Tools for managing order and elements of service

[mvdavid7]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this, but what kind of tools does your church use to keep track of the order of the service (in the planning stages leading up to sunday)? How does your worship leader let everyone else involved know about what songs will be used in the service?

It seems like a part of the church website that keeps track of the service for that coming sunday, and notifies every worship team member, pastor, sound system team, and anyone else that will have a part in the service anytime someone makes a change would be useful. any thing like that out there?

[tpichler]

www.planningcenteronline.com seems to be a pretty good tool.

[frank]

We use a BBS on the church IP (url is hidden) and have a template with info each participant in the worship services updates...sermon titles, sermon handouts or onscreen info, faith talks, children's sermon topic, baptisms, media info, music at all the services, etc. Works GREAT!

[audioa89]

Planningcenteronline.com is a great tool hard to get everyone on board at first but has alot of good features and its pretty cheap

[Elfman]

+1 for planningcenteronline. Really good stuff.

[tdangelo]

Originally Posted by mvdavid7

.. but what kind of tools does your church use to keep track of the order of the service (in the planning stages leading up to sunday)? How does your worship leader let everyone else involved know about what songs will be used in the service?

Planning Center seems like a great tool and I hear all the time that many churches use it.

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