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VIDEO SERMONS

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Video Sermons for Lay-Led Congregations

 It’s such a chore to get guest speakers every week…and an expensive chore, too! Here’s an option for you to try: video-assisted worship.

In video-assisted worship, you run your service in your usual way, but when it’s time for the sermon, you turn on your DVD player and watch a prerecorded sermon. If your group has more than about 10 people, you’ll want to project the program on a large screen, which will require specific equipment, but it’s equipment that you’ll find useful over and over.

Where to get the sermons for your video-assisted worship? One place is from First Unitarian in Albuquerque; we send out four sermons a year on two DVDs to subscribers of our Video Sermon Service Program. These sermons cover topics basic to Unitarian Universalism, and they are accompanied by hard-copy texts, readings, and suggestions for other parts of the service. The sermons are suitable for showing anyplace, on any date. The files are the high-quality files you’ll need if you project your image onto a large screen. The cost for four sermons and service materials is $100.

Subscribers to our Video Sermon Service Program also have “download rights” to several years’ worth of sermons on our Web site. These sermons may have references to Albuquerque or to particular dates, and they have to be downloaded and burned to a DVD.

In addition, we offer a free trial DVD (which is supported by a grant from the MDD). You can use the DVD in worship or in a small group. All we ask is that you let us know how you used the DVD and how it worked for you. A feedback form will be included in the package you receive.

How to Sign Up for a Free Trial DVD or for Our Video Sermon Service Program

 E-mail First Unitarian at admin@uuabq.org with your congregation’s name and the name and mailing address of a contact person in your congregation (to whom an envelope can be sent).