Publish a sermon to the church page

Once the sermon is trimmed, publish it: the part you kept goes on your church page with its own link, and the cuts never leave. Before that, give it its details, and if you like a transcript and a recap.

Open Present, then Sermons, then the recording. When a recording is ready, its speakers on the team get an email, and so do your church's owners and admins.

Details

The title, speakers, series and scripture come from the plan's sermon (see Mark the sermon on the plan); change them here if they changed. Under Cover, choose one of the slides the room saw. Type a Description, or press Write a description for a draft written from the slides, then edit it. Add Questions for small groups if you want them under the sermon.

Transcript, captions and a recap

Press Make the transcript. It takes a few minutes, and your church has 10 hours a month. Then:

• The words show in paragraphs; tap one to hear it from there.
• Fix a word: type a misheard name to find each place it was said, and fix each one. The captions follow.
• Read along on the church page shows the words under the player, and lets the church page's search find the sermon by them. With it off, the words aren't searched, and the recap shows without its quotes. Captions are there either way, so the words can be read from them even with Read along off.
• The recap is a draft of key points, questions and chapters. Nothing goes out until you press Approve the recap. A recap goes with the cut it was made for: if you change the cuts, publish the new cut (its transcript follows), then press Update the recap; the church page shows no recap for the new cut until then.

Once the recap is approved, Email and social below it writes a short email for your church's weekly email, three posts and a one-page handout from it: see email and social for a sermon.

Leaders can turn transcripts off in Present's Settings, on the Sermon recording page, with Transcripts, captions and a recap.

Past sermons

On Sermons, press Add past sermons and choose MP3 or M4A files, or a folder. Each one's title, date and speaker are read from its name; check them, then add. They come in without slides, ready to publish.