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Church & Faith-Based
Media Services

How we serve

Broadcast-Grade Craft.
Built for the Local Church.

Faith communities need a media and technology partner who understands more than just the technical side. They need someone who shows up on Sunday morning when something breaks, and someone who understands the calendar, the culture, and the weight of what the work is for.

Our crew comes from broadcast — NBC News, ESPN, NBCUniversal, LTN Global, and regional television. We bring that level of craft to ministry work without losing sight of who it's actually for. We work with church plants, established churches, and multi-campus ministries across the denominational spectrum.

Think of us as your extended communications team — broadcast-grade staffing without the broadcast-grade hire.

Broadcast-Grade Live Streaming

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Our team comes from broadcast — NBC News, ESPN, NBCUniversal, LTN Global. We bring that same engineering discipline to church live streaming, which is why our streams hold up when most don't. We build and manage streaming infrastructure for churches of every size, from multi-campus megachurches to 150-person plants. We partner with Resi, Vimeo, YouTube, and Church Online Platform, and we use LiveU and AWS for encoding and delivery that performs under real-world conditions.

If your stream drops on Sunday morning, or if your current setup needs a specialist to run it, we can fix that. We design systems your volunteers can actually operate — not the theoretical volunteer who masters everything, but the actual one who has a full-time job and needs a runsheet that just works.

Plan Your Visit Funnel

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Getting new families through the doors on Sunday is the single most measurable outcome in church digital. We build the full Plan Your Visit funnel: ad campaign creative and targeting (Meta, Google, YouTube), the landing page that converts a click into a registered visit, the automated email and text sequence that gets families to actually show up, and the Monday-morning follow-up that turns first-time guests into second-time guests.

For church plants and grand openings, we run launch campaigns that fill the first service. For established churches, we run recurring monthly visitor campaigns that consistently bring new families. The strategy looks different at each scale — the senior team handling it does not.

Google Ad Grant Management

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Google gives eligible 501(c)(3) churches up to $10,000 per month in free Google Ads. Most churches that qualify either haven't applied or aren't using their grant — running unfocused campaigns that burn the budget without generating visitor interest, or losing the grant entirely to non-compliance.

We handle the full grant lifecycle: eligibility and application, properly structured campaigns targeting people in your community searching for a church, ongoing optimization for click-through and conversion, and the maintenance work Google requires to keep the grant active. When the grant is run right, it's the single highest-ROI line item in church digital.

Church Website Design

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Church websites have to answer the five questions a first-time visitor actually has: Where are you? When are services? What will it feel like? Who's the pastor? Is there childcare? Most church websites bury that information under mission statements and ministry lists.

We build custom WordPress sites with visitor-first architecture, Planning Center integration (giving, events, groups, Church Center), multi-campus support, sermon libraries structured for SEO, and easy editing tools so non-technical staff can keep content current. We also build dedicated Plan Your Visit landing pages tied to the ad funnel above.

Social Media & Content Creation

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A church's social presence should feel like an extension of the community, not a content calendar being executed by a marketing department. We manage it across Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube — with a real strategy built around your sermon series, events, and community stories.

Concrete monthly output: sermon clips pulled and edited for Reels and Shorts, branded series graphics, ProPresenter slide and bumper templates, announcement videos, and a steady stream of social posts in your church's voice. Churches we've worked with include First Baptist Spartanburg, St. James UMC Spartanburg, First Baptist Indian Trail, and the South Carolina Baptist Convention.

Media Production

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Broadcast-grade craft applied to ministry work. Sermon series graphics packages, sermon clips for social, ministry films for capital campaigns and anniversaries, event coverage for Easter and Christmas productions, and documentary work for telling your congregation's story.

Our crew has worked in faith-based media for years and knows the culture, the calendar, and how to show up on a Sunday morning without disrupting the community we're there to serve.

Worship Technology, Platforms & Sermonix

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We provide consulting and ongoing support for Planning Center, ProPresenter, and church AV infrastructure. If you're implementing a new platform, training volunteers, or trying to figure out why the current setup isn't working, we can help. We also handle ongoing technical support for churches without in-house IT — remote support, on-site visits, and infrastructure management at a ministry budget.

For church planters and small-staff churches, we also built Sermonix: eight Slack-native AI tools for sermon prep, sermon-to-social, weekly newsletter, guest follow-up, devotionals, small group guides, image generation, and open-ended questions. Tuned to your church via a one-time profile. $49/seat/month, first 3 months free during beta. It's the operational AI we built for the church we'd want to plant ourselves.

Who We Serve

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We work with churches across the denominational spectrum — Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, nondenominational, Pentecostal, Catholic, and independent. We serve church plants in their first six months, established churches that need to modernize, and multi-campus ministries that need infrastructure across locations.

Based in South Carolina, working with churches across the country. We bring broadcast craft to ministry work, not the other way around.

150%

Social media engagement growth for a regional church in 30 days

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Contract clients who stayed 1+ year and had a negative ROI — zero, ever

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Month-one social growth at a broadcast station using our video strategy

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Years working alongside faith communities and ministries

Let's Serve Your Community Together

Whether you're a 100-person plant or a multi-campus church, we'd love to talk about how we can support your mission with better media and technology.

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Church Live Streaming Guides

Market-specific guides on getting your church online — equipment, platforms, staffing, and what it actually costs.

How to Get Your Church on Live Stream

The complete guide — from a $500 webcam setup to a full broadcast rig.

Church Live Streaming — South Carolina

SC-specific: platforms, costs, and what churches in this market are using.

Church Live Streaming — Charlotte, NC

What churches in the Charlotte metro need to stream effectively.

Church Live Streaming — Atlanta, GA

Atlanta churches face high production expectations. Here's what the market demands.

Church Live Streaming — Dallas, TX

A guide built around the Dallas-area faith community and what streaming actually costs there.

Church Live Streaming — New York, NY

NYC faith communities have unique streaming challenges. This guide covers the specifics.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Can you work within a church or nonprofit budget?

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Yes — and we're transparent about it. We offer tiered service models for faith-based and nonprofit clients, and we'll tell you clearly what's possible within your budget. We don't try to sell a $20,000 website to a church that needs a $5,000 one.

Our streaming keeps failing on Sunday mornings. Can you fix it?

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Usually yes. Most church streaming failures trace back to one of a few causes: bandwidth issues, encoder configuration, or hardware past its lifespan. We diagnose it, fix what we can, and give you a clear recommendation if new equipment is needed.

Do you integrate with Planning Center?

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Yes. We build WordPress sites with Planning Center integration — online giving, event registration, service times, and group finder. We also support Church Center and other Planning Center-connected tools.

Can you train our volunteers to run production?

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Yes. We design systems with volunteer operators in mind — simple enough that a non-technical team member can run Sunday morning confidently, with enough capability to grow as your congregation does.

How do churches grow their online presence and reach more people?

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Consistent presence across the right channels, sermon content repurposed for social media, a website people can actually navigate, and a live stream that doesn't fail on Sunday mornings. We've helped a Spartanburg-area church grow social engagement by 150% in 30 days. The foundation is always the same: good content, reliable technology, and a clear digital strategy.

What is a realistic budget for church digital marketing?

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It depends on what you need. A basic social media management package starts modestly; a full-service engagement with website, streaming infrastructure, and social runs higher. We scope honestly based on your congregation size, goals, and resources — and we'll tell you directly if a service isn't worth the cost for your situation.

Do you work with multi-site churches?

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Yes. We have experience with multi-campus environments — coordinating streaming, content distribution, and digital presence across multiple locations. Every campus gets the same level of attention.

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