Regardless of whether you use the Regional Media Center (RMC) regularly, infrequently, or not-at-all you might be interested to know how the RMC functions as an integral part of the Communications Team in the Office of Connectional Ministries and assists you through Media for Ministry.

The RMC serves as a lending library for churches throughout Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Alaska.  Sponsored by the Oregon-Idaho and Pacific Northwest Conferences, the RMC is located at the PNW Conference Office and serves its members through phone, email, web, and in-person services.  In addition to purchasing, maintaining and lending video and DVD media to clients, the RMC also produces video stories and audio/video disks of events such as Annual Conferences.  The RMC may also lend audio-visual equipment such as video cameras, projectors, and assisted listening/translation equipment to churches for training workshops or other events.  We’ve had churches borrow the video camera to record children’s Christmas pageants, Vacation Bible School, and memorial services.

Some of the projects that have recently been filmed by the RMC include young adults speaking about discipleship, the Good Seed, Via Nova, and Sky Prairie new church starts, and various Hispanic Ministries across the Conference.   Currently the RMC filming project includes supporting the Everybody Fed theme of Annual Conference by relaying stories of how our churches are physically, emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually feeding their congregants and the wider community.   To follow these and other stories bookmark the conference website, www.pnwumc.org, and check back frequently as we are posting material from Annual Conference now and will be adding stories mentioned above as well as others over the next few months.

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