Gathered Live

About the Gathered Live project

We are building a discovery layer for church livestreams, with an emphasis on services that are actually live when you look.

  • YouTube livestreams
  • Community-sourced listings
  • No account to browse

Why this exists

Most live church videos still live in individual YouTube channels, search boxes, and subscriptions. If you are new to an area, new to the faith, or simply looking for a service at a particular hour, that scattering makes discovery harder than it needs to be.

The point is to make church livestreams easier to discover and to lower the effort it takes to open God's Word in worship and teaching online. A clearer directory, with live status, context, and filters that match how people search, turns a scattered landscape of small channels into something you can actually navigate.

Filtering, not an endless list

As more churches are listed, we do not want you stuck scrolling forever. You will be able to sort and filter by things that matter, like where a church is, what kind of church it is, what language the service is in, and more, so you can find exactly what you are looking for.

On the main site, use filters alongside the live list to match how you are searching, such as a new city, a denomination you are curious about, a language you speak at home, and more.

Why YouTube, for now

A large share of church live video is on YouTube today. Tight focus lets us do one integration well (live status, channels, and watch links) before we expand to other platforms.

How we think about the work

  • One place to see who is live

    The goal is a simple, honest index: open the list and see services that are streaming right now, without hopping between channels and search results.

  • Churches on their own schedules

    We want to capture every service time, so the Word is findable on many days and hours, and a small church in an offbeat time can stand out when it is the only one live.

  • Context so the list does not drown you

    To keep a growing list from feeling overwhelming, we work to include real context for each church, so filters can help you get to a few good matches without a wall of names to scroll through.

How the directory grows

The catalog depends on people who know their church best, and on people who help correct a listing when it is wrong or out of date. A typical path looks like this:

  1. Share accurate details

    A YouTube channel, service context, and optional location and denomination help others understand what they are about to open.

  2. Listings are reviewed

    Submissions and changes can be checked before they appear, to reduce mistakes, duplicates, and mislabeled streams.

  3. More churches, more access to the word

    Each congregation added widens the path for more people to hear God's Word preached and taught online. The more we grow together, the easier it becomes to find a faithful livestream in the moment.

  4. Edits help listings stay accurate

    We accept change requests when a denomination is wrong, information is missing, or a description is out of date for a church.

Ready to use the directory?

Browse what is live, or add a church so others can find it more easily.