Pacific Mountain Region

The Basics: Getting Started with Zoom™
2020-03-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-03-27 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Vancouver)
This Online Engagement Session is an exciting and important joint project of LeaderShift and the PMR First Third Ministry Network! Join Pacific Mountain Regional Council staff member Mauricio Araujo or Pamela Evans to get from “I have no idea how to start” to “Hey look! I’m ready to host an online meeting!” Mauricio will cover setting up an account, and introduce the basic actions of scheduling a meeting, inviting participants, and beginning your Zoom™ meeting.

* Postponed (COVID-19) * Leadershift: Mental Health First Aid - Revelstoke
2020-03-27 - 2020-03-28 | Revelstoke United Church, 314 Mackenzie Avenue, Revelstoke, BC, Canada
This event has been postponed as we all work together, faithfully and generously, to flatten the curve of COVID-19 in our Regional Council, and across Canada. Please check with the event organizer for specifics. For ways of being together, while being physically apart, you’re warmly invited to online worship with many communities of faith across the region. See the listings here.: https://pacificmountain.ca/creative-ways-to-worship-at-a-distance/ Blessings, PMRC Staff
Full details about this important 2-day training course, course facilitators, course start and end times, and accreditation are on the LeaderShift website: Mental Health First Aid Training

Beyond the Basics: Improving meeting quality with Zoom™
2020-03-27 10:30 - 11:30
Join ConnectNorth minister Rev. Bob Fillier to fine-tune your online meeting experience. Learn more about how to use the tools within the Zoom™ software, to keep your meeting focused on the people and the topics – and not on the technology tripping you up.
Bob will help you move from the basics to an intermediate level of use, especially focused on Board and other governance meetings (not for those interested in using tools for educational engagement, worship and large groups.)

Uniting Online: A Conversation Beyond Virtual Worship
2020-03-27 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-04-01 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-04-03 14:00 - 15:00
Join Andria Irwin, Online Minister of HighlandsOnline.org and United Online, for a practical conversation around next steps in our online ministries. If you are already streaming your services live and would like to gather around topics such as how to better engage your congregation virtually, best practices around privacy and security, online giving options, visual staging and production quality, and volunteer/staffing for an online ministry then this conversation is for you! Gather together with Andria, and ask “what next?”

Quick & Dirty Streaming: How to stream a church service with what you likely have lying around
2020-03-31 18:30 - 19:30
If you’re looking for a quick and simple, yet effective way to stream your worship service to the members of your community in this time of physical distancing, join Allan Buckingham from CnA media Consulting to look at ways to bring a familiar, yet different, Sunday morning experience to the members of your Community of Faith.
This really is about a good quality worship experience with little to no technical know how or extra equipment. Duct tape may end up being involved.  : )

The Basics: Getting Started with Zoom™
2020-04-01 09:00 - 10:00, 2020-04-02 14:00 - 15:00
This Online Engagement Session is an exciting and important joint project of LeaderShift and the PMR First Third Ministry Network! Join Pacific Mountain Regional Council staff member Mauricio Araujo to get from “I have no idea how to start” to “Hey look! I’m ready to host an online meeting!” Mauricio will cover setting up an account, and introduce the basic actions of scheduling a meeting, inviting participants, and beginning your Zoom™ meeting.

Online Townhall Conference, with Treena and Jay
2020-04-01 13:00 - 14:30
Our next Online Townhall Conference is scheduled for Wednesday Aparil 1st, from 1 – 2:30 pm. Here is the link to the April 1st Zoom call: https://united-church.zoom.us/j/497880582
Please note that this Townhall is 1pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Over the next while, Pacific Mountain Regional Council Executive Minister, Treena Duncan is hosting online Townhall Conferences via Zoom, with President Rev Jay Olson, for all PMRC folk who would like to join for connection with executive leadership, prayer and conversations, with time to ask the questions you have. Join join the Townhall Conference, click on the link (you can join by audio only). If it’s your first Zoom experience, the Zoom link will prompt you to download the App for accessing the meeting.
PS. Thank you to everyone to came to be part of our previous Townhall Conferences.

Advanced Zoom™ Meeting Tools
2020-04-01 18:30 - 19:30, 2020-04-02 10:00 - 11:00
Feel comfortable with the basics of Zoom meetings – (scheduling, invitations, managing participants in a meeting, chat feature)? Join Bob for a workshop looking at some special features of Zoom. You will learn about sharing visuals such as Power point, videos, music, as well as breaking large groups into smaller work or discussion groups, and more! Bob will also cover live-streaming from Zoom to FaceBook and YouTube. This session will be a benefit for people using Zoom for learning groups, worship, and discussion with medium- to large – group sizes.

Worship options in a time of physical distancing
2020-04-02 09:30 - 10:30
This two-part online engagement session will discuss the Pros and Cons of live streaming vs pre-recording vs written reflections vs anything else we (the course participants) can come up with.
When communities of faith can’t gather together in person, it necessitates changes to the worship experience. Live streaming your service might be the first option that comes to mind, but it’s not the only one, and it may or may not be the best for you and your community.
Join Allan Buckingham, creator of Together We Worship — a resource targeted at communities of faith without ministry personnel — for a discussion of the pros and cons of various ways your community of faith might be able to worship. Options included will be live streaming, phone/audio only, pre-recorded video, text prayers and reflections and others. We’ll also take a look at the basics of some of these options, so you know what you’re dealing with as we discuss the merits for you and your community of faith.

Quick & Dirty Streaming: How to stream a church service with what you likely have lying around
2020-04-02 18:30 - 19:30
If you’re looking for a quick and simple, yet effective way to stream your worship service to the members of your community in this time of physical distancing, join Allan Buckingham from CnA media Consulting and creator of Together We Worship, to look at ways to bring a familiar, yet different, Sunday morning experience to the members of your Community of Faith.
This really is about a good quality worship experience with little to no technical know how or extra equipment. Duct tape may end up being involved.  : )

The Basics: Getting Started with Zoom™
2020-04-02 19:00 - 20:00
This Online Engagement Session is an exciting and important joint project of LeaderShift and the PMR First Third Ministry Network! Join Pacific Mountain Regional Council Young Adult Minister Pamela Evans to get from “I have no idea how to start” to “Hey look! I’m ready to host an online meeting!” Mauricio will cover setting up an account, and introduce the basic actions of scheduling a meeting, inviting participants, and beginning your Zoom™ meeting.

Making Your Instagram Count: Meaningful Posts for Faith Communities
2020-04-03 09:30 - 10:30, 2020-04-06 13:00 - 14:00
Join Rev. Aaron Miller to learn about the social media tool, Instagram. Aaron will cover these topics, and questions you have:
1) When to use Instagram (and when not to bother) i.e., who does it reach? who tends to enjoy it?
2) How to use it: photos verses videos, Insta stories and adding followers
3) Telling a story: what kinds of things tend to work well, what staging photos might do for you, what do you want to say about your community, your faith story, your theology?
4) Dos and don’ts: common mistakes and good ideas

Beyond the Basics: Improving Meeting Quality with Zoom™
2020-04-03 10:30 - 11:30
Join ConnectNorth minister Rev. Bob Fillier to fine-tune your online meeting experience. Learn more about how to use the tools within the Zoom™ software, to keep your meeting focused on the people and the topics – and not on the technology tripping you up.
Bob will help you move from the basics to an intermediate level of use, especially focused on Board and other governance meetings.
Note: this online session is not for those interested in using tools for educational engagement, worship and large groups.)

Online Townhall Conference, with Treena and Jay
2020-04-08 13:00 - 14:30
Our next Online Townhall Conference is scheduled for Wednesday April 8th, from 1 – 2:30 pm. Here is the link to the April 8th Zoom call: https://united-church.zoom.us/j/497880582?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please note that this Townhall is 1pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Over the next while, Pacific Mountain Regional Council Executive Minister, Treena Duncan is hosting online Townhall Conferences via Zoom, with President Rev Jay Olson, for all PMRC folk who would like to join for connection with executive leadership, prayer and conversations, with time to ask the questions you have. Join join the Townhall Conference, click on the link (you can join by audio only). If it’s your first Zoom experience, the Zoom link will prompt you to download the App for accessing the meeting.
PS. Thank you to everyone to came to be part of our previous Townhall Conferences.

Evolve Reunion
2020-04-08 15:00 - 16:30
PMR First Third is Hosting an Evolve Reunion on April 8th at 3pm.
Click the link below to be brought to the Zoom Link the day of! We can’t wait to see you all there.
https://united-church.zoom.us/j/762907200

Nurturing the Soul of the Preacher: Online Engagement Sessions
2020-04-14 10:30 - 12:00
Each week we come to a text or theme and sit with it, think about it, work with it, leave it alone, struggle with it, write it, and finally dare speaking.
Sometimes the words come easy. Sometimes they don’t. We live by words. And each week we start over, again and again.
In our online time together, we try out spiritual practices, ancient and new, that ground us, offer creative ways to spark imagination, and nurture contemplative insight into sacred texts, and support letting it all go to begin again.
Join Janice MacLean for a six session online engagement of building connection, resilience and practices of care in a small group of other ministers who work in rural or remote communities.

Want to participate in a Zoom gathering?
2020-04-15 10:00 - 11:00
Have you received an invitation to a ‘Zoom’ gathering and not feeling confident about how to participate? Coffee time? Board membership? Here’s the chance to develop your capacity to participate in online video gatherings. This workshop is for you want to join in and you aren’t responsible for calling or leading the meeting online.

Online Townhall Conference, with guest General Secretary Nora Saunders, Treena and Jay
2020-04-15 13:00 - 14:30
This is the General Secretary of The United Church of Canada, Nora Saunders. Hi, Nora! Today she’s joining the PMRC’s weekly Townhall Conference with Executive Minister Treena and President Jay. The meeting is 1-2:30pm, online
Our next Online Townhall Conference is scheduled for Wednesday April 15th, from 1 – 2:30 pm. Here is the link to the April 15th Zoom call: https://united-church.zoom.us/j/497880582?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please note that this Townhall is 1pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Over the next while, Pacific Mountain Regional Council Executive Minister, Treena Duncan is hosting online Townhall Conferences via Zoom, with President Rev Jay Olson, for all PMRC folk who would like to join for connection with executive leadership, prayer and conversations, with time to ask the questions you have. Join join the Townhall Conference, click on the link (you can join by audio only). If it’s your first Zoom experience, the Zoom link will prompt you to download the App for accessing the meeting.
PS. Thank you to everyone to came to be part of our previous Townhall Conferences.

Want to develop quality, pre-recorded worship?
2020-04-15 13:30 - 15:00, 2020-04-16 10:00 - 11:30
Want to develop your capacity to create pre-recorded worship experiences? – this is the workshop for you to hone your capacity to record quality worship experience to share with your community of faith and beyond!

Want to lead live worship from an empty sanctuary?
2020-04-15 13:30 - 15:00
Want to worship live online – from an empty sanctuary? If you are part of a team of leaders who are offering worship from your sanctuary, and the space feels very empty – this is the workshop for you to deepen your capacity to host quality live worship in a new way from a familiar location.

Q & A: Security online
2020-04-15 19:00 - 20:00
Have questions about security of online platforms? Join Allan for a Q and A about steps you can consider to maintain online security – for Zoom, Facebook, and other online tools your community of faith may be using.

Q & A: Learning to livestream
2020-04-15 19:00 - 20:00
You have taken a workshop, and you’ve already offered some type of live stream content for the community of faith.  Now you really have questions! Bring those questions to a Q & A hosted by Bob.

Want to lead live worship from your living room?
2020-04-16 13:30 - 15:00
Want to worship live online – from home? – If you alone are responsible for leading live worship from your living room – no extra staff, no specialized video equipment beyond your laptop – this is the workshop for you to develop your capacity to host quality live worship experiences from your home.
