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    But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.  Acts 1:8  
 
 
 
UFMC conducts Live Webcast with Sonlight Missions Team in Venezuela!!
On Sunday February 11, UFMC conducted a “first-of-its-kind” live webcast via the internet with the Sonlight Missions Team currently working in Maturin, Venezuela.  Pastor Jim Jobes, along with four other members from the Uniontown Free Methodist Church, are part of a seventeen-member team ministering to the people at “Iglesia Methodista Libre” (Free Methodist Church) in Maturin from February 9 through 19.  While they are there they will be assisting the local church members to build a new orphanage.
 
 
 
Video cameras were set up at both churches so the congregations could see and interact with each other on projection screens during the webcast.  The congregation in Maturin watched and listened as the UFMC Praise Team opened the service with the songs “Now Is the Time”, “The Cornerstone” and “Lord I Lift Your Name on High”.
 
 
  Afterward, the UFMC congregation clapped and sang along in English as the members of the Maturin church performed the Spanish version of “Trading My Sorrows”.


The Maturin Praise team is shown in the photo on the left.
 
 
 
 
 
Following the combined opening exercises, Pastor Jobes read from Scripture, Romans 10:9-15 and delivered a short sermon entitled “Entering Their World” to the congregations.
 
 
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  After his closing prayer, Pastor Jobes invited the individual team members to step up to the podium and each of them spoke a few words about their mission trip there.  
 
 
 
Immediately after the service, the cameras were moved in close so the members of the Sonlight Missions Team could exchange greetings and speak one-on-one with their family members here at home in Uniontown.
 
Equipment, software and technical services for the webcast were provided in Uniontown by UFMC multimedia specialist Larry Harshman and by Ken Gibson of Legacy Sound Contracting.  Audio mixing was done by Marlin Cowsert and camera operators were Kaitlyn Schaefer and Jerome Ferro.  Video recording of the webcast and photography were provided by Jennifer Ream and Cheryl Myers.
 
 
 
  In Maturin, technical services were provided by Heath and Norman Berkshire of Sonlight Missions and by Percy Hornickle of the Maturin Church.

In the photo at left, Norman Berkshire watches in Maturin as his image is projected live onto the UFMC big screen more than 2200 miles away!
 
 
 
 
 
Now that the technical issues for presenting this type of event have been resolved, UFMC and the Sonlight Missions organization plan to produce similar live webcasts on a regular basis during future Missions trips.  Stay tuned to our website for details!  
 
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Maturin, Venezuela
•  2008 Missions Trip to Maturin
•  2008 Work in Progress
•  2008 Maturin Pics
•  Hijos De Luz
•  2007 Mission Trip to Maturin
»  2007 Live Webcast
•  2007 Videos from Maturin
•  2007 Kids Enjoy Gifts
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