Online Worship

Welcome, Webstream Worshiper! Here, you’ll find answers to common technical questions. You can also learn how to start a house church, and read posts from our online ministers.

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.


Finding the Divine Online

Filed Under (News-Northland, Online Worship) by Robert Andrescik on 06-09-2008

OrlandoSentinel.com
Finding the divine online
THEIR HOUSES OF WWW.WORSHIP

Jay Hamburg
Sentinel Staff Writer
September 6, 2008

On any given Sunday, Laurie and Tim Klaus of Salisbury, N.C., attend church with Laurie’s parents in Longwood.

And when their daughter traveled to Texas for an internship, she, too, worshipped with her family.
“It binds us together,” Laurie Klaus said. “There is a closeness despite physical distance.”
How do they do it?

The Klaus family are among the 2,000 members of Northland, A Church Distributed who log on to the Internet to link up to the Lord. And those virtual pews are filling fast. Read the rest of this entry »