Teams and Leadership
Heart of the Artist – Rory Noland’s ministry provides retreats, coaching, consulting and other resources for worship leaders and teams.
Planning Center – Planning Center (PC) features applications to plan and program services with songs, media and other items. Use the “Services” application to keep your worship team informed and track timing before and during services. Schedule teams through email, texts or Facebook and let them accept or decline volunteer requests.
Transpose chord charts and mp3s and import information from SongSelect and PraiseCharts. Music can be provided to teams using PC’s media player or the Music Stand app for iPad & Android. Other applications include Music Stand, Projector, Registrations, Check Ins, Groups, Giving and Resources.
Worship Leader – WorshipLeader.com is a resource for pastors, worship leaders, musicians, vocalists, sound and visual techs, technology stewards and artists. The site features news and information about worship, spiritual development, music, production and gear.
Open House Rehearsals – Open your church’s choir and orchestra rehearsals by providing regular opportunities for new people to jump in. Provide three annual Open House events to give new members a preview of new music coming up in Sunday services and special seasonal projects. Prepare a new music packet with a rehearsal CD along with service schedules, special project information and (of course) food & fellowship.
Worship Team Directory – Develop a handbook and directory for major worship service groups to cast vision . Include leadership information, ministry practices & policies, care group information, calendars, directories and vision-casting. Make sure all new members get a copy when they join the team.
Event Logistics
Invite Tickets – Use business-card or other size cards to resource church members’ inviting and sharing efforts. Create “ticket” cards for events with sowing or reaping evangelism potential. Promote each event as an “invite-your-friend” opportunity for believers purposefully building relationships with unchurched neighbors and friends.
iTickets – iTickets is a great ticketing resource for churches, concerts and events, with an iOS scanning app and a full suite of services.
Brushfire – Brushfire is a robust platform for online ticketing and registration for churches and ministries. The service is customizable, flexible and powerful with assigned seating, e-mail marketing and a branded event experience. Pricing starts at $1 plus 1% per ticket and includes the full Brushfire features slate. The mobile app allows for ticket scanning and has tools to manage individual seats and overall capacity.
Digital Engagement
Mobile Apps – Many churches use mobile apps to increase engagement in a world filled with digital distractions. Shaping and enhancing the Sunday experience for guests and members is usually the driving force. A short list of custom app developers includes:
YouVersion – YouVersion.com and The Bible App are Bible engagement tools accessible via the web, mobile app, or other mobile device. A useful tool for churches is the “events” feature. Churches or organizations can create worship service sermon outlines or small group lessons and make them available via any mobile device.
YouVersion Events give you a way to interact with church services and other live events using your mobile device. You can follow along with message outlines and take notes, read related Bible verses and click through to the expanded passage. Other engagement tools include polls with live results, anonymous questions, giving and prayer requests.
Production
Christian Media Association – The Christian Media Association and Christian Filmmakers Network work to help Christians in media connect, build and grow their media ministries. The association provides training videos, news, networking and other resources on its web site.
Church Production – Church Production and Church.Design are devoted to the needs of houses of worship. Since 1999, Church Production Magazine has served as the leading resource for church technical leadership (tech directors and other technical artists), delivering information and education on audio, video, lighting and streaming technologies used in worship production environments.
ScreenVue – ScreenVue provides online access to thousands of clip ideas from major movies that you purchase or rent, plus clip downloads from selected movies. Use the search feature to find themes, movies, actors and keywords.
Worship Facilities Magazine – Worship Facilities Magazine is a design, construction, operation and maintenance magazine for houses of worship. Designed as a reference for executive pastors, pastors, facilities managers, business administrators, operations managers, building committee members and other senior leadership, the magazine delivers news and information on a wide range of facilities-related topics.
Video Sourcing
RightNow Media – RightNow Media offers thousands of video resources for adult Bible studies, women’s ministry, student ministry, video illustrations, leader development and more. RightNow is also a great source for still and motion backgrounds for video production, image magnification, worship service visuals and other uses.
SermonSpice – SermonSpice.com equips pastors, church leaders and worship leaders with videos to spice up sermons, teaching and worship experiences. Resources include sermon video clips, worship backgrounds, church countdowns and worship tracks.
The Skit Guys – The Skit Guys—Tommy Woodard and Eddie James—illustrate and teach using comedy, drama and creative storytelling. Find videos, scripts, DVDs and more at their web site. Purchase videos individually or by subscription. Scripts can also be purchased for live performance.
WorshipHouse Media – WorshipHouse Media is a worship planning resource, offering mini movies, worship song tracks, church countdowns, worship backgrounds and small group videos.
Media Sourcing
CreationSwap – Resources include free church media shared or sold by thousands of Christian artists. Search the web collection of videos, photos, logos, church bulletins, sermon graphics and more.
Open – Available to pastors and church leaders, Open gives access to the library of LifeChurch.tv materials. Materials include outlines from a variety of message series, complete with corresponding promotional artworks, broadcast-quality videos, and much more. Browse the site, find any resource that’s helpful to you, and set-up a login to download the free resources.
Sharefaith – Resources include sermon slides, worship backgrounds, motion backgrounds, multi-screen videos, video loops, newsletters, flyers and stock photos.
Music Sourcing
SongSelect – A paid subscription to SongSelect gives you a source for lyrics, samples, transposable lead sheets, chord sheets and vocal music.
Praise Charts – PraiseCharts.com features music ready to download, print and play. Find fully-scored Christian sheet music for thousands of worship songs, featuring the best of Hillsong, Integrity, Worship Together, Word, Vineyard, Maranatha, Brentwood-Benson, Lifeway and more. Find lyrics, chord charts, lead sheets, worship choir charts, praise band arrangements, jazz band arrangements and full orchestrations. In addition, PraiseCharts.com has a wide range of audio tracks to complement the charts.
Worship Together – WorshipTogether.com is a tool for discovering new worship songs. At the core of the site is a searchable database of songs with lyrics, audio streams, videos and scripture references indexed by tempo, theme, genre, tag and writer. Content is updated daily.
Script Sourcing
DramaShare – DramaShare.org is the world’s largest resource center for royalty-free Christian drama scripts, skits, sketches, sermon starters and full-length drama. DramaShare.org also offers ministry organization and training support for church drama ministries.
Lillenas Drama – Known for quality and variety, Lillenas Drama provides downloadable scripts, plays, sketches, worship resources, monologues, readers’ theatre and production resources. Lillenas Drama includes over 70 sketch collections, 40 plays and play collections, 15 how-to books, and over 60 program builders.
Pioneer Drama Service – Pioneer has a catalog of short comedies, musicals and plays appropriate for church and school settings.
Copyrights
Church Copyright License – The Church Copyright License covers over 300,000 worship songs for congregational singing. The license is a contractual agreement with songwriters and publishers from around the world. For an annual license fee, a church receives legal authorization to copy from over 300,000 songs for congregational use.
Church Video License (CVLI) – Through an agreement with studios and producers, the CVLI Church Video License provides legal coverage for churches and for other ministry organizations to show motion pictures and other audiovisual programs. Coverage includes playing just a few minutes of a movie as well as showing a full-length feature.
Christian Copyright Solutions – Christian Copyright Solutions (CCS) is a leading authority on church music copyrights, providing simple music licensing solutions and clear educational resources. CCS is the only Christian company to partner with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC to offer one-stop performance licenses that allow religious organizations to legally play, perform and stream over 17 million songs. CCS offers several licenses:
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