This depends on how quickly you want to get your recording online. It’s fine to record the service, take your laptop home and upload it from there – if you have the Internet at home. But the beauty of TruthVine is that you can upload your sermons within moments of the closing ‘Amen’. TruthVine makes the sermon file size very small (eg. often under 10mb), so uploading can be very fast.

There are several different ways that you can access the Internet at your church:

• Your church building is online already: Some bigger churches may have offices where pastors and staff do their work – and have the Internet within the building already.
• You tether your laptop to a smartphone: Some people get their laptops online via a mobile phone that has access to the Internet. Here’s a brief guide on doing this on the PC Advisor website.
• You use a BT Wifi hotspot: Some laptop users in your church may have a BT Wifi account already. This gives them use of thousands of Internet access hotspots across the UK. There may be one within range of your building. You can find out by checking your church post-code with BT here. If no-one in your church uses BT wifi already, then subscriptions start at £6 per month.
• You use a USB dongle: Very simple. Just plug one of these little sticks into your laptop to get it online anywhere there’s a mobile signal. Here’s a Uswitch guide to how they work and a list of the latest deals. When we checked, these were as low as £3 per month which would give you 250MB of data (about enough for 25 sermons per month).