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In many parts of the world today, places of worship are experiencing a decline in membership and a lack of attendance from younger generations. To overcome this trend, places of worship are beginning to embrace new technologies such as church screens and social media to engage with young people.
Today, over 80% of churches are using a website and a huge 75% of them also using a projector in their sermons. The latest development has been the introduction of digital signage for churches and houses of worship.
This blog post is going to outline 5 uses of church screen digital signage and explain how they could revolutionise your place of worship!
1. Link an Events Calendar
Churches are busy places, often with a busy calendar packed full of events and days out. Sometimes it can be hard to keep track of what’s going on and those heavily involved with the church won’t want to miss out! For example, in just one week there may be a church BBQ, charity jumbo sale, evening bible studies and more. A Church screen can simplify the process of displaying this information.
Thanks to digital signage for churches, automatically updating calendars can be shown on screen. By simply linking your events calendar to the signage software, you can showcase all of your outings and events on an attractive screen for everyone to see. By integrating a church screen you should see a rise in attendance to church events!
2. Promote Messages
A fun way to keep worshipers engaged at your church is to have a ‘bible verse of the day’, or a ‘theme of the week’. To remind people of this theme or message, you can use a digital church screen. By simply placing a screen at the entrance, worshippers can see and absorb one or more messages before they enter the place of worship.
Using digital signage for churches, the place of worship can also display the hymn numbers nice and clearly, ensuring that everybody can read them. This helps add value to the church and will may increase overall engagement with the service.
3. Social Media
Social media has become an integral communications tool between all of us. There are now over 2.8 Billion active social media users and it is vital that churches harness its power to engage with new audiences. With high numbers of young people using social media platforms, it’s paramount that churches follow suit to try and captivate this audience.
Through the use of social media widgets, the church can display all of their social media activity. From live tweets about what to expect at the church in the coming weeks, to Instagram posts of church events. It’s a fantastic way to really engage with people and add heighten the sense of community within the church. This can all be set to automatically refresh on the church screen.
4. Community engagement
Church digital signage is a great way to engage with the local community and welcome new members. Churches and other houses of worship can have a pivotal role in community engagement. The ability to personalise messaging such as welcoming new members to the congregation has a positive effect on the community. Events like baptism and christening can be celebrated in a communal way with a scrolling ticker on a church screen. A particularly important type of announcement would be acknowledging and thanking donors to the church. This kind of recognition may encourage goodwill and strengthens the religious community.
5. Broadcast and Support Sermons
In recent times, religious leaders delivering sermons have starting thinking outside the box. Traditional services where a clergyman would merely orate to his congregation are evolving to include more dynamic forms of media. Digital signage for churches is a perfect vehicle for this evolution. Digital church displays are a superior platform to projectors when it comes to displaying video and images. Subsequently, digital church signs are invaluable when it comes to accommodating for hearing-impaired attendees.
Another complementary function of digital signage for churches is offering information about parish leaders or guest speakers. Short biographies of an individual’s background can help familiarise a congregation with their leaders and foster a greater sense of community.
Digital signage for churches and other houses of worship will play an increasingly important role in modernising their communication and engaging a younger generation of congregants.
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