Snellville Church of God

Due to our revival services that are taking place, the scheduled Marriage Seminar that was to take place this weekend (Feb 12th – 14th) will be postponed until further notice.  This seminar will still be held, but the date and time of this rescheduling is currently being evaluated for a better date.

If you were able to tune into our webcast this morning, you probably noticed that we were having some issues.  We are happy to report that it appears that we have worked through these issues, as well continued to help our webcast evolve into a better viewing experience.  We have been testing some changes to our webcast format and starting tonight, these changes should be in effect:

• Higher resolution broadcast (webcast now looks better in full screen mode)
• More bandwidth on our broadcast (allowing better picture and higher quality audio)
• Increased the ‘frames per second’  (which allows for a much SMOOTHER video)

Please be advised that we are still trying to iron out any remaining kinks in this new video format.  We will be placing a ‘feedback form’ on our webpage that will allow you contact us during the live broadcast, should you experience any issues with our new webcast format.  This will be located under the main video window on the Live Webcast page.

Also, until further notice, the recording of our webcasts to view on our USteam page will not be taking place.  The new webcast format, while improving our live feed, makes it very difficult for us to record the services.  We are continuing to explore our options to have this feature used again in the future.

We appreciate all those who continue to support our Live Webcast by tuning in!  We are making great strides in trying to offer you the best online webcast experience possible.

During our Revival services, Evangelist Scott Crowe will be collecting prayer requests that are submitted via our website.  If  you would like to submit a prayer request, please use our contact page and fill out the form to submit a request.  You may either use the generic contact form, or you can use the dedicated prayer request form that is found there as well.  We will collect these requests that are submitted and turn them over to Evangelist Scott Crowe during our regularly scheduled revival services.  We encourage anyone that is in need of special prayer (or would like to submit a request on behalf of another) to please take the time to send us your request.

In the past week, we have noticed significant increased usage in our Live Webcast service.  We are thrilled to see that our number of viewers is growing with each service.  In fact, we have hit a record number of unique viewers for the month of January!  If you haven’t had a chance to check out any of our services on the Live Webcast, we invite you to do so.  You can find the Live Webcast by clicking on the Video Camera clip-art image, located on the right side of the navigation bar.

During our service this past Sunday, many of you may have noticed that the webcast feed was temporarily disconnected for several minutes.  The current hardware configuration that we have been using for our Live Webcast was being pushed to the limit and this resulted in some issues that caused our Live Webcast to go offline for several minutes.  We apologize for any inconvenience to our viewers that this may have caused.

Since Sunday, we have made some changes to our Live Webcast format which has helped resolve a lot of the limitations that we were experiencing with our previous hardware configuration.  Last night’s revival service was the first test run that we have made on these new changes.  If you were tuned into our Live Webcast during this service, you probably noticed a few things were different.  Keep in mind that we are in a ‘testing phase’ right now, as we continue to tweak and adjust the new setup and we may experience some very minor issues as we iron out any remaining kinks in the system.

Our upgrades have helped us improve our webcast by:

• Offering a much SMOOTHER video broadcast experience
• The ability to use more than one video camera
• The ability to use additional video sources (not just cameras)
• Improved audio quality
• The ability to use new graphics & overlays
• Easier methods to record our services for offline & archival purposes
• Future ability to possibly offer our services on DVD format (not just audio CDs)

We are very excited in the direction that our Media Department is taking and we appreciate the support from everyone that uses our webcast to view our services.  We ask that you would help spread the word around and let everyone know that our services are available to view right here on our website.

You may be sick and unable to physically come to church, out of town visiting family / on vacation, or just want to check out Snellville Church of God for the first time, no matter the reason:  Our Live Webcast is available to help you get ‘here’ when you can’t be.

Snellville Church of God has created a presence on Facebook!  We have created this page to help those that may not visit the website on a regular basis be more informed on what is going on with Snellville Church of God and to help spread the word online.  If you like to visit our Facebook site (or even become ‘a fan’ of our page), then just visit the link below:

Snellville Church of God Facebook Page