Since the building currently housing South Main Church of Christ was built, then dedicated on April 27, 1997, there has existed a cassette library of sermons from the Church’s past. It has sat quietly in the corner of the church Library.
You may know that this year (2024), we have prioritized digital efforts as a means of moving our church forward and growing into the future. That includes recording every cassette in the church Library into a computer and converting every one of those sermons to a digital audio file for our increasing number of web visitors.
The Elders are thrilled to begin making some of those sermons public now, sorted by Preacher. There are dozens more recordings ready to be added and we plan to make those available as we secure permission.
If you know of any past sermons from family of former New Lexington Church of Christ (Jackson St. & South Main) preachers and would like us to seek permission to add their recordings to our website, please be in touch with Jim Lanning, Tom Sheppard or Ernie Starling at your earliest convenience.
Why we did it:
With time, magnetic tape deteriorates and loses quality, which meant we would have lost those sermons to history. Each year that passes means audio and video cassettes become older and more at risk of losing the sounds and images contained on the tapes. Tapes are made of magnetic particles fused to a long, thin strip of plastic. Cassettes are obsolete technology and cassette players are increasingly hard to find, but the church still owns one and the lessons and preachings contained on those cassettes are relevant today. We couldn’t imagine losing all of those memories to time and deterioration, so we folded those cassettes into our digital efforts the church is undertaking.
With the church’s new Digital Center in the works, we can preserve more of our congregation’s history while reaching more people tomorrow.