How Do We Stream Our Service to Facebook and Our Church Website at the Same Time?

Two places your people look

Some of your congregation watches on Facebook. Others, often older members, visiting family, or people who don’t use social media, go to your church website looking for “watch live.” If the service is only on Facebook, they miss it.

Getting the service onto both, and recorded so people can watch later, is one of the most common requests we hear.

The problem with doing it by hand

The obvious approach is to stream twice: once to Facebook and once to your website. That usually means:

• Twice the upload bandwidth from your church’s internet connection, which can cause both streams to stutter (see is our church WiFi good enough to livestream?)
• More load on the streaming computer
• Two things to start, watch, and stop every Sunday, with more chances for something to go wrong

The better way: one stream out, many destinations

Instead, send one stream from your booth to a service that copies it to every destination: Facebook, YouTube, and a player on your website. This is called restreaming or multistreaming. (See restreaming for churches.)

	Streaming twice from the booth	One stream, restreamed
Upload from church	Double	Single
Things to manage on Sunday	Two	One
If the church internet hiccups	Both destinations suffer	One feed to recover
Recording	You have to manage it	Usually recorded automatically

Putting it on your website

You need a page on your church website with a video player that shows the live service. Options:

• A dedicated website player from your streaming service. It’s the most reliable option, and the recording can stay on your site afterward.
• Embed YouTube Live. Works well and is free, though YouTube’s branding and suggestions appear.
• Embed Facebook Live. Possible, but often less reliable and can prompt viewers to log in.

Put the player on an easy-to-find page, like yourchurch.org/watch, and link to it from your homepage and emails.

Don’t forget the recording

People watch later in the week: shut-ins, travelers, families with sick kids. Make sure every service is recorded and posted where people can find it, ideally organized on your website and YouTube. (See past services on your church website.)

How WorshipMetrics does it

With WorshipMetrics streaming, you send one feed from your booth, and it reaches Facebook, YouTube, your own website player, and other destinations, recorded and archived. WorshipMetrics handles the platform connections, schedules your broadcasts, and fetches the stream keys. Sending one feed to every destination, with your own website player and cloud recordings, comes with the Max plan; streaming to YouTube and Facebook from Tech Manager on your church’s computer is free on every plan. Either way, monitoring alerts your team if the stream stops.

Then turn the recording into short clips for the week with Reels. (See how to turn your livestream into Shorts.)

Want help setting it up?

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