Snellville Church of God

Due to the overwhelming demand of requests to our media department for audio CDs of the 2010 Revival (with Evangelist Scott Crowe), the Snellville Church of God Media department is pleased to announce that starting today, you can order these recordings right off of our website!  Usually all of our CD orders take place in the Welcome Center at the church, but we have been working hard to make them available to anyone who wants one.

There are two ways to obtain copies of these services on CD:

1. If you visit Snellvile Church of God, you can see a member of our Media Department and place your order.  Usually all orders that are placed before the preaching begins for that Sunday are ready to go by the time we dismiss service.  (Note:  We do NOT process any orders until payment is received.)
2. You can now order CDs online by visiting our 2010 Revival CD Catalog page.

Here are some facts that you may not know about our Audio CDs:

• All CDs contain just the preaching / spoken word for that service.  Pre & Post sermon activity is not recorded due to time and copyright issues
• All CDs are recorded in WAV format (44.1 kHz – mono) for great audio quality
• We split the recording into 5 minute seamless segments, so you can easily get back to where you were, should you have to take a break
• All of our CDs come with a high quality color label, which is printed on the CD itself.  (Not a stick-on)
• We archive our recordings.  Currently, was can go as far back as 2005 for certain sermons, if so desired

If you would like to order CD from our 2010 Revival services, just visit our 2010 Revival CD Catalog to select which CDs you would like to order.  Ordering is very easy!  We use PayPal for our transactions, which means that your transaction is quick, easy, and most of all:  secure.  If aren’t familiar with how PayPal works, you can learn more about it by visiting the PayPal Website.  Keep in mind the following when it comes to ordering:

• You can add as many items to your shopping cart as you want, but each item has to be picked 1 at a time from the webpage.
• We use a flat-rate shipping rate of $5.00 per COMPLETE order.  If you order 1 CD, shipping is $5.00. If you order 10 CDs, shipping is still just $5.00.
• Once payment is received, we will ship your order out to you within 1 to 2 business days.
• Make sure you review your order CAREFULLY before submitting it to be processed.  Once payment is sent, it cannot be cancelled.
• The ‘price’ on our catalog is for a single item.  You can adjust the amount of items in your shopping cart once you add the item.
• All funds from CD purchases go directly to the Snellville Church of God Media Department for future expansion of media projects and improving our current services.

If you have any questions on ordering CDs, please don’t hesitate to contact us using our contact page.  We welcome all questions that you may have and hope that we can provide you with the answers that you are looking for.  The Snellville Church of God Media Department is thrilled to be able to offer our sermons to not only those that attend our church, but people around the nation!  Currently, we only have the 2010 Revival Services available now, but we will be adding all Sunday morning services from 2010 and 2009 here shortly.  If you are looking for an earlier service, please be sure to e-mail the media department using the contact form.

During the dismissal of tonight’s revival service, Bishop McGuire addressed the congregation and informed everyone of how we are going to handle the revival services for next week.  Bishop McGuire is wanting to make sure that he gets CLEAR direction from God in regards to the continuation of our revival services.  Although we have not officially ended or extended our 2010 Revival with Evangelist Scott Crowe into next week, the following schedule WILL take place as of now:

• Sunday, February 14th @ 10: 15 AM
• Sunday, February 14th @ 6:30 PM

After these two services, Bishop McGuire will then inform us as to the direction that God wants us to take in terms of ended or extending our revival services.  Please make plans to try to be at these two services next week, as God is moving in a great way. You don’t want to miss what God is doing !

In an effort to make our services more available for OFFLINE replay, we are changing the way that we handle media here on the Snellville Church of God website.  The recent improvements to our webcast have allowed us to stream our services with much better clarity and quality, but have sacrificed the ability to archive these services for viewing at a later time.  We are currently exploring our options in an effort to help provide access to our live services (with the higher quality) AND the ability to catch these services offline.  In the next several days, we will be making the following changes to how we handle media here on the website:

• The Live Webcast link will be removed from our main website.  (However, the URL remains the same.)  This will be replaced by a ‘media’ link that will appear on our navbar.
• The ‘media’ link will containt access to:  Live Webcast, Photo Galleries, and Sermon Archives all in one place.
• The ‘audio archive’ player will no longer be available.
• We will move our future audio recordings to a new hosting site  (Under review).
• Recorded services will NOT include any performed music or altar services.
• Previously recorded video services will be deleted.  (Except: Revival services)

Our first goal is to get all of our revival services posted in the new archive format, for easier viewing.  This will also allow people to scroll back through previously missed services and be able to listen to them.  It is unclear how long we will keep these services in an offline format.  Until we can come up with a better solution, all offline services archived from this point on will be audio only.  (No live video footage recorded.)   As always, we appreciate those that continue to support our Live Webcast by tuning in.

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.

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.