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Notes from Displayte on screens, kids’ ministry and Sunday mornings.
- How to set up a church lobby screen that runs by itself
A lobby screen that runs itself: what to put on it, how long each picture should stay up, and how to keep it current without a weekly chore.
- The volunteer test: can someone new change your church screens?
Hand your screens to a first-time volunteer, ask them to change one room, and don’t help. What to watch for, and how to set up so they pass.
- Worship software or separate screens for your lobby and kids’ rooms?
Your worship software runs the sanctuary well. Should it run the lobby and kids’ rooms too? A fair way to decide, by who is in each room.
- A ten-minute weekly routine for your church screens
Ten minutes a week keeps every church screen right for Sunday: add what’s new to the Library, make this Sunday’s presentation, take last week’s off, and check.
- What church screens really cost, per screen
The whole cost of screens in your kids’ rooms and lobby: the device behind each TV, the software, and what to budget for one, three or six rooms.
- Memory verse slides kids can read from the back row
How to make memory verse slides children can read from the back of the room: one verse, big type, the reference small, and the same slide in every room.
- What to put on the screens in your kids’ rooms
A Sunday in the kids’ rooms, screen by screen: the welcome, the story, the memory verse, the song words and pickup. One presentation, ready by Saturday.
- Will your church screens keep playing when the Wi-Fi drops?
Streaming screens go blank when church Wi-Fi drops; screens that keep their files keep playing. How to tell which you have, and how to test it.
- How to choose display software for your church
Two jobs share one name. Choose software for your kids’ rooms and lobby screens by who runs them at 9:52 on Sunday, not by the feature list.