Worship Leader’s Interview With Nathan Clark, Northland’s Director of Digital Innovation
Filed Under (News-Northland, Online Worship) by Robert Andrescik on 20-07-2009
Worship Leader: What was the impetus for Northland developing an online church expression?
Nathan Clark: Our name is a little funny, Northland, a Church Distributed. Our vision of church is a reflection of how we see church painted in the New Testament: that it’s not a place you leave your community to go, it’s the gathering of community for worship, service and equipping. So the question I would raise, especially for a growing megachurch in the suburbs, is how are we achieving that? As we were processing through this, as I understand, we realized we also had a pragmatic need for space and perhaps in the exploration for satisfaction of that need we could also pursue this theological imperative that we felt. So what we ended up doing was having a second location right down the street from the first location that we wired up with varying technology, so part of our congregation was in one place and part was in another. Sort of an eye-opening experience, realizing that geography wasn’t the dictator on who a congregation was. Suddenly we were split, but we weren’t’ split. We were one congregation. As we further contemplated Read the rest of this entry »
Get Me to the Church … Online!
Filed Under (News-Northland, Online Worship) by Robert Andrescik on 13-01-2009
The Internet can be a great outreach tool—when it’s used as part of a larger ministry strategy. Read the article in Church Solutions magazine by Dr. Dan Lacich, pastor for distributed sites at Northland Church. Click here to read the article.
Church Webcasts Bring Services to Seminole Jail Inmates
Filed Under (House Churches, News-Northland, Online Worship) by Robert Andrescik on 05-01-2009
by Gary Taylor, Orlando Sentinel, January 3, 2009
SANFORD - On a recent Sunday, more than 7,500 people turned out for services at Northland, A Church Distributed, the Longwood megachurch. An additional 750 showed up at remote locations in West Orange County, Oviedo and Mount Dora.
Since 2006, the church has been streaming two of its three Sunday services on the Internet, allowing more than 1,800 people to worship from more than 1,000 locations across the country and the world.
Now that technology is allowing the church to crack some of the most fortified walls in Seminole County: the jail.
Each Sunday, prisoners file into a second-floor classroom where they watch the church’s 9 a.m. service, standing when the congregation stands, clapping when the congregation claps and singing when the congregation sings a hymn.
Church officials hope to make a difference in the lives of inmates. Read the rest of this entry »
Prison Ministry Goes High Tech
Filed Under (House Churches, News-Northland, Online Worship) by Robert Andrescik on 11-12-2008
Since Northland began webcasting its services in 2006, online worshipers have reported bringing the church into some very unusual places: offices, coffee shops, military bases … even a Burger King restaurant.
This month, Northland brought webstream worship to a place that is literally cut off from the rest of the world: John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Sanford, Florida.
Armed with a computer, projector and sound system, a small team of volunteers held the inaugural service on December 7, which was attended by more than 50 men. The response? Read the rest of this entry »
This is Northland - Meet the Popes
Filed Under (Online Worship) by Dana Kobosky on 25-10-2008
This is Northland - Meet the Popes from Dana Kobosky on Vimeo.
One of a series of interviews with Northlanders who worship across the U.S. via the internet. The Popes share a little with us about their web worship experience.
With Northland’s InSite web worship you can literally worship with us anywhere. It’s a different kind of church community and another way to stay connected….this is northland.
Signs and Wanders: Finding God on the Interstate and the Information Superhighway
Filed Under (News-Northland, Online Worship) by Robert Andrescik on 15-10-2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Robert Andrescik
Director of Communications
Northland, A Church Distributed
Direct: (407) 949-7147
Mobile: (407) 923-4440
robert.andrescik@northlandchurch.net
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
After more than 10,000 miles across 19 states in four months, Dana Kobosky has reached the end of the road.
Dana, 33, set off on the ultimate road trip last spring that included both the Interstate and the Information Superhighway. As she traveled America, Dana visited folks who worship via InSite, Northland Church’s live, online worship experience.
“I was already wanting to drive, hike and camp my way across the U.S., and this just seemed like a perfect fit,” she explains. “I spent some time praying about it, and next thing I knew, my house sold. I was ready to roll.”
Dana left Orlando April 15 and completed her journey around the end of August. She visited eight different worship sites across the country.
So what is it like worshiping at someone’s home? Read the rest of this entry »
This is Northland - Meet Tim McGhee
Filed Under (Online Worship) by Dana Kobosky on 14-10-2008
This is Northland - Meet Tim McGhee from Dana Kobosky on Vimeo.
One of a series of interviews with people across the country who worship with Northland via the web. Tim shares a little with us about his web worship experience.
With web worship you can literally worship anywhere! It’s a different kind of church community, another way to stay connected….this is Northland.
This Is Northland - Meet the Deschamps
Filed Under (Online Worship) by Dana Kobosky on 02-10-2008
This is Northland - Meet the Deschamps from Dana Kobosky on Vimeo.
One of a series of interviews with people across the country who attend Northland via the web. The Deschamps share a little about their experience worshiping on the web.
With Northland’s web worship you can join us for worship literally anywhere. It’s a different kind of church community, a different way to stay connected…..This is Northland.
Radio Netherlands Reports on Webstream Worship
Filed Under (News-Northland, Online Worship) by Robert Andrescik on 26-09-2008
God bless this house
BY POLITICAL EDITOR JOHN TYLER
24-09-2008
You can do everything else over the Internet. Now you can also go to church. To find out how this works, Radio Netherlands’ corresponded John Tyler went to one of Northland Church’s home sites in the Orlando suburb of Kissimmee, FL. Click to listen to the report.
This Is Northland!
Filed Under (Online Worship) by Dana Kobosky on 09-09-2008
Dana Kobosky is traveling America, visiting folks who worship with Northland on the Internet. Here is a short clip introducing her traveling Web visits, some of the Web worshipers … and the idea that you can literally worship anywhere. With Northland’s InSite Webstream Worship, no matter where you are “this is Northland”!
This is Northland from Dana Kobosky on Vimeo.