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Igniter Media

Igniter Media is a pioneering church media platform offering 800,000+ curated creative assets across 16 types — from sermon graphics and worship backgrounds to mini movies and stock music — trusted by 145,000+ churches since 2003. Now part of publicly traded Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO). Creator AI, an AI-powered graphic design tool included in every membership, lets churches generate custom graphics from natural language prompts.

Nucleus

Premium all-in-one church website builder with sermon management, conversational Flows, a private Prayer Wall, online giving (no percentage taken), the signature Launcher, the Posts feature for ministry content, and Planning Center + Zapier integrations. Built by Brady Shearer (Pro Church Tools), used by 4,000+ churches, and featured in Forbes and Christianity Today. Also offers free website makeovers with professional photography. Actively developed with regular release notes.

Sermon Central

The world's largest free sermon research library — with AI-powered sermon outlines, research assistants, and funeral sermon generators, plus a free sermon editor, built-in Bible reading tool, and Barna-backed church flourishing resources — equipping 250,000+ church leaders weekly in 100+ countries to preach with excellence.

Church Visuals by Ministry Designs

Free library of 80,000+ church media assets — sermon bundles, motion backgrounds, social graphics, countdown timers — with new content added regularly. No subscription or credit card required. From Ministry Designs, co-owned by Tyler and Vinnie Rominger and serving 67,000+ churches since 2012.

Sites by Ministry Designs

A church-specific website builder and management platform trusted by 67,000+ churches worldwide, featuring drag-and-drop design kits, built-in online giving and SEO, a free library of 80,000+ church graphics plus a premium graphics storefront, a Small Groups Manager, and an optional fully managed website service — founded by Tyler and Vincent Rominger in Battle Creek, MI (2013).

Cultivate Leadership Institute

A faith-based leadership development institute offering structured two-year tracks for churches, Christian businesses, and individuals — combining biblical teaching, emotional intelligence, and character formation through their custom digital platform, Develop.Me, with academic partnerships for transfer credits at SEU, Manna University, and Colorado Christian University.

Cathopic

The world's largest Catholic stock media platform with 48,000+ royalty-free photos, artworks, and AI-generated images plus 5,400+ videos and 1,000+ vectors by 2,300+ Catholic creators across 160 countries, serving 104,000+ users including 174+ dioceses worldwide. Features API access, a public domain historical Christian art library, bilingual (English/Spanish) search, and is part of the Dimconex Media family alongside Holydemia, Mater Coeli, Tolkian, and Christicons.

Paper Bible

A free, open-source web tool by Gracious Tech for printing customized Scripture booklets in 800+ languages — at home or professionally. Founded by Jon Here in Sydney, Australia, it offers four one-click formats and deep layout customization for small groups, missions, personal study, or church handouts.

Lessons.Church

Free, open-source church curriculum platform with 1,100+ video-based lessons for preschool through adult from 12+ providers. Built by ChurchApps (Live Church Solutions), now serving 15,000+ churches in 130+ countries. Summer 2026 added three new NextLevel adult studies (Discipleship, Evangelism, Zephaniah); companion FreePlay TV app, presenter mode, comparison pages against paid alternatives, and no login required to browse.

Ministry Pass

Ministry Pass is an all-in-one sermon resource library for pastors, offering 25,000+ resources including 2,000+ sermon series with graphics, videos, illustrations, talking points, and small group questions — plus Sermonary (with Sermonary Plus) for sermon writing, Churchly for church websites, My Devotionals for branded daily discipleship content with reading plans and family devotionals, a drag-and-drop Series Planner, and strategic preaching calendars to plan your year. The Ministry Minute podcast (now at Episode 52), Hello Church!, and Preaching Through round out a growing media ecosystem.

Church Motion Graphics

A ministry-focused design studio offering 14,000+ worship backgrounds, 30,000+ slide templates, social graphics, and creative tools like TempoMatch, Designer, Pro Builder, and Remix — serving over 20,000 churches in 90+ countries since 2010. Now includes a full children's ministry curriculum (elementary + preschool) through its Premium + Kids tier, as part of the Ministry Brands family.

Sermon Send

Sermon Send transforms each sermon into a branded, shareable page with clips, devotionals, summaries, and reflections — all in one link, powered by AI through its Sermon Shots Suite integration. Part of a suite trusted by 9,000+ churches since 2022.

Pastors.AI

AI-powered platform that turns church sermons into Bible studies, devotionals, social media clips (with one-click posting), embeddable chatbots, and real-time translations — all from a YouTube link or uploaded manuscript.

AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis

A grounded, crisis-safe AI assistant that turns a church's own published content into a 24/7 "front door" — answering visitors and members from the church's words, citing sources, and routing care and crisis to real people. Web-only SaaS built by Vision Genesis AI (Knoxville, TN), founded by a former youth minister; live free for churches for 60 days, then flat monthly tiers.

CareNote

A pastoral care platform helping 800+ care teams track visits, prayer requests, and follow-ups — with SMS volunteer coordination, 14 ChMS integrations (plus a Notebird migration path), AI-powered Care Story briefings and Report Builder, Care Table meal coordination, a Care Number voicemail-to-request line, Huddle volunteer workspace, S.H.A.P.E. spiritual gifts matching, PII scrubbing, two-step verification, a morning Daily Beacon report, and Spanish/Dutch localization. By Rev. Donnell Wyche of Ann Arbor Community Church.

Foster the City

A free app for churches partnering with Foster the City, connecting Foster Parents, Support Friends, and Advocates through shared calendars, prayer requests, messaging, an Inspiration and Hope screen, and curated foster care resources. Since launching in 2015, the movement has grown to 368 partner churches, 527 foster families, and 1,117 children welcomed into loving homes — with foster family retention nearly double the national average.

Church Media Squad

Unlimited custom graphic design, video editing, branding, websites, and sermon-based social media management for churches — delivered by a remote team of 70+ ministry-minded creatives across 9 countries with a 14-day free trial. Three-time Inc. 5000 honoree (2023-2025) serving 2,500+ churches.

Voco

Voco streams live speech-to-text sermon translation into 157+ languages via a QR code, letting multilingual congregations follow along on their own phones without an app or hardware.

Open Network

The largest free church resource library in the world — 35,000+ resources from Life.Church (the largest church in the U.S. by attendance) and 44 partner ministries. Sermon series, kids/youth curriculum, worship music, leadership training, and creative media. Serving 1M+ pastors worldwide since 2006; celebrating 20 years in 2026. Completely free, web-based (no mobile app).

Reach The Lost

Reach The Lost is a Colorado Springs church marketing agency that helps churches win Google and AI search through Google Ad Grant management, local SEO, paid ads, AEO, Meta Ads, and YouTube Ads — serving 55+ churches across 24 states, plus a Promoting Pastor service for individual pastors' platforms.

MinistryHelper.ai

AI-powered platform that turns a single sermon into 30 pieces of discipleship and outreach content — video clips, social posts, devotionals, study guides, kids lessons, and coaching reports — all written in the pastor's own voice and calibrated to the church's theology. Two free, no-account tools (Instant Sermon Quiz and Instant Devo) let anyone sample the platform before subscribing.

Pastor Notes App

A church engagement platform that lets pastors share sermon notes, run live polls and Q&A, collect prayer requests, and present a "Follow Jesus" prompt — connecting with their congregation through the companion Bible Notes app. Tiered subscription by congregation size with a 14-day money-back guarantee and invoicing for churches; a ministry partnership program supports global Bible translation and missions. iOS and Android; maintained by Australian developer Concierge Contacts Pty Ltd. Updated July 2026.

ICF EQUIP

Free resource-sharing platform from the ICF church movement offering sermon series, ministry manuals, leadership videos, job descriptions, and small group studies — part of ICF Digital's growing suite of church tools serving 71 locations and 95 micro churches across 12 countries.

FrontDoor

A free church outreach platform from Stackhouse Ventures that provides Bible-based resources, landing pages, embeddable widgets, and automated email follow-up to help churches connect with their community. Co-founded by Michael Lukaszewski (ex-Church Fuel) and Kenny Jahng (AI for Church Leaders); completely free with all features included.

ActiveChristianity

A free web library from Brunstad Christian Church with 1,194+ articles, 226 testimonies, 120 videos, 33 curated playlists, and a 67-episode "Living the Gospel" podcast archive (recorded 2019–2021) — all focused on one conviction: that genuine Christianity means actively living out God's Word through victory over sin and personal transformation. Available in English, French, Chichewa, and Swahili via Africa-focused sister sites, with the publisher's 1912-founded Hidden Treasures archive recently opened at hiddentreasures.org.

SundayU

An online training platform and resource hub for church communications leaders, offering 300+ video classes, certification courses, done-for-you design resources, and an annual planning system. Founded by Justin Dean in 2017 and acquired by Sylva, Inc. in 2021; Dean has since launched a newer companion platform, SaltyChurches.com.

NextSteps by Jesus Film Project

A free interactive journey builder from Jesus Film Project that lets ministries create shareable digital gospel experiences with video, polls, and branching stories — with AI translation into ~80 languages, AI image generation, a built-in analytics dashboard, and access to 200+ films in 2,296 languages plus The Bible Project content.

Church Canvas

Church Canvas is an AI creative team for church ministry — describe the graphic you need in plain language and get professional sermon slides, social posts, event banners, and more in seconds. Used by 11,000+ churches and ministries worldwide, with seven AI models including Nano Banana 2 Lite and Nano Banana Pro.

Lightstock

The largest faith-based stock media marketplace — 350K+ photos, videos, and design elements curated for Christian creatives by almost 2,000 contributors. Founded by twin brothers Jon and Josh Bailey (creators of the Dwell app), now part of publicly traded Gloo via The Igniter Company. Trusted by Christianity Today, LifeWay, The Gospel Coalition, GuideStone, Outreach, Relevant, and thousands of churches worldwide.

Playlister

Playlister is a cloud-based Kids Ministry presentation app that streams curriculum and media to Apple TVs, replacing USB drives and ProPresenter in classrooms. Trusted by 10,000+ churches in 53 countries with direct Orange curriculum integration and the Church-to-Church content sharing feature (launched May 2026 with the free CKids Curriculum, now ranked among Playlister's top five recommended curricula). The Apple TV app remains under active development, shipping new releases through August 2026 (v7.18 era). Recent multi-campus case studies include The Church of Eleven22 (13 campuses) and Red Rocks Church.

Divinav AI

DiviNav AI generates complete, ready-to-teach ministry lesson kits aligned to your church's statement of faith, with built-in theology, plagiarism, and sensitivity review. Built by the Wurster family behind the DiviNav Bible-study curriculum line in Donnelly, Idaho.