Worship Services

Assisted listening systems are one of the most overlooked components of a church sound system. By not including assisted listening (or “hearing assist”) devices in your sound system, it is possible that members of your congregation are missing out on hearing God's Word, and you may even be breaking the law.

With the advent of Pokemon Go and all the excitement last year with this augmented reality game, more technologies have been released and are currently being developed to take advantage of both augmented and virtual reality--both in secular and religious applications. In case you're already confused about what the differences between these two technologies, below is a helpful infographic with information to clarify what defines each technology.

In the old days, churches used to buy time on a local TV or radio stations to extend their reach electronically but today, that's happening more often through the Internet with live streaming services. TV, radio, and Internet services cost money and for many churches, the cost prevents them from broadcasting their service. Facebook Live now makes this more accessible to a large potential audience of viewers. In many cases, users can do so for free or for a fraction of the cost of the expensive Internet church streaming services springing up all over the place.

The increasing number of devices on your church's network can put a strain not only on your bandwidth but on you as a tech. While connected devices have made things easier within the church, they have also created a new set of headaches.

Audio quality for the spoken word should be of utmost importance when it comes to church sound. It is common to address things like loudspeakers, acoustics, EQ, and compression when we think about manipulating the sound quality. And those things are very important.

Video isn't going anywhere. In fact, video is perhaps the fastest growing ministry tool available to churches and believers all around the world. We recently shared a helpful article that covered seven ways video can save your pastor time, and these suggestions can easily parlay into opportunities to share the Gospel and ministry of your church with a wider audience.

Your pastor is always juggling his time. Pastoring is a thankless job with hundreds of people vying for his precious little time. It is challenging to have so many people in need; setting priorities and boundaries can be difficult. He wants to make everyone happy but he still needs to prepare for Sunday and lead the church.

ProPresenter is worship software that sits at the conjunction of "powerful" and "easy to use." That doesn’t mean that everyone who sits down in front of it will immediately know how to use it, though. In fact, it’s so powerful, that you might not know where to look to do what you want, s