Those of us in the church services tech space are part of an ever-changing landscape.

Not only are we constantly familiarizing ourselves with new church technology  solutions, we have to stay on top of new ways to use our existing technology.

Finding and subscribing to the right church-tech blogs is the ideal way to keep up-to-date in this constantly shifting landscape. Blogs aren’t tied to a publishing schedule, so you’re not waiting to read a magazine article that’s been in production for months. Instead, you’re receiving a steady stream of updated information from regulars in the space.

We’ve put together a list of 20 church-tech blogs that run the tech gamut. In these blogs, you’ll find information on church presentations, set design, training, marketing, and many other areas relative to the mission of  the church where information and technology intersect.

Here are some church tech blogs you should follow:

We’ll give you a little information about each blog, and link to a couple interesting posts to get you started!

1. ChurchMag

If you’re looking for relevant and timely content related to technology and creativity, ChurchMag is a good place to start. Since its inception in 2008, it has grown into one of the biggest blogs in this space.

Check out these posts:

• Public Speaking in the Church: 10 Common Multimedia Presentation Mistakes
  Knowing that these are all culled from real life, Rachel Blom’s piece on presentation mistakes to avoid is as cringingly funny as it is informative!
• Are You an Apple or Android Church?
  No, this isn’t a post about which platform your church leader or members are more committed to. It’s more a discussion of church branding based on looking at the strong points of these two well-known brands.
• Training and Retaining Ministry Volunteers: A Tech Solution
  If you were to say training your church volunteers was one of the most important things you can do, not many would disagree with you—so how can we prioritize and do it effectively?

2. ChurchTechToday

Through her church-tech public-relations consulting work, Lauren Hunter saw a need in 2007 for a space where church-tech companies could share their expertise and reach their target audience. ChurchTechToday is now one of the premier blogs in the area of church technology.

Check out these posts:

• Google’s Newest Update to Penguin and Your Church Website
   What does Google’s update to Penguin—Google’s search algorithm—mean for your church website? What can you do to make sure your website’s not penalized?
• Mixing Sound for the Multi-Site Church
  Running a feed from your main church campus to your other sites is full of perils. Here’s some great advice to make it easier to simulcast your services.
• 5 Ways to Build Culture within Church Teams
  MediaShout’s own Aaron West wrote this piece on building church teams that can work well together—with fewer issues!

3. [twelve thirty] media

[twelve thirty] media is all about creating dynamic content for church production teams. Their blog is full of wonderful tips and tricks for your church to create powerful worship environments. Oh, and in case you were wondering, their name comes from Mark 12:30: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”

From their website: “Jesus summed up the entire Old and New Testament with two commands: Love God and Love People. And we believe that if your life is dedicated to Loving God, Loving People will flow naturally. It is our prayer that you will live your life showing others what it looks to Love God with everything you are.”

Check out these posts:

• Practice Your Mixing Skills
  The blog posts kicks off with the fact that mixing sound is an art and a technical craft. This post has some tips to get you started.
• 4 Things to do to Prep for a Service
  You probably could come up with a list of things that you need to do to prepare for a service. Make sure they include Brian Damerow’s tips!
• How Loud Is Too Loud?
  If there is any question more pertinent for a church sound engineer than this one, I don’t know what it is. Rom Merow helps you establish a church volume guideline.

4. Worship Facilities

If you’re a church looking to maximize the use of your resources, technologies, and staff, Worship Facilities is a good place to start. You’ll find a lot of helpful information for your church team.

Check out these posts:

• When Great Systems Sound Bad
  Your sound system can make or break a service, and it’s not as intuitive as one might think. As this post says, “An average audio system in a good room will work well, but a great audio system in a bad room will work terribly, all because of the physics involved.”
• Most Common Sound Mistake
  When it comes to engagement, you want feedback. But when it comes to sound, you don’t. Here’s a look at the most common sound complaint.
• 5 Reasons to Change Over to LED Lighting
  Is it on your radar to update your church lighting? Maybe it should be.

5. The Creative Pastor

Kendall Conner is the creative pastor at Piedmont Chapel in Greensboro, NC. He’s constantly working in the design, media, and video space. Subscribe to his blog and you’ll benefit from his expertise.

Check out these posts:

• How To Effectively Use Multiple Worship Backgrounds In A Song
  Turning the presentation standard on its head, Kendall makes a strong case for using multiple backgrounds during a single song.
• Four Extremely Overused Fonts Your Church Should Avoid
  You might be able to guess most of these fonts before you click through, but I promise you that many churches are still using these commonly hated fonts.
• Why Churches Should Skip Snapchat And Focus On Instagram Stories
  There are so many social media platforms , it’s impossible for churches to do them all well. Here’s an interesting discussion about why churches might want to focus on Instagram Stories over Snapchat.

6. echurch

echurch is the arm of Pushpay—the world’s premier mobile giving solution—that serves the church. Their blog is full of great content in the church tech and leadership space.

Check out these posts:

• 10 Digital Tools for Publishing Sermons
  If you’re a media-minded church that wants to get as much mileage out of your sermons as possible, you couldn’t live in a greater age. This post will help you get your sermons out to the masses.
• 5 Tech Mistakes That Make First-Time Visitors Cringe
  You want to make a good first impression, right? Here’s a list of tech mistakes you might be doing that are turning visitors off.
• Anatomy of a Great Church Website Homepage
  This post will help you figure out if your church website is properly set up to inform and appeal to everyone who discovers it.

7. TripleWide Media

TripleWide Media is all about providing the largest collection of multiscreen stock footage and media to their community. But their website is a real storehouse of information (and inspiration) related to creating an incredible environment.

Check out these posts:

• 3 Reasons to Choose LED versus Projection
  This is a really helpful look at the differences between LED mapping and projection.
• 6 Ways to Become a Better Designer
  Whether you’re a johnny-come-lately to design or you’ve been doing it for a while, there is always room for improvement. Here are six tips to help you up your game.
• The Best Projector for Environmental Projection
  If you’re a church looking to transform your space with environmental projection, you’re going to need the right projector. Here’s a resource to get you started.

8. Church Media Graphics

As the leader in fresh screen visuals, Church Media Graphics has a blog you want to go to for in-depth articles on things like visuals, graphic design, video production, lighting and stage design, and other related topics.

Check out these posts:

• How To Use CMG Pro Layers With MediaShout
  If you want to take your presentation to the next level, try out CMG Pro Layers. This post will teach you how to incorporate them into MediaShout.
• 3 Different Ways To Choose Motion Backgrounds For A Service
  Having high-quality motion backgrounds is one thing, but knowing what to do with them is another. Here are 3 ways your church can put them to good use.
• 4 Text Box Templates That Will Give Your Lyric Slides A Modern Look
  The ways that you format lyrics can have a profound effect on how your presentation looks and feels. If you’re not using box templates, here are some ways they can improve your presentation layout.

9. Behind the Mixer

Whether you call it church audio production or church audio artistry, Behind the Mixer is the place you to go to improve your church’s sound game.

Check out these posts:

• Tech Maintenance – How to Lengthen Equipment Life
  Even the biggest churches have a budget, and it’s important to get as much life out of your equipment as possible. Here are some ways to do that.
• The Key Properties of a Good Mix – And One Often Missed
  Not everyone knows what a good mix sounds like, and even the most seasoned sound engineers can struggle with finding the right sound for a room. This post will help you identify what you should be listening for.
• How to Identify a Blown Speaker
  Think you know what a blown speaker sounds like? Think again. It’s not always obvious. Here are some tips to help you identify whether your sound problem is actually a blown speaker.

10. YouthMinistryMedia.ca

Kolby Milton has been a youth worker for over 10 years. His interests in ministry dovetail perfectly with his interest in graphic design and anything technical. His blog has some helpful ministry and tech advice with just a smattering of church marketing.

Check out these posts:

• The 3 Best Camera Apps
  What youth workers camera isn’t filled up with pictures of kids doing odd stunts? Here’s Kolby’s list of camera apps you should be using.
• 3 Amazing Graphic Design Tools
  If you’re a youth worker, you’ve probably been put in the position once or twice of being a closet designer. If that’s the case, here are some tools that can make your designs pop.
• How To Get Your Church An App
  Does your church have an app? What?! Why not? It’s 2016 and the world is becoming more and more mobile. Allow Kolby to tell you how you can get your own church app.

11. Church Tech Arts

In 2007, Mike Sessler started Church Tech Arts as a way to chronicle his work as a technical director of a mid-sized church in New York. He’s now regarded as an authority in church technology and his expertise helps churches use technology to accomplish their mission.

Check out these posts:

• Digital Mixer Comparison: M200i, X32, StudioLive 24.4.2
  It’s nice to have someone comparing the benefits of mid-sized tech equipment. Here Mike looks at the differences in the following mixers: Roland M200i, Behringer X32, Presonus StudioLive 24.4.2.
• Keys to Becoming a Great Technical Artist
  This is the sixth part of a series on becoming a great technical artist. This fantastic post is on the need to acquiring technical skill.
• Love Languages for Techies
  This 2010 post is one of Mike’s classics. Why? Because every church has techies that they’re not sure how to encourage and champion. Here Mike shares their love language.

12. ACS Technologies

ACS Technologies is a company that helps over 50,000 churches manage everything from their child care to their web sites. Not only is this South Carolina company so important to the church at large, but they also have a really helpful blog full of great tech tips.

Check out these posts:

• Fostering the Right Kind of Communication
  With church members becoming increasingly available all the time through various mobile technologies, how can churches make sure they’re sending the right messages at the right time?
• 3 Things to Consider before Posting During the Sermon
  Who hasn’t pulled out their phone during a sermon because the pastor said something that prompted a tweet or Facebook post? This is a helpful post about discerning whether it’s the right message at the right time.
• Your Church Online
  This post provides a strong place to start for churches new to building an online community. It can help you know where to start to build a strong church community.

13. Josh Burns

Josh is a marketing communications manager who helps churches use social media. This blog pulls together his thoughts on social media and church communication.

Check out these posts:

• 5 Things You Need to Know About the New Facebook Page Layout for Your Church
  Here are 5 things in the last Facebook refresh that were helpful for churches.
• Blogging for Your Church
  Why is blogging important for churches? When’s the best time to start one? How do you begin?
• 3 Ways to Avoid Spiritual Burnout as a Church Communicator at Easter
  For staff members in the church communication space, big holidays are huge time magnets. It’s important to have a plan in place to stop you from burning out.

14. Steve Fogg

Steve’s worn a lot of hats: graphic designer, creative director, and communications guy. A lot of his posts fall into the marketing genre (an important area to be sure), but there is plenty here for the tech-savvy team member.

Check out these posts:

• Why Your Church Needs Mobile Giving
  There’s no way around it. Your church needs to prioritize mobile giving, and Steve’s post can help you get started.
• 21 Of The Best Ways To Use Instagram Stories For Your Church
  Instagram is one of those platforms where it’s hard to know if your church is using it in a way that’s paying off. Here are 21 different strategies to put Instagram to work for your church.
• 9 Of The Best Communication Tips For Churches
  When you see someone telling churches they should be leveraging SEO for their church, you know that their church communication advice is going to be helpful.

15. Faith Engineer

What do you get when you take a former design engineer and make him a pastor in Virginia? You get FaithEngineer.com.

Check out these posts:

• Securing Your Website
  What can you do to increase the security of your website? How do you respond if your website’s hacked? If it happens, don’t panic. Just check out this post.
• The High Cost of Online Software and Services for Churches
  How should churches respond to the many opportunities they have for subscription based softwares and solutions?
• Ministry Designs—Another Great Option for Church Websites
  Many churches have a limited budget so how do they keep their website up-to-date? Here are some strong options for designing a new website.

16. Anthony Coppedge

Anthony is a data-driven marketing guy. If you’re into outcome-focused work that’s system and process oriented (and what techies aren’t?), Anthony has a blog that’s right up your alley.

Check out these posts:

• Just Enough, Just in Time
  In an online world where every bit of marketing information is measurable, how do you prioritize what information is most important to you? This post uses the Eisenhower Matrix to get you started.
• Before They’re Fired – A Personal Improvement Plan
  Even tech teams have people that don’t seem to be a good fit. What if you could map out the ideal improvement plan for them before you had to let them go?
• Video Projection Screen Size & Brightness Formulas Cheat Sheet
  It’s not easy for churches to know what the correct screen size and brightness they should be using for their projection. If there was only a cheat sheet . . . oh wait . . .

17. Church Juice

“Everything communicates something, so why not be intentional about what your church is saying to your community and congregation?” This is the question that defines the vision of Church Juice. You’ll find that reading their blog is like an online course in church communications.

Check out these posts:

• The Good and Bad of Stock Photography
  Stock photography is both a benefit and a bane. When used well, it can make your communication really pop. If used poorly—and it’s so easy to use poorly, it can undermine your best efforts.
• Communications Project Checklist
  Creating effective content doesn’t happen by accident. You have to be really strategic in the way you define and connect with your audience. This checklist will help you do exactly that.
• Church Website Spring Cleaning
  Your website shouldn’t be a static, set-it-and-forget-it kind of affair. You should come back to it periodically to clean it up, and make sure everything is up-to-date.

18. Tecnoiglesia

This church tech website is focused on equipping a Spanish-speaking audience. But thanks to Chrome’s ability to quickly translate websites for you, everyone can benefit from the incredibly helpful content on this site.

Check out these posts:

• 4 Consejos Vitales Para Que Suene Bien el Sonido de la Iglesia (4 Vital Sound Tips for Churches)
  This list starts by explaining the importance of correct mic placement, and gets better from there.
• 5 Tips Para Predicar en Vivo con Periscope y Facebook Live (5 Tips to Preach Live with Periscope and Facebook Live)
  There are so many powerful tools to enable you to reach huge audience with live ministry. This post looks at two of the heavyweights.
• Mantén tu Mac Limpio y Ordenado con Éstas 6 Apps Para OS X (Keep Your Mac Clean and Tidy with These Six Apps for OS X)
  You don’t want technical issues when you’re using your Mac to run a service. Here are some apps to make sure everything runs smoothly when you need it most

19. Disciplr

Tech has crept into so many areas of the church—including children’s ministry. The techies in the kidmin space need some tools to help them, too. Disciplr is a cutting-edge tool for keeping your children’s ministry running smoothly, and for anyone in that space, their blog is a must-read.

Check out these posts:

• The World Map of Christian Apps: 48 Tools Every Christian Should Know About
  If a post ranks #1 for a Google search like “Christian Apps,” you can trust it to be definitive.
• 8 Church Check-In Software Options You Need to Know About
  When it comes to ministering to children, security needs to be a priority. Here’s a list of the best check-in options available.
• 3 Free Tools Your Team Should Know About
  Like any ministry in the church, your children’s ministry team needs tools to help them collaborate. Here are three tools that will help every church team complete all of their projects on time.

20. Matt Heerema

Matt is a pastor in Ames, Iowa and the owner, director, and web strategist at Mere Agency. He’s been creating websites for 15 years and has developed an expertise in areas of web strategy, information architecture, usability, front-end development, and project management.

Check out these posts:

• I Made You a Freelancing Rate Calculator
  The worst part about contract work is knowing how to charge for your services. Here’s a great tool to help you put a dollar amount on your work.
• Shutting Off the Email Firehose
  It seems like the more tech work you do, the more you end up on email lists. Here’s some tips to overcome being inundated with emails.
• Joy in Bi-Vocational Ministry
  Most people working in the church are volunteers or making part-time pay for a lot of time and effort. Is joy possible in bi-vocational ministry? Absolutely.