One service record.
Every ministry in sync.
Worship, sermon prep, production cue list, volunteer assignments, communications, and follow-up — six workspaces inside one service record. Change a song and your production lead sees the new cue. Move the scripture and the bulletin updates. Stop exporting CSVs between six tools.
Sunday is one event. It deserves one record.
Most planning tools track the order of service.
We track everything that happens around it.
By the time a typical Sunday goes live, six different ministries have done their part. The worship director has built a set list, picked keys, and assigned vocalists. The lead pastor has finished a sermon manuscript and pulled scripture references. The production team has built a cue list, programmed lighting scenes, and confirmed which mic goes to which musician. The volunteer coordinator has scheduled greeters, ushers, and the parking team. The communications director has written the bulletin and queued the post-service follow-up email. The kids ministry knows which rooms are open and which staff are on.
In most churches, each of those people works in a different tool — sometimes a different file in a different format on a different drive. By Wednesday, four versions of the order of service are circulating, the worship director's last-minute song change hasn't reached the production booth, and someone is reformatting a CSV at 11pm Saturday night.
Service Planning replaces all of that with one record. A single service plan that everyone opens — worship working in their tab, the pastor working in theirs, production working in theirs — with every change visible to everyone else in real time. The bulletin reads from the same data as the cue sheet, which reads from the same data as the volunteer schedule. There is no exporting. There is no reformatting. There is no version drift.
That's not a feature. That's a different way to plan Sunday.
Inside a service plan
Six workspaces. One source of truth.
Each tab is a fully-realized workspace for the ministry that lives in it — and they all share the same underlying service record.
Worship
Song set with default keys and tempos, per-service overrides, vocalist and instrumentalist assignments by part, running service-length total against your target, attention flags for songs that haven't been rehearsed recently. CCLI tracking is automatic. Go deeper on Worship Planning →
Sermon Prep
Manuscript editor next to outline mode. Scripture references that deep-link to the passage and load it inline. Series grouping. Prep status (draft → ready → delivered → archived). One tap to publish to your sermon library after the service. Go deeper on Sermon Planning →
Production Cue List
Audio, video, lighting, and slide cues live in one ordered list with role assignment on every row. The asset library knows which mic, which slide template, which lighting scene. Print as a cue sheet or run on a tablet. Go deeper on Production →
Volunteer Assignments
Greeters, ushers, parking, hospitality, kids ministry, production, worship — every team that needs a person on Sunday is scheduled from the same tab. Availability, conflicts, served-recently flags, and one-tap reminders are built in.
Communications
The bulletin, the welcome card, the pre-service announcement, and the post-service follow-up email all queue from the service tab. Pull a sermon title from the Sermon Prep tab, a song from Worship, an event from the calendar — without copy-paste.
Follow-up
After the service: who showed up, who responded to the altar call, who filled out the welcome card, who needs a pastoral follow-up call this week. Tasks land on the right pastor automatically. Sunday doesn't end at noon.
Change a song. Watch six tabs update.
The worship director drops “The Lion and the Lamb” into the second slot on Tuesday. In that moment, four other tabs change. The production cue list rebuilds itself with the song's default lighting scene and slide template. The communications tab updates the bulletin's order of service. The volunteer tab confirms vocalists are assigned for the new song. The follow-up tab tags the sermon series the song supports.
No one had to message anyone. No one exported anything. The change was made once, and Sunday is one step more ready.
- Single source of truth across every ministry
- Real-time updates — no manual sync, no CSV export
- Change history per row, so a question like "who moved this song?" has an answer
- Permissions per tab so worship can edit worship without touching production
Clone a typical Sunday in seconds. Then customize.
Most Sundays follow a pattern: opening prayer, two worship songs, welcome and announcements, three more songs, sermon, response, closing. Special services break the pattern — Christmas Eve, Easter, a guest speaker week, a baptism Sunday — but the base structure repeats.
Service templates capture that base structure once. The Sunday-morning template, the Christmas Eve template, the youth-led service template. Apply a template to next week's plan and the run-of-show, default volunteer roles, and standard slide templates are already there. Customize from there.
- Reusable service templates per service type
- Pre-populated volunteer roles, slide templates, and cue-list scaffolding
- Apply, then customize — templates are starting points, not constraints
- Per-campus templates if you run multi-site
See the season, not just the Sunday.
A single service is one record. A sermon series is a sequence of services. A liturgical season is a sequence of series. Service Planning rolls up — the same plans you build week-to-week are visible as a sermon arc, a worship-flow trajectory, and a volunteer-load forecast across the next twelve weeks.
That's how the executive pastor catches that the same eight volunteers are scheduled four weeks in a row. It's how the worship director sees that they haven't led a hymn since September. It's how the lead pastor catches that two sermons in the upcoming series cover the same passage.
- Sermon arc view — see the entire series, not just next Sunday
- Worship rotation analytics — flag overused songs, surface neglected ones
- Volunteer load forecast — surface the people who are serving too often
- Season-level planning for Advent, Lent, summer programming
What Sunday actually feels like, after.
On a TrueConnect+ Sunday, the worship director arrives at 7am and pulls up the service plan on her tablet. The set list is final, the keys are confirmed, the in-ear mix notes are right where she left them. The lead pastor pulls up the same plan from his office and reviews the manuscript one last time, knowing the slide team has every reference. The production booth is running off the same record, looking at the same cue list the worship director just edited.
At 11:30, the service ends. The follow-up tab is already populated with the response card submissions and the day's giving. By Tuesday, the welcome calls are scheduled, the bulletin is archived, the sermon is published to the library, and next Sunday's plan is half-built from the template.
Nobody exported a CSV.