Recently I took a peak at the Youtube channel for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Back in the late 1990’s while I still worked for the ELCA Churchwide offices, our Department for Communication began uploading programs to what was then called, Google Video. After Google purchased Youtube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, Google Video went away, and with it, many of the videos we had uploaded. Fortunately, Brett Nelson, my successor at the ELCA began uploading some of the legacy content in 2007 to a new ELCA video account. Since that time, 16 programs I produced accumulated a whopping 289,754 views! Paltry by Youtube standards, but still nice. We produced many other programs, however the analytics for those earlier programs were lost when Google dumped Google Video.
It is inevitable that one day, Youtube itself will go away. It’s all chalk art in the end. Or, to get theological, we are dust, and to dust we shall return. Still, it’s nice to peak at the numbers once in a while.
Here is a link for programs I produced which are currently on the ELCA Youtube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ELCAVideo/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=grid
– Understanding Islam
– Understanding the Roman Catholic Church
– Introducing Jesus of Nazareth
– Opening the Door to Luther
– Lutheran Roots in America
– Holy Communion
– Introducing the New Testament
– Exorcism in Madagascar
– The Story of the ELCA
– The Holy Spirit
– Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace
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