on Causeway Boulevard, has provided live video streaming for three years. But Hood, the church's director of media and technology, and the Crossing's pastors are taking a leap with a newly appointed Internet pastor — one of only about a dozen nationwide — and a slew of interactive features online.
... Ingram will be the third Internet pastor in Florida, said David Helbig, the Internet pastor at Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens. Christ Fellowship's online following has grown from 800 to 7,000 viewers each week since their online campus was launched about six months ago, Helbig said.
... LifeChurch.tv, an evangelical mega-church in Oklahoma, is leading the pack. It launched its Internet campus in April 2006, and it even has a virtual church on Second Life, the 3D online virtual world.
On Sundays, LifeChurch.tv streams its service in its virtual Second Life church auditorium, where players can seat their characters, called avatars, and watch the sermon. It looks like a real church, complete with virtual donuts in the entryway.
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Learn more about how to launch an Internet campus and join this free webinar about Internet campuses on Wednesday, November 12th, at 10:00 a.m. Central. You'll hear from two pioneering Internet campus pastors, Brandon Donaldson (LifeChurch.tv) and Brian Vasil (Flamingo Road Church).
-- DJ CHUANG, Director at Leadership Network
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