TL;DR: Digital Ministry News Recap 

• Church Tech News: Podcasts to reach new audiences.

• Church Tech News: Avoiding live streaming copyright challenges.

• Church Production: PTZOptics announces Hive Studio.

• Church Tech News: ChMS’s streamline administrative tasks.

• TechCrunch: Experiment: AI agent fundraisers?

Church Podcasts To Reach New Audiences

Church Tech News shares "Church Podcasts: Reaching New Audiences" (5-min read), providing practical tips for creating sermon replays, devotionals, and Q&As with minimal gear, choosing affordable hosting platforms, consistent schedules, and effective promotion methods. Ideal for churches aiming to deepen engagement through accessible audio content.

Avoiding Live Streaming Copyright Challenges

Church Tech News shares "Copyright Challenges in Church Live Streaming" (5-min read), highlighting essential guidelines to legally stream worship services. Advice includes securing proper licenses (e.g., CCLI Streaming), using royalty-free or original content, and understanding platform restrictions to protect your ministry from potential infringements and costly penalties.

Hive Studio: The Future of Video Production?

Church Production shares "Hive Studio: Is it the Future of Video Production?" (3-min read), announcing PTZOptics’ browser-based video platform integrated with PTZOptics cameras. Simplify streaming workflows without complex hardware using automated camera controls and direct platform streaming. Perfect for churches aiming for professional-quality broadcasts with minimal technical barriers.

CHMS’s Streamline Administrative Tasks

Church Tech News shares “How ChMS Can Streamline Church Administrative Tasks” (4-minute read), providing thought-starters on how Church Management Systems (ChMS’s) can automate tasks like attendance tracking, volunteer scheduling, event planning, and financial reporting. By centralizing data and communication, ChMS’s help churches save time, reduce errors, and focus more on ministry impact.

Experiment: AI Agents Do Fundraising

TechCrunch shares “A Nonprofit Is Using AI Agents to Raise Money for Charity” (4-minute read), featuring Sage Future’s experiment using AI agents like GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 to autonomously raise funds. The bots picked a charity, created content, and ran a social media campaign—raising $257. Spoiler alert: Most donors were the “human-in-the loop” participants in the experiment. Nevertheless, this may signal emerging opportunities for nonprofits to automate donor engagement and fundraising with AI.

Closing

Thank you for your time. We trust that this information was useful. Please consider sharing via the links at the top of the post. Finally, please take our brief Reader Satisfaction Survey to help us understand how to serve you better. Thanks and be blessed.

Disclosures

In the interest of “shunning the appearance of evil” resulting from undisclosed relationships and/or potential conflicts of interest, we disclose our relationship(s) with the providers mentioned.