The Easiest and Simplest Way to Live Stream Church Services

Some churches have a whole media team of professionals to run their live stream. Most churches rely on a few volunteers who have little-to-no experience in the video industry.

If you’re someone in the latter group, you need a simple and easy way to live stream your church services. You need something that any volunteer can pick up and manage easily without a huge learning curve.

At the same time, you don’t want your live stream to look amateurish or goofy either.

That’s where the ATEM Mini Pro and Restream come into play.

Live Streaming Church the Easy Way

At our church, we use Restream every single Sunday. It allows us to stream once using our not-so-fast upload speed, and then let Restream repeat that live stream out to all the platforms we want – namely, Facebook and YouTube at the same time.

But besides the multistreaming capability, there is a huge reason we love using Restream: it does all the publishing work for us automatically.

So, normally when you live stream to, say, YouTube, for example, you have to turn your encoder on (software or hardware). Then, you have to go to YouTube and load the web-based control panel to publish your live stream. Facebook, it’s the same thing.

There are several steps involved. And, if you ever get your stream keys mixed up, it can become a nightmare of issues where the ATEM says you’re live, but the stream doesn’t appear anywhere.

Restream makes that problem go away by handling the publishing automatically. This means we can go live on Sunday with the push of a single button!

How To Use Restream To Multistream – The Easy Way

Step 1: Create an account at Restream.io – this is an affiliate link that will get you a $10 credit for signing up.

Step 2: Connect all your preferred platforms like Facebook or YouTube. Restream walks you through this, and it’s really easy.

Step 3: Get your Restream server and Stream Key.

Step 4: Plug your stream key into whatever encoder you’re using.

• Software: This works with OBS, Vmix, eCamm, and probably any other software.
• Hardware: We use the ATEM Mini Pro – but it’ll work with any hardware as well.

Step 5: Make sure to toggle “on” the switches in Restream (see video).

Step 6: Update the titles in Restream.

Step 7: Whenever you power on your live stream software or hardware and tell it to go live, Restream will publish the stream on all your platforms.

See the video to watch how it’s done!

Get a $10 credit when you signup for Restream here. (Affiliate Link)