TL;DR: Digital Ministry News Recap 

This edition of the Digital Ministry Journal recaps news of interest to the digital ministry community. Church Production provides insights on using digital marketing for Church events. The Pro Church Tools Show interviews Dr. Kara Powell of the Fuller Youth Institute on how churches are really reaching young people. The Prompt Warrior provides insights on using Bing to create images. Spotify announces its voice translation for podcasters pilot. Finally, Church Production Video Channel interviews Will Chapman of Cottonwood Creek Church on improving live streaming reliability.

Digital Marketing for Church Events

Church Production shares “How to Use Digital Marketing for Your Highest Christmas Attendance Yet” (10-minute read) outlining components needed for social media ads and answering some frequently asked questions.

How Churches Are Really Reaching Young People

Brady Shearer and Alexander Mills of The Pro Church Tools Show interview Dr. Kara Powell of the Fuller Youth Institute in “How Churches Are Really Reaching Young People…” (43-minute watch). Dr. Powell shares some surprising findings regarding reaching young people and the impact on other age demographics. Spoiler alert: young people may be digital natives, but reaching them is not about tech.

AI Image Creation

The Prompt Warrior newsletter shares “There's a new AI image king in town” (4-minute read) describing incorporation of Open AI’s DALL-E 3 image generator in Microsoft Bing (it’s free!) and provides example prompts for creating images from text descriptions, logos, stock images for presentations and even product mockups. This can provide a productivity boost for Church creative teams, and perhaps relieve the need for using professional Graphic Artists for some use cases.

Spotify Voice Translation for Podcasters Pilot

Spotify announces “Introducing Voice Translation For Podcasters” (5-minute read) describing its pilot “AI that translates podcasts into additional languages—all in the podcaster’s voice”. This capability can become a game changer enabling affordable language translation for podcasters on the Spotify platform.

Live Streaming Reliability

Church Production Video Channel interviews Will Chapman of Cottonwood Creek Church in “The Content Delivery Network You Wish You Had: Diving into Resi with Cottonwood Creek Church” (8-minute watch), describing Cottonwood Creek’s use of Resi to address live streaming reliability issues experienced by their online congregation.

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