If you worship with #Tworship on Twitter or would like to participate in #Tworship Indoors for any reason, you’ve come to the right place. Every night at 9pm EST 8 CST 6 PST on Twitter, a group gathers under the leadership of myself @mcProdigal and/or Marie @spreadingJoy to worship through synchronized YouTube worship videos, one beginning at 9 followed by a second that begins immediately following the first. This group can be easily followed by clicking on the hashtag #Tworship. You can see all of us tweeting praise and lyrics as the songs play in worship of our worthy King.

Periodically, we add a Bible study/group discussion following these two songs. We call this #Tworship Indoors because we leave Twitter temporarily and go to iLinc for the study featuring webcams, mikes and chat. The iLinc technology that enables us to fellowship is generously supplied by Setting Boundaries, LLC, an outreach program to parents of prodigals and/or adult children with issues. You will see their logo when you enter the iLinc “room” as well as a welcome from Tworship.

Look around the room and you will see people filing in, their names (normally their Twitter names) appear in a box showing attendance. You enter the room immediately following the second Tworship song; you’ll see Marie and I tweeting that it’s time to go. Use of webcams and/or microphones is optional and highly dependent on your personal bandwidth (internet speed). They will not work for everyone; most enter the room with neither “on” and participate entirely through the chat box. You can generally enter the Tworship room, watch me share through my webcam/mike and chat with only marginal bandwidth. We do not recommend that you use your own webcam/mike on the first try, it’s simpler not to. A small number of our participants cannot participate at all due to slow and/or inconsistent internet speeds. If you have any issues, then let us know and we will work with you offline (during non-Tworship hours) to resolve them.

How do you enter the iLinc room to participate in Tworship Indoors? Here’s the link followed by a screenshot:

Tworship Indoors

Once you follow this link, a small application will be downloaded to your computer that will speed up your connection for this purpose only. This step is only required the first time that you enter the Tworship room. You will be asked for a name and email address. The email address is required by iLinc but we do not use it for any purpose. You should hear a song playing right away to indicate success in accessing the room. That is our welcome song that plays while people are filing into the room. You will also see a list of who is present and a chat box generally full of typed messages, mostly people greeting one another. This chat box remains active throughout the session, even while I am speaking.

Generally, the Indoors session runs from about 9:15pm EST (after the second Tworship song on Twitter) to about 10; sometimes the Tworship crowd gets very lively in worship and we’ll carry on past that time with praise videos played within the iLinc room. You are always free to exit when you choose by closing the iLinc window.

If you’d like to check out your equipment for fitness for this task or just to download iLinc in advance so you don’t have that delay during live Tworship, the iLinc room is available at the link above from about 8pm EST (one hour early). Click on the link, download the room, enter it and have a look around. It’s a cool place. When you’re satisfied, exit and return at Tworship time or just hang out and chat until Tworship Indoors begins.

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