The best part about ProPresenter is that is it cross-platform (which means it can be used on either a Mac or Windows). It is also REALLY great for impromptu song changes – since every song is searchable by title the Song leader can simply announce the name of the song and the user can do a quick search and have the song pulled up in less than 10 seconds. Each week your song leader and preacher simply email over the list of songs, verse numbers, and/or PowerPoint and it takes about 3 minutes to set up a new playlist for that Sundays worship service. All of this can be done within ProPresenter without having to switch back and forth. If you are like us (a larger church), you may even have slides you put up for during the Lords Supper or Prayers.

You can even add your PowerPoint for the sermon into the system and drop it into your playlist. You simply drag your songs (all of which are SEARCHABLE by title or number – how cool is that?!) into your playlist and then choose which verses you would like to sing and which one you don’t want to sing. ProPresenter does something really cool – it allows you to upload all of your paperless hymnal, PowerPoints, videos, and media into one program so that you can manage all of them without having to switch platforms (you know – moving the video over to the black screen, blacking out your screen, mouse moves over on the screen and pressed play on the video, then after it finished you drag off the video and drag back on the PowerPoint songs….).Īll you do is upload your paperless hymnal once (this takes a while), and then you can build a playlist for Sunday (almost like building a playlist on iTunes of your favorite music). ProPresenter has been around for quite a few years but I am still amazed at how few churches use it – it is simply magical in its “simplicity.” One of my favorite tools for streamlining all that goes into a modern Sunday morning/evening worship services is ProPresenter 6.

How to use propresenter 6