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Go Inside an "At the Movies" experience

At the Movies is a 4-week summertime series where our Senior Pastor, Craig Groeschel, uses movies to illustrate biblical truths. These photos illustrate the hard work and creativity that our campuses exude during this special time of year. If you want to dive deeper into how we do At the Movies, che...

Photography Tutorial: Capturing Baptisms

Baptisms are incredible life-change moments—they deserve to be captured well! In this video training from Life.Church, you will learn how to successfully light, shoot, and edit baptism photos that will forever commemorate an important milestone for every believer. We capture baptisms on photo with...

Creative Media: Beauty by Hand

Here on Open, there are a lot of original resources to browse and download—all of them created by our in-house pastors, videographers, writers, and designers. Let's take a look behind the scenes at the creation of one of our images…and it didn’t involve genius-level Photoshop skills. One of our...

Church Social Media: Volunteers

What could church social media volunteers do? Churches can be run on volunteers, and at Life.Church, we couldn’t do what we do as a ministry without volunteers. But, how do you use volunteers as part of your social media team? Volunteers can play a variety of roles on your social media team, depen...

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Online Tools for Online Ministries

The digital age we live in has empowered the Church to reach more people than ever before. There are a lot of choices out there when it comes to digital tools and tech, and that's a blessing! But, it can be hard to slog through...

Connecting Teams with Digital Signage

Here at Life.Church, we place a strong emphasis on having a vibrant, healthy culture. We don’t want our staff walking around in a fog—we want them equipped and informed. Effectively communicating culture isn’t easy in any organization, but it becomes especially difficult when your locations are sp...

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A Quick-Start Guide to Set Up a Metaverse Church in AltspaceVR

This guide will teach you how to quickly launch a church service in Microsoft’s free virtual reality app, AltspaceVR. Step 1: Create an AltspaceVR account Step 2: Create a Channel for your church Step 3: Click “Schedule an Event” under Events/My Events Step 4: Choose one of the pre-made te...

Is Anyone Listening?

With social media, many people express what’s going on inside their hearts with the same level of transparency as sharing what they had for lunch. “Out too late partying last night = overslept my alarm this morning. Guess I’ll be having ‘car trouble’ again.” “Yay, lunch! It’s burger & fries day!!!...

4 Steps for Creating an Easter Photo Op

Easter is one of the biggest opportunities of the year for your church to share Christ with your community. In addition to the Easter message, worship, and prayers, having a photo-op area is one extra touch that can provide value and community to attenders. When you invite people to take a picture i...

Creating the Best Decorations at Christmas

What's the right balance between big, beautiful decorations and keeping the focus on Jesus at Christmas? Life.Church Campus Pastor Tim shares how he processes the purpose of Christmas decorations and how they can be used to reach more people for Jesus rather than distract at Christmas. If you have...

Church Photography for Any Budget - Unit 10

Whether or not your church has a dedicated photography team, you may be wondering what you should be shooting during your church services, how to do it, or even why it matters. In this training, you’ll hear our best tips for capturing moments through photography at your church. To see the rest of...

Photography Tutorial: Auditorium Photography

Auditoriums are some of the best places to show off how God is moving in your church—but they can be the most difficult to photograph. In this training, Life.Church Staff Photographer Robby Doland shows us how to work with tricky lighting situations and methods for successful auditorium photo editin...

Photography Tutorial: Lobby Photography

The most exciting relational community in your church is happening in lobbies. In this training, Life.Church Staff Photographer Robby Doland walks through how to capture those great moments in your lobby with both natural lighting and flashes....

Scale Your Social Media Through Volunteers - Unit 4

Have you ever found yourself wishing you had more people to help monitor your social media channels and engage with your community? In this training, you’ll hear how we recruit and train a team of social media volunteers at Life.Church. To see the rest of the "Communications for Churches" course,...

Communications for Churches

Welcome to Communications for Churches! Whether you serve as full-time staff or volunteer once a month, this course will help you enhance your church communications strategy and reach more people for Jesus. In this course, Life.Church communications leaders share their strategies for reaching peopl...

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