In the eleventh episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, Rev. Dr. Joelle Colville-Hanson, the ELCA director for Evangelical Mission for the Northeastern Iowa Synod, is one of the “early adopters” of digital ministry and shares with us what digital ministry was like early on, and what it is like now and into the future…. Read More
How We Do Digital Ministry Podcast

How We Do Digital Ministry highlights innovative church leaders who are successfully building communities and spreading the gospel online. Every Tuesday, a new church leader will share their tips, strategies, case studies, and challenges with digital ministry. How We Do Digital Ministry is hosted by Charlotte Elia.
Paul Schmidt – “DOs and DON’Ts of church video” | How We Do Digital Ministry Episode 10
In the tenth episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, Paul Schmidt, owner and Creative Video Strategist of Uno Duece Media in Lansing, Michigan, dishes out a bit of expert advice on video production. Try to get used to being on camera and addressing the camera appropriately — it will carry over because this situation… Read More
Pastor Richard Hong – “Church Today is like a Baseball Game” | How We Do Digital Ministry Episode 09
In the ninth episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, Pastor Richard Hong, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Englewood, outside NYC, covers many timely topics with Christopher Harris, including church attendance, mission work and data-based decision making. One of the models that I like to think about is watching a baseball game, in the… Read More
Pastor Angela Shannon – “We’re Not Going Back” | How We Do Digital Ministry Episode 08
In the eighth episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, Pastor Angela Shannon, pastor of All Saints Lutheran Church in Bowie, Maryland, talks with Christopher Harris about digital community, change and how we’re not going back to the way things were pre-pandemic. We’re going to have to figure out how to engage everybody in this… Read More
Rev. Dr. Erin Cox-Holmes – “Preaching in the Digital Age” | How We Do Digital Ministry Episode 07
In the seventh episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, the Rev. Dr. Erin Cox-Holmes, Executive Presbyter of the Donegal Presbytery in Pennsylvania, talks with Christopher Harris about her specialty, film and art in preaching, and about experiences faced in the past year and a half of pandemic times. “That incredible resilience in the middle… Read More
Pastor Paul Amlin – “Trying New Things” | How We Do Digital Ministry Episode 06
In the sixth episode of How We Do Digital Ministry, Pastor Paul Amlin of Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa shares new ideas and examples of how digital ministry “tries” have been received in his congregation and beyond. “We have to be willing to say, ‘our expectations for people can’t necessarily be that… Read More






