Sermon to Podcast

The Big Idea:
Upload your sermons to podcast platforms for greater reach and impact around the world.

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A podcast is like a radio show, except that you listen whenever it's convenient for you, not the radio station. Plus, you can pause, rewind, or fast-forward as you need.

Today, most people access podcasts through their iPhones, Android phones, tablets (like an iPad), computers, or car audio systems. Churches increasingly use a podcast platform to make sermon content more conveniently accessible to members who are traveling, homebound, working out at the gym, or simply want to listen again for deeper learning.

"Our church already hosts sermons at our website. Do we need a podcast too?"

Member and attender convenience. Hosting your sermon on your website is a great start, but a podcast will help your sermon become much more accessible to members, attenders, and external audiences alike.
Shareability. On a podcast platform, your members and attenders can now easily share your sermon content with their friends and family. A podcast empowers your message to go "viral."

Interesting: Netflix reports that eighty-two percent of its listener base watches programming with closed captioning on, but only eleven percent of the population is deaf or hard of hearing. Closed Captioning helps your sermon in two important ways:

First, closed captioning makes your sermon content accessible to more people like the deaf, the hard-of-hearing, and the non-native English speaker who watches western videos with captions on to master English.
Second, closed captioning makes your online sermons more discoverable for search engines.

Episode information. Each episode of your podcast sermon will have a section for more information about the pastor, the church, links to scripture references or other external online resources, and much more. Podcast listeners frequently look at this additional information for ways to get more involved. Be sure to leverage each episode's information field.
Cross-pollination. Consider how this might impact that. Besides availing the sermon on your podcast, consider what kind of announcements or calls-to-action you might want to include before, during, or after the sermon. The podcast is not only a vehicle for greater distribution of the sermon, but a way of driving greater participation in other areas of the church.

ReSermon can transform your sermon audio file into a asset that cross pollinates every other part of your church's ministry. Start by filling out some information.