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    Report 3
    'We're Still Here'

    Reflections of the Post-Pandemic Digital Church

  • REPORT 3

    'We’re Still Here’: Reflections of the Post-Pandemic Digital Church.

    Report 3 presents findings from a survey of 246 Indiana church leaders who's congregations received technology grants from theCenter for Congregations in 2020. The focus of this report is to see how technological decisions and attitudes towards digital media change in these churches between 2020-2023. Overall, findings from this report demonstrate a positive shift between 2020 and 2023 in congregational attitudes towards technology and online services. It also highlights how the size of the congregation and the age of religious leaders making technology decisions influenced the type of digital media used and how churches adapted to digital tools.

     

    Report 3 focuses on exploring the similarities and difference in congregations...

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    Pre-Pandemic Views and Use of Technology (Before March 2020)

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    How Congregations Engaged Technology During the Covid-19 Pandemic (March 2020 to Fall 2022

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    Post-Pandemic Views and Use of Technology (Late Fall 2022 through Summer 2023)

  • Report 3

    Campbell, Heidi A.;Osteen, Sophia; Sparks, Grayson (2023). 'We’re Still Here’: Reflections of the Post-Pandemic DigitalChurch. Available electronically from https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/200172

     

    Executive Summary

     

    Campbell, Heidi; Osteen, Sophia (2023). Report 3- Executive Summary of 'We’re Still Here’: Reflections of the Post-Pandemic Digital Church. Available electronically from https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/200606
     

    All report documents are open access, and

    available through the OAKTrust Digital Repository, based at Texas A&M University.

  • REPORT 2

    Mission to Serve Tech: Churches "Lock Down" Technology During The Global Pandemic

     

    Report 2 investigates data collected from 2700 Indiana churches who participated in the Center for Congregations' Connect Through Tech (CTT) grant program. This report analyzes CTT applications to t and final reports submitted by these churches, in order to learn how churches understood and perceived the role of churches, technology, and their changing relationship during the first two years of the pandemic. Report 2 centers on five questions explored through a content analysis research process, specifically:

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    How do churches view technology and the internet? And how has this changed between the initial applications from 2020 to final reports submitted in 2021?

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    How do churches conceive of and describe the church and its mission? And how has this changed between the initial applications from 2020 to final reports submitted in 2021?

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    What do churches see their relationship to digital media in light of their technological engagement, during the pandemic?

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    What kind of community do churches see themselves being? And has increased technology use shaped their understanding of community in any ways?

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    What are the most notable challenges and opportunities did technology use and integration into church work create for congregations?

  • Report 2

    Campbell, Heidi A; Daly, Jennifer; Osteen, Sophia A; Wallace, Andrea (2023). Mission to Serve Tech: Churches "Lock Down" Technology During The Global Pandemic. Available electronically from https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/197075

     

    Executive Summary

     

    Campbell, Heidi; Daly,Jennifer (2023). Report 2- Executive Summary of Mission to Serve Tech:Churches "Lock Down" Technology During the Global Pandemic. Available electronically from https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/197079 

     

     

    All report documents are open access, and

    available through the OAKTrust Digital Repository, based at Texas A&M University.

  • REPORT 1

    When Pastors put on the “Tech Hat”: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19

     

    Report 1 analyzes themes from 50 Tech Talk Sessions with 478 church leaders hosted by the Center for Congregations in 2020 and 2021 discussing their technology use during the pandemic. This report looks at different churches' choices to implement digital media, and the unique technological demands they discovered in moving from traditional offline church, to doing online and hybrid forms. Report 1 centers on responses to four questions emerging from these discussions, specifically:

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    Who are the people making technological decisions within churches right now?

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    What challenges have churches faced in using and implementing technology during the pandemic?

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    What were the prominent issues churches encountered in their transitioning of services into a new platform and a new culture?

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    Are there any success stories worth noting or examples of unexpected outcomes or results of using technology?

  • Report 1

    Campbell, Heidi A, and Osteen, Sophia (2021). When Pastors put on the “Tech Hat”: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19. Available electronically from https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/194959

     

    Executive Summary

    Campbell, Heidi A (2021). Report 1- Executive Summary of "When Pastors put on the “Tech Hat”: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19". Available electronically from https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/194972

     

     

    All report documents are open access, and

    available through the OAKTrust Digital Repository, based at Texas A&M University.

  • Tech Trend Papers

    These papers provide a concise, but in-depth analysis of key findings about churches and leaders engagement with technology discussed in project reports found above.

  • Research Articles

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