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For the Teaching Pastor

Plan your preaching calendar once.
Watch it reach every team automatically.

You're the source. The passage you set on Monday should reach your worship pastor, your kids team, and your production lead without you forwarding a single email. Ministry Planner makes that automatic.

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The Problem

You shouldn't be the only person who knows what's happening Sunday.

  1. Wednesday, 2:14pm

    Your phone buzzes. "Hey, what passage are we in this week?" You know the answer. You're the only one who does.

  2. Wednesday, 4:40pm

    Another text, different team, same question. You answer that one too, and the one after it.

  3. Sunday

    You preach a sermon you prepared in the gaps between being a human router for your own calendar.

That's the Moses problem: everything routes through you because nothing else carries it. Ministry Planner fixes it at the root.

The Series Planner

Every series gets a workspace, not a document.

A real series in Sample Church: the big idea, the pitch, the public blurb, the art direction and every week of the arc — all in one place your team can already see. Written once, before a single Sunday gets planned.

Series Planner · Everyday Faith
Sermon planning software: the Ministry Planner series workspace showing a preaching series' big idea, summary, public web blurb, series subtitle and art direction notes alongside a rail listing all fourteen weeks of the series

A real Ministry Planner workspace — not a mockup.

One entry, every team

What the cascade actually looks like.

Four screens from Sample Church's real workspace. You enter the passage in one of them. Everything else is a consequence.

You set it once

The teaching calendar is the single source.

Every Sunday of the year, with its passage, its service elements and who is preaching at each campus. This is the only place you type it — and the only place anyone has to look.

  • Passage and series for every Sunday
  • Communion and baptism marked per week
  • A different teaching pastor per campus, per week
Teaching Calendar · Main
The Ministry Planner teaching calendar listing each Sunday of a series in James with its passage, its service elements, and the preaching pastor assigned at each of two campuses
Nobody has to ask

Every ministry's teaching, on one line each.

Your kids director picked Isaiah 9. Campus Life is in Ephesians. You didn't attend a meeting to find that out, and you can see immediately that student ministry hasn't planned yet.

  • Main service, campuses and every age group together
  • Step forward or back a Sunday at a time
  • Ministries that haven't planned say so plainly
Dashboard · Meanwhile…
A dashboard panel headed Meanwhile — what every ministry is teaching, listing the main service, campus ministry, kids and student ministry each with their series and passage for the coming Sunday, with student ministry marked not planned yet
Before you're asked

See whether Sunday is actually ready.

Passage, teacher, worship set and response song all confirmed — and the two things nobody has done yet flagged in red. You find the gap on Monday instead of hearing about it on Saturday night.

  • What's confirmed and what's still missing, per Sunday
  • The worship set your team built, without opening their tool
  • One click into the plan to fix a gap
Dashboard · This Sunday
A dashboard card for the coming Sunday showing the passage, teacher, worship set and response song confirmed in green, with announcements and service element flagged in red as missing
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Built for the Teaching Pastor

Everything flows from what you set in the calendar.

Teaching Calendar

Plan your series and passages for the entire year in one place. The moment you set a series, that information cascades to every team — worship, kids, production, guest services — automatically.

  • Series titles, passages, and speakers
  • Full-year view at a glance
  • Visible to every team lead automatically

Series Planner

Every series has its own workspace — big idea, art direction, teaching notes, supporting documents, and assets. Plan the arc of the whole series before you plan any single week.

  • Big idea and series summary
  • Week-by-week passage and teaching notes
  • Attach graphics, decks, and reference docs

Service Plan Blocks

Build the service plan alongside your sermon prep. Add announcement blocks, special elements, baptisms, and communion moments directly into the service flow — so the whole team knows what Sunday looks like from start to finish.

  • Announcement and element blocks
  • Baptism and communion indicators
  • Sermon notes linked to the service plan

The Cascade

When you set the teaching calendar, the information flows. Your worship pastor sees the passage Monday morning. Your kids director sees the theme. Your operations pastor has a live view of team readiness. Nobody had to ask.

  • Passage flows to worship team workspace
  • Series theme flows to kids and student teams
  • No emails. No meetings. No follow-up.
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Free templates

Still mapping the preaching year in a Google Sheet? No shame — we built free, properly good templates for that, no email required. Start there; upgrade when the spreadsheet stops keeping up.

Preaching calendar template Sermon series planner All 12 free templates

Set the vision once. Watch it reach every team automatically.

When Moses stopped adjudicating every minor question, he finally had capacity to hear from God. That's what a good system gives back.

The team is waiting. The vision is set.

Let it flow.

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