TL;DR: Digital Ministry News Recap 

This edition of the Digital Ministry Journal recaps news of interest to the digital ministry community. Churchfront shares Trinity Baptist Church’s experience with the Behringer WING audio console. Church Production shares LifeMission Church’s experience whtih the Tascam SonicView 24XP audio console. Planning Center announces their Add-Ons API. Finally, the Pro Church Tools Show shares insights and implications in “Instagram Algorithms Changed Again…“.

Church Audio Overhaul: Behringer WING

Churchfront shares “Church Audio Overhaul (Digital Mixer, In-Ears, and MORE)” (19-minute watch). This video walks through Trinity Baptist Church’s (Walla Walla, Washington) experience upgrading from a Yamaha M7 to a Behringer WING console. The experience includes transitioning from analog to digital signal routing to reduce noise, implementing virtual soundcheck, offline editing for naming channels, saving presets, etc., and remote support capability.

Field Test: Tascam SonicView 24XP

Church Production shares “Step up Your Audio Game: Meet the Tascam SonicView 24XP Audio Console” (8-minute watch). This video walks through LifeMission Church’s (Kansas City, Kansas) experience deploying and using the Tascam SonicView 24XP console. LifeMission staff weighs in on features like stacking effects per channel and ease of use for volunteers.

Planning Center Add-Ons

Planning Center shares “Announcing Add-Ons: Build Your Features Into Planning Center” (2-minute read) describing their Add-Ons API to enable partners and churches to build integrations to the Planning Center suite of products. The Clearstream texting service is the inaugural “Add-On”. Tighter product integrations through Add-Ons can increase ministry productivity while decreasing errors and omissions due to manual operations.

Instagram Algorithms…[Church Edition]

Brady Shearer and Alexander Mills of The Pro Church Tools Show share insights and implications of the latest Instagram algorithms in “Instagram Algorithms Changed Again [Church Edition]” (43-minute watch).

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