St Pixels, an online 3D church is hosting the first interactive church service on Facebook.
“Love it or hate it, Facebook is where people are in 2011,” said St Pixels pioneer Mark Howe in a statement. “If the Gospel is for today’s connected culture, it has to find a distinctive but culturally-appropriate place within social networking.”
Worshippers will have the opportunity to participate in the interactive Facebook church service by singing along with hymns, sending prayer requests, listening to Bible readings and a sermon.
St Pixels is not a means to try and “look cool and postmodern”, Howe explained.
“It’s easy to build irrelevant ghettos in cyberspace or to abandon distinctives in the rush to embrace the latest online fad. Our Facebook application is an attempt to engage with a cultural phenomenon on its own terms while holding onto the Gospel that has transformed so many cultures across the centuries.”
Offering Peer to Peer Discipleship groups, real time chat open 24/7, dialogue forums, and occasional real life meets, St. Pixels desires “to create a sacred space and a welcoming and witnessing community on the Internet.”
Andrew Graystone, director of the Church and Media Network said, “St Pixels on Facebook means 600 million Facebook users now have a church in their pocket.”
The first service will be launched at the Christian Resources Exhibition, U.K.’s biggest and most successful exhibition for equipping and resourcing churches and Christian ministries, on May 10 at 1 and 3 p.m.
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