Pre-Event: Engaging Livestream Worshippers, Sundays and Beyond!
Date: Tuesday, January 28
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm CST
Location: on-site
Cost: $25
Come explore the wonderful world of digital ministry through engaging livestream worship! Through storytelling, technical specs, and examples of what’s rocked and what’s flopped, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Livestream Director and Associate Pastor to the Online Campus will share theological reasoning, techniques in practice, and how we’ve moved from pre-recorded broadcast to calling a dedicated Associate Pastor to this livestream ministry. Participants will have opportunities to ask questions about how this can look at churches of all sizes! Whether you are livestreaming with a laptop using Zoom or putting out a multi-camera broadcast, you will leave this session excited for all the possibilities to reach your online worshippers.
Leaders: Natalie Owens-Pike and Emily Dombroff
Rev. Natalie Owens-Pike (she/her/nop) is Associate Pastor for Ministry to the Online Campus of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, she is in her second year of ministry at FAPC, and grateful for the holy playground of innovative online ministries. Natalie brings a decade of experience as a non-profit Executive Director and teacher in and alongside diverse communities to her ministry, but her favorite title so far has been Minister of Fun. Natalie earned her M.Div at Yale Divinity School and specialized in Congregational Ministry through the Andover Newton Seminary program there. Her B.A. in American Studies, English Literature and History is from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Originally from Minnesota, she’s excited to be back in Memphis where she spent time while living in the Mississippi Delta as a Teach for America teacher.
Emily Dombroff has been shooting video for Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for nearly a decade. She led the online worship efforts during COVID and transitioned to directing their weekly livestream starting in September 2021. Outside of Fifth Avenue, Emily has directed livestreaming events at other organizations such as Columbia University and Etsy and has created video content for NYC Based non-profit organizations such as Girls Inc of New York City, Safe Horizon and the Arthur Miller Foundation. She attended Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications for her Bachelors degree and received a Master of Arts from New York University.