Report 1 analyzes themes from 50 Tech Talk Sessions with 478 church leaders hosted by the Center for Congregations in 2020 and 2021 discussing their technology use during the pandemic. This report looks at different churches' choices to implement digital media, and the unique technological demands they discovered in moving from traditional offline church, to doing online and hybrid forms. Report 1 centers on responses to four questions emerging from these discussions, specifically:
Report 1
Campbell, Heidi A, and Osteen, Sophia (2021). When Pastors put on the “Tech Hat”: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19. Available electronically from https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/194959
Executive Summary
Campbell, Heidi A (2021). Report 1- Executive Summary of "When Pastors put on the “Tech Hat”: How Churches Digitized during Covid-19". Available electronically from https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/194972
All report documents are open access, and
available through the OAKTrust Digital Repository, based at Texas A&M University.
Report 2
Executive Summary
All report documents are open access, and
available through the OAKTrust Digital Repository, based at Texas A&M University.
Tech Trend Papers
These papers provide a concise, but in-depth analysis of key findings about churches and leaders engagement with technology discussed in project reports found above.
Tech Trend Paper 1 (Dec 2021)
Tech Trend Paper 3 (April 2022)
Tech Trend Paper 2 (Feb 2022)
Tech Trend Paper 4 (June 2023)
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