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Do you record your sermons digitally? You´re already well on your way to an online sermon ministry. Get how-to tips which show you where and how to make the most of this global outreach possibility.

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By CHERYL ROGERS
Do you record sermons onto CDs to sell to church members who can´t attend services, or who want to share your message with others? If so, you´re well on your way to an online sermon ministry.

Just take that audio file and add it to your church website or blog. Let listeners susbscribe and it´s a podcast, a regularly updated broadcast listeners download using an aggregator or feed reader. Podcasts can be heard on a computer or portable listening device such as an I-pod.

Publishing your sermons online need not be hard, especially with free services being offered to encourage pastors. But do consider your intended audience and whether you can afford additional hosting or bandwidth usage fees if your sermons become popular.

Do you minister to students or other folks who own a computer? Are they more likely to share your sermons with a CD or a podcast their friends can listen to on their I-pods? Can you use existing equipment and volunteer help to get set up? Or can you afford to pay for these services?

Any pastor who wants to make his sermons available after Sunday morning might as well record them digitally with a computer. Once you tackle this hurdle, you might as well make them available online.

What you need are: 1) A computer capable of sound recording, 2) A quality microphone or mic system which plugs into your computer, and 3) Recording software like Audacity, a free, cross-platform software available online which allows you to record, edit, import and export audio. On a Macintosh, you also could use Garageband, which often comes bundled with your computer.

A mono, rather than stereo, recording is recommended for voice only recordings to keep the file size to a minimum. Once you have an audio file, you will want to compress further to make it easier to use.

For detailed recording instructions, read "How to Record Your Sermons," at africanpastorsconference.com/2008/01/how-to-record-your-sermons/

In addition to selling CDs with your sermons, your compressed audio files can be shared on the Internet, but you´ll need software to get it there -- yours or those from a blog/podcast hosting service. A free, open-source File Transfer Protocol software available online is FileZilla at filezilla-project.org/

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