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About Helping Your Church Live Stream by Paul Richards

This book is free this week only (1/14/2018-1/19/2018)! Inside this book, you will find insights for ministry leaders who are considering the use of live streaming as an outreach tool for their church. This book will help church leaders understand how they can leverage the power of live streaming as a visual bridge connecting your church to the world. After reading this book you should be able to answer foundational questions about why so many churches have adopted live streaming technology.

This book will provide perspective on best practices for live streaming church services and helpful reflections on real-life case studies from churches and pastors who are happily filling their pews with new members each week. Learn how to set up a digital donations strategy and enable your social media accounts to accept donations directly through YouTube and Facebook. This book will include actionable checklists for ministry leaders considering live streaming at their organization. It should become clear to you how your church can use live streaming and social media to reach new members and extend your reach to shut-ins. This book is accompanied by an online training course for technology directors and volunteers alike who may become the next “champions” of your live streaming program. Our online training course also includes a PowerPoint presentation template you can use to present the benefits of live streaming to your church leadership.At the end of this book, you will find a glossary of terms that will help you and your team familiarize yourselves with the type of technological vocabulary frequently used in live streaming. For many pastors, learning this type of information is like learning a new language. If you are interested in learning about church media and live streaming this book will be a walk an in the park.

Feel free to download the audio version of this book and literally take a walk in the park as you listen. Finally, this book was written to inspire readers to use modern tools to tell their organizations unique story about their faith. At the end of the day, live streaming is a storytelling tool helping organizations reach those who may need guidance, education, or simply a nudge in the right direction. Social media has become a medium for empowering individuals to like and share the things they believe in. We live in a world that is more connected than ever before. Understanding that everyone on earth is connected in some way, within six degrees of separation, will be an important stepping stone in our thinking about social media. Your church now has the power to reach people in large connected networks which include groups of family members and friends. These are the people that are most important and most influential in lives of your church’s current members and their extended online network.

One of the main reasons why western religion has succeeded so greatly to this day is because it has always taken advantage of emerging technologies… The medium isn’t the message; it’s the medium that you use to communicate the message. In the 1500s, we saw the printing press emerge, and bibles were being printed for the first time in history. We saw an explosion of what was being made available in written form, with new translations that were suddenly available all over the world… Over the past one hundred years, we have churches moving on to the radio with the early evangelical churches that have now moved into TV and televangelism… and now today we are moving into a new form of communication, where you can distribute your message on digital platforms using social media. The churches that are the most successful and most resonate with people are the ones delivering their message in the places that people are listening. Those who are producing content in a form that is consumable and makes sense in the day and age that we live in, we be to prosper from the fruits of new communication pathways.

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Featured Post: Rituals of the Dead: An Artifact Mystery by Jennifer S. Alderson

“About Rituals of the Dead: An Artifact Mystery:

Stolen artifacts, a missing anthropologist and a tenacious amateur sleuth.

American art history student Zelda Richardson is back and embroiled in another exciting art-related mystery! This time she’s working at an anthropology museum in Amsterdam on an exhibition of artifacts from the Asmat region of Papua – the same area where a famous American anthropologist disappeared in 1961. When the anthropologist’s journal is found inside an artifact’s crate, Zelda is tasked with finding out more about the man’s last days and his connection to these ritual objects.

Trouble is, she soon discovers disturbing links between his vanishing, the Dutch government and the Catholic Church. When her co-worker and housemate are murdered shortly after, Zelda finds herself pulled into a world of shady anthropologists, colonial officials, missionaries and smugglers – where the line between good and evil is blurry at best, and the only certainty is that sins of the past are never fully erased.

Join Zelda on her next quest as she grapples with the anthropologist’s mysterious disappearance fifty years earlier, and a present-day murderer who will do everything to prevent her from uncovering the truth.

Targeted Age Group: 13-100
Written by: Jennifer S. Alderson

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Featured Post: Western Apprehension by Michael Toledano

“About Western Apprehension:

In the southwest edge of the Great Plains in 1886, veteran US Marshal, Ben Corrigan, is on his way to the town of Iron Horse Junction to escort a jailed murderer, Frank Jameson, to Santa Fe in the territory of New Mexico for trial. Frank gun downed the town’s deputy sheriff while the deputy attempted to arrest him for killing a cattle buyer in a saloon brawl. For Ben, it should be a routine assignment that he has done many times before. But this time it comes while he is seriously considering retirement from a long, illustrious career that he enjoys as a lawman. His love interest, the widow Rachel Langford wants him to leave his dangerous roving profession and settle down with her. She asks him to consider their future while he gets ready to head to Iron Horse Junction. This leaves Ben in a quandary because there are conflicts that make the decision difficult. He’s not ready to retire, and there are other personal problems with the marital union with Rachel that he must resolve.

Unfortunately, a new untimely dynamic comes into play when Frank Jameson’s two friends break him out jail before Ben arrives. Ben, accompanied by a couple of new young marshals, is tasked with apprehending Frank and his gang. A life-threatening, violent confrontation ensues as the desperados resist capture. During the hot pursuit, Ben finally makes his life-changing decision. However, he must survive his present ordeal to fulfill this promise.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Michael Toledano
Illustrated by: Marlene Toledano

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Featured Post: The Measurements of Decay by K. K. Edin

About The Measurements of Decay by K. K. Edin

Three lives intertwine across space and time. A defeated renegade wasting his days on a starship headed for disaster. A girl who travels through Bolshevik Russia, Medieval Norway and 1950’s America. A broken philosopher maddening himself trying to save humanities and solve the mysteries of life. This is a science fiction epic spanning centuries.

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Featured Post: People Skills 101-tm: How to Have More Friends, Fewer Conflicts, and Better Relationships by Kerry O’Hallaron

“About People Skills 101-tm: How to Have More Friends, Fewer Conflicts, and Better Relationships:

A life changing modern-day twist on Dale Carnegie’s timeless classic – learn how to have more friends, show more charisma, and better manage every relationship – all in the comfort of your home.

“Kerry O’Hallaron simply nailed it with People Skills 101,” says Jason Broadman, international book critic. “He took something everyone needs to know, which nobody teaches, and made it interesting, eminently readable, entertaining, and exceptionally useful to just about everyone.”

Do you remember that course you took in school called “Basic People Skills?” You don’t, do you – because nobody, anywhere, teaches such a course. Whether grade school, high school, or beyond, NOBODY thought it was important to teach us how to interact. NOBODY thought it was important enough to teach us interpersonal skills – how to get people to like us, how to get them to see us the way we want to be seen, how to manage our relationships.

Apparently they just assumed that we are either born with “people skills” – or we weren’t!

People Skills 101 offers an elegantly simple and completely unique solution. It works, whether you are a shy and reserved introvert, a bubbly and outgoing extrovert, or anywhere in between. Simply choose any three of the twenty-one “GoldenRules” offered in the book, begin to use them faithfully, and watch the results with awe. You will be amazed how a few, subtle changes will quickly craft a new, more influential, more charismatic, more likable, YOU!

Targeted Age Group: 25-65
Written by: Kerry O'Hallaron

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Featured Post: Unzipped by Lauren Blakely

About Unzipped by Lauren Blakely

Picture this – I’m ready to win back the love of my life, and I’m going big this time. We’re talking boom box, sing her name in the rain, let the whole damn neighborhood know I’m good and ready this time around. After all, if you’re going to grand gesture the ever-loving hell out of a second chance, you need to pull out all the stops.

There’s only one little problem.

My college girlfriend isn’t the one who shows up when I play my “I’ll do anything to win you back” tune.

The woman who flings open the second-floor window tells me my ex doesn’t live here anymore. But she’ll help me win her back. Anything for romance, anything for a guy so willing to go big for love. And that’s what I want at first. Until I get to know my new “romance coach” and discover she’s funny, clever, and keeps me on my toes. And boy, do I ever need that.

Now I don’t want to win anyone else’s heart. I want the woman who’s been helping me all along.

Trouble is – she thinks I’m in love with someone else, and when we take off on a road trip, everything I think I know about women is about to be unzipped and turned inside out.

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Featured Post: The Lover’s Portrait: An Art Mystery by Jennifer S. Alderson

“About The Lover’s Portrait: An Art Mystery:

When a Dutch art dealer hides the stock from his gallery – rather than turn it over to his Nazi blackmailer – he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam, presumably lost forever. That is, until American art history student Zelda Richardson sticks her nose in.

After studying for a year in the Netherlands, Zelda scores an internship at the prestigious Amsterdam Historical Museum, where she works on an exhibition of paintings and sculptures once stolen by the Nazis, lying unclaimed in Dutch museum depots almost seventy years later.

When two women claim the same painting, the portrait of a young girl entitled Irises, Zelda is tasked with investigating the painting’s history and soon finds evidence that one of the two women must be lying about her past. Before she can figure out which one it is and why, Zelda learns about the Dutch art dealer’s concealed collection. And that Irises is the key to finding it all.

Her discoveries make her a target of someone willing to steal – and even kill – to find the missing paintings. As the list of suspects grows, Zelda realizes she has to track down the lost collection and unmask a killer if she wants to survive.

Targeted Age Group: 13-100
Written by: Jennifer S. Alderson

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Featured Post: The West Tech Terrorist by Peter Jedick

About The West Tech Terrorist by Peter Jedick

He’s a high school journalist. She's protecting her source. Will they make the front page or the obituaries? The West Tech Terrorist is a mystery romance novel that provides a taste of the home front during World War II America. It is the fall of 1941 at Cleveland’s West Technical High School, one of the largest and most unique high schools in America. The United States is on the brink of World War II. Victor Blazek, the sports editor of the West Tech school newspaper, and his girlfriend, Doris, fall in love as they try to foil a sinister plot by Nazi sympathizers inside the school. But their attempt as amateur sleuths puts both their lives in danger.

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Featured Post: Snow Sometimes Falls: A Christmas Novel by Brian Ming

About Snow Sometimes Falls: A Christmas Novel by Brian Ming

At age six, Dave was alone swinging in his backyard and heard a heavenly voice, “SNOW SOMETIMES FALLS!” It takes over thirty years, along with several calamities to discover what God was telling him that day. Dave learns, even through the tragic death of his mother, the thirty-year revelation was well worth the wait.

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Featured Post: Snow Sometimes Falls by Brian Ming

“About Snow Sometimes Falls:

Targeted Age Group: 18-99
Written by: Brian Ming

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Featured Post: I Was Just a Radioman by Pamela Ackerson

“About I Was Just a Radioman:

Their hearts were strong, and their courage endless.

Pearl Harbor survivor, Black Cat radioman, and decorated WW 2 veteran. ARM H. P. Lawrence, tells the true story of the fight against the Japanese in this compilation of his memoirs.

One of only a handful of non-Native American code-talkers, H. P. Lawrence became a member of an elite fighting force, the Black Cats. Flying in their nocturnal missions, the Cats claws were sharp and their aim deadly.

From devastation to victory, the story of these brave men−the deadly, mysterious, and illusive Black Cats is a journey into the past where nightmares came true and hatred reigned. A time in history we should never, ever forget.

The day which will live in infamy…was just the beginning.

Targeted Age Group: 25 to 85
Written by: Pamela Ackerson

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Featured Post: Insensible Loss by Paul Michael Peters

About Insensible Loss by Paul Michael Peters

If you had the chance to live forever, would you take it?

In a new twist on the fountain of youth, we follow the journals over the centuries of two people who drink from the waters and take alternating turns between childhood and old age.

This truly unique piece of literature that seamlessly combines a slightly futuristic fantasy and magic with a realistic story of empathy and the struggle of witnessing human suffering and the death process. Readers who enjoy puzzles, mysteries, twists, historical fiction, and not always endearing characters, Insensible Loss will be your favorite find this year.

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Featured Post: Journey: A Mother’s Account of Love, Loss and Spiritual Healing by Mitzi Montague-Bauer

About Journey: A Mother’s Account of Love, Loss and Spiritual Healing by Mitzi Montague-Bauer

A mother’s undying love. A son’s untimely death. One woman’s journey toward healing…

When Mitzi’s college-aged son Journey, received a harrowing mental health diagnosis, she scrambled for a way to “fix” him. As she and her son bounced between prescriptions and therapists, she watched her brilliant boy move in and out of madness. In the midst of her hunt for a solution, Journey stepped off a six-story building and fell to his death.

Grieving and in shock, she poured through a collection of blog posts written by her son before his suicide. As she continued to learn more about the true recovery of mental illness, Mitzi combined her experiences with Journey’s account to create a raw, vulnerable narrative. This is their story…

Journey: A Mother’s Account of Love, Loss and Spiritual Healing is a gripping tale for anyone touched by mental illness. Through Mitzi’s shared story and her son’s brilliant, prescient writings, the book explores coping, acceptance, and the surprising possibility of embracing tragedy. Through the “Journey’s Dream” charity and this spiritual account, Journey’s legacy endures to provide inspiration, healing, and transformation.

Journey is a memoir that shines a light on mental illness and the lives of children lost too soon. If you like soul-nurturing narratives, cathartic tales of connectedness, and masterful storytelling, then you’ll love Mitzi Montague-Bauer’s vulnerable and authentic page-turner.

Give yourself the gift of Journey, a beautiful book from both mother and son.

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Featured Post: Worldship Praxis by JD Lovil

About Worldship Praxis by JD Lovil

To save humanity from extinction, one captain must confront his own nightmares… and a host of deadly aliens.

Jack Sadow’s crucial interstellar work requires him to be semi-immortal. The captain of the gigantic colonist vessel Worldship Praxis knows that every decision could make or break humankind's mission to find habitable planets. But when a sleep shift brings him disturbing precognitive warnings of formidable aliens, he knows his toughest choices still lie ahead…

Untrained for battle against lifeforms with superior tech, Sadow wonders if he and his small crew can possibly survive to find a second home. For humanity to endure after Earth, the captain has no choice but to use his mind and mettle to find his colonists a new safe haven. Can Sadow conquer the mysterious aliens of his nightmares, or will humanity's dreams turn to stardust?

Worldship Praxis is a fast-paced sci-fi colonization adventure. If you like futuristic tech, intergalactic journeys, and mind-bending alien encounters, then you’ll love JD Lovil’s expansive novel.
Buy Worldship Praxis to keep humanity alive today!

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