ProPresenter is the program that puts everything on the big screen during worship — the lyrics, scripture, videos, announcements, and sermon slides — and makes it all flow smoothly. It’s like the control center for what everyone sees on Sunday mornings, both in person and online.

Wirecast is the software we use to livestream our worship services and events. It switches cameras, adds lyrics/titles, inserts clips, and sends a smooth stream to YouTube or Facebook.

Restream sends our livestream to multiple platforms at once (YouTube and Facebook), so we reach more people without extra computers or uploads. Volunteers press “Go Live” once and it goes everywhere.

A large, regularly updated library of motion backgrounds and seasonal sets sized for ProPresenter; keeps services fresh and visually appealing. We can reuse sets if budgets get tight.

Lets people listen to worship by phone (no internet required). Auto-connects our audio to a phone number for live listening and replays.

Pros: Vital access for homebound/elderly; no weekly volunteer work.
Cons: $59/month for a very small audience (currently one consistent listener).

Mass email newsletters with good deliverability and compliant unsubscribe. Templates and reports ensure our messages actually reach inboxes.

Meetings, hybrid meetings, studies, and remote teamwork with video, audio, and screen-sharing — what makes participation possible from home.

Our website host and builder — where pages live (worship info, events, giving). Mobile-friendly, secure, and easy to update. It’s our online front door.

We own and manage the domain saintpauls-ucc.org so people can find us and our official email addresses look professional.

Keeps privacy policy, terms, and cookie notice legally compliant and auto-updated as laws change — important when we collect info via forms.

We create flyers, brochures, worship slides, and social graphics. Nonprofit plan gives Pro features for free.

Professional design/video suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Acrobat) for high-quality print and digital materials.

Checks spelling, grammar, tone, and clarity across newsletters, web posts, emails, and bulletins — an always-available proofreader.

AI assistant for writing, editing, planning, and creating graphics. Drafts blurbs, event descriptions, sermon summaries, reports, and more in minutes.

Professional email, calendars, Drive storage, and Docs/Sheets — all under our domain. Basically our digital office suite, free for nonprofits.

Secure remote access to the church computers (helpful for Sigrid/Jevan) to run ProPresenter, manage files, and update software from off-site.

Windows, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint licensing for the office manager’s workstation (pastors use their own subscriptions).

Licenses that let us project, print, stream, and share worship music.
CCLI: most contemporary praise/worship songs.
OneLicense: traditional hymns, Taizé, liturgical music (GIA, OCP, Augsburg, etc.).