Rethinking Church Graphics (Bonus: 9 Free Sermon Series Graphics)

The following is a guest post from Dan Irmler, the founder of ProChurch. Dan is working to help churches with their graphics needs, and he gave me some awesome sermon series graphics to give you all for FREE!

Familiar Problems

Hi! I’m Dan, the lead graphic designer at ProChurch.com. Over the last several years, I’ve talked to hundreds of pastors and ministry leaders about graphic design. In these conversations, I noticed that a lot of churches had similar struggles.

• “Photoshop is too complicated and seems excessive for what I need.”
• “Our church can’t afford to hire a graphic designer.”
• “Freelance designers are inconsistent and they’re not very good at communication.”
• “I don’t have time to be a pastor AND a graphic designer.”

Sound familiar? Solving these problems is going to require something new, something different. We think we have that something…

Intuitive Solutions

ProChurch Studio

ProChurch Studio is an online library of graphic designs pre-formatted to many different print and digital products. Our library of designs currently includes designs formatted as screen graphics, website banners, social media graphics, church invitations, banners, postcards, door hangers, welcome booklets, connection cards, letterhead, envelopes, business cards, logos, offering envelopes, and gospel tracts. The best part is, you can customize all of these designs right in your browser with a simple online editor.

Just point and click to change text and use your own images. Once you’ve customized a design, you can download the files to your computer or order printing through our website. No Photoshop, no big budget, no going back and forth with a designer, and no design skills needed.

Example use case: Choose an “Easter” graphic from our library to promote your Easter events. Download screen graphics, web graphics, and social media graphics to use for promotion and visual aid. Order the Easter design as a banner that you can display in your church, and order the same design as a postcard that you can mail out to your community.

ProChurch Splash

ProChurch Splash is an online tool you can use to create unlimited standalone web pages for conferences, camps, sermon series, and digital bulletins. Truthfully, the pages you create can be used for anything, but these are the use cases we had in mind. This isn’t a website builder (unless you want a one-pager), but rather a specialized tool used to build web pages that stand on their own to promote something specific and/or collect information from visitors.

The beauty of Splash is that you don’t have to be a web developer or have a ton of spare time to create awesome looking web pages. It’s incredibly easy to modify an existing template, and you can even create mobile friendly pages without touching a single line of code. The thousands of graphics found on ProChurch Studio are already uploaded to an image gallery within Splash that you can insert on your website in just a few clicks.

Example use case: Choose a “digital bulletin” template to modify with your church’s information such as contact info, upcoming events, announcement video, and more. Use the visitor section of the page to collect your visitors’ email addresses and other contact info that you can use to follow up with them later. People are using their smart phones to do everything. Why not put your bulletin in digital format that they can interact with on their phone?

Earn a free membership!

We’re planning to launch ProChurch Studio and ProChurch Splash in the Fall of 2016. Leading up to the launch, we’re offering a way for you to earn a free 12 month ProChurch membership that will give you full access to our online apps.

It’s simple. Go to ProChurch.com and sign up to the waiting list to get early access to our apps. After you enter your email address, we’ll create a unique link that you can share with other pastors and ministry leaders. If you get 5 people to sign up to the waiting list, you’ll get a free 12 month ProChurch membership when we launch!

Head over to ProChurch.com to sign up and earn a free 12-month membership.

Bonus: Free Sermon Series Graphics

While we’re working on finishing our apps, we’d like to give away 9 of our sermon series graphics that you can modify and use however you would like. We’ve included JPEGs (with and without the title text) PSD files (for those who know how to use Photoshop), and we’ve also included the open source fonts used in the designs. Enjoy!