VISUAL MEDIA BLOGS

Discover free and low-cost church media on a budget to create beautiful worship visuals you can afford. Learn about Unsplash, MediaShout’s free media packs, and the Shift Worship Media Plan for just $2.83 per Sunday.

Discover how color, fonts, layout, and imagery shape the worship experience. Learn practical design tips for visual media in worship to create church media presentations that focus hearts and minds on God’s Word.

Discover practical tips for using media in sermons. Learn how to improve Scripture slides, visuals, and volunteer workflow to help your congregation engage fully with your message.

Avoid common mistakes churches make with worship slides that distract your congregation. Learn how to fix font, text, timing, and design issues for clear worship visuals.

Learn practical ways to train and retain church volunteers without burnout. Build a healthy volunteer culture with clear expectations, tools, and encouragement.

Learn how to display worship lyrics clearly and effectively using church presentation software. Tips for volunteers, slide design, and timing.

Church presentation software isn’t just for Sunday mornings. Explore 10 creative ways to use it for Bible studies, youth, kids’ ministry, outreach, weddings, and more.

Learn practical tips for recruiting and training church media volunteers without burnout. Build a confident, reliable media team for worship services that lasts.

Discover why reliable church presentation software is essential for worship. Learn how MediaShout 7 helps volunteers and leaders run seamless services with smooth lyrics, Scripture, and media displays.

Every Sunday, pastors preach, worship leaders sing, and the congregation lifts their voices together. But behind it all, in the sound booth or tucked away at a computer, another group is faithfully serving: the church media team. Whether you’re running slides, operating sound, managing lighting, or live streaming, your role...

Best Church Presentation Software for Worship When your congregation gathers, the last thing you want is technology getting in the way. Choosing the best church presentation software ensures that your visuals, lyrics, and Scripture slides support your message instead of distracting from it. Many churches discover that their current church...

When it comes to church presentation software, MediaShout stands out as a strong contender, offering a blend of robust features and surprising simplicity. It's designed to help churches display worship media, lyrics, scriptures, and announcements seamlessly during services and gatherings, all without requiring a technical expert to operate. Key Advantages...

  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...

No matter what operating system you use or whatever projection software your ministry is taking advantage of for your church services, creating a cohesive look and feeling for that presentation is a key proponent to a successful “big screen” display.   As many know, PowerPoint has long been a staple...

There are many ways for churches to be creative with their worship presentation software and stage design. You can freshen up your worship presentations by simply thinking about how you could make them work more cohesively with your church stage design. One of the fun things about working with the...

Worship presentation software has come a long way in the last several years. There’s so much you can do to create eye-catching slides that are easy to read and look great. But one of the most important decisions that go into creating slides for church presentation software is choosing a...

Free motion backgrounds for church presentation software You want media that fits your church’s needs but doesn’t cut into your budget. There are a lot of places to find free church media, but you don’t have to hunt around for them. We already did that for you. Here are 17...

Good Friday commemorates a pivotal moment in history: Christ died and hadn’t risen yet. The wages of sin was on display in Christ’s sacrifice, and the gift of God was still waiting to be revealed in his victory. As your church revisits that sorrowful time on Good Friday, your service...

In today’s constantly developing modern world nothing stands still. Some things that were trending only a few years ago are now obsolete (ie Blockbuster, Palm Pilots, paper maps, telephone landlines, VCR’s, public payphones, long-distance phone charges, CD’s, fax machines, etc). And some things, you would never expect to get traction...

Your church might still be using PowerPoint for services. While PowerPoint has some limitations when used for church, that doesn’t mean that your church presentations can’t look professional. We’ve compiled 10 tips to make your PowerPoint presentations pop—and help you get rid of mistakes that undermine their effectiveness. 1. Use...