Four AI Products Your Church Should Try Right Now
We are in a new era of AI innovation. But for an old guy like myself, its really the same, but different. New tech can sometimes feel like the older tech with new design on top. You know like the iPhone. Incremental improvements. However, AI is the new buzz word, and rightly so. It will have a profound impact on the world. It will also have many positive impacts on church staff as well. Here are some of the best of the best products that I’ve recently come across.
1. ChurchCopy.ai
If you work in Church Communications ChurchCopy.ai is a game changer. ChurchCopy.ai is simply amazing and helps you create content for all your communications channels. If you work in a church where you don’t have a team doing all the bits of work across different channels this will help you stay on top of your weekly routine and will also free your time up. It will also write in your church’s tone of voice. The cost is so low that it basically a few hours pay for a person with the output of a whole team. You can also store all your visual assets in one place too. You can also save all your photos to use on different projects Simply amazing. Well done Brock, Holly and team!
Having worked in the church communications space for nearly 20 years now we work on a yearly cycle where much of what we create disappears into the collective memory and is never used again. You can store your projects and re-use them for new ones too. Again you save so much time.
It’s free to explore and try out. I highly recommend it.
2. CaptionKit
I serve in a large multi-site church that has people from my different cultural backgrounds. Some who have been in Australia for may years and speak English, but some who are more recent arrived from South East Asia. We’ve been looking for a solution that will help anyone no matter what their language access our church service in their own language – LIVE in the room. CaptionKit is does this and also creates subtitles for those who are hard of hearing. It’s a really simple set up and easy to use. In essence they create real time captions and translations for churches. And you can try it out for free.
3. SermonShots
While it’s not new, SermonShots has been adding new features all the time. It’s a world class product. A new feature I simply adore is the carousel post creator where it will create hook style posts from your sermon video. It just makes content generation so much quicker. We always go through and check it of course, but it really does speed the process up.
SermonShots also has translation and you can now embed the video of your sermon with a summary and make it much more SEO friendly which is very cool.
4. ChurchCanvas.ai
Who’d have thought that you could create a sermon graphic or a social media post just through a prompt? I’m a graphic designer and I wasn’t 100% sure about letting AI create this to be honest. But I’ve seen some of the design output from it and some of it has been amazing. Some of it has been not amazing. But I get this is in early development and will be improving all the time.
What I do like about ChurchCanvas is the innovation that is happening. Although I’m conflicted about the creation of graphics not by a person. Maybe I’m just old. But I do admire the team for having a go.
Final thoughts
AI is the new frontier, and while non of these products are completely perfect they usher in a new era of AI innovation. I know we are only in year one and I’m excited to see the potential of what’s possible as these new products develop and mature.
There will be different ethical considerations as AI grows in it’s influence and impact. I highly recommend your church consider developing your own AI Use policy to guide your staff team.
Your Turn
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