More time researching streaming

Cheapest and easiest solution appears to be UStream.  Created an account and it links to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.  Besides streaming does a record so you can easily post to FB and You Tube.  That might be too much in our case vs. sermon only recording and later video podcast.

You can broadcast with an iphone or Android phone recording locally then uploading or streaming live.

You can have password protected streams in addition to your scheduled "worship" streaming.

One possible cheap Camera & mic that people are "raving" about is the PS3 camera and a custom driver that works on the PC.
http://unitedtechguys.com/2010/02/09/how-to-use-the-ps3-eye-camera-as-a-pc-webcam/

More potential Audio/MP3/Sermon WP Plugins to Research

Several more to investigate:

• MP3 Player Plugin
• Sermon Browser
• Podpress
• WPaudio MP3 Player
• MTR Podcast recorder

Testing out Podbean

Hosting and RSS feeding the audio sermons is going to be a task where we need to try and simplify what we are doing while watching that we don't spend money unnecessarily. So looking both into plug-in options for WordPress and outside services like Podbean that allow hosting (& free hosting) of files with RSS feeds, etc already pre-set for us.

http://staugepiscopal.podbean.com/

WordPress › Inline mp3 player plugin

WordPress › Inline mp3 player: WordPress Plugins

Inline mp3 player replacing any link directly to a mp3 file, such as 'http://yoursite.com/musicfile.mp3' into a special link. Clicking it will turn the link into a small media player with a dhtml slider interface. It works simple, click the link the music starts playing. Drag the tab to browse throught the music. Click the link again to stop. This player uses Javascript Soundkit and the slider of Scriptaculous.