St Pixels Launches First-Ever Church Service on Facebook

St Pixels Launches First-Ever Church Service on Facebook

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries



ESHER, UK (ANS) -- Internet Church St Pixels will be at the International Christian Resources Exhibition (Sandown Park, Esher, UK) to host the first-ever interactive service on Facebook (Tuesday, May 10, 2011), at 1 and 3pm UK time.

From temple to church to cathedral to chapel… Facebook! St. Pixels is bringing real time, interactive, multimedia worship within a couple of clicks for any Facebook user. (Picture: © St. Pixels 2011)

Worshippers at computer screens and iPhones across the world will be able listen to Bible readings and a sermon, sing along with hymns and key in prayer requests. A real-time feedback meter will allow them to click “Amen” or “Zzzz” buttons regularly during services - so everyone will see if the preacher's joke was as funny as he thought.
St. Pixels pioneer Mark Howe said: “If the gospel is for today's connected culture, it has to find a distinctive but culturally-appropriate place within social networking. Love it or hate it, Facebook is where people are in 2011. This project is not about trying to look cool and postmodern. It’s about applying basic principles of cross-cultural mission to our own culture.”
St Pixels (www.stpixels.com) was formed in 2006 after a pilot project by webzine Ship of Fools (www.shipoffools.com). Its first live Facebook service will be hosted in the Web and Media Zone at CRE, Europe’s biggest annual exhibition of Christian resources.
“It's easy to build irrelevant ghettos in cyberspace or to abandon distinctives in the rush to embrace the latest online fad,” said Mark. “Our Facebook application is an attempt to engage with a cultural phenomenon on its own terms while holding onto the gospel that has transformed so many cultures across the centuries.”
Speaking at the first Facebook service will be Andrew Graystone, director of the Church and Media Network.

St Pixels logo

“We have 600 million ‘neighbors’ on Facebook,” said Andrew. “St Pixels on Facebook means 600 million Facebook users now have a church in their pocket. I congratulate St Pixels on reaching an amazing milestone. So much love, work and care has gone into this unique community and I have been a beneficiary of it.”
Stephen Goddard, who issued a news release on behalf of the CRE event, stated, “Some 400 exhibitors will be at CRE (May 10-13, 2011), often dubbed ‘the ideal church show’. The biggest exhibition of any kind at Sandown Park each year, all three floors of the venue will once again be packed with colorful and vibrant stands - from architects to organ suppliers, heating specialists to sound system engineers.
“Steady growth over the past decade has seen attendances rise to an impressive 13,000 over the event’s period – at a time when many secular shows are struggling to survive.”

* For tickets and more information about the International Christian Resources Exhibition visitwww.creonline.co.uk.
For more information, contact Stephen Goddard +44 (0) 1744 733898 or +44 (0)7930 198209. E-mail: steve@shipoffools.com

---

Dan Wooding, 70, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 47 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. He now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 200 countries. You can follow Dan on Facebook under his name there or at ASSIST News Service. He is the author of some 44 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link.Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, has also recently released his first novel “Red Dagger” which is available this link.