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There are 3 church slideshow mistakes you HAVE to avoid in 2024 and beyond. Some of these recommendations are basic tips whereas others will help permanently prevent freezing and crashing issues from ever taking place. You won’t want to miss these 3 Church Slideshow Mistakes to Avoid in 2024! Church...

  Easter Sunday is coming up, are you ready? There’s a lot to do in the weeks leading up to Easter. Here are 11 things that we think might help you as you build your services in your church presentation software.   1) Make It Special and Keep It Focused...

One of the most beautiful things that the Lord has ever done, or ever chooses to do is to place us on this earth with the ability to create, shape, and cultivate the world around us. You can see just how amazing our God is at creating when you’re driving...

Whether you are the media minister, technical director, or church volunteer, there is so much you can do with your church presentation software to bring a touch of creativity to your worship services. Church presentation software allows you to choose Bible verses from a built-in library and find songs for...

Finding the Best Church Presentation Software Have you ever searched for ProPresenter contact information? Do you know where to look to call EasyWorship? Have you ever compared MediaShout, Propresenter, and EasyWorship? It can be difficult to get in touch with companies when you need them most, but we've done the...

Multi screen presentations can offer a lot of flexibility to your church service. If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of multi screen presentations, it’s simply showing different media on more than one screen. This could mean having multiple screens that your congregation sees, or it could mean having one screen...

It’s easy to think church presentation software is a tool for large or mid-size American churches and worship services - those  with vocational worship pastors and large teams of tech volunteers. Buying a software solution  might seem like a symbol of reaching a certain level of attendance or spare room...

    (Watch the recording of a webinar from March 26, 2020)Because MediaShout worship presentation software integrates with a wide range of media files and hardware, we often are asked about streaming and live streaming options by our customers. And while our worship software can certainly play a major role...

There is an overwhelming number of products to choose from when it comes to church presentation software these days!  Back in 1999, church services had one choice: PowerPoint.  Then, on March 8, 2000, if you were looking for better software for your church, your world was changed radically with the...

A question we've heard many church and lay leaders ask is, "How can we use today's technology to better facilitate our Sunday services?" Or, "What can we do with media to enhance a sermon or help attendees engage in worship?" Engagement in the modern church, while certainly driven by the...

As tools have become more readily available and lower cost, we have found over the last year a number of churches moving toward streaming their services.  In fact, many of our churches have chosen BoxCast as their streaming service provider, mainly because it is easy to setup and use and...

Guest Contributor: Brett Bzdafka from BoxCast   Easter is unlike any other time for your ministry, and that’s not an understatement.   No other time better represents the culmination of the gospel like Easter. Easter is all about the resurrection, and so Paul put it this way: “If Christ has...

How many computers can I install MediaShout on? What's the difference between the Single License and the Site License? All of these questions are addressed below. Understanding The Licensing System   a. When you purchase MediaShout 7, your license determines how many activations and bibles you get. - If you...

Is the sky falling? Really??   If you’ve seen the message shown above when booting up your computer recently, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that your system very likely has all of the Windows Updates installed. The bad news is that there won’t be...

One could argue that the sheer number of churches still using PowerPoint is a sign of its usefulness as worship software. And while it’s definitely a tool that can get the job done in most churches, one needs to ask: is it the best tool? Church presentations have their own...

  Flight, in general, has always fascinated me.  I remember being around 3 years old, and my father bringing home a good-sized hobbyist helicopter that he would fly around in our backyard in our small Indiana town.  I would sit in amazement. In elementary school, I remember wanting to be...

MediaShout teamed up with BoxCast, a live video streaming solution geared specifically for churches back in 2017. Since then streaming services from  the church has become radically important.  Boxcast gives you and your ministry’s live services that much-needed ability to keep you and your community connected through the “digital world”...

They’re both building slides for church services. Ryan’s stuck on Powerpoint but for his software solution, Mike’s using the all-new MediaShout 7. With 70 Bibles, pre-built lyric slides, Sermon Builder, Presenter View, and flexible editing, MediaShout is clearly the winner for church presentation software. It’s easy and it’s FAST! Mike...

When you’re making decisions about what equipment your church needs to run presentations, you have a lot to consider. Beyond choosing the presentation software that's right for your church, you have to decide on hardware that fits your needs—AND your church's budget. This is no easy task. To help make this...

(This blog was originally created by CCLI. We added this blog to our site with CCLI's permission.) May 3, 2021 “Can we show YouTube videos in our church?” remains one of our most frequently asked questions. And no wonder. Video sharing websites such as YouTube offer a treasure trove of...