“Episcopalians are on Facebook,”Presiding Bishop Michael Curry told participants at Evangelism Matters. ‘I’ve seen your dogs. I’ve seen your cats.” He went on to describe social media as a superhighway for sharing the Gospel. Your friends have seen your pets. This Christmas, let them see Jesus.
Your friends at the Acts 8 Movement have a new Christmas video coming out and, as a member of our mailing list, you get to see it first. You can:
- watch it on YouTube in English , Spanish , Tagalog , Cantonese , Mandarin , and Vietnamese .
- download the videos for use on your congregation’s social media here. Right click on the link below with a PC or hold control and shift down while clicking on the link with a Mac and save to your computer. Then upload to your Facebook feed as your own video.
English
acts8movement.org/christmasvideo2016/Christmas2016-multivoice.mp4English (optimized for Instagram)
acts8movement.org/christmasvideo2016/Christmas2016-instagram.mp4Spanish
acts8movement.org/christmasvideo2016/Christmas2016-espanol.mp4Tagalog
acts8movement.org/christmasvideo2016/Christmas2016-tagalog.mp4Vietnamese
acts8movement.org/christmasvideo2016/Christmas2016-vietnamese.mp4ÂCantonese
acts8movement.org/christmasvideo2016/Christmas2016-cantonese.mp4
We hope this video can be a key component in a plan to invite your neighbors to church this season. To make the most of the opportunity, we encourage you to review .
Using this Video
We encourage you to use this video as if it were your own in sharing the Good News. While those with video editing skill may customize the video, such as adding a photo from your congregation with some information during “The Episcopal Church Welcomes Youâ€, we have discovered that lengthening the video to add service times or additional information leads to viewers tuning out en masse. We recommend putting the real content of the ad in the Facebook post text rather than in the video itself. You may also still download and use Acts 8’s 2015 Christmas Video in addition to or instead of the one created for this year.
Still to Come!
Keep checking in at acts8movement.org as over the next few days, we will be launching other language translations of the video, and more content. In the meantime, to find out more of what we have discovered along the way, please read Nurya Love Parish’s helpful post .
There is no charge for using this video, it is simply our gift to you.
Blessed Advent,
The Acts 8 Movement
Thank Yous
The script was worked on by a small group. English voiceover provided by Miranda Hassett, Griffin Hasset, Iona Hassett, Alex Montes-Vela, Sandra Montes, Adam Trambley, Julia Trambley, Frank Logue, Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale, Susan Brown Snook, and Eliza Pankey. Sandra Montes translated the video into Spanish and provided the voiceover together with her brother Alex Montes-Vela for that version of the video, with her goddaughter Jaidani Ortiz closing out the voiceover. Fred Vergara translated the script into Tagalog and recorded the voiceover. Tinh Huynh provided the Vietnamese translation and voice recording. Merry Chan Ong put together a team for the Cantonese video to translate and record the script. David Simmons created the original score and Frank Logue edited the video. This collaboration involved Episcopalians in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, California, Wisconsin, and Georgia, working together on this 1-minute video.
A Note About Permissions
You may use this video without concern for copyright infringement or incurring any fees for this usage. We created this video using original video filmed by Frank Logue and Alex Montes-Vela together with clips purchased from and are using them within that licensing agreement. Everyone participating donated their time and work product to the project, and the parents of the children whose voices are in the video approve of their taking part in the project.
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