A projector in a church can be quite useful, no not like the one pictured to the left, but rather a modern day projector. Although it would be quite funny to see someone pulling this out with their laptop attached to it! A projector can easily become one of the pastor's top productive tools in the ministry. How? Read on!
Our projector has been used in our closed circuit overflow seating, for teen activities, for missionaries' presentations, pastor's presentations, in our daycare, and a myriad of other areas in our ministry. One idea that I had thought of while discussing technology in churches with a pastor this past week was using your projector to display your church's announcements prior to the start of your services. You could easily setup a Power Point presentation that would display that week's announcements and even future church or youth activities that you could have on a loop presentation starting about 10 minutes before the start of the service. By doing this you give more time to the preaching of God's Word and avoid those long draw out announcements times. I'm not big on using a projector as a way to show the songs or choruses or even the Scripture reading as this seems to promote laziness in a church (i.e. not bringing their Bibles, relying on the projector, etc.). Overall, I think show the announcements can be a very productive change to your services.
Adding a portable DVD player can also make an easy way for you to display church videos for your congregation with out the hassle of bringing in a fullsize DVD player.
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