Online worship isn’t a strategy to get through the pandemic but rather a tool for ministry that helps us imagine and live into being a more inclusive and vibrant church. Online worship works best when it is designed for that purpose rather than videotaping worship intended to be experienced live. I plan to test this hypothesis and develop best practices particularly suited for traditional, low tech, small to medium sized churches. I will do this by engaging identified resources on this subject, having extensive conversations with three identified conversation partners and interviewing 6 to 10 churches about their experience of online worship. I hope to identify barriers to worship created especially for online consumption and methodically work through strategies to address those barriers. Based on what I hear and learn, I hope to develop a theological and Biblical rationale for putting time and resources toward creating online worship.