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About Us
About Christian Video Magazine
Christian Video Magazine is the result of several conversations between Steve Hewitt, Editor-in-Chief of Christian Computing Magazine, and George Temple, of SermonSpice. In those conversations they both discovered that they had the same passions to help churches use video to enhance ministry. As a result of those talks, they decided to partner together and create a new publication designed to cover anything and everything related to using video for ministry. Christian Video Magazine was born. The first issue was sent to 100,000 in June 2008.
Christian Computing Magazine already had around 50,000 readers, and SermonSpice had collected 50,000 email addresses from customers that had stated they would like more information about 2Christian videos. Christian Video Magazine followed the same distribution method that Christian Computing Magazine has been using the past several years to distribute the magazine in PDF format and send it as an attachment to the requesting readership. By saving on the cost of print and postage, the magazine can be offered free of charge to readers.
The purpose of Christian Video Magazine is simple. We want to provide our readers with articles that cover everything about using videos in the church, on their websites, and for ministry. How do you use them? How do you stream them? How do you create them? How do you project them? Where can you find them? Who is creating them? How will they impact mobile computing? What about background loops? And how can we make the best use of all of the fantastic Christian music videos?
According to a 2008 Barna Group Research study, 65% of all Protestant churches have the ability to display and view videos in their church through the use of large screen projection. Is this only available for large churches? The same study showed that in smaller churches that average less than 100 adults in attendance, 53% have such systems. While this is obviously a smaller number, it shows that the ability to use video in churches has a firm foundation, and the growth of this tool in all aspects of ministry will continue to grow.
How do readers read a digital magazine?
While reader survey information is not yet available from the Christian Video Magazine’s subscribers, past surveys of Christian Computing Magazine’s subscribers have shown that a little over half of their readership print the magazine out and read the publication on paper, while the other half prefer to read the magazine on their computers.
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