Using Proclaim to Streamline Funeral Services
One of my favorite uses of Proclaim is simplifying funeral services, where I may be running things on a weekday with very little help. I use image slideshows in the pre-service loop to create a slideshow that the family might otherwise pay for, and create identical slides for each element of the service so that music can be played automatically (and set the auto-advance time to the length of the songs so that all I ever have to do is hit "next" on my iPad if I don't have anyone to run the computer).
If you are a power user, you probably already know how to do all of those things individually but maybe have never tried it out for this specific use case. If you have full-time media people, it will probably not be that helpful. But for pastors like me who are sometimes trying to run a funeral with nothing but one sound guy and a smile, this might be a useful trick for you to be a little less stressed while you are serving a family in grief.
If you aren't familiar with how to do some of those things, I made a video walkthrough to demonstrate how you can be ready to go in 15 minutes:
Using Logos as a pastor, seminary professor, and Tyndale author
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Short walk throughs like this are very useful - even if you already know many of the steps :) Thanks!
Pastor Glenn Crouch
St John's Lutheran Church
Esperance, Western Australia0 -
I'm sorry Justin, but that title looked quite imaginative (I was thinking humorous, but I shouldn't).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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