St. Paul Parish - Lexington at 501 West Short Street, Lexington, KY 40507-1254 US - FaithStreams

Do you watch television programs on your computer?

Well, lots of people do more and more people are upgrading their Internet connection to broadband as streaming video on the Internet has taken hold as the newest major medium for audio/video distribution.

Faith & Values Media has responded to this trend — as well as to the need to provide a distribution system for its faith group members' programming — by creating FaithStreams.

A year and a half in development, FaithStreams is now a reality. It is part of a newly created Web site FaithStreams.com that replaces FaithandValues.com. The Web site as a whole is richly dynamic, with plenty of text-based material to provide resources for individuals and congregations.

But the centerpiece is the streaming video service. There is a new six-hour block of programming each day — repeated three times — so that the "live stream" is 24/7. Later, these programs are available to be seen at your convenience in a Video-on-Demand (VOD) mode.

The video library has well over 600 titles in it and more are being added daily. Thirty different faith groups have provided titles to this service.

You can visit the site and sample the live stream, but if you register (it's free!) the image will be sharper and larger. Registration also gives you the opportunity to sign up to receive notices of when programs you are interested in will be playing and to sample the VOD service for a 30-day free trial.

The significance of FaithStreams is in the presence of Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Jewish programs that are available in the environment of a World Wide Web, where (research shows) a large percentage of users are searching for information on faith, spirituality, religious practices and beliefs.

The Internet has become our contemporary marketplace and community — and the role of people of faith in helping to form communities on the Web has never been more important. We are proud that Faith & Values Media can play a small part in that formulation. 

To visit the website and register, please click here:  http://www.faithstreams.com/ 

We welcome your questions, comments and suggestions...please e-mail us at info@faithstreams.com.

Faith & Values Media is the nation’s largest coalition of Jewish and Christian faith groups dedicated to media production, distribution and promotion. Its member association is made up of denominations, organizations and individuals, who encompass most of the recognized Jewish and Christian faith groups in the United States. Together, these faith groups have more than 200,000 congregations with 120 million congregants. (A list of member faith groups and organizations is available upon request.) The programming services of Faith & Values Media are available on Hallmark Channel and on www.faithandvalues .com. Faith & Values Media is a service of the National Interfaith Cable Coalition, Inc., established in 1987.