Most churches record sermons and make them available online. However, the current process of recording and publishing sermons requires extra software, sometimes extra computers or equipment, and certainly extra hours.
Stop creating more work for your staff
The process of recording and publishing sermons is clunky and time-consuming. Someone has to start and stop the recording, save the file, edit the audio and finally upload the sermon to the web. This can take hours. More often though, the pastor is preaching the next message by the time last week’s sermon is published.
Record your sermons with a click
When you record your sermons in Proclaim, you can add start and stop recording cues directly into your order of service. With the cues in place, the recording starts and stops automatically as you advance through slides. No more forgetting to start the recording! Want to make sure you only record the sermon? Set up the cues around the sermon slides. Want to record the audio for sermon, a section of announcements, but omit the meet and greet section? You can! Set up the start and stop cues throughout your service and Proclaim will automatically record (or not record) as many sections of your service as you need.
Publish your recorded sermons right away
When your service is over, you can publish the sermon instantly. Just add a title, description, and sermon art if you want it. Without ever leaving Proclaim, you can even trim unwanted audio. With a click, you can upload the sermon to your church’s Faithlife group, share it on social media, or send it to iTunes. You can also embed a free widget on your church website that automatically updates to show the latest sermon as soon as it’s published.
And here’s the best part: the sermons you record are more than just audio. Proclaim records your audio with the corresponding slides from the presentation! Your pastor spends time making relevant slides each week—they contain valuable information—don’t let them go to waste.
See it in action
We recently used Proclaim to record a talk given by Michael S. Heiser about his latest book, Supernatural. You can listen to the talk below and get an idea of what your published sermon will look like.
Learn more about Supernatural, by Michael S. Heiser at ReadSupernatural.com.
Get started for free
Try Proclaim free for 30 days—no credit card required. Just download the app, sign in with your free Faithlife account, and try it for yourself. Recording and publishing sermons just got easier.
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Wow, that is awesome. Great improvement Proclaim team.
Sounds just like using audacity, pasting some audio for contact info and saving there mp3 to my iTunes publishing folder. Except my solution is free
Hi Michael,
Thanks for taking the time to read the article! Yes, Audacity is free. But what Audacity does cost you (or your volunteers) is the time that it takes to edit the audio and upload the sermon to the web. Not to mention adding starting/stopping the recording to the sound technicians already full plate of responsibilities. It often takes churches a few days to make their sermon audio available to the congregation.
With Proclaim, the recording process is automated, publishing to the web is instant, and the end result is more than just sermon audio—it’s audio synced with slides.
You should try Proclaim (it’s free for 30 days) and compare the two. Would be glad to hear your thoughts!
-Andre, Proclaim Team
Having been the person responsible in recent years for editing with Audacity and uploading to the web, I can vouch for the time it takes to do the process properly.
A 40 minute sermon can easily take double that to do the job properly.
And when you have a full-time day job and a family, that is time that is nice to have back. Well done, Proclaim!
Do you have a video showing start to end in what it takes?
Robert,
Great question. Here’s a link to a post that includes a how-to video: http://blog.proclaimonline.com/2015/10/21/introducing-sermon-audio/
This post covers podcasting sermons to iTunes: http://blog.proclaimonline.com/2015/11/02/monday-minute-podcasting-sermons/
Did those links help?
-Andre
How much does it cost to use proclaim? Does it include podcast?
Please advise.
John
HI John,
You can find pricing information here: http://proclaimonline.com/pricing
Podcasting is really easy with Proclaim.
Here’s a how-to guide: http://blog.proclaimonline.com/2015/11/02/monday-minute-podcasting-sermons/
Does that help?
-Andre, Proclaim Team
Is there a way to add an introduction and outro onto the podcast once the sermon is recorded and ready for uploading?
Hi Lamont. At this time, there isn’t a way to do this in Proclaim unless the intro/outro is already part of your service. This is definitely on the list of improvements we’d like to make in the future though. Thanks for asking!