Read About.com's guide to church podcasting archived here.

AFS believes in serving the community.  We feel that we can do that best by facilitating the ongoing ministry of Christian churches across the country. 

Most churches use volunteers to run their audio operations.  While this may work well for recording Sunday morning worship service, it can pose a problem when preparing that audio for professional mediums like radio, CD production or the web.

• Radio stations run their broadcast through a host of analog and digital signal processors before the audio actually hits the "air".  In order for your program to be broadcast properly it must be prepared beforehand with radio broadcast "in mind".  We can add a professional host to your sermon giving it a "finished" quality that is essential in today's radio broadcast environment.

• CD Production can pose its own set of problems.  In order for a master CD to be suitable for mass replication it must conform to RedBook standards and meet the requirements of the replicator.  If it doesn't, the replicator will reject the master, delaying the process until they receive a correctly authored master.  AFS knows how to create your master CD right the first time.

• Preparing digital audio for the web is another area we can help your church.  Authoring files for the web is unlike any other task because the internet poses some specific problems for audio.  Because most people are still using 56Kbps dial-up connections, streaming audio to their PC requires a file to be encoded at the appropriate bit rate.  Also, because most people listen to streaming internet audio on computer speakers costing less that $50, the audio must sound good or they are sure to turn it off and move to another web site where they can have a better experience.