FAYETTEVILLE, AR — The weekly livestream of Covenant Life Church, which typically averages between 40 and 55 viewers, surged to 187 concurrent viewers Tuesday evening after the AV volunteer forgot to stop the stream following the midweek prayer service, inadvertently broadcasting the entirety of the monthly deacons’ meeting to the church’s YouTube and Facebook pages.

The ninety-three-minute broadcast, which remains publicly available as of press time, includes a forty-minute debate over whether to replace the fellowship hall carpet with laminate flooring, a heated exchange about thermostat authority, and a seven-minute stretch during which Deacon Phil Hubbard, 66, appears to be asleep.

“I got a text from my daughter in college that said, ‘Dad, you’re trending in our family group chat,’” said head deacon Wayne Prescott, 59, who at one point in the video can be seen pounding the folding table with an open palm while saying, “We have been talking about this carpet since Obama.”

“The YouTube chat was more active than anything we’ve ever seen. Someone commented, ‘This is better than reality TV.’ Another person wrote, ‘Team Laminate.’ We’ve never had a chat that engaged during an actual sermon.”

AV volunteer Cody Marsh, 19, who was responsible for the stream, told reporters he “thought I hit stop” and had left the building to get Taco Bell. He returned to fourteen missed calls.

Pastor Kevin Driscoll, 48, issued a statement calling the incident “an opportunity for transparency” and noting that the church “has nothing to hide,” though he did request that the timestamp from 1:04:22 to 1:06:15, during which he used the phrase “over my dead body” regarding the thermostat, be “understood in context.”

At press time, three new visitors had attended Sunday’s service specifically to see the carpet in question, which one described as “honestly pretty bad.”