For a small church, I think that going straight to MP3 creates an easily duplicable file that you can burn to CD for distribution. Some churches do want to still give CDs away.

Here is what I found when we recorded straight to CD.
1. We had to maintain a physical library of masters in protective sleeves. That depended on a physical filing system and storage space. Eventually only one person who knew how to find something becuase they designed the storage system.
2. 70 minute limit — sometimes the preacher would go longer.
3. Keeping the kids out of the stack of blanks.
4. Stack of blanks was a cost.
5. Technicians would forget to label the master and a few weeks later not remember which CD was which.
6. To avoid loss/scratch of a master, we started duplicating the master (two CDs, physical space).
7. If people wanted a recording, the data would be transfered to a computer, and then duplicated 1 at a time. Even with a 52x CD rom, this was still a time consuming process. Often, this wouldn't be ready for at least a week.
8. Never made it to the website: too many steps in the conversion process to mp3, that could only happen when a computer was available.

Here is what we are going to do (our first services are May 9).
1. Record straight to mp3 with this little device.
2. Post it to our website.
3. Email the link to the website to those who want the sermon.
If somebody wants it on a physical CD, we'll offer to email it to them instead.

Chris Walker
EvangelismCoach

1) Get a Digital Voice Recorder
2) Get a cable
3) Plug it into your system
4) Push the record button
5) Transfer it to you computer (via USB)
6) Distribute it (put it on your website, email it, etc)