About Announcement Share

A private place for participating congregations to share their event announcements as ready-to-use slides.

The idea

Most congregations run an announcement loop on a screen before and after services, and most spend time making slides for upcoming events — their own and, often, other congregations' gospel meetings, singings, and Ladies' Days. This site removes the duplicated work: one congregation enters an event once, and every participating congregation can download a finished slide.

How it works

1. Post an event. Fill in a short form: title, dates, time, place, a few lines of description, and an optional photo. A live preview shows exactly how the slide will look.
2. Slides are made automatically. The site produces a widescreen (16:9) and a standard (4:3) slide so it works on any screen, with readable text sized for the back row.
3. Everyone downloads what they need. The library lists upcoming events. Preview any slide, download one, or download everything current as a single zip.
4. It cleans up after itself. Events disappear from the library the day after they end, so the list only shows what is still ahead.

Weekly announcement slideshows

Each congregation can also build its own pre-service announcement slideshow here. It is private to that congregation: other congregations (and site administrators) cannot see it.

• Set it up once: choose the slides you use (welcome, scripture, those to serve, events, prayer list, birthdays, group meeting, pictures and more), add your background, and set up your groups.
• Each week, whoever runs the sound booth or graphics works down a simple checklist. Each slide says what it needs, and there is a one-click “same as last week” for slides that did not change. Long lists split across slides by themselves, so text never runs off the screen.
• When every slide is ready, one button downloads a PowerPoint file to use in your service presentation app. Events from the shared library can be dropped in as full-screen slides.
• Bible class and worship can be planned here too: pick the songs and verses, add the scripture reading and upload the speaker’s slides. The Church Slides app on the church computer fetches everything and puts the presentation together, using the song files it already has, so song files are never uploaded.

Using the slides

Slides download as ordinary PNG images, which nearly every presentation tool accepts:

• PowerPoint / Google Slides: insert the image on a blank slide (Insert → Picture) and stretch it to the full slide.
• ProPresenter, EasyWorship, and similar: drag the images into your media or announcement playlist.
• TV or projector from a USB drive: copy the images to the drive and use the device's slideshow mode.

Pick 16:9 for modern widescreen displays, 4:3 for older square-ish screens and projectors.

Who can use it

• Access is by invitation only. There is no public sign-up and nothing is visible to the general public except this page and the sign-in page.
• An administrator invites each congregation with a one-time link. Administrators can also deactivate an account and issue password-reset links.
• Each congregation can edit or remove only its own events. The congregation name on every slide comes from the account that posted it, so slides cannot be posted in another congregation's name.

Privacy and security

• Passwords are stored only as one-way hashes, never in readable form. Connections use HTTPS.
• The site stores what people type into the event form, uploaded photos, and account email addresses. It has no advertising and no tracking, and it does not sell or share information.
• It is hosted on Cloudflare's infrastructure.

Good practice for posting

• Post only your own congregation's events, or events your congregation is officially hosting.
• Double-check dates, times, and addresses. Other congregations will trust the slide as written.
• Use photos you have the right to use, and be thoughtful with images of children.
• Keep descriptions short. Slides are read from across a room.

Questions