Streaming Video for Houses of Worship

Religious organizations can now ensure their ministry is more accessible to congregants through live and on-demand video streaming. With the ever-growing number of individuals connected online and able to access high-quality video content remotely, places of worship can help share their mission and message whenever, wherever, and however audiences view streaming content.

  • Live or on-demand streaming of sermons
  • Service capture to spread the message globally
  • Live streaming of religious studies
  • Broadcasts of a 24/7 linear TV channel 
  • Machine learning for auto-transcription and translation
Harvest Christian Fellowship uses AWS to live stream to its congregation (55:10)

Solutions guide: Media for religious organizations

With the required technology becoming more mainstream and accessible, houses of worship are now investing in video streaming to include the digital-first, those requiring accessibility features such as the hearing impaired, and those who can’t physically attend services.

AWS provides cost-effective, powerful, and easy-to-use media solutions for religious organizations to spread their ministry globally.

Learn about AWS and partner solutions you can deploy to stream live and on-demand video for religious organizations, and view best practices from several houses of worship case studies.

Providers

The following providers deliver solutions which enable your organization to stream live and on-demand video quickly, reliably, securely, and at scale. 

Use cases

  • Interactive live streaming
  • Interactive live streaming

    Deploying low-latency interactive live video is simple with the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS). With just a few clicks, any religious organization can create and stream live video to a website or native iOS or Android application with the Amazon IVS player SDK. Enhance the video stream with interactive capabilities such as chat, Q&A, and polling using timed metadata APIs.

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    Blog: Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites

    The AWS news blog walks through a deployment of the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS).

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    Webcast: AWS What's Next Ep.8: featuring Amazon IVS

    In this video, watch the team discuss and deploy a live video stream using the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) via the AWS console.

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    Workshop: Live Streaming with Amazon Interactive Video Service

    This self-paced workshop walks through a step-by-step deployment of a live video stream using the Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) via the AWS console.

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  • Live event streaming
  • Live event streaming

    Whether an event is a sermon, study of religious scriptures, or an annual convention, streaming video content to any device is simple with AWS Elemental Media Services and Amazon CloudFront. Now you can deploy the Live Streaming on AWS solution with just one button and customize it to your needs.

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    Live event streaming on AWS

    Webcast: Live video streaming (OTT) solution

    This webcast shows specific ways OTT providers can use AWS Cloud services to take control of and get the most from video workflows.

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    Read the latest blog postings related to video use and technologies for religious organizations.

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  • Video on-demand
  • Video on-demand

    Creating a video library of your religious service assets is now simplified with the Video On Demand on AWS Solution. Simply click one button to launch the template into your AWS account, upload your videos, and let AWS take care of the rest. You can even customize the workflow to fit your needs.

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    Video on-demand with AWS

    Webcast: How to build a VOD solution

    This webcast provides prescriptive guidance for building video-on-demand workflows on the AWS Cloud, which provisions the services needed for a scalable, distributed architecture that ingests, stores, processes, and delivers video content.

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    E-book: Video processing and delivery moves to the cloud

    As video quality, accessibility, and utility skyrockets, how video providers create and deliver professional-grade video services changes dramatically. Learn about the benefits of moving video operations to the cloud, the pros and cons of conventional approaches, and tips for adapting to coming changes.

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    Read the latest blog postings related to video use and technologies for religious organizations.

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Case studies

Harvest Christian Fellowship

Harvest Christian Fellowship, an evangelistic ministry in the United States, wanted its messages to reach its congregation, satellite and affiliate churches, and a connected audience at high video quality. The organization was able to stream both live and on-demand sermons and events, garnering more than 200,000 online visitors to its annual outreach event. The effort required minimal technical knowledge and staff overhead.

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