Sermon Series Planner | Voters

Sermon Series Planner

Chris Thomas

As the preaching pastor, I would love to be able to plan out a whole series with individual sermon titles, dates they relate to, and a short brief. These can then be applied to the service planning.

May 22, 2019

Fergus Semler

I suspect people would like to add all sorts of things to the service rosters

eg Bible reading passages linked to the reader, so they can have that come to them in email reminders etc
eg any special note to people on catering roster for a particular day
eg special setup requirements for special service

so without detracting from the need for a sermons section (which I think is a great idea), perhaps something to generalise this ability to add data to duties would give an even more comprehensive solution

Thomas Hochstetter

Maybe it would even make sense to have whole category called Sermon or Message, which you could drop into a roster like you do it with songs. This then could also read via the API and feed things like ChurchTheme's Church Content plugins for WP.

The mentioned plugin has a great way of organizing series, assign preachers, bible books, themes, etc. https://churchthemes.com/plugins/church-content/

Maria Dacus

Could you just create a service with your info, label it as an "In progress" service type that is set not to show up on the church calendar and then just change the type later when it's ready to be planned out?

Elvanto WPCBC

Excellent idea. Currently we plan on an Excel spreadsheet and then have to transfer the info into Elvanto, so this would save time.