Churches going High Tech

It turns out that www.QuizPad.com is not the only church-based website out there (of course, calvarystudentministries.com and calvaryefc.com should have clued us in). The Barna Group is reporting that almost 70% of protestant churches are now online.

The Barna Group survey shows that, since 2000, many congregations across regional, denominational and sociological categories have embraced the Internet, videography and other high-tech methods of carrying out their ministries.
For example, the study showed that 57 percent of all Protestant churches now have a website -- up from only 34 percent in 2000. The greatest increases in that category came among mainline Protestant churches, 70 percent of which now have a presence on the World Wide Web.
The study also found that churches located in the Western states, churches with large congregations, and churches with mostly white parishioners are most likely to have websites.
The survey also determined that a large majority -- 62 percent -- of all Protestant churches use large-screen projection technology. In 2000, only 39 percent of them used large screens.