We recently interviewed Jared Schwyhart, a volunteer media technician for Garnett Assembly of God and Praise Assembly Deaf Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A few months ago, Schwyhart’s church started using Proclaim. Schwyhart has a degree in...
Keep an eye out: on Wednesdays, we’ll be featuring new worship music from the week. We hope that the discovery of new worship music will refresh and aid your worship team and church community. Rush of Fools and Kim Dexter both dropped new...
Today’s guest post is by Rick Muchow, Saddleback Church’s founding worship pastor. Muchow served with Pastor Rick Warren for 25 years, and he has helped train over 150,000 church leaders. Muchow continues to equip and encourage local...
Today’s guest post is by Susan Fontaine Godwin, founder and president of Christian Copyright Solutions—a leading authority on church-music copyrights. She is frequently featured in Christian magazines, where she equips teams and churches to honor...
Today’s guest post is by Susan Fontaine Godwin, founder and president of Christian Copyright Solutions—a leading authority on church-music copyrights. She is frequently featured in Christian magazines, where she equips teams and churches to honor...
Proclaim Church Presentation Software is designed to make your life easier. Stop stressing about last-minute emails. Don’t panic about spontaneous changes in your service. And never wonder again if you chose the right font or if you could have...
Today’s guest post is by Susan Fontaine Godwin, founder and president of Christian Copyright Solutions—a leading authority on church-music copyrights. She is frequently featured in Christian magazines, where she equips teams and churches to honor...
Our “More Than a Song” series is about exploring the value of expressions of worship that move beyond music. Music is a powerful means for praising God, but sometimes we let worship music become our definition of worship, rather than a...
Today’s guest post is by Susan Fontaine Godwin, founder and president of Christian Copyright Solutions—a leading authority on church-music copyrights. She is frequently featured in Christian magazines, where she equips teams and churches to...
It’s Sunday morning. Your 7:10 a.m. worship-team rehearsal was supposed to start at 7:00, but the guitar isn’t coming through the system. Everything was fine during the midweek practice, but now there’s no signal, and it’s crunch...
Proclaim just got a major update, and now there are even more ways to make your presentations awesome. Just in time for Mother’s Day, we’ve added text effects—including pattern overlay—and a variety of text styles to change the look and...
Sound checks can be an area of contention and, let’s face it, frustration. Let’s take back our sound checks and transform them into a time of honoring God and each other. Here are three ways you can improve your sound-check experience: 1. Come...
Perhaps more than any other part of the Bible, the Psalms cut to the heart of human emotion, presenting raw cries of humanity as we interact with God. When joyful, the psalmists break forth in praise of Yahweh. When in anguish, they cry for...
Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus was tortured and killed by the very people he came to save. Three days later, he conquered death and promised eternal life to those who believe. One moment, Jesus’ followers were full of grief. The next, they were full of...
When you subscribe to Proclaim, you don’t have to wait for the “new version” or buy additional software. When we create new features, you get them for free. In December, we announced the On-Screen Bible—a new tool that draws attention to your...
One of the many benefits of presenting with Proclaim is that the accounts you already have with CCLI SongSelect, Planning Center Online, and Graceway Media become even more valuable. Here’s how: CCLI SongSelect If you lead worship or if you’re...
You already have nice slides picked out for Sunday. So why would you pay for more? When you subscribe to Pro Media, you get over 200 packs of slides created by Proclaim’s professional graphic designers—the same team that continually brings you...
“Worship” is a broad term. But all too often, the worship team is perceived as a band. Praising Jesus with our voices is a powerful way to glorify and connect with God—but a worship team is so much more than that. The body of Christ is...
You’ve created your Proclaim group and connected your personal account to it. Now what? Take charge If you’re the one who created the group or purchased the Proclaim On Air license, you are now the group administrator. You are at the helm, and you...
We’ve written a few times about Worship Matters, Bob Kauflin’s seminal work on worship ministry, but it’s just one of several exceptional worship books available on Logos.com. As the Logos edition of this powerful resource nears...
When you use Proclaim, you connect your entire church to a single creative outlet—you can synchronize your services and tap into the creative potential of the whole church body. We’re so confident you’ll love Proclaim that we’re inviting you...
Jason Hickerson had the privilege of talking to Wisdom Moon about the upcoming All About Worship Conference. Wisdom has been involved in worship ministry and songwriting for over 20 years. Wisdom is the founder of free online resources for worship...
As a worship leader, I’m always trying to find a balance between musical excellence and worship-team involvement. Most would agree that we need some standard of musical ability. When your back-up vocalist can’t hold a pitch, it becomes very...
Worship duo Shane & Shane has been making music for more than 15 years, and now they’re cooking up something new called The Worship Initiative. Our own Jason Hickerson recently had the chance to speak with Shane Everett about it. How did...
Most presentations include service items that sprawl out across multiple slides. Songs often require 10 or more slides. Managing these multi-slide service items can be challenging. Thankfully, Proclaim includes some helpful features to make it...
Let these powerful quotes inspire and motivate you as you prepare for this weekend’s services. May you see ministry opportunities around every corner, and may you not grow weary of doing good (Galatians 6:9). “Without worship, we go...
Proclaim makes the tools required to craft brilliant church presentations available to churches of all sizes. But the visual presentation is only half the battle on a Sunday morning. The other half—audio—can be a little more difficult. Here are four...
Every once in a while, we get asked about what would be included in the ideal presentation machine. Usually we refer those questions to our minimum requirements, but that doesn’t really answer the question. Minimum is different than ideal. So...
Everyone in the church—from the administrator to the media director—should be able to create compelling visual presentations. That’s the game-changing idea behind Proclaim. We don’t think you should have to wrestle with your presentation...
The thorn in the side of every sound engineer and worship leader is dealing with their worship center’s terrible acoustics. Many of us worship in old buildings, cathedrals, town halls, cellars, garages, and who knows where else. What we do know is...