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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Christy Whitley Conant says
November 3, 2015 at 11:05 pmWow, that is awesome. Great improvement Proclaim team.
Michael says
November 3, 2015 at 3:50 pmSounds just like using audacity, pasting some audio for contact info and saving there mp3 to my iTunes publishing folder. Except my solution is free
Andre Kazadayev says
November 3, 2015 at 5:38 pmHi 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
Ian says
November 5, 2015 at 6:27 pmHaving 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!
Robert Blannin says
November 9, 2015 at 12:27 pmDo you have a video showing start to end in what it takes?
Andre Kazadayev says
November 9, 2015 at 4:00 pmRobert,
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
John Ojewole says
November 4, 2015 at 10:06 pmHow much does it cost to use proclaim? Does it include podcast?
Please advise.
John
Andre Kazadayev says
November 5, 2015 at 9:29 amHI 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
lamont says
September 10, 2016 at 7:37 amIs there a way to add an introduction and outro onto the podcast once the sermon is recorded and ready for uploading?
Ryan Nelson says
September 12, 2016 at 10:00 amHi 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!
Brian Parks says
April 26, 2019 at 9:26 amWe publish sermons that include live video feed from an HD camera as well as audio; currently using CyberDirectorPro to do so. Does Proclaim support audio and live video (not presentation video slides but actual video of my pastor at the pulpit) recording in this amazing automated process. BTW… this is the one reason we don’t use the recording option on our existing Proclaim, which we currently use only for the presentations.