Success of Mormon Messages’ “None Were with Him” video
April 14, 2009 by DH
Filed under Mormoncopia
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has posted a release through the LDS Newsroom reporting on the success of “None Were with Him,” a video made by the LDS Church and released on Mormon Messages, one of the Mormon Church’s YouTube channels. It is a message about Jesus Christ and Easter and contains scenes from various church videos and clips from Jeffrey R. Holland’s brillant talk given a week and a half ago at the LDS General Conference. (Watch None Were with Him)
It is exciting to see the success of this video as just recently another video released through this same method did quite well as far as viral videos go. I refer of course to Why Mormons Build Temples and the high number of views it had in a short period of time.
These successes seem to indicate several things. First and foremost, the Mormon Church is becoming more proficient and adept at using new technology to spread their message. That is not to say they haven’t been so in the past but this is clear evidence that they are on top of the ball as always. It is promising to see as in the future as they continue to produce high quality content they have a large base that will quickly disseminate them, which ties into my second conclusion. That is, it seems that members have taken to heart the admonishment to participate in online conversations and not allow the media and others to define what we believe and tell our story for us. Rather every-day members are now part of a huge force on the Internet striving to clarify misconceptions and provide clear explanations as to exactly what Mormons believe. Most importantly they are testifying of why their membership in the Mormon Church makes them so happy and how exactly they know for themselves that this IS The Church of Jesus Christ. Lastly, without a doubt many of the views were from members of the church but who knows how many were from people who are not currently members of the church. There is of course many that seek happiness but know not where to find it and it is refreshing to think that many are being touched by the Spirit as they come across these resources from The LDS Church.
I am wondering if there is a way to copy the “Create” video on the mormon message you tube site? I would like to show it for a relif society function? Please help. Also, are the mormon messages (homefront) commercials available to purchase or download anywhere?
Thanks.
Tiffany-
I am not sure if you can download them or not. One option of showing it at the fucntion is to simply take a laptop computer with a wireless internet connection. Then you can just hook it up to the projector and play it through the computer from YouTube.
Hope this helps.
DH