Creating compelling church resources week after week — sermon series, kids curriculum, worship setlists, graphics — is expensive and time-consuming, especially for smaller churches with limited budgets and volunteer teams. Life.Church Open Network solves this by giving it all away for free: over 100,000 resources used by more than a million pastors, church planters, and leaders worldwide since 2006.^1
A ministry of Life.Church — the largest church in the U.S. by attendance (85,000 weekly across 46 campuses) — Open Network provides sermon outlines, message videos, kids and youth curriculum, worship music, creative media, small group materials, and leadership training, all produced by a staff that lives and breathes local church ministry.^3 The platform also features content from 45 partner organizations including BibleProject, Elevation Church, Alpha, Hillsong, Financial Peace University, and YouVersion.^4 The library is refreshed continually with new sermon series, and the training catalog spans 20 categories — from church planting and online ministry to worship, tech, volunteers, and mental health in ministry (including the "Resilient Ministry" series).^5
Beyond resources, Open Network offers practical ministry training plus a Facebook community group where leaders connect and share ideas.^7 Through YouVersion for Your Church, pastors can create a church profile inside the Bible App to engage their congregation with Plans, Events, and insights all week long.^2 The platform also powers Church Online Platform, a free tool for churches to host live and on-demand services, which has drawn tens of millions of attendees since launching two decades ago.^8
Platforms: Web (no mobile app — resources are downloadable files and streaming video) Pricing: Free (no account required to browse, free account for downloads)
