Just curious for those who use planning center or any equivalent management software, do you have that software as source of truth? Or do you keep a separated place like Google workspace or overdrive for your list of members or calendar as the ultimate source?
Or church is in the middle of deciding a software and also where should the source of truth lives in.
Hey all! so, i help run the social media at my church, and i'm looking for ideas on how to keep things flowing more effectively. has anyone developed like a content calendar or something along those lines that they wouldn't mind sharing? my leadership wants me posting more frequently, but i'm not sure what to do lol. right now i post a sermon clip or two and then try to highlight a ministry or an upcoming event.
it doesn't really help that i don't have my own social media accounts anymore, so i'm not sure what the trends are or what, like, "trendy" churches are putting out into the world lol. any insight from the folks here would be super helpful!
Wondering what everyone is doing for DMX VW lights for your drum enclosures. Thanks,
Hello everyone,
A while back I asked various subreddits about their preferences for drum mics, and 2 different opinions developed as a consensus for which type of mic to use on a Snare Bottom - pencil condensers and supercardioids.
I wanted to return here and ask - which do you prefer and why?
And which mic do you use/have experience with from the category of your choice?
If more context is needed to help inform your answers, I'd be happy to provide it.
Does anyone have a good solution for displaying chord charts on a backwall confidence monitor? Something like Music Stand app, but that is designed or modified to work well in a confidence monitor scenario?
Screen sharing a tablet showing Music Stand gives you way too much text to be readable on anything but a MASSIVE TV.
I know that some people have done the extremely time consuming job of setting up chords within ProPresenter, but that locks you into a particular key. Music Stand is great because you can easily transpose keys. But I'm not aware of a method of breaking up Music Stand display into smaller chunks that display on TV well.
Anyone cracked the code on this problem?
I’m trying to find a set of wireless comms headsets for church. I need 3 for now. It’s going to be for our anniversary at the end of September. I do the cameras by myself most of the time but for the anniversary I need to be on the computer and we’re gonna have 2 cameras so I need a way to be able to communicate to the 2 camera operators. I know there’s wireless headsets I can get with a mic and everything but I don’t know if any of you know of another way we can do it? Or a more budget friendly headset set. The attached picture is a set I found on Amazon but maybe there’s a more budget friendly set.
Can not get ATEM to show propresenter. Just show a black screen.
Hello everyone, I wanted to address the recent post revolving around one of our Moderators, Foxboltco. I've included the OP redacted in the comments. There's a few different aspects to this situation so I'll break it down in chunks.
First, the issue brought up was that u/Foxboltco also has a church consulting business and has been creating some posts that link to youtube videos that he created that tied into his posts. I saw no issue with these posts as they were applicable to the subreddit, and they weren't focused on promoting his business. I don't remember having anyone else posting something comparable to these, so honestly I don't have any examples to show that this treatment would be equal to what we would apply to another user. If you feel this is a conflict of interest, feel free to express that in the comments. Also if I'm remembering wrong and we have prevented someone from posting a similar post, express that in the comments.
Second bit, and the part that made me take the post down quickly while I was away, was the doxing. This bit has a lot of aspects, and is partly my fault. Foxbolt started out moderating our community with a different username that contained his real name, several months ago he switched to a new account and requested his moderation permissions switched over. I had issues removing his old account on my phone, and then kept forgetting to do so after. The post very clearly drew the connection between his name and his new account, and that is absolutely unacceptable and will result in a ban, I don't care how easy it is to find the information. I've already apologized to Foxbolt for my part in this and he has been incredibly gracious both to me and the offending user regarding this. It was entirely my call to remove the original post and ban the user.
Thirdly, my reasoning for banning the user. Given that the original post was about transparency, it felt wrong for me not to address this. The user was banned in part for including personally identifiable information in the post, but also for the structure of that post and almost all of their other contributions to this subreddit. The user in question was created a short while ago along with their own subreddit that seemed to arise out of us cracking down on promotion, AI usage, etc. We denied their request to promote that subreddit as it seemed to largely go against the protections we were trying to put in place, it read as highly AI generated, and was a brand new account. Since then almost every contribution they've made to this sub has been targeted at promoting their own sub. You can see below that even in this recent post they were trying to direct people to a more complete post on their own subreddit. It's hard for me to read this as anything other than trying to create drama in order to promote their own content. This would be a completely different situation if they hadn't included any personal information, or tried to use the situation to promote their own subreddit.
Finally, I am genuinely interested in peoples opinions regarding the actual content of the complaint. Do people see an issue with the content u/foxboltco has been posting, both in general or because he is a moderator? If there seems to be a consensus one way or the other he has no problem with not posting that content going forward, he's always been very up front with us regarding those posts and would not have posted them had we not been okay with it.
As stated, the OP in question was redacted and commented below, and Foxboltco originally responded to the situation HERE
Jesus never used one. Shouldn’t they use convention halls. They only use these huge rooms one day a week. They are difficult to heat and cool.
The death of MS Publisher is pushing me to my limit. I’ve tried Scribus and struggled. The Adobe InDesign doesn’t support our bulletins well. Neither does Canva’s Affinity. I’m starting to lose hope. Our newsletters are easy enough to recreate on these, but without bulletins being so text heavy and needing specific margins and indentations, I can’t find a substitute.
The ideal software would be Publisher-esque (gotta have a “workspace” spread,) one time purchase or open source, and have a ruler measurement for the textbook options especially.
Hey everyone, we are aware of some allegations/suspicions against one of our moderators. We will address this in the next day or so. Right now I’m on an anniversary trip with my wife, hence the short response.
I make short video content for churches around the US, and the one thing I go back and forth on more than anything is background music. Some weeks a soft bed of music under a clip seems to hold people longer and gives the moment room to land. Other times it feels like I'm putting a soundtrack on something that should just stand on its own words. I'm curious where the pastors and church media folks here land. Do you like music under your sermon clips, do you find it distracting or even manipulative, or does it depend on the moment? And if you do use it, who on your team actually handles that part?
So my small church has an X32 Compact and a Mac Mini for Proclaim. I'm wanting to start using backing tracks. We don't have the money to buy tracks, so I'm creating them. Going to be using WorshipSong Band app. Anyone have any experience running this setup?
It's a project that I'm envisioning taking about 6 months to complete as I will be building a full library before presenting it to the church. Hoping this is something someone else has done and I can find someone who thinks this is a worthwhile thing and I'm not crazy!
Can anyone give me some opinions on Tithely's free tier? I'm the finance secretary for a small-ish church, about 50 people per week, struggling a bit, but trying to build back up.
We're currently using Vanco and Church Windows, which I hate, and would like to modernize a bit.
I asked for software suggestions several months ago and got great feedback, but after looking at all the options given, here's why I'm considering Tithely:
So, is there something better that also has a free tier? I can see how we could (hopefully) outgrow Tithely, but it looks pretty good right now.
Thanks in advance!
(Edited for spelling and clarity. And fixing mistakes from typing on my phone. And formatting -- thanks Reddit.)
Sunday morning. "Your registration information is corrupted."
Of course a church software company doesn't have tech support on Sunday. That would make too much sense. Now we are going to try and run Sunday service with water marks. We couldn't do anything to get it running again.
I have never worked with software that is so unstable as PP.
Hey everyone, hoping to get some advice on the cleanest way to set this up for a multi-use room.
Our Current Setup: We run our main services using Lightkey on a Mac, which is triggered automatically by our ProPresenter slides via MIDI. Lightkey sends Art-Net/sACN over Ethernet to a Chauvet DJ DMX-AN2 node, which outputs to our physical 3-pin DMX lines out to the lights. It works beautifully and we love the ease of use.
The Goal: We are installing some new lights and want to add a simple wall-mounted button controller. The main reason we need this is to give people a simple way to control the lights without the laptop needing to be present.
When the Mac is unplugged or away, volunteers or building staff still need to be able to select scenes and turn on lights. We want them to easily walk in, hit "Preset 1" on a wall plate, and have basic house/stage lights come on. However, we still need the Lightkey + ProPresenter integration to have full control when the Mac is plugged in for services.
My Confusion: I'm honestly super confused about the signal flow and whether I should be doing this on the network side or the physical DMX side.
I'm completely fine with buying new hardware if necessary, but changing software is a dealbreaker because our ProPresenter integration is completely dialed in.
Has anyone tackled this exact setup where the main presentation computer isn't always present? I’d love to hear your suggestions on what specific wall stations would be a good fit, especially any budget-friendly or affordable options that work reliably. Which routing method have you found to be the most practical?
Thank you!
If you’ve ever wanted to use ProPresenter to trigger your lighting cues in Vista using MIDI, here’s a step-by-step tutorial (no extra hardware required; it's done over network).
This has actually eliminated the need for a lighting volunteer at my church, which frees those people up to serve in other roles on the production team. I haven't actually had to program lights in Vista in years; I'm able to just drive it all with macros from ProPresenter.
Highly recommend this route if you don't have a super complex lighting setup and want to get some time back every week. Hope you find it helpful!
Context: My day job is IT/ Cyber security. i dont work at a church. I'm just solid at filling the gaps as a volunteer. So, I've seen a lot of Church's setup. I know a lot of the time the jobs just to get stuff running with minimal costs.
With that said, i feel like God is pushing me to start filling in a need. I just dont know where that is yet. So i want to ask all of you. I assume security is an after thought, but is there something, free or not, that you wish you could use or have?
Hi! Hoping for some recommendations for a projector for our church.
We meet in a school sports hall in the UK, no natural light, just high ceilings with lights that are on or off so it's quite a bright room.
200" screen, rear project, but no restrictions on throw distance
Budget is around £1000. Happy with 1080p. Would something like the BenQ LH66 or Optoma HZ151X be a good option?
Thanks
We run two services on Sunday with a tech team that is all volunteers, and the booth rotates through about six people. Nobody on that list had touched stage lighting before this year. Me included, really.
Right now the platform has eight static LED pars on a bar plus two ancient fresnels. It's flat. Fine for preaching, useless for anything the worship team wants to do.
We have money approved for one lighting purchase and that's it for a good while, so I want to price this honestly before it goes to the committee.
What I keep coming back to is four wash moving heads. The ones on my shortlist (a Betopper LM3715R, a Chauvet unit, one ADJ) sit somewhere around $300 to $500 each, so with a controller the whole thing lands between $1400 and $2200 depending on which way I go. Shot of the platform and roughly where they'd hang is attached.
What I can't work out is whether that money buys anything we'd actually use.
Nobody in that booth is going to write cues. Realistically we need four or five looks and a volunteer who can hit the right button on a Sunday when the sermon runs long.
And who fixes a wash moving head when it stops moving. A par we can swap in ten minutes.
So for anyone at 200 to 250 seats. Is there a better way to spend this than four wash moving heads, and if you've already been through it, what did you actually end up putting over the platform? Pictures of your setup would help more than anything else, I'm having a hard time picturing what four of these look like in a room this size.
Thanks