A Shout of Victory

Victory, victory, victory:

The Livestream broadcast of our services is far better than what it once was. We have upgraded our DSL to a faster service. The upload speed exceeds the minimum standard broadcast requirement and the download - blazing. And I have been expermenting with different microphone input sources and have found the best compromise.

When we move to our new building things will have to change, but change is good. I can see a new camera, new audio feed, new computers and a new (higher) speed commercial broadband connection with high def capability.

Growing Church

You are probably aware that we have been seeking to either expand our current building or purchase a new facility. Building a new facility is an option we would rather not undertake at this point in time. The current state of governmental red tape is the main reason; it takes between 12 and 18 months to get everything through the bureaucracy before even thinking about a groundbreaking. Fortunately for us, there are two church building for sale in the local area.

We were able to see the one of them yesterday. This one is closest to us, and on a "major" highway, and only about one mile from our current location. It has 6147 square feet.

Look at this sanctuary......

Here is the foyer......

Here's the rest of the interior shots I took.

 

The building looks great from the outside. A bit of TLC and the grounds will be great also.

 

 

 



This lot size is 7.5 acres, divided in to two parcels.



Awesome Services

A very good friend of the church and an awesome evangelist; Bro Efren Palacios has delivered some great, inspiring messages. With some luck I will have them uploaded to the website on Saturday. Or; you can watch the service from the livestream link and scrolling down to see the saved videos.

Video Problem

Although last nights service was absoulutely awesome, the video wasn't. Because of poor quality and other concerns; it has been removed from the Livestream web site. There are many, many other video clips to see.

Awesome Service (Again)

Apostolic Lighthouse Church of Navarre is a vibrant, growing church. We had another awesome service last night. The Holy Ghost was in the house; if you missed it and didn't get something it was your own fault. Two messages were given - Bro Ben Palkowski and Pastor Kallam both delivered the word. You can hear this and other messages at our website ALC of Navarre. Video is also available from the Livestream link.

Come visit us at 8177 East Bay Blvd, Navarre, FL

This and That

Sunday, August 26, 2012 is a day I'll remember for a long time. Bro. Brown came to preach for us. He titled Sunday mornings message "The Danger of Being Neutral" and Sunday night the title was "Have You Really Got What You Came For?" I think that these two were the messages that Abigail  and Wendy; (two teenagers) needed to hear. Abigail was baptized and Wendy received the Holy Ghost. Think about the titles; they do go together to form one message.

The recording of the audio sountrack has been fixed. No more sounding like the speaker is in a barrel! The live video feed is not fixed but you can see the saved video at the Livestream.com site. Just below the live feed box is the saved video. I do apologize that I forgot to adjust the audio level on the latest video. Also, ALL audio recording to date have been uploaded to the web site and are available to listen to.

Awesome

You should have been here. July and August were absolutely awesome. Brothers, Brown, McEller and Sanchez have all visited us. These three were blessed us with the word of God. Listen to their messages from the main web site. Come visit us, you can get a blessing also.

Speaking of listening to the word from the website. Sometimes you wonder, "is the effort actually reaching anyone?" I did some math from the hosting site and was amazed. There may be some skeptics out there that say liars use numbers, and numbers lie - well since the word of God is no lie these numbers must be correct. The averabe number of "listens" turns out to be 129 per audio and there were 110 audio sermons on line. The math tells me that we potentally reached over 14,000 people - now that is awesome!!!!

Web Site Updates

The web site is finally getting updated. Today, there were 10 more audio files uploaded, however the site manager will take a few days to get them linked. If you are in a hurry, the audio is hosted at apostoliclive.com. You might have to do a search to find them. Regardless if you find ours or not, there are many, many great Apostolic audio and video files on this site.

There are quite a few holes in the audio files. There were many bad recording that appears to have been caused by a "record input" malfunction. The difficulty started back in mid May. We think that is now resolved; another computer was installed yesterday. Although it is an older machine, the audio input appears to be undamaged.

Lord bless you all, pray that the techincal difficulties are fixed.

Audio Recording

     I have been almost frantically editing and uploading all the audio recordings. It is really a chore to do when your are trying to catch up. There is some bad news though.... I have discovered that many of the recordings have severe flaws, and it is a technical/mechanical problem that appears to have something to do with wiring and connections. It will get sorted out, but the affected recordings will not be placed on line.
     With that in mind, all this seemed to have started around the same time as the "Great Computer Crash or 2012". Rest assured that Sherlock and I shall sleuth down this problem and provide justice. I just don't know when it will happen.

Back from Vacation

     As many of you followers have noticed that there haven't been any updates in quite some time. That's because my wife and I took a trip around the United States. Driving from Florida to California, to Oregon, on to North Dakota and then back to Fl.
     I can tell yo that Jesus is alive and well all throught these great United States. Although God is alive and well, the farther west we went, the harder it was to find a Apostolic, Pentecostal church. We saw many crosses and billboards but I think the best thing was the rolling billboard. Somewhere between Pierre, SD and Bloomington, MN this truck was parked at a rest stop: Whoever you are, keep on rollin' safely with God!

     Before we left I did hook up the video camera for the live feed. I wanted to see firsthand what you all see. To say the least, I was not impressed. The video was so "jerky" and buffering so much that we couldn't even watch it. Now I know. A dedicated computer is in the future!
     Apparently while we were away there was a power surge that may have caused the laptops usb connections to "fry". It may have been coincidental, but after that, the laptop didn't work right. I was able to salvage most all the audio recordings and am in the process of getting them uploaded, but three weeks of "backlog" takes time. Bare with me.

Live Video Problems

The expirment has ended, not in failure, but in enlightenment. I knew when we started that the computer may not be sufficient for the task, and after many frustrating broadcasts, we have pulled it down.. There were problems with buffering, dropped signals and other anomiliesso we disconnected. We are truely sorry for this inconvience. If anyone wants to donate to the cause, we will issue a receipt. Here are the requirements as posted on the Livestream site: Minimum System Requirements for Broadcasting Pentium Core 2 Duo 2Ghz or Higher, §  4GB RAM§  700Kbps upload bandwidth§  Dedicated video card, 256MB VRAM§  Windows XP / Vista §  Mac OS X 10.5 or higher (v20.0.89) §  Mac OS X 10.6 or higher (v20.2.0) Recommended System Specifications for Broadcasting §  Quad Core CPU§  4GB RAM§  1500Kbps upload bandwidth§  Dedicated video card, 512MB VRAM§  Windows Vista / Windows 7§  Mac OS X 10.5 or higher (v20.0.89) §  Mac OS X 10.6 or higher (v20.2.0)Optimal (for HD Multi-Bitrate Streaming) §  Quad Core i7-2600 series CPU or better§  8GB RAM§  5Mbps or better upload bandwidth§  Dedicated video card, 512MB VRAM§  Windows Vista / Windows 7. Just so you know, the laptop we were using was an older HP G60/Windows7 - 2Ghz Pentium dual core,  3GB Ram, unknown amount of shared video memory and our DSL upload speed tested at  .43Mbps (which I suppose means 430 Kbps). Someday we can afford to upgrade everything.

 You can still see past video that has been saved to livestream or go to our website at alcofnavarre.com and watch the archived Sunday Morning services or even just listen to all the services.

Our Lord, Jesus is Great

Thanks to the Lord, Jesus Christ - Apostolic Lighthouse Church has been jumping. Check out the videos on either our Livestream website, our  You Tube website or from our church  Home Page. the walls are bulging at the seams, with new people showing up to almost every service; we need a bigger sanctuary, bigger prayer rooms, a baptistry with warm water,  a bigger fellowship hall, a bigger kitchen, a bigger building! People have been receiving the Holy Ghost and getting baptized, we love to fellowship, we love to eat! Out Lord, Jesus is surely working in Navarre, FL. Halleluiah, Halleluiah, Halleluiah!!!! Thank you Jesus.

Live Video

I installed a new Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910 camera on Saturday. Then the  Pastor and I worked out the location and zoom for the best overall picture. We couldn't do anything with sound but I knew what and how to tweak that during the live service. All was well, or so I thought; I  had nothing but problems on Sunday. From computer glitches, to internet glitches, to operator errors - it all came at me. The first thing was that somehow Adobe Flash was gone - yup, how does that happen? Frantic, I attempted download the program, it stopped in the midddle of the download, so I had to start all over. Frantic now, I finaly get it downloaded and installed on the computer. Everythig is working. Go live during the service, adjust the recording levels and all is well - until we lose the internet connection, this has me concerned, it's the second time it's happened. I have to scramble to re-establish the connection. I finally get a connection and now the computer won't recognize the camera - my frustration point is about at it's maximum........ We are trying to broadcast the gosapel to the world and roadblocks are being put up. I finally got everything working, but in my enthusiasm I forgot to adjust the recording levels. When I looked at the saved video and heard how bad it sounded I was ashamed of it. I know that the Lord honors our work, but mediocre, sub-standard work is nothing to be proud of. I am considering suspending the broadcast until I can afford to upgrade the laptop and the DSL service. I apologize to everyone that even attempted to watch the sunday services live.  I deleted the video from our LiveStream "OnDemand" library this morning. I did video tape the service, so I will get it on line later this week.

No Lunch This Friday

The will be no lunch service this Friday, March 16, 2012. We apologize for any inconvience this may cause.

            LUNCH MENU
                    FOR
          MARCH. 09, 2012

SPAGHETTI W/MEATBALLS
            TEXAS TOAST
                DESSERT

$6.50

DELIVERED TO YOUR PLACE OF BUSINESS

Delivery is restricted to Fort Walton Beach, Navarre and Gulf Breeze, FL.

Send an email to
alcofnavarre@yahoo.com
before 9:00 AM Fri, Mar 09, 2012

All proceeds support our Building Fund

Lunch Menu

LUNCH MENU FOR MARCH. 02, 2012

ROAST TURKEY BREAST
DRESSING/GRAVY
VEGETABLE
DINNER ROLL
DESSERT

$6.50

DELIVERED TO YOUR PLACE OF BUSINESS

Delivery is restricted to Fort Walton Beach, Navarre and Gulf Breeze, FL.

Send an email to
alcofnavarre@yahoo.com 
before 9:00 AM Fri, Feb 24, 2012

All proceeds support our Building Fund
BACK TO WEBSITE

Internet Down

Our apologies to anyone that was trying to watch on line yesterday morning. Thanks to our carrier, our internet connection was lost. The service was recorded and will be on the website later this week.

Bro Efren Palacios

While doing a search for some older church videos, I stumbled upon a friend of ours. Bro Efren Palacios - see this man of God in action at another Apostolic Lighthouse Church.

Bro Efren Palacios at Apostolic Lighthouse  Jul 22, 2011 Part 1 of 3

Bro Efren Palacios at Apostolic Lighthouse  Jul 22, 2011 Part 2 of 3

Bro Efren Palacios at Apostolic Lighthouse  Jul 22, 2011 Part 3 of 3

Jesus on the Main Line

See The Apostolic Lighthouse Church of Navarre Praise Team singing Jesus on the Main Line at http://youtu.be/ht5R5ZX1-Aw

Cracker Barrel Holy Ghost Revival

This video was shot at a Cracker Barrel restaurant near Memphis, TN. Our Lord, Jesus can work anywhere!  See the video and read the comment at http://youtu.be/HFbwhMgmnW4

Awesome Service

Bro Grady O'Neil delivered the message "Untapped Wells", it was a God inspired super message. You can see it at www.livestream.com/alcofnavarre. I'll leave it there until I have it archived and available from the video page of our website.

Spanish Services

ALC of Navarre now has the capability to translate English services to Spanish. We have invested in a stand alone audio system that allows one person to translate the Word of God to (up to) twenty users. Sis Vilma is our primary translator with Bro Davila assisting when necessary.

Live Videocasting

The more I learn, the better it will get. I looked at the saved video of Bro Ben today. I have learned that the audio needs to be turned way down during the praise and worship portion of the service - I can and will fix that. The video - sorry that everyone on the platform looks like ants. The Pastor and I talked about that also - I hope to relocate the camera this week. I'll try it 8' closer to the platform and see what happens. I am proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks. THANK YOU JESUS

The Call to be Chosen

That's the title of Sunday evenings sermon. It's great, but I must warn you..... my digital recording got messed up, fortunately I rolled tape about 5 minutes into the sermon. So bare with it, the echo you hear will clear up! Pastor Kallam used the following scriptures: Mat 20:16; Mat 22:14; John 15:16; Eph 1:4; I Peter 2:9; De 14:2. 7:6-8; Ecl (not given); De 2:30; Rev 17:14; I Peter 2:9

LUNCH MENU

LUNCH MENU FOR FEB. 17, 2012

PULLED PORK
BAKED POTATO
BAKED BEANS
DINNER ROLL
DESSERT

$6.50

DELIVERED TO YOUR PLACE OF BUSINESS

Delivery is restricted to Fort Walton Beach, Navarre and Gulf Breeze, FL.

Send an email to alcofnavarre@yahoo.com before 9:00 AM Fri, Feb 17, 2012

All proceeds support our Building Fund.