Now you can get the Sunday sermons / messages online!
They will be available here for download to your computer in MP3 format, which any computer should be able to play, using Windows Media Player or another audio player on your computer.
(The messages will usually be available within the week or 2 after the message was originally given, due to editing and uploading time required, plus the editor's very full schedule! Remember, patience is a fruit of the Spirit!)
It is best to right-click on the MP3 icon to the left of the message you want to hear, and save the file to your computer before listening. (The downloading service unfortunately changes the original MP3 file name to a long weird string of gibberish, so it's best to rename the file before or right after downloading it...)
Files are between 5-10 MB in size depending on the message, so they will take a long time to download if you have a slow dial-up connection, but they are worth it!!!
Then you can do wonderful things like:
* Listen to it over and over (you always catch more the second time...)
*Load the MP3 file to a portable MP3 player and take it with you to listen on the run
*Burn an audio CD using Windows Media Player (The messages are around 30-40 minutes long each; you could probably fit two different messages on one 700 MB / 80 minute CD.)
*(Hey, burn a CD and share the message with someone-or-two-or-three!)
(TIP: If you just left-click on the MP3 icon to the left of the message name, it will start a process of downloading a temporary file, which must completely download before you can listen to it. Then the temporary file disappears...<
The audio streaming service will allow us to have a maximum of 12 messages on our website at any given time.
Once we get up to 12 messages, the older messages will disappear from the website, so that's another great reason to right-click and save the file to your computer... later on they will not be available***.
***(Unless of course you exercise the gift of wisdom and offer the Webservant chocolate for herself and a dog biscuit for Samuel! Then she could burn you a CD of the messages no longer on the website...)
Contact the Web Servant: (for website problems/ questions/ comments/ suggestions/ offers of chocolate, etc.) ccc_webservant@ymail.com
(NOTE Occasionally, the very end of the message will be cut off, if the service runs longer than usual... that's because we record the entire service onto a CD, and it can only hold 80 minutes.
Also, sometimes (rarely) the Sunday service doesn't record successfully, and we end up with a blank CD instead of a recording, so we cannot post those messages. So far, this has happened on the following dates: 4/20/08, 4/27/08, and 5/23/08. Please pray that our recording equipment works correctly on Sunday mornings,; the enemy likes to try to interfere in this area!)
