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Close caption your sermon for immigrants: Your sermon is a great English tutor

9/7/2016

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By Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com
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An internet cafe in China.
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​Literacy rides on the wake of missions. In the modern era, the American church has the ability to give the world what it wants most -- to speak the language of science, commerce and the hope for a higher standard of living -- in exchange for what the world needs most -- the gospel of Jesus Christ. The world wants to learn English and missionaries have met this need my first and foremost simply teaching how to read the Bible. 

Your closed captioned sermon  is a critical tool for a person learning English as a Second Language (ESL). In an age when the general public is panicking about mass immigration out of the war-torn middle east, the church is entrusted the only solution -- the gospel. These migrants need to learn English and they will learn English with or without the assistance of the church. Why not closed caption your sermons and expose them to the life-changing message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

Closed captioning is not just a solution for the deaf and the hard of hearing. It is, arguably, a critical part of a comprehensive immigration solution.
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Close caption your sermons for veterans

8/3/2016

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By Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com
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​It was very loud in Afghanistan and Iraq, and soldiers often come back with ruptured eardrums and other hearing-related injuries. Captioning your sermon is a huge service to soldiers coming back from the battlefield. ​

Hearing Loss - the #1 Vet Disability

“Among post-9/11 veterans, 414,000 have come home with hearing loss and tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. The most-widespread injury for veterans has been hearing loss and other auditory complications, according to interviews and benefits data.”  Kay Miller, News 21, 8-24-2013. http://backhome.news21.com/article/hearing.
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“Hearing damage is the No. 1 disability in the war on terror, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and some experts say the true toll could take decades to become clear. Nearly 70,000 of the more than 1.3 million troops who have served in the two war zones are collecting disability for tinnitus, a potentially debilitating ringing in the ears, and more than 58,000 are on disability for hearing loss, the VA said.” Associated Press, 3-7-2008, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23523729/ns/health-health_care/t/hearing-loss-silent-epidemic-us-troops/#.VyP9HDArKhc. 
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Close Caption your sermons for the deaf and hard of hearing

7/6/2016

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By Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com
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​The deaf and hard of hearing relate to the hearing world in a diversity of ways, but in recent years, closed captioning has become so technologically easier and economically affordable, that in 2015 the FCC mandated closed captioning for commercial broadcasting.

This requirement does not, for the most part, apply to churches, but on the other hand, after a church invests tens of thousands of dollars into video and audio equipment in order to broadcast sermon content into YouTube, Vimeo and iTunes for the hope of winning souls and changing lives, why feint at spending a few hundred dollars per month to make sermons accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing, too? ​

Ungratefully Deaf: Tinnitus plagues young and old alike, even in the church.

In the 20th century, mostly middle-aged and elderly folks really needed to worry about hearing loss--mostly factory guys and war veterans.  Then, Baby Boomers partied pretty hard with the Grateful Dead and ended up Ungratefully Deaf.  Today, mega-decibel environments are nearly ubiquitous, from millennials with their “iPod-itus” to even the church, which is increasingly marked by loud bands pushing volume to 95 decibels and more -- clearly in the hearing-damage level.

Hearing loss used to be a concern for the old, but the popularity of closed captioning for the middle-aged and even young people is manifested in how popular captioning is for Netflix and YouTube today. Captioning should be part of a church’s video sermon regular workflow.
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ReSermon will prepare your sermon archives into closed caption files to serve the deaf and hard of hearing.

An example of a closed caption sermon prepared by ReSermon.com.
This is Clinton Faupel, founder of RemedyLive.FM ministry in Fort Wayne, preaching on January 31, 2016 at Pathway Community Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Sermon_01.31.16 from Pathway Community Church on Vimeo.

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What are the advantages of closed captioning your sermon content?

9/9/2015

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You immediately expand your ministry reach to the deaf and hearing alike.

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By Christopher Mann
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Captioning your video sermon is one of the easiest, low-hanging-fruit ways of immediately expanding your ministry reach. By captioning your videos, which demographics do you pick up? 

In one sense, you pick up some specific profiles. In another sense, you pick up everybody. 



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"A Beautiful Promise" Part 3. Based on Romans 8:28

8/24/2015

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“When you're walking through season of adversity, God is at work.  No matter what the adversity, God will finish the work.”

A Beautiful Promise: Part 3
by Pastor Ron Williams 
Pathway Community Church, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Transcribed and closed captioned by ReSermon
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4 Hazards of Google Automated Captioning (GAC)

7/8/2015

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In 2009, Google introduced automated closed captioning for its videos, marking a wonderful advance for the deaf and hard of hearing. Google deserves mega kudos for this advancement. It is not just "better than nothing." The innovation can be truly helpful, and six years later, the tech is still being improved.

That said, there are still major reasons that content makers in general, and churches in particular, should not rely on Google Automatic Captioning (GAC):

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