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Free Christmas Graphics & Media for Your Church!
Creating custom Christmas graphics for churches can be costly and time-consuming. That’s why we’ve created a free Christmas Media Kit just for churches!
6 Reasons Why Every Church Needs Recurring Giving
What is recurring giving, and why is it the best way to ensure your community doesn’t miss an opportunity to faithfully give?
50 Inspirational Sunday Quotes for Pastors
Finding effective Sunday quotes to share often takes a lot of time. So we’ve compiled 50 quotes for you to inspire your congregation!
Questions Every Pastor Should Ask about Technology
Never before have churches and church leaders needed to exist in two realms simultaneously: in person and online. So if this is the reality for today’s pastors, how do they create a space that’s less jarring and more focused on the distinct mission of their church community?
Church Database Software—A Practical Guide for More Effective Ministry
How can your church effectively manage all of their information
like finances, volunteers, events, members, etc.? Finding the right church database software can save your church time and money.
Digital Discipleship—What It Is & How It’s Done
What exactly is “digital discipleship,” how does it work, and what does it look like when it’s done successfully?
17 Best Church Management Software Features for a Thriving Church
You want to build disciples—not manage databases. The “missing piece” that makes everything work together is finding the best church management software (or ChMS) for your ministry.
The Drop Recap—New Features for the Future of Connection!
We were so excited to showcase our latest releases and our biggest announcements ever at our summer product event, and we can’t wait to continue sharing what we’ve been working on!
Religious Persecution in Afghanistan: How to Pray & Take Action
Religious liberty is a God-given right for all people everywhere. So how do we begin to understand what’s happening in Afghanistan—and what can we do about it?
A Complete Guide to Church Management Software (ChMS)
Simple-to-use church management software programs can help your church be more organized, while also serving as a powerful tool to create more and better disciples.
Why Do Christians Create? A Theology of Making
One fundamental aspect of being human is to create—to live out a sense of “making.” So how can Christians cultivate creativity and recover this innate aspect of being human?
36 Bible Verses About Discipleship Every Pastor Needs to Know
What is discipleship, and where can it be found in the Bible? Let’s explore what it means to be a disciple and uncover lessons we can learn from scriptures on discipleship.
65 Impactful Bible Verses About Money
Studying these Bible verses about money can give us a healthy view of money, turning our selfishness into selflessness and our greed into generosity.
How to Write the Perfect Church Thank-you Letter for Donations
Find out why it’s important to send church donation letters thanking your givers, how to write them, and the best times to send them.
Our Biggest Product Event Yet Is Right Around the Corner!
You don’t want to miss this! Save your spot today for the next Subsplash product event on July 27, 2021!
15 Powerful Sermons on Giving—Inspiration for Pastors
If you’re a pastor preparing your next money-related sermon, take some time to watch these powerful sermon videos to get inspired!
6 Principles of Stewardship in the Bible
Check out these verses about stewardship and learn the practical lessons they can teach us today.
Pros and Cons of Church Texting Services
Find out how to equip your church community to experience effortless communication that builds real connections.
How to Run a Successful Church Capital Campaign
Learn how to raise church capital to help your church thrive and grow!
5 Proven Strategies for Encouraging Church Giving
Discover 5 proven strategies used by pastors to make talking about giving more exciting and more effective!
Virtual Church Services: A How-to Guide for Engaging Your Church Community Online
Find tips for building a virtual church online community that will keep your members engaged all week long.
New! Subsplash Media Now Has Live Stream Trimming
We’re excited to announce media trimming, an all-new feature that makes your live streaming experience even simpler!
Creative Social Media Ideas & Tips for Churches
Check out these new ideas for making more engaging church posts.
Church Finances: 10 Best Practices Every Pastor Should Know
Take a look at ten church accounting practices that will help you learn the basics of how to manage church finances.
Free Church Graphics & How to Use Them
Take a look at how to find and create effective church graphics, as well as where to use them!
Church Giving Statistics & Trends to Know for 2021
Find the key church giving data to know in 2021, along with what it means for your church.
How to Write Church Announcements
Take a look at the qualities of effective announcements, best practices, and the impact these strategies can have on your church community.
501(c)(3) Church FAQs
How do churches become 501(c)(3)s? What are the biggest benefits and disadvantages of 501(c)(3) for churches? Let’s take a look at the most commonly asked questions about 501(c)(3) organizations—and what they might mean for your church.
How to Create a Church Budget
Church budgeting doesn’t have to be complicated. This simple checklist will walk you through each step in the process of building your budget from scratch.
10 Welcome-to-church Ideas to Help Your Visitors Feel at Home
To help your guests feel at home right away, here are ten church welcome ideas you can start using today!
15 Bible Verses about Tithes and Offerings
Take a closer look at tithes and offerings in the Bible, and discover how these passages can improve our understanding of money, stewardship, and giving!
The Best Cameras for Live Streaming Church in 2021
Find the best video cameras of 2021 for live streaming church services with some important considerations to make before buying.
Effective Church Marketing Strategies to Attract Visitors
Marketing your church is believing that your message is worth telling, and then sharing it with the world through a variety of communication channels.
Church Connection Cards—Tips & Best Practices for 2021
The fact is that you may only have one opportunity to establish a connection with them while you still have their attention.
How to Find the Best Podcast Hosting for Churches
With the right tools, getting started with your church podcast can be incredibly simple. Find out how!
Introducing Payments—the Latest Addition to Subsplash Giving!
We’re so excited to add Payments to the Subsplash Platform! Learn how your church can accept funds for events, merchandise, and other purchases through your mobile app or website!
Church Communication Tools & Best Practices for 2021
If you’re ready to improve communications for your church, take a look at ten simple and proven best practices that are helping churches create deeper personal connections.
The Downsides of Vimeo and YouTube Video Hosting for Churches
Vimeo and YouTube are big names in tech that have been embraced by creatives and content producers, but there’s a reason they’re not the best choice for churches.
Top 5 Benefits of Online Tithing
Digital tithing is simple to set up and offers many advantages to both church leaders and their donors. Discover the top 5 tithing benefits and how they help your church.
What to Look for in a Church Media Hosting & Streaming Solution
Looking for a way to improve communications in your church? Here’s what every church leader should look for in a communication solution
How to Maximize Your Church’s Year-end Giving
This guide will show you what to communicate for your end-of-year giving campaign and how to get your message across, as well as the best giving tools to maximize your year-end donations.
8 Effective Online Fundraising Ideas for Churches
Now more than ever, online fundraising is essential for churches to fulfill their mission and keep their donors engaged. Discover how virtual fundraisers can enable your community to donate anytime, anywhere.
Best Church Websites of 2020
Searching for inspiration as you update or build your church website? Look no further—here are some of the very best church websites of 2020!
Why Church Branding Matters—and How to Do It
Every church has their own brand, and it matters more than you may think. Here’s why your church’s brand is important, how to discover your current branding, and what steps you can take to build a strong brand.
Finding the Best Church Website Templates
Find out why church website templates are the perfect starting point to build an engaging website for your church!
Engage your community with Roku and Apple TV church apps
Creating a custom TV app for your church is an effective and engaging way to reach your community on their big screens.
How to Create a Church App
Looking to build an app for your church? This step-by-step guide will help you build an effective app that your church community will love!
What’s the Future of Location-based Church Engagement?
Discover the big questions facing church engagement technology right now and how it could impact reaching your audience.
How to Build a Church Website
Thankfully, it can be incredibly simple to set up and maintain a church website. With the right website builder, anyone can do it!
What to Look for in a Church Communication Solution
Good communication is often the difference between vibrant, healthy communities and disengaged ones, and the solution you choose to build connections in your church can either encourage or inhibit authentic engagement.
Choosing the best church app builder
Get helpful insights into how using the right church app builder can increase your reach, encourage generosity, and engage your community like never before.
15 best church app features
Before building your own church app, you should become familiar with the best available app features and how they can help your ministry.
The Best Website Builder for Churches
The best church website builders are powerful, easy-to-use, and built with churches in mind.
Find out what’s most important to look for in a church website builder.
Definitive Guide to Online Giving for Churches
If your church is looking to add digital giving, this guide will help you take a deeper look at the types of online giving, their benefits and costs, as well as how your ministry can choose the best online giving solution.
Zoom for Church Services—What to Look Out For
Due to its numerous issues and limitations, Zoom should not be your go-to live streaming platform for church services. Find out what you should be looking for.
Ultimate Guide to Church Giving Apps
Your guide to church giving apps, how they work, their benefits, features, and how to choose the best church giving app for your church.
Church Live Streaming Glossary—Terms You Need to Know
One of the biggest barriers to entry for churches is understanding live streaming terminology. Learn key terms and exactly what they mean
The Best Online Giving Solution for Small Churches
Find the best online giving solution for your small church and see how easy it is to increase your donations.
Why Facebook Live Is Not Ideal for Churches
Discover the perfect combination of a church-focused giving solution that syndicates with Facebook Live
Cultivating Creativity from Chaos and Conflict
Seasons of uncertainty can be difficult. Yet, out of these moments can come creative ideas that generate positive changes
How to Set Up Live Streaming for Your Church
Learn the three crucial steps to follow when setting up your church’s live stream
The Essential Guide to Text-to-Give for Churches
Discover how text-to-give works and how it can benefit your church
Client Spotlight: Reach Church
Check out our Client Spotlight—Reach Church—and how they’re engaging their community
5 Things Every Church Should Consider Before Gathering
How you connect with your church has changed. Here are five of those changes that will impact your church as they resume in-person gatherings.
How Being Intentional Keeps People Connected
Henry and Alex Seeley, lead pastors of The Belonging Co., recently joined our podcast to share how they’re witnessing more people seek the church and connect with gospel-centered content since the onset of the current global pandemic.
4 Tips for Increasing Website Engagement
With the right practices in place, your website can become the perfect introduction to your ministry.
What you do matters
Whether you serve as lead pastor, communications director, youth pastor, worship leader, or in another role at your church, we want to remind you that what you do matters.
What to Look for in a Live Streaming Provider
Whether you’re looking at streaming solutions for the first time or exploring new options to level up your live experiences, there are many factors to consider when choosing a live streaming provider.
How Innovation Can Impact Your Community
Innovation plays an important role in any organization’s ability to grow, adapt, and thrive—and it’s no different for churches.
4 Ways to Create a Better Live Streaming Experience
Live streaming is a powerful tool that enables your community to gather together in real-time. Here are four ways to create a more engaging and effective live streaming experience!
We’re Here for You
You’re dedicated to partnering with your community, and now more than ever we’re committed to partnering with you to make the truth of Jesus incredibly accessible and to create more meaningful connections.
Tips for Taking Your Content Further
At its core, good technology should make you more effective and more efficient, helping you foster relationships and draw people into community.
How to Keep Your Community Connected—Not Just Informed
Find out how your community can instantly engage with one another and build relationships.
Introducing Subsplash Live!
With your community constantly on the go, finding new ways to stay connected is important. That’s why we’re taking digital engagement to the next level with live streaming!
Best Practices for Authentic Church at Home
Check out these best practices for moving from in-person gatherings to creating digital connection points to have church at home
Insights from a Thriving Virtual Church
Here are 5 insights into how churches can leverage technology in order to cultivate discipleship and nurture community through remote gatherings
5 Simple Steps to Launch Online Giving
Now more than ever, having a simple, user-friendly digital giving option has become crucial. With in-person gatherings being canceled for many, having a digital giving option that is easily accessible for your community, no matter where they are, is important. Finding a solution that fulfills these needs is equally important because maintaining the receiving of
4 Powerful Mobile App Features to Keep You Connected
We know how important it is for churches today to stay connected with their communities. Here are four powerful app features your organization can leverage to help you stay connected with your community…
4 Ways to Reach & Retain Visitors this Easter
Easter provides an impactful opportunity for your church to present the gospel to your community.
2019 Was EPIC
2019 was a banner year for Custom Church Apps and for our customers! Check out the 2019 highlights in this retrospective blog.
Maximize Your Online Donations with New Donor-Covered Fees
Donor-Covered Fees gives your donors the option of covering transaction fees when submitting their donations.
Google Play Updates Their App Store Policy
Earlier this year, after making bold moves to clean up the App Store, Apple decided they would continue to allow individually branded apps made by app building services like Subsplash to be placed in the App Store. After previous statements saying they would disallow them, this was a very welcome change! The only catch: all apps
Big news! Custom Church Apps is joining the Subsplash Family!
Our team at Custom Church Apps is thrilled to announce that we are joining the Subsplash family!
5 Ways to Prepare for the Back-to-Church Season
The end of summer signals the beginning of the back-to-school for parents and back-to-church season for ministry leaders.
Great Features Every Church Mobile App Needs
According to experts, less than 20 percent of the population in America attend church on a weekly basis. For most church leaders, finding a way to attract more members of their community to attend services is a priority.
Why Multi-Campus Ministries choose Custom Church Apps
Churches want a church app that genuinely engages their community.
Moving a Crowd
Churches are moving toward new technologies as a way to modernize and adapt to a new generation in a new world.
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (10/10)
So, you’re all set to launch your new church mobile app! But once the initial launch is over, it’s easy to forget to regularly announce your app inside your church.
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (9/10)
So, you’re all set to launch your new church mobile app! But once the initial launch is over, it’s easy to forget to regularly announce your app inside your church.
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (8/10)
The phrase “If you build it, they will come” might have been true for Kevin Costner in the baseball movie Field of Dreams.
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (7/10)
Did you know that 40% to 80% of users will opt-out of receiving push notifications?
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (6/10)
Building an app is an exciting and fun experience. However, many churches are unaware of the practical steps required to get their app onto The App Store.
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (5/10)
Getting your app’s initial layout and design correct is crucial when launching your app. You only get one chance to make that first impression to your users.
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (4/10)
We’re proud that 9 out of 10 of our Custom Church Apps users will continue to use our apps! This is more than double the “rate of returning users” that our competitor’s apps receive.
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (3/10)
Push notifications are one of the most valuable tools apps provide. They work like text messages, delivering your messages directly to your users’ mobile device home screens.
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (2/10)
Before officially introducing your app to your church, it’s essential that you get the right people engaged in the pre-launch design process. But who should you recruit for this process?
10 Steps for a Successful Church App Launch (1/10)
Do you know that a well-planned app launch sets your app up for success or failure?
Use a Custom Church App to reach your flock
Church leaders who want to make a more significant impact should consider creating an app with Custom Church Apps to reach their flock.
Is your church maximizing Facebook’s potential?
This video will provide real usable examples of how to communicate effectively on Facebook.