Communications

Communications by TJ McCoy

In 2021, the Communications Department was integral to the growth, flourishing, and impact of the myriad ministries of Transfiguration. From creative and timely updates on formation and outreach, to rich worship tools and remote access to services, we helped our people navigate another year of unpredictability by seamlessly extending the reach of our ministries far beyond the walls of our church.

In February, after a year of pre-recording worship services on Wednesdays for Sunday viewing, we made a transition to livestreamed services. This enables a more natural schedule for clergy, staff, and volunteers and provides a more intimate, organic connection to those worshipping from afar. It also offers distant loved ones access to funeral services and allows would-be concert-goers a way to experience beautiful music and liturgy, live, with their church family. We have since streamed over eighty services from the Nave to locations as far off as the United Kingdom and Australia. Thanks to a little persistence and a good measure of grace from our formation class participants, most of our formation classes at the Fig can now also be accessed as a hybrid experience – both in-person and via Zoom. We hope you’ll take advantage and join in as we welcome guests, discuss books, and grow as Christians together. Alex Vorse of Shiny Box Pictures recorded and edited our Easter Day service, butterfly release, and a series of beautiful testimonial videos promoting the Transfiguring Our Foundations capital campaign. We are so grateful to the featured parishioners of that campaign. Your faithful, heartfelt stories helped us reach our campaign goals! Last year we published a new issue of Illumine and produced dozens of postcards, brochures, mailers, greeting cards, surveys, and large-format images to inform, engage, and promote Fig programming and campaigns. It takes a village to do what we do every day. We are grateful to Fr. Ted for preparing bulletins for all worship services and special occasions, and Michael Sturdy for publishing our weekly enews and notices. Special thanks to parishioners Robert Hacker and John Makowski for their continued generosity – capturing photos of church life at the Fig. And to Al Blackwell for learning the ropes and writing the training manual for future livestream volunteers.

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