The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) will from 2018 start offering its Sunday church services online to cater for followers who cannot physically attend the prayers.
Speaking on Thursday in Nakuru County during the conferment of Doctorate Degree to Bishop Joseph Muchai, Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit, Head of the ACK church in Kenya noted that from next year services will start being offered online.
The Archbishop explained that the church would soon embark on online training for its priests to understand how to conduct and offer the service when it is eventually launched.
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“As a church we cannot afford to be left behind and we need to embrace technology. It’s a high time we start our online church to tap into the larger community in the social media,” the Archbishop was quoted by the Nation.
Addressing reasons why the church had decided to take that route, Sapit mentioned that it was an initiative to seek the lost flock and solve the problem of ever reducing numbers of faithful attending church services.
He opined that most of the youth were spending their time online, adding that there was a need to maximise the use of the avenue to get the youth back to church.
“Most of our young congregation have the latest gadgets and are not attending church services and the best way to loop them back is to introduce online church services as they are permanently on social media.
“As the world is becoming a global village by the day, it’s about time we in the leadership of the church embrace technology and start online services.
“We need to enter into this technological space and take our evangelism message there where a majority of the young members are found,” Sapit stated.
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If launched, it will be the first of its kind in Kenya.
