# PixelPainters > Unlimited graphic design subscription exclusively for churches and ministries. PixelPainters is a done-for-you design team for churches and ministries, founded by Josh Starr in 2018. Churches pay one flat monthly price and send unlimited design requests (sermon series graphics, worship slides, social posts, event promotion, print, signage, apparel, logos and branding) through a project app at app.pixelpainters.co. Christian designers with church staff experience do the work, with unlimited revisions. It is a human design service, not a template library or an AI generator. For a self-serve tool, churches can use template libraries or AI tools instead; the honest tradeoffs are covered in the comparison pages below. ## Plans & Pricing - [Unlimited Graphics, $490/mo](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/graphics) - [Unlimited Graphics PRO, $590/mo](https://pixelpainters.com/unlimited-graphics-pro-bundle) - [Social Media Management, $390/mo](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/social-media) - [Sermon Reels & Shorts, $249/mo](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/reels-shorts) - [Pixel Website Agent, $299/mo](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/websites) - [Google Ad Grants management, $249/mo, no setup fee](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/websites) - [Website + Google Ad Grants, $499/mo, no setup fee](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/websites) - [Motion Graphics & Video Editing, $890/mo](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/motion-graphics-and-video-editing) ## Proof - 4.9 average rating across 7,500+ project reviews - 614+ churches served - 2-3 business day typical turnaround - Unlimited requests and unlimited revisions - Month-to-month, no long-term contracts - 14-day money-back guarantee - Pause up to 3 months a year; annual plans get one month free - Team hours Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm Eastern ## Good fit - Churches and ministries that need design every week and have no full-time designer, or whose designer is overloaded - Multisite churches that need every campus on one brand (PRO plan, unlimited users) - Church plants and rebrands that need a full identity rolled out across print, web and social - Communications directors who want to stop relying on volunteers for weekly graphics ## Not included - Copywriting or content creation: the church supplies the final text - Photography, filming, voice-overs or talking-head video (motion work uses the church's footage or stock video) - Printing or physical production (print-ready files are delivered) ## Comparisons and buying guides - [PixelPainters vs Church Media Squad](https://pixelpainters.com/pixelpainters-vs-church-media-squad) - [Templates vs a custom church design subscription](https://pixelpainters.com/custom-church-design-vs-templates) - [How much does church graphic design cost in 2026?](https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-graphic-design-cost-2026) - [Hiring a church graphic designer vs a design subscription](https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-graphic-designer-vs-design-subscription) - [Volunteer vs subscription design](https://pixelpainters.com/resources/volunteer-vs-subscription-design) - [Church Media Squad alternatives](https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-media-squad-alternatives) - [Sunday Social vs custom church design](https://pixelpainters.com/resources/sunday-social-vs-custom-church-design) - [Is a church graphic design subscription worth it?](https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-graphic-design-subscription-worth-it) ## Key Links - [Home](https://pixelpainters.com/) - [Plans & Pricing](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started) - [Free Consultation](https://pixelpainters.com/free-consultation) - [Case Studies](https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies) - [Testimonials](https://pixelpainters.com/testimonials) - [Resources](https://pixelpainters.com/resources) - [Church Design Weekly Podcast](https://pixelpainters.com/podcast) - [Free Church Graphics Kit](https://pixelpainters.com/free-church-graphics-kit) - [Church Graphic Design Services, Unlimited for One Flat Rate](https://pixelpainters.com/church-graphic-design) - [Unlimited Church Graphic Design: Plans, Pricing & How It Works](https://pixelpainters.com/unlimited-graphic-design-for-churches) - [Church Sermon Series Graphics](https://pixelpainters.com/church-sermon-series-graphics) - [Church Social Media Management](https://pixelpainters.com/church-social-media-management) - [Church Website Management & Google Ad Grants](https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/websites) - [Google Ad Grants for Churches: How to Qualify, Apply & Use It (2026)](https://pixelpainters.com/google-ad-grants-for-churches) - [Sermon Reels & Shorts for Churches](https://pixelpainters.com/sermon-reels-and-shorts) - [Church Motion Graphics & Video Editing](https://pixelpainters.com/church-motion-graphics-and-video-editing) - [Unlimited Graphics PRO Bundle](https://pixelpainters.com/unlimited-graphics-pro-bundle) - [Church Graphic Design for Multisite Churches](https://pixelpainters.com/church-graphic-design-for-multisite-churches) ## Frequently asked questions Source: https://pixelpainters.com/faq Q: What is Pixel Painters? A: Pixel Painters is a design subscription service exclusively for churches and ministries. We provide unlimited custom graphic design created by professional Christian designers who have served on staff at churches as communication directors and designers. We view this as our ministry to the local church. Q: Who do you serve? A: We exclusively work with churches, ministries, and parachurch organizations. We aren't trying to be all things to all people. We've chosen to focus on the mission and purpose of the local church. Q: Do you create logos? A: We can create a ministry logo and branding package for you! Brand projects take significant design hours, so they're the best fit for churches planning to partner with us for several months (that's honestly when we break even on the work). There's no contract required. We've created brands for churches large and small, and would love to serve you! Q: Can I sign up for a single month only? A: Yes. All plans are month-to-month with no contracts, and you can cancel anytime. That said, we're built for ongoing partnership: churches get the most out of us after a few months of weekly requests, and most of our churches stay for years. Q: Is it really a 14-day refund guarantee? A: Yes! If you're not happy for any reason in the first two weeks, we'll give you back 100% with no questions. Q: Do you offer yearly discounts? A: Yearly subscriptions get one month free. Email josh@pixelpainters.co for details. Q: What plans do you offer? A: We offer the following plans: Unlimited Graphics, $490/month: Unlimited Custom Designs & Revisions, Unlimited Active Projects, Unlimited Users, Fast Turnaround, Simple Project App to manage projects, No Contracts, and a Dedicated Project Director. Unlimited Graphics PRO, $590/month: Everything in Unlimited Graphics, Unlimited Sermon Bumper Videos, Unlimited Book/Booklet Design & Layout, Source file access, Multi-campus support, Dedicated Creative Director, and Monthly Creative Video Meetings via Zoom. Partnership Plans: For large churches, ministries, or for-profit businesses who need graphic design and video help. Contact our team for special pricing for larger projects and contract pricing. Q: What add-on services are available? A: We offer the following monthly add-ons: Social Media Management, $390/month: Full social media management, 10 posts per week across up to 4 channels, strategy/design/implementation, monthly creative video meetings, and a custom content calendar (no video creation included). Sermon Reels & Shorts, $249/month: 5 reels or shorts created weekly. Just send us your sermon video! Includes monthly creative video meetings. Website Management, $249/month: Unlimited edits, custom pages, videos/sermons/events updates, any website edit or update, plus website creation and hosting. Q: What types of projects can you design? A: We can handle virtually any design need for your church, including sermon series graphics, worship slides, event graphics, social media posts, flyers, business cards, outdoor signage, apparel, merchandise, year-end reports, logos, bumper videos, websites, and more. Q: How many projects can you do? A: As many as you send us. Just remember we're real people doing great work, so we ask for mutual respect. Q: What type of projects DON'T you do? A: We do not do voice overs, perform talking-head video, or film actual footage for your videos. We focus on graphic design, bumper video creation (using your footage or stock video), and the other services outlined in our plans. Q: Do you create bumper videos? A: Yes! Sermon bumper videos are included in Unlimited Graphics PRO, built from your footage or stock video. Most churches request one or two per series, and you're not capped. For heavier video needs, our Motion Graphics & Video Editing plan covers unlimited custom video under 30 minutes. Q: What is a bumper video? A: A bumper video is generally 45 seconds or less and is used as a prelude to a sermon or as an announcement for a special event. Q: What's included in a bumper video? A: We will utilize either your footage or stock video, add music, and add visual effects to bring across your message. Q: What is NOT included in a bumper video? A: We do not do voice overs, perform talking-head video, or film the actual footage for your video. Q: How do I submit a bumper request? A: When requesting sermon bumpers, provide context or themes of the sermon series for more aligned content creation. Pro Tip: The bumper video should complement the sermon series artwork and feel like an extension of the series theme. Q: What if I need both graphics and a bumper for the same project? A: We have a two-step process: Step 1: We complete all graphics for the project. Step 2: Once the graphics are approved, you submit a new request for your bumper and include the original project number. Q: Can you work with our current designer? A: Absolutely. We often work alongside a staff member or volunteer, either supplementing their work or taking projects fully off their plate. Q: How fast do you all work? A: We work Mon-Fri, 8-4pm EST. Usually we can complete one design/revision cycle per business day (sometimes more). Q: How fast can you get started? A: After you sign up and complete the client questionnaire, we normally start the day after that. Q: How do I get onboarded? A: Complete the initial questionnaire at /start-here and upload your church's logo and branding guide documents. Then sign into our app at app.pixelpainters.co using your provided username and password. Familiarize yourself with the dashboard where you can manage projects, view invoices, and access a catalog of services. Q: How do I submit a design request? A: Use the project submission form in our app to clearly define your project requirements. Specify the type of request, content details, desired file sizes, target audience, and any inspirational material. If you have specific deadlines, add the initial draft deadline to your submission. Q: How do I communicate with your team? A: Use the comment section in the project dashboard to discuss project details or provide feedback. We are always available during business hours (Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm EST). You may hear from us outside of business hours as well, but we're committed to making sure your voice is heard. Q: How should I give feedback on designs? A: After receiving your designs, provide specific feedback to help us better understand your needs and refine the designs. Take advantage of unlimited revisions by being as detailed as possible. ## Full content - [llms-full.txt](https://pixelpainters.com/llms-full.txt): full text of every sales page, article and case study --- # Full Content ## Pages ### Unlimited Graphic Design for Churches | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/ Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Sermon series, slides, social, print, and more, for one flat monthly price. Fast turnaround (typically 2-3 business days). Unlimited revisions. No long-term contracts. Planning Christmas and Advent? Get our free 2026 planning kit, with every deadline from the first Sunday of Advent through New Year's, worked backward. Book a Free Consultation See Plans & PricingFrom $490/mo. No contract. See Our Work Turnaround Avg First Draft: 11h 06mDetails Avg Project Completion: 4 days 05 hours 14-day risk-free guarantee·No contracts·Cancel anytime·Unlimited revisions Networks & Connections Churches & Ministries REAL NUMBERSWHAT OUR CLIENTS GET BACK Verified stats from our design portal and client base, not marketing rounding. Here is what churches actually get. 614+ Churches and ministries partner with PixelPainters for week-in, week-out design. 11h 06m Average time to first draft over the last 365 days, measured in our design portal. 4d 05h Average time from request submitted to final approved design, over the same 365 days. 14 days Try PixelPainters risk-free. If you do not love it, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Since 2018 Serving churches and ministries exclusively Christian Designers With Church staff experience. 4.9/5 Client satisfaction rating WHATEVER YOU NEED DESIGNED TO SERVE YOUR CHURCH Sermon series to signage, we've got you. See how our church graphic design services work. Sermon Series Worship Slides Event Graphics Social Media Youth Ministry Bible Study Special Events Outreach Spiritual Growth Sermon Series Worship Slides Event Graphics Social Media Youth Ministry Bible Study Special Events Outreach Spiritual Growth Explore Our Work OUR SERVICESONE CREATIVE PLATFORM FOR EVERY MINISTRY NEED Unlimited Graphics $490/mo •Unlimited Custom Designs & Revisions •Unlimited Active Projects •Unlimited Users •Fast Turnaround •Simple Project App to manage projects •No Contracts •Dedicated project Director Learn More MOST POPULAR Unlimited Graphics PRO $590/mo •Everything in Unlimited Graphics •Unlimited Sermon Bumper Videos •Unlimited Book/Booklet Design & Layout •Source file access •Multi-campus support •Dedicated Creative Director •Monthly Creative Video Meetings via Zoom Learn More Social Media $390/mo •Full social media management •10 posts/week up to 4 channels •Strategy + design + implementation •Custom content calendar Learn More Sermon Reels & Shorts $249/mo •5 reels/shorts created weekly •You send sermon video •Delivered ready to post Learn More Pixel Website Agent $299/mo •Unlimited routine updates •Sermon auto-posting •Human-reviewed changes, live in minutes Learn More Motion Graphics & Video Editing $890/mo •Unlimited video/motion under 30 minutes •Bumpers, recaps, testimonials, social clips Learn More YOUR CREATIVE COMMAND CENTER A clean workflow that replaces email chaos. 01 Submit your request Brief it once. Attach files. Invite your team. 02 We design Fast first draft. Clear status updates. 03 Review & revise Comment in-app. Unlimited revisions. 04 Download & deploy Ready-to-post and print-ready files delivered. app.pixelpainters.co Create Project Title (Required) Due Date Content Unlimited users Unlimited active projects Comment threads + approvals Organized delivery STOP OVERPAYING. STOP DIY'ING. There's a better way than juggling freelancers, agencies, and volunteer bandwidth. Platform Speed Quality Support Cost PIXEL PAINTERS In-house team Hiring takes time, replacements are slow, and ongoing salaries make in-house design costly, especially when needs fluctuate. Freelancers Hit or miss. Sourcing and managing talent for every project keeps you chasing consistency, not building your brand. Agencies Strategic partners, but high-cost retainers, rigid scopes, and slow timelines make them a poor fit for everyday creative needs. DIY tools Quick to use, but the output is off-brand, inconsistent, and still needs heavy manual effort to finish. PIXEL PAINTERS Platform Speed Quality Support Cost In-house team Hiring takes time, replacements are slow, and ongoing salaries make in-house design costly, especially when needs fluctuate. Platform Speed Quality Support Cost Freelancers Hit or miss. Sourcing and managing talent for every project keeps you chasing consistency, not building your brand. Platform Speed Quality Support Cost Agencies Strategic partners, but high-cost retainers, rigid scopes, and slow timelines make them a poor fit for everyday creative needs. Platform Speed Quality Support Cost DIY tools Quick to use, but the output is off-brand, inconsistent, and still needs heavy manual effort to finish. Platform Speed Quality Support Cost A full-time designer can cost $45k-$65k+/year. PixelPainters starts at $490/mo, predictable and scalable. DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT "PixelPainters has been a game-changer for our church communications. They understand our culture, our deadlines, and deliver consistently beautiful work that elevates everything we do." Jay Mills Executive Pastor, Southwinds Church "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy. The team communicates with us really well and they have gotten designs to us quickly every time. We have been very impressed." Jared Belcher Operations Pastor at Arrowhead Church "I'm always in need of random print projects, business cards, tshirts, packaging... No matter what I need Pixel Painters is always there super fast to get it done for me. They take time to understand the nonprofit mission and does whatever it takes to deliver an amazing design." Rachelle Starr Founder & President of Scarlet Hope Inc "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an inhouse designer. They have been able to reinforce visually what I am trying to communicate with words. They have turned around work for me very quickly and been responsive to feedback. I'm grateful." Chris Culver Pastor of Birmingham Community Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life! Josh and his creative team are easy to work with and deliver high-quality graphics with a quick turnaround. They have simply created a bridge to the solving-side of our graphic design challenges." Philip Carroll Communications Minister at Lakeside Christian Church "The team of artists at Pixel Painters has had a wonderful impact on my church family. The skill, speed, and excellency of the work we have received is impressive! I highly recommend this service to any business or church that is looking to outsource their design production. Don't miss out on this fantastic resource!" Hannah Deaton Communications at Hurstbourne Baptist Church "Claire and Josh, I just have to say it, y'all are the best $490 Encounter has ever spent! Thanks for your work. I can't wait to show the team your work." Michael Boehm Senior Pastor Encounter Church "Pixel Painters was an answer to our prayers! After searching for a couple of years to find a solution to our graphic design challenges, Josh and his talented team, not only met our needs, they exceeded our wildest expectations! From the beginning, we were impressed with their professionalism, timeliness, and the quality of their work. I am still amazed we received all of this and at such an affordable price!" Jay Mills Executive Pastor at Southwinds Church "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy. The team communicates with us really well and they have gotten designs to us quickly every time. We have been very impressed." Jared Belcher Operations Pastor at Arrowhead Church "I'm always in need of random print projects, business cards, tshirts, packaging... No matter what I need Pixel Painters is always there super fast to get it done for me. They take time to understand the nonprofit mission and does whatever it takes to deliver an amazing design." Rachelle Starr Founder & President of Scarlet Hope Inc "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an inhouse designer. They have been able to reinforce visually what I am trying to communicate with words. They have turned around work for me very quickly and been responsive to feedback. I'm grateful." Chris Culver Pastor of Birmingham Community Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life! Josh and his creative team are easy to work with and deliver high-quality graphics with a quick turnaround. They have simply created a bridge to the solving-side of our graphic design challenges." Philip Carroll Communications Minister at Lakeside Christian Church "The team of artists at Pixel Painters has had a wonderful impact on my church family. The skill, speed, and excellency of the work we have received is impressive! I highly recommend this service to any business or church that is looking to outsource their design production. Don't miss out on this fantastic resource!" Hannah Deaton Communications at Hurstbourne Baptist Church "Claire and Josh, I just have to say it, y'all are the best $490 Encounter has ever spent! Thanks for your work. I can't wait to show the team your work." Michael Boehm Senior Pastor Encounter Church "Pixel Painters was an answer to our prayers! After searching for a couple of years to find a solution to our graphic design challenges, Josh and his talented team, not only met our needs, they exceeded our wildest expectations! From the beginning, we were impressed with their professionalism, timeliness, and the quality of their work. I am still amazed we received all of this and at such an affordable price!" Jay Mills Executive Pastor at Southwinds Church "Pixel Painters was an answer to our prayers! After searching for a couple of years to find a solution to our graphic design challenges, Josh and his talented team, not only met our needs, they exceeded our wildest expectations! From the beginning, we were impressed with their professionalism, timeliness, and the quality of their work. I am still amazed we received all of this and at such an affordable price!" Jay Mills Executive Pastor at Southwinds Church "Claire and Josh, I just have to say it, y'all are the best $490 Encounter has ever spent! Thanks for your work. I can't wait to show the team your work." Michael Boehm Senior Pastor Encounter Church "The team of artists at Pixel Painters has had a wonderful impact on my church family. The skill, speed, and excellency of the work we have received is impressive! I highly recommend this service to any business or church that is looking to outsource their design production. Don't miss out on this fantastic resource!" Hannah Deaton Communications at Hurstbourne Baptist Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life! Josh and his creative team are easy to work with and deliver high-quality graphics with a quick turnaround. They have simply created a bridge to the solving-side of our graphic design challenges." Philip Carroll Communications Minister at Lakeside Christian Church "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an inhouse designer. They have been able to reinforce visually what I am trying to communicate with words. They have turned around work for me very quickly and been responsive to feedback. I'm grateful." Chris Culver Pastor of Birmingham Community Church "I'm always in need of random print projects, business cards, tshirts, packaging... No matter what I need Pixel Painters is always there super fast to get it done for me. They take time to understand the nonprofit mission and does whatever it takes to deliver an amazing design." Rachelle Starr Founder & President of Scarlet Hope Inc "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy. The team communicates with us really well and they have gotten designs to us quickly every time. We have been very impressed." Jared Belcher Operations Pastor at Arrowhead Church "Pixel Painters was an answer to our prayers! After searching for a couple of years to find a solution to our graphic design challenges, Josh and his talented team, not only met our needs, they exceeded our wildest expectations! From the beginning, we were impressed with their professionalism, timeliness, and the quality of their work. I am still amazed we received all of this and at such an affordable price!" Jay Mills Executive Pastor at Southwinds Church "Claire and Josh, I just have to say it, y'all are the best $490 Encounter has ever spent! Thanks for your work. I can't wait to show the team your work." Michael Boehm Senior Pastor Encounter Church "The team of artists at Pixel Painters has had a wonderful impact on my church family. The skill, speed, and excellency of the work we have received is impressive! I highly recommend this service to any business or church that is looking to outsource their design production. Don't miss out on this fantastic resource!" Hannah Deaton Communications at Hurstbourne Baptist Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life! Josh and his creative team are easy to work with and deliver high-quality graphics with a quick turnaround. They have simply created a bridge to the solving-side of our graphic design challenges." Philip Carroll Communications Minister at Lakeside Christian Church "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an inhouse designer. They have been able to reinforce visually what I am trying to communicate with words. They have turned around work for me very quickly and been responsive to feedback. I'm grateful." Chris Culver Pastor of Birmingham Community Church "I'm always in need of random print projects, business cards, tshirts, packaging... No matter what I need Pixel Painters is always there super fast to get it done for me. They take time to understand the nonprofit mission and does whatever it takes to deliver an amazing design." Rachelle Starr Founder & President of Scarlet Hope Inc "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy. The team communicates with us really well and they have gotten designs to us quickly every time. We have been very impressed." Jared Belcher Operations Pastor at Arrowhead Church 0:49 Justin All Souls Church 0:36 Callie Manias Graceland Church 1:15 Andy Pleasant Valley Community Church 1:11 Pastor Splawn First Northeast Baptist Church See More Testimonials MEET YOUR CREATIVE TEAM Not a faceless agency. A team that understands church communication because we live it. Josh Founder & CEO Claire Creative Director Watch intro Melanie Project Director Watch intro Ashley Social Media Manager Watch intro Andrea Graphic Designer Watch intro Jen Graphic Designer Watch intro Xen Web Designer Jonah Video & Motion Graphics Watch intro Shawn Director of Sales Watch intro Haley Graphic Designer Watch intro OUR STORYBUILT FROM THE INSIDE OF CHURCH COMMUNICATION TEAMS We're not trying to be everything to everyone. We focus on churches and ministries. We understand the pressure to communicate clearly, beautifully, and fast. PixelPainters exists to give church teams breathing room and consistency across every ministry channel. Only for churches & ministries Fast turnaround (typically 2-3 days) Month-to-month + 14-day risk-free guarantee TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Plans & Pricing | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/get-started Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation NO CONTRACTS • START FAST • 14‑DAY REFUND GUARANTEE Flat-rate plans designed for every ministry size. Pick a plan, submit requests in our app, and get designs back fast. Simple monthly pricing. Real Christian designers. Choose Your PlanBook Free Consultation ✓ Unlimited requests✓ Unlimited revisions✓ Fast turnaround✓ Cancel anytime 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited Graphics $490/ month Unlimited Custom Designs & Revisions Unlimited Active Projects Unlimited Users Fast turnaround (avg first draft 11h 06m) Simple Project App to manage projects No Contracts Dedicated Project Director Get Started14-day money-back guarantee. Checkout takes about 2 minutes on our secure client portal. See example work → Most Popular Unlimited Graphics PRO $590/ month Just $100 more than Unlimited Graphics. Everything in Unlimited Graphics Unlimited Sermon Bumper Videos Unlimited Book/Booklet Design & Layout Source file access Multi-campus support Dedicated Creative Director Monthly Creative Video Meetings via Zoom Get Started14-day money-back guarantee. Checkout takes about 2 minutes on our secure client portal. ADDITIONAL MONTHLY ADD‑ONS Bundle these with your plan anytime. Social Media $390/ month Full Social Media Management 10 posts per week up to 4 channels Strategy, design, implementation Monthly Creative Video Meetings via Zoom Custom content calendar Add Social MediaLearn more → Sermon Reels & Shorts $249/ month 5 Reels or Shorts created Weekly Just send us your sermon video! Monthly Creative Video Meetings via Zoom Add Reels & ShortsLearn more → Pixel Website Agent $299/ month Unlimited routine updates Sermon auto-posting Migration and rebuild included Human-reviewed changes, live in minutes Start Pixel WebsiteLearn more → Motion Graphics & Video Editing $890/ month Animated sermon bumpers & intros Social media motion graphics Video editing & post-production Lyric videos & worship visuals Event promo videos Add Motion GraphicsLearn more → WHAT YOU GET Unlimited Designs We'll work with you on as many designs as you can send. 100% Guarantee Love us, or your money back! Christian Designers We are all Christian designers who have served on church staff. Unlimited Revisions We'll make edits to your designs until you LOVE them! Fast First Drafts Average first draft in 11h 06m over the last 365 days, measured in our design portal. No Contracts Your membership is monthly with no long term commitments. Fast, Human Support Real humans on chat and email, Mon-Fri 8am-4pm EST, with fast replies. Easy to Work With Kind, responsive people who care about your church. No egos. QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU START What does "unlimited" actually mean? There is no cap on requests, revisions, or users. Send us as many projects as your church needs and invite your whole team into the project app. We're real people doing great work, so we just ask for mutual respect. How fast will we get designs back? Over the last 365 days, the average first draft arrived in 11 hours 6 minutes and the average project was finished and approved in 4 days 5 hours. We work Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm EST, and usually complete one design or revision cycle per business day (often more). What's the difference between Unlimited Graphics and PRO? PRO is $100 more and adds unlimited sermon bumper videos, book and booklet layout, source files, multi-campus support, a dedicated Creative Director, and monthly creative video meetings over Zoom. If you run more than one campus or want bumpers every series, PRO is usually the better fit. Is there a contract? No. Every plan is month-to-month and you can cancel anytime. You can also pause for up to 3 months per year, and billing stops while you're paused. What if we don't love the work? Revisions are unlimited, so we keep going until it's right. And if you're not happy for any reason in your first 14 days, we'll refund 100% of your payment. No questions, no awkwardness. How do we get started? Checkout takes about 2 minutes. Then you fill out a short questionnaire and upload your logo and brand files, and we normally start the next business day. If you'd rather talk first, book a free consultation and we'll help you pick the right plan. Can you work with our current designer or volunteer? Absolutely. We often work alongside a staff member or volunteer, either supplementing their work or taking projects fully off their plate. Do you offer yearly discounts? Yes. Yearly subscriptions get one month free. Email josh@pixelpainters.co for details. NEED CUSTOM PRICING? Are you a large or multisite church, or a ministry network, that needs graphic design and video help? Contact our team today for special pricing for larger projects and contract pricing. Book a Consultation Ready to hand off your design list? Choose Your PlanStill deciding? Book a free consultation and we'll help you pick. TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Unlimited Graphics Plan | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/graphics Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Unlimited Custom Designs & Revisions. Limitless creative experience for your church. Explore limitless creativity designed exclusively for churches... bringing your vision to life with precision and uniqueness. Start Unlimited GraphicsSee Our Work Turnaround Avg First Draft: 11h 06mDetails Avg Project Completion: 4 days 05 hours What's Included Tailored Creativity Unlimited Custom Designs & Revisions crafted to embody your church's unique vision. Effortless Collaboration Manage Unlimited Active Projects and collaborate seamlessly with your entire team. Streamlined Management Utilize our Simple Project App for efficient project management and fast turnaround times. YOUR CREATIVE COMMAND CENTER A clean workflow that replaces email chaos. 01 Submit Your Request Tell us what you need through our simple project app. Upload inspiration, brand guidelines, and any assets. 02 We Get to Work Your dedicated design team starts creating within 24 hours. We match your style and vision perfectly. 03 Review & Revise Preview your designs and request unlimited revisions until you're completely satisfied. 04 Download & Use Get your final files in any format you need. Print-ready, web-optimized, or social media sized. app.pixelpainters.co Create Project Title (Required) Due Date Content Unlimited users Unlimited active projects Comment threads + approvals Organized delivery Our Graphics Work See the variety of graphics we create for churches every day. AllSermon SeriesLogosEventsPrintApparel No items found in this category. View All Work Join 614+ churches and ministriesSimple, Transparent Pricing Month-to-month flexibility. No contracts. Start creating in minutes. 14-day money-back guarantee Cancel anytime 614+ churches & ministries served Unlimited Graphics $490/mo Everything you need to get started Start Unlimited Graphics What's included Unlimited Custom Designs & Revisions Unlimited Active Projects Unlimited Users Fast Turnaround Simple Project App to manage projects No Contracts Dedicated project Director Most Popular Unlimited Graphics PRO $590/mo Best value for growing churches Start PRO What's included Everything in Unlimited Graphics Unlimited Sermon Bumper Videos Unlimited Book/Booklet Design & Layout Source file access Multi-campus support Dedicated Creative Director Monthly Creative Video Meetings via Zoom Rated 4.9/5 from 7,657 reviews Have questions? Check our FAQ or book a free consultation Ready to Get Started? Join hundreds of churches who trust Pixel Painters with their creative needs. Start Unlimited GraphicsFree Consultation TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Social Media Management for Churches | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/social-media Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Social Media Solutions for Churches and Non-Profit Organizations We understand the unique needs of your community... dedicated to helping you share your message, reach your audience, and make a lasting impact. Start Social MediaFree Consultation Turnaround Avg First Draft: 11h 06mDetails Avg Project Completion: 4 days 05 hours Social Media Management We manage your presence across all major platforms. Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn YouTube And more Content Creation Everything you need for a powerful social media presence. Content Creation Eye-catching visuals, engaging graphics, and on-brand written content that resonates with your congregation. Upgrade to Reels & Shorts Add video content to your social media package! We'll create engaging video content to boost your reach. Our Social Media Work See the engaging content we create for churches every day. No items found in this category. View All Work Join 614+ churches and ministriesSimple, Transparent Pricing Month-to-month flexibility. No contracts. Start creating in minutes. 14-day money-back guarantee Cancel anytime 614+ churches & ministries served Social Media Management $390/mo Best value for growing churches Start Social Media What's included Full Social Media Management 10 posts/week across up to 4 channels Strategy, design & implementation Monthly creative video meetings via Zoom Custom content calendar Platform analytics & reporting Rated 4.9/5 from 7,657 reviews Have questions? Check our FAQ or book a free consultation Ready to Get Started? Join hundreds of churches who trust Pixel Painters with their creative needs. Start Social MediaFree Consultation TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Sermon Reels & Shorts for Churches | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/reels-shorts Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Affordable Reel Creation, through our done for you service. Transform your weekly sermons into engaging short-form content that reaches more people than ever before. Start Reels & ShortsFree Consultation Turnaround Avg First Draft: 11h 06mDetails Avg Project Completion: 4 days 05 hours What's Included Compelling Reels/Shorts We turn your weekly sermons into 5 compelling reels/shorts that capture the essence of your message. Professional Production Our team of experts will edit and enhance your content with professional transitions, captions, and branding. Engage Your Audience Visual storytelling is a powerful tool for connecting with your congregation and reaching new people. Social Media Integration Share your content effortlessly across Instagram, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and more. FROM SERMON TO SOCIAL From sermon to social in days, not weeks. 01 Submit Your Sermon Share your weekly sermon with us through our user-friendly platform. Just upload the video file or link. 02 AI Assisted Editing We use an AI tool online to create the first pass of identifying the best moments, then we lightly edit and brand it with your church's style. 03 Receive Your Reels We deliver 5 reels/shorts to you, ready to be shared. All formatted and optimized for each platform. 04 Engage Your Congregation Share the content on your website or social media channels and watch your engagement grow. app.pixelpainters.co Submit Your Sermon Drop your sermon video here or paste a YouTube/Vimeo link Sunday_Sermon_Feb2.mp4 5 Reels per sermon 11h Avg first draft All Major platforms ∞ Potential reach SEE OUR REELS IN ACTION Real sermon clips, straight from our weekly delivery queue. Sermon Clip PixelPainters client Sermon Clip PixelPainters client Sermon Clip PixelPainters client Sermon Clip PixelPainters client Sermon Clip PixelPainters client Sermon Clip PixelPainters client Sermon Clip PixelPainters client Sermon Clip PixelPainters client Want to see your sermons transformed like these? Start Reels & Shorts Join 614+ churches and ministriesSimple, Transparent Pricing Month-to-month flexibility. No contracts. Start creating in minutes. 14-day money-back guarantee Cancel anytime 614+ churches & ministries served Sermon Reels & Shorts $249/mo Best value for growing churches Start Reels & Shorts What's included 5 reels/shorts per sermon Professional editing & branding AI-assisted clip selection Caption & subtitle overlays Optimized for all platforms Weekly delivery Rated 4.9/5 from 7,657 reviews Have questions? Check our FAQ or book a free consultation Ready to Get Started? Join hundreds of churches who trust Pixel Painters with their creative needs. Start Reels & ShortsFree Consultation TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Website Management & Google Ad Grants | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/websites Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation GOOGLE AD GRANTS + WEBSITE CAREUp to $10,000 a month in free Google ads. We'll put it to work for your church. We help you get the Google Ad Grant, run the campaigns, and keep your website ready for the people they bring. Book a free grant check Or see plans Grants management $249/mo. Website + Grants $499/mo. No setup fee. 4.9 from 7,657 client reviews614+ churches served since 2018 MEET PIXEL AI-assisted work. A real team behind it. One connected service. Relevant Google searches Grant campaigns built around what your community searches for 01 Pages built for them Accurate service times, events and ministry pages 02 A clear next step Sign-ups, plan-a-visit forms and registrations you can count 03 Our team manages the work and shows you what changed. Your ministry is moving. Your website should keep up. Keep your website current New service time? Upcoming event? Send your updates through your client portal. Our team handles the website work. Help the right people find you Reach people searching for what your church offers, from a first visit to a recovery group, with focused Google Search campaigns. Give every visit a next step Send each ad to a page built for it, then count the real sign-ups, plan-a-visit forms and registrations. HOW A GRANT BRINGS SOMEONE TO CHURCHSomeone searches. Your church shows up. They take a next step. Here is what grant campaigns look like when they are tied to the right pages. Google pays for the ad. We build the campaign and the page behind it. THEY SEARCH "grief support group near me" THEY LAND ON Your GriefShare page with the next start date YOU GET A sign-up in your inbox THEY SEARCH "christmas eve service times" THEY LAND ON A Christmas page with every service and parking info YOU GET A plan-a-visit form THEY SEARCH "church with kids ministry" THEY LAND ON Your kids page: check-in, safety, what Sunday looks like YOU GET A first-time guest SEARCH & AI VISIBILITYHelp people discover your church in search and AI answers. We improve the website foundations that help search engines and AI search tools find and understand your church: clear service times and locations, useful ministry pages, answers to visitor questions, and accessible, well-organized content. Search access Checks for crawl restrictions, sitemaps, indexing issues and redirects after a migration. Accurate church information Consistent names, locations, service times and contact details across your website. Helpful answers Clear information about visiting, children's ministry, accessibility and beliefs, using church-approved material. A clear technical structure Descriptive page titles, useful internal links and appropriate structured data that matches your visible content. Included with Pixel Website and the combined plan: an initial search-readiness review and routine indexing checks. Larger content projects and ongoing SEO campaigns are scoped separately. NO SETUP FEE. SIMPLE MONTHLY PRICING.Choose the support you need. Get your grant working, keep your website current, or have one team do both. Pixel Website $299 / month Keep your website in good hands and your team focused on ministry. One managed website with hosting Unlimited routine content updates, one request at a time Text, images, event and sermon updates using existing templates Website checks and human-reviewed changes Initial search-readiness review and routine indexing checks Monthly report of completed website work Month to month. Migration, if needed, is quoted separately. Start Pixel Website Prefer to talk first? Book a free grant check Google Ad Grants $249 / month Get approved, then put up to $10,000 a month of free Google ads to work. Grant application help, included Campaign setup, keywords and ad copy The conversion tracking Google requires, set up and checked Weekly optimization and compliance monitoring Monthly results review No setup fee. If Google does not approve your organization, we refund what you paid us. Start Google Ad Grants Prefer to talk first? Book a free grant check RECOMMENDED COMBINATION Website + Google Ad Grants $499 / month The grant works best with pages built for it. We run both, so nothing falls through the cracks. Everything in Pixel Website Everything in Google Ad Grants One new or substantially improved campaign landing page each month Search-aware page content with an agreed template and clear next step One report connecting site work and campaign results No setup fee. One organization and primary service area. Start Website + Grants Prefer to talk first? Book a free grant check No setup fee Grant application help, account setup, first campaigns and conversion tracking are included in the monthly price. Website migrations: from $1,500 Quoted separately after reviewing your site. Larger archives, custom features and integrations receive their own scope. Website care is month to month. Grants and combined plans start with a 90-day minimum, then renew monthly. Existing customer agreements stay in place. UNDERSTANDING GOOGLE AD GRANTSUp to $10,000 a month in Search advertising credit. Google gives qualifying nonprofits, including most churches, free ads on Google Search. Many churches either don't have the grant or use only a small slice of it. We help you get it and use it well. Read our Ad Grants guide for churches What to know before you start Google decides who qualifies. We handle the application with you, and refund what you paid us if you are not approved. The grant pays for the ads. Our monthly fee covers the work. Google has rules, like conversion tracking and minimum click rates. We set it up and watch it every week so your account stays in good standing. Spend grows with what your community actually searches for. You see the spend and the results every month. A clear plan, from the first conversation. 01Book a free grant check Twenty minutes with Josh. We look at your website, whether you have a grant, and what people in your town actually search for. 02Get approved and set up We handle the application, the account, the first campaigns and the tracking. No setup fee. 03Keep improving together We tune the campaigns every week, handle your website requests and show you what changed each month. A real team stays accountable. Pixel assists with the work. People review the changes, respect your approved content and keep you informed. See the work and the results. Know what was updated, how campaigns performed and what people signed up for. Your domain, content and ad account stay yours. Good questions. Straight answers. Do we need a new website? Usually not. A solid existing website can support a grant. We look at your site first and only suggest a migration if it would really help. You keep your domain and your content. Can you help our church appear in ChatGPT and other AI search results? We improve the things search engines and AI tools rely on: clear service times and locations, useful ministry pages, answers to visitor questions, good page titles, sitemaps and structured data. Pixel Website includes an initial search-readiness review and routine indexing checks, and the combined plan applies the same care to its monthly landing page. Grants management is advertising, so it does not buy organic or AI placement. What counts as an unlimited routine update? Changes to text, images and links on existing pages, plus event and sermon entries using an established template. Submit as many as you need and we work through them one at a time. New features, custom integrations, big redesigns and bulk archive imports are scoped separately. The combined plan also includes one new or substantially improved campaign landing page each month. Is there a setup fee? No. Grant application help, account setup, first campaigns and conversion tracking are included in the monthly price. Website migrations are the only separate cost, starting at $1,500, and we quote them before any work begins. Is our church guaranteed a Google Ad Grant? Google makes the call, and most US churches and ministries with 501(c)(3) recognition qualify. We handle the application with you. If Google does not approve your organization, we refund what you paid us. We already have a grant. Can you manage it? Yes. We review your account, campaigns, website and tracking, agree on goals, then take it from there. Many grant accounts use only a small slice of the $10,000, and a few fixes can change that. Your organization keeps ownership of the account. How much of the $10,000 will we use? It depends on how many people in your area search for what your church offers. We build campaigns around real searches and send them to useful pages, then grow from there. You will see spend and results every month. What will we see in the monthly report? What we changed on your website, how your campaigns performed, and the sign-ups, forms and registrations they produced. We count a form or a sign-up as a result, not just a click. How does Pixel use AI? Pixel helps our team prepare routine work and spot opportunities. People review the work, and your church's approved material guides the content. We never publish AI-written words under your pastor's name. Is there a long-term contract? Pixel Website is month to month. Grants and combined plans start with a 90-day minimum, since that is how long it takes to get approved and let campaigns learn, then renew monthly. Your domain, content and Google Ads account stay yours. What happens to our existing PixelPainters plan? Your current pricing stays in place unless we agree on an upgrade together. This service sits alongside your creative subscription, and we will make sure you are not paying twice for the same work. Find out what your grant could do. Twenty minutes with Josh. We'll check your grant status, look at your website, and show you what people near you are searching for. Free, and no pressure. Book a free grant check See plans Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Motion Graphics & Video Editing | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/get-started/motion-graphics-and-video-editing Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Custom Video and Motion Graphics Solutions for Churches and Non-Profits Bring your message to life with professional video content that captivates and inspires your congregation. Start Motion GraphicsFree Consultation Turnaround Avg First Draft: 11h 06mDetails Avg Project Completion: 4 days 05 hours Unlimited Video Production For just $890 per month... Get unlimited custom videos and motion graphics up to 30 minutes in length. Unlimited video/motion under 30 minutes Engaging sermon bumpers Powerful testimonial videos Dynamic event recaps Shareable social media clips And much more What We Create Professional video content tailored for your ministry. Engaging Sermon Bumpers Captivating intro and outro videos that set the tone for your message. Powerful Testimonial Videos Professionally edited testimonial videos that showcase your congregation's stories. Dynamic Event Recaps Highlight reels and recap videos that capture the energy of your events. Shareable Social Media Clips Short-form content optimized for maximum engagement on social platforms. Latest Projects See what we've created for churches like yours. Sermon Bumper Example Church intro video Event Recap Conference highlights Testimonial Video Member story Worship Intro Service opener Announcement Video Weekly updates Motion Graphics Animated series art Join 614+ churches and ministriesSimple, Transparent Pricing Month-to-month flexibility. No contracts. Start creating in minutes. 14-day money-back guarantee Cancel anytime 614+ churches & ministries served Motion Graphics & Video Editing $890/mo Best value for growing churches Start Motion Graphics What's included Unlimited custom videos Videos up to 30 minutes in length Motion graphics & animations Professional editing & color grading 2-3 business day turnaround Unlimited revisions Rated 4.9/5 from 7,657 reviews Have questions? Check our FAQ or book a free consultation Ready to Get Started? Join hundreds of churches who trust Pixel Painters with their creative needs. Start Motion GraphicsFree Consultation TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Book a Free Consultation | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/free-consultation Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Free, no obligation Book Your Free Consultation Pick a time on the calendar. You will meet one-on-one with a real person from our team, not a sales script. You will meet Melanie Project Director, PixelPainters We look at your current graphics and what is on your plate this season We map out what a plan could look like for your church You get honest answers on pricing, turnaround, and fit 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews|614+ churches served since 2018 Times show in your local time zone. No time that works? See Josh's calendar. Not ready to talk yet? Build your free Creative Blueprint Answer a few questions in about 2 minutes and get a personalized plan for your church. Capacity Snapshot Gospel Design Scorecard Free Book Download 1 Info 2 Workload 3 Deadline 4 Audit 5 Results Let's build your Creative Blueprint Tell us about your church so we can personalize your results. Church or Organization Name * Your Role * Email Address * City, State * BackContinue Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### FAQ | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/faq Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Frequently Asked Questions Everything you need to know about working with Pixel Painters. General Questions What is Pixel Painters? Pixel Painters is a design subscription service exclusively for churches and ministries. We provide unlimited custom graphic design created by professional Christian designers who have served on staff at churches as communication directors and designers. We view this as our ministry to the local church. Who do you serve? We exclusively work with churches, ministries, and parachurch organizations. We aren't trying to be all things to all people. We've chosen to focus on the mission and purpose of the local church. Do you create logos? We can create a ministry logo and branding package for you! Brand projects take significant design hours, so they're the best fit for churches planning to partner with us for several months (that's honestly when we break even on the work). There's no contract required. We've created brands for churches large and small, and would love to serve you! Can I sign up for a single month only? Yes. All plans are month-to-month with no contracts, and you can cancel anytime. That said, we're built for ongoing partnership: churches get the most out of us after a few months of weekly requests, and most of our churches stay for years. Is it really a 14-day refund guarantee? Yes! If you're not happy for any reason in the first two weeks, we'll give you back 100% with no questions. Do you offer yearly discounts? Yearly subscriptions get one month free. Email josh@pixelpainters.co for details. Services & Plans What plans do you offer? We offer the following plans: Unlimited Graphics, $490/month: Unlimited Custom Designs & Revisions, Unlimited Active Projects, Unlimited Users, Fast Turnaround, Simple Project App to manage projects, No Contracts, and a Dedicated Project Director. Unlimited Graphics PRO, $590/month: Everything in Unlimited Graphics, Unlimited Sermon Bumper Videos, Unlimited Book/Booklet Design & Layout, Source file access, Multi-campus support, Dedicated Creative Director, and Monthly Creative Video Meetings via Zoom. Partnership Plans: For large churches, ministries, or for-profit businesses who need graphic design and video help. Contact our team for special pricing for larger projects and contract pricing. What add-on services are available? We offer the following monthly add-ons: Social Media Management, $390/month: Full social media management, 10 posts per week across up to 4 channels, strategy/design/implementation, monthly creative video meetings, and a custom content calendar (no video creation included). Sermon Reels & Shorts, $249/month: 5 reels or shorts created weekly. Just send us your sermon video! Includes monthly creative video meetings. Website Management, $249/month: Unlimited edits, custom pages, videos/sermons/events updates, any website edit or update, plus website creation and hosting. What types of projects can you design? We can handle virtually any design need for your church, including sermon series graphics, worship slides, event graphics, social media posts, flyers, business cards, outdoor signage, apparel, merchandise, year-end reports, logos, bumper videos, websites, and more. How many projects can you do? As many as you send us. Just remember we're real people doing great work, so we ask for mutual respect. What type of projects DON'T you do? We do not do voice overs, perform talking-head video, or film actual footage for your videos. We focus on graphic design, bumper video creation (using your footage or stock video), and the other services outlined in our plans. Bumper Videos Do you create bumper videos? Yes! Sermon bumper videos are included in Unlimited Graphics PRO, built from your footage or stock video. Most churches request one or two per series, and you're not capped. For heavier video needs, our Motion Graphics & Video Editing plan covers unlimited custom video under 30 minutes. What is a bumper video? A bumper video is generally 45 seconds or less and is used as a prelude to a sermon or as an announcement for a special event. What's included in a bumper video? We will utilize either your footage or stock video, add music, and add visual effects to bring across your message. What is NOT included in a bumper video? We do not do voice overs, perform talking-head video, or film the actual footage for your video. How do I submit a bumper request? When requesting sermon bumpers, provide context or themes of the sermon series for more aligned content creation. Pro Tip: The bumper video should complement the sermon series artwork and feel like an extension of the series theme. What if I need both graphics and a bumper for the same project? We have a two-step process: Step 1: We complete all graphics for the project. Step 2: Once the graphics are approved, you submit a new request for your bumper and include the original project number. Working With Us Can you work with our current designer? Absolutely. We often work alongside a staff member or volunteer, either supplementing their work or taking projects fully off their plate. How fast do you all work? We work Mon-Fri, 8-4pm EST. Usually we can complete one design/revision cycle per business day (sometimes more). How fast can you get started? After you sign up and complete the client questionnaire, we normally start the day after that. How do I get onboarded? Complete the initial questionnaire at /start-here and upload your church's logo and branding guide documents. Then sign into our app at app.pixelpainters.co using your provided username and password. Familiarize yourself with the dashboard where you can manage projects, view invoices, and access a catalog of services. How do I submit a design request? Use the project submission form in our app to clearly define your project requirements. Specify the type of request, content details, desired file sizes, target audience, and any inspirational material. If you have specific deadlines, add the initial draft deadline to your submission. How do I communicate with your team? Use the comment section in the project dashboard to discuss project details or provide feedback. We are always available during business hours (Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm EST). You may hear from us outside of business hours as well, but we're committed to making sure your voice is heard. How should I give feedback on designs? After receiving your designs, provide specific feedback to help us better understand your needs and refine the designs. Take advantage of unlimited revisions by being as detailed as possible. Can I pause my subscription? Yes. You can pause your subscription for up to 3 months per year. Billing stops while you are paused, and we keep your design queue and brand assets safe the whole time, so you can pick up right where you left off. Social Media Management Do you all manage social media? Yes. Full social media management includes up to 4 platforms and 10 posts per week for $390/month. This includes strategy, design, implementation, monthly creative video meetings via Zoom, and a custom content calendar. Video creation is not included. How does the social media content calendar work? We create a custom content calendar for your church. Review and provide feedback regularly to ensure posts align with upcoming church events or themes. Discuss engagement strategies during your monthly creative video meetings. How do I schedule my monthly social media meeting? You can schedule a monthly meeting at https://calendly.com/melanie-pixelpainters/pixelpainters-co-free-consultation. Pixel Website Agent Do you all manage websites? Yes. Our Pixel Website Agent keeps your church website current for $299/month: unlimited routine updates, sermon auto-posting, fast secure hosting, and a monthly report of everything it noticed, fixed, and published. A real human reviews every change before your members see it, and we never ghost-write content under your pastor's name. Is there a setup fee for the Website Agent? A one-time activation fee applies at signup, and your migration and rebuild are included in it. We move your current site onto our platform no matter where it's hosted today, with nothing extra to pay for the move. Book a walkthrough and we'll give you the exact number for your site. Do you need access to my domain? Yes, we will need access to your domain to launch your new site. We rebuild your current site on our fast, secure platform regardless of where it's hosted today, and nothing is lost in the move. Sermon Reels & Shorts How do Sermon Reels & Shorts work? Send us your weekly sermon video, and we use an AI tool to automate the initial creation of the reels. We then lightly edit the text, add your branding, and send them back to you. We create 5 reels or shorts per week for $249/month. What video quality do you need? Ensure the sermon videos provided are of high quality for the best results. Timelines & Turnaround How far in advance should I submit event graphics? Event graphics require a minimum of 3 business days for initial proofs. We recommend submitting at least one week before you need them to allow time for revisions. How far in advance should I submit sermon series graphics? Sermon series graphics can take up to 5 business days to create. Submit at least two weeks in advance to accommodate revisions and various sizes. How far in advance should I submit campaign or major event graphics? Campaigns or major events require a minimum of 1 week for proofs. Due to their complexity and multiple elements, start these projects at least one month (5 weeks) in advance. How far in advance should I submit printed booklets? Printed booklets require a minimum of 1 week for proofs. Submit at least 4 weeks before you need them. How far in advance should I submit printed apparel designs? Printed apparel requires a minimum of 3 business days for proofs. Submit at least 1 week before you need the graphics. How far in advance should I submit bumper video requests? Video bumpers require a minimum of 5 business days for a proof. Submit at least 2 weeks before you need the video. How far in advance should I submit long-format video requests? Long-format video requires a minimum of 7 business days for a proof. Submit at least 1 month before you need the video. What about busy seasons? During peak times such as Easter, Back to School, and Christmas, our typical turnaround times may be affected. We recommend extending your submission timeline by an additional week during these periods. File Sizes & Formats What file sizes do you deliver for screen and social media? Standard deliverable sizes include: 1920 x 1080 pixels: Church & Background Slide (jpeg, png) 1280 x 720 pixels: Church App (jpeg, png) 1080 x 1080 pixels: Instagram Social Square Post (jpeg, png) 1080 x 1350 pixels: Instagram Social Post (jpeg, png) 1080 x 1920 pixels: Instagram Social Story (jpeg, png) 1920 x 692 pixels: Website Banner (jpeg, png) 820 x 360 pixels: Facebook Cover Photo (jpeg, png) 3840 x 2160 pixels: 4K Church Screen (jpeg, png) 1920 x 280 pixels: Standard Lower Third (png) What file sizes do you deliver for printed materials? Standard printed material sizes include (with 1/8 inch bleed added for printing): 4 x 6 inch: Landscape Postcard (pdf, jpeg) 6 x 4 inch: Portrait Postcard (pdf, jpeg) 8.5 x 11 inch: Portrait Letter / Booklet (pdf, jpeg) 11 x 8.5 inch: Landscape Letter / Booklet (pdf, jpeg) 11 x 17 inch: Portrait Tabloid (pdf, jpeg) 17 x 11 inch: Landscape Tabloid (pdf, jpeg) What video sizes do you deliver? Standard video sizes include: 1920 x 1080 pixels: Standard Video Screen (mp4) 3840 x 2160 pixels: 4K Church Screen (mp4) Source Files & File Management Can I get source files for my projects? Source file access is included with the Unlimited Graphics PRO plan ($590/month). When a project is finished, we send source files via Dropbox. The standard Unlimited Graphics plan ($490/month) does not include source file access. How do I manage my branding files? Utilize the storage feature in our app to manage your branding logos and past projects. This helps maintain consistency across your designs. Still have questions? Don't hesitate to contact our support team. We look forward to serving you and helping your ministry thrive! Book a Free Consultation TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### About PixelPainters | Unlimited Design for Churches https://pixelpainters.com/about Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation About PixelPaintersBuilt for church communication teams. PixelPainters is a subscription creative partner for churches and ministries, built by people who've lived the "Sunday's coming" grind. Unlimited design support, fast turnaround (typically 2-3 business days), and a workflow that removes chaos. Book Free ConsultationSee Plans & Pricing No contracts • Unlimited revisions • 14‑day money‑back guarantee Design shouldn't be the thing that steals your week. Church comms teams are asked to do a lot with a little, sermon series, slides, socials, print, events, signage, last‑minute changes… and somehow still have a life. PixelPainters exists to make design the easy part. We act like an on‑call creative department so your team can focus on ministry, people, and mission, not fighting files at 11:47pm on Saturday. Unlimited requests & revisions (yes, really) Simple monthly pricing (no hourly surprises) Fast turnaround (typically 2-3 business days) A team that understands church language and church deadlines Pleasant to work with (no egos, no drama) Josh Starr, Founder Built from the inside of church staff life. PixelPainters started because we've been where you are. Founder Josh Starr grew up a pastor's kid, married his high‑school sweetheart (also a pastor's kid), and spent his early career building digital experiences for major brands, including work that helped build the e‑commerce side of Walmart.com. But ministry kept calling. Josh and his family moved to Kentucky to serve with a local church, and later helped found Scarlet Hope, a nonprofit ministry serving women leaving the adult entertainment industry. Over time, that work expanded nationally with offices in multiple cities. Along the way, Josh built a web and design agency (Solid Giant) and had the privilege of serving organizations and ministries across the country. After years of serving churches, and serving as a communications director in a large church environment, one thing became painfully obvious: Most churches would benefit from excellent design, but can't justify hiring a full‑time designer. So in 2018, PixelPainters was born: a simple subscription that gives churches reliable design support without the cost and complexity of building an in‑house department. We're not trying to be everything to everyone. We intentionally focus on churches, ministries, and mission‑driven organizations because we believe in what you're building. As communicators ourselves, we understand the pressure to communicate clearly, stay consistent week to week, move fast when ministry needs change, and support multiple ministries and leaders. If you're trying to serve people well, we'd love to serve you. Churches & ministries Church plants & networks Mission organizations Select nonprofits A creative partner for everything you need to communicate. Sermon series graphics (key art, slides, socials) Event promotion (print + digital) Social media graphics and content support Logos and brand systems Print design (brochures, business cards, postcards, booklets) Outdoor signage and large‑format graphics Website design support and ongoing updates Motion graphics and video editing (add‑on) If it needs to be designed for church communication, we've probably done it hundreds of times. Simple workflow. Real people. Fast results. 01 Submit a request Tell us what you need through our simple request system. 02 We design Our team gets to work on your project right away. 03 Review & revise Give feedback and we'll make unlimited revisions. 04 Download & deploy Get your final files and put them to work. We're a team of Christian designers who care deeply about serving ministries with excellence. MEET YOUR CREATIVE TEAM Not a faceless agency. A team that understands church communication because we live it. Josh Founder & CEO Claire Creative Director Watch intro Melanie Project Director Watch intro Ashley Social Media Manager Watch intro Andrea Graphic Designer Watch intro Jen Graphic Designer Watch intro Xen Web Designer Jonah Video & Motion Graphics Watch intro Shawn Director of Sales Watch intro Haley Graphic Designer Watch intro Trusted by ministries across the country. Networks & Connections Churches & Ministries …and hundreds of local churches. TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. 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Book a Free Consultation See Plans & Pricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Client Testimonials | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/testimonials Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation TESTIMONIALS 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal. Here is what churches and ministries say about working with us. DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT "PixelPainters has been a game-changer for our church communications. They understand our culture, our deadlines, and deliver consistently beautiful work that elevates everything we do." Jay Mills Executive Pastor, Southwinds Church "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy. The team communicates with us really well and they have gotten designs to us quickly every time. We have been very impressed." Jared Belcher Operations Pastor at Arrowhead Church "I'm always in need of random print projects, business cards, tshirts, packaging... No matter what I need Pixel Painters is always there super fast to get it done for me. They take time to understand the nonprofit mission and does whatever it takes to deliver an amazing design." Rachelle Starr Founder & President of Scarlet Hope Inc "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an inhouse designer. They have been able to reinforce visually what I am trying to communicate with words. They have turned around work for me very quickly and been responsive to feedback. I'm grateful." Chris Culver Pastor of Birmingham Community Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life! Josh and his creative team are easy to work with and deliver high-quality graphics with a quick turnaround. They have simply created a bridge to the solving-side of our graphic design challenges." Philip Carroll Communications Minister at Lakeside Christian Church "The team of artists at Pixel Painters has had a wonderful impact on my church family. The skill, speed, and excellency of the work we have received is impressive! I highly recommend this service to any business or church that is looking to outsource their design production. Don't miss out on this fantastic resource!" Hannah Deaton Communications at Hurstbourne Baptist Church "Claire and Josh, I just have to say it, y'all are the best $490 Encounter has ever spent! Thanks for your work. I can't wait to show the team your work." Michael Boehm Senior Pastor Encounter Church "Pixel Painters was an answer to our prayers! After searching for a couple of years to find a solution to our graphic design challenges, Josh and his talented team, not only met our needs, they exceeded our wildest expectations! From the beginning, we were impressed with their professionalism, timeliness, and the quality of their work. I am still amazed we received all of this and at such an affordable price!" Jay Mills Executive Pastor at Southwinds Church "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy. The team communicates with us really well and they have gotten designs to us quickly every time. We have been very impressed." Jared Belcher Operations Pastor at Arrowhead Church "I'm always in need of random print projects, business cards, tshirts, packaging... No matter what I need Pixel Painters is always there super fast to get it done for me. They take time to understand the nonprofit mission and does whatever it takes to deliver an amazing design." Rachelle Starr Founder & President of Scarlet Hope Inc "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an inhouse designer. They have been able to reinforce visually what I am trying to communicate with words. They have turned around work for me very quickly and been responsive to feedback. I'm grateful." Chris Culver Pastor of Birmingham Community Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life! Josh and his creative team are easy to work with and deliver high-quality graphics with a quick turnaround. They have simply created a bridge to the solving-side of our graphic design challenges." Philip Carroll Communications Minister at Lakeside Christian Church "The team of artists at Pixel Painters has had a wonderful impact on my church family. The skill, speed, and excellency of the work we have received is impressive! I highly recommend this service to any business or church that is looking to outsource their design production. Don't miss out on this fantastic resource!" Hannah Deaton Communications at Hurstbourne Baptist Church "Claire and Josh, I just have to say it, y'all are the best $490 Encounter has ever spent! Thanks for your work. I can't wait to show the team your work." Michael Boehm Senior Pastor Encounter Church "Pixel Painters was an answer to our prayers! After searching for a couple of years to find a solution to our graphic design challenges, Josh and his talented team, not only met our needs, they exceeded our wildest expectations! From the beginning, we were impressed with their professionalism, timeliness, and the quality of their work. I am still amazed we received all of this and at such an affordable price!" Jay Mills Executive Pastor at Southwinds Church "Pixel Painters was an answer to our prayers! After searching for a couple of years to find a solution to our graphic design challenges, Josh and his talented team, not only met our needs, they exceeded our wildest expectations! From the beginning, we were impressed with their professionalism, timeliness, and the quality of their work. I am still amazed we received all of this and at such an affordable price!" Jay Mills Executive Pastor at Southwinds Church "Claire and Josh, I just have to say it, y'all are the best $490 Encounter has ever spent! Thanks for your work. I can't wait to show the team your work." Michael Boehm Senior Pastor Encounter Church "The team of artists at Pixel Painters has had a wonderful impact on my church family. The skill, speed, and excellency of the work we have received is impressive! I highly recommend this service to any business or church that is looking to outsource their design production. Don't miss out on this fantastic resource!" Hannah Deaton Communications at Hurstbourne Baptist Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life! Josh and his creative team are easy to work with and deliver high-quality graphics with a quick turnaround. They have simply created a bridge to the solving-side of our graphic design challenges." Philip Carroll Communications Minister at Lakeside Christian Church "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an inhouse designer. They have been able to reinforce visually what I am trying to communicate with words. They have turned around work for me very quickly and been responsive to feedback. I'm grateful." Chris Culver Pastor of Birmingham Community Church "I'm always in need of random print projects, business cards, tshirts, packaging... No matter what I need Pixel Painters is always there super fast to get it done for me. They take time to understand the nonprofit mission and does whatever it takes to deliver an amazing design." Rachelle Starr Founder & President of Scarlet Hope Inc "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy. The team communicates with us really well and they have gotten designs to us quickly every time. We have been very impressed." Jared Belcher Operations Pastor at Arrowhead Church "Pixel Painters was an answer to our prayers! After searching for a couple of years to find a solution to our graphic design challenges, Josh and his talented team, not only met our needs, they exceeded our wildest expectations! From the beginning, we were impressed with their professionalism, timeliness, and the quality of their work. I am still amazed we received all of this and at such an affordable price!" Jay Mills Executive Pastor at Southwinds Church "Claire and Josh, I just have to say it, y'all are the best $490 Encounter has ever spent! Thanks for your work. I can't wait to show the team your work." Michael Boehm Senior Pastor Encounter Church "The team of artists at Pixel Painters has had a wonderful impact on my church family. The skill, speed, and excellency of the work we have received is impressive! I highly recommend this service to any business or church that is looking to outsource their design production. Don't miss out on this fantastic resource!" Hannah Deaton Communications at Hurstbourne Baptist Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life! Josh and his creative team are easy to work with and deliver high-quality graphics with a quick turnaround. They have simply created a bridge to the solving-side of our graphic design challenges." Philip Carroll Communications Minister at Lakeside Christian Church "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an inhouse designer. They have been able to reinforce visually what I am trying to communicate with words. They have turned around work for me very quickly and been responsive to feedback. I'm grateful." Chris Culver Pastor of Birmingham Community Church "I'm always in need of random print projects, business cards, tshirts, packaging... No matter what I need Pixel Painters is always there super fast to get it done for me. They take time to understand the nonprofit mission and does whatever it takes to deliver an amazing design." Rachelle Starr Founder & President of Scarlet Hope Inc "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy. The team communicates with us really well and they have gotten designs to us quickly every time. We have been very impressed." Jared Belcher Operations Pastor at Arrowhead Church Justin All Souls Church Callie Manias GRACELANDCHURCH Andy Pleasant Valley Community Church Pastor Splawn First Northeast Baptist Church Pastor Church Testimonial Pastor Church Testimonial Pastor Church Testimonial A Small Sample of Our Thousands of Reviews Real feedback from churches and ministries we've partnered with All (297)Sermon Series (84)Events (51)Print (108)Video (22)Social Media (9)Apparel (10)Logos (13) Jen did a fabulous job on our project. I love the design she created and she executed my revisions excellently. Bob Horn Living Water Sermon SeriesFeb 2026 Haley has been great to work with and took vague instructions and revises in stride. Appreciate the hard work and dedication. Jan Hoover River Lake Church Sermon SeriesFeb 2026 Claire did a fabulous job designing our project, responding to my edits, and completing it within my time frame. Excellent work! Bob Horn Living Water EventsFeb 2026 Claire knocked it out of the park! She was easy to communicate with, understood and anticipated my choices, and I love this design. Jaime Oliver Legacy Church PrintFeb 2026 Excellent result. It was a joy working with you. Thanks for listening and really working to create a graphic that is "us". Don Dodge Avalon Church PrintJan 2026 Haley was wonderful to work with! She understood what we were looking for. Kandi Poppler Crossview Covenant Church Sermon SeriesJan 2026 Jen was AMAZING to work with and very helpful and timely with our very short timeline! The piece is PERFECT Brittany Neal Life Church PrintJan 2026 Andrea took a mix of ideas and turned it into a great graphic for our youth sermon series! Melody Nicholson First McKinney Church Sermon SeriesJan 2026 Jonah was kind in walking with us through A LOT of back and forth. So grateful for his professionalism and support. Lianne Wangui Life In Abundance VideoJan 2026 Claire's work is exceptional - she is very receptive to feedback, willing to make adjustments, and wants to the see the project through to completion. Grateful to work with her on any project! Emily Thomas River Lake Church PrintJan 2026 Fun and inviting. The two things I was looking for and Jen hit it out of the ballpark. Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church EventsDec 2025 I know this was more complex and had many changes. I appreciate the effort on this! Thanks. Karen Tarantino South Brook Church PrintDec 2025 Claire did a beautiful job taking a two different visions and merging them together for us! Melody Nicholson First McKinney Church Sermon SeriesDec 2025 I and the whole leadership team at Apologetics, Inc. are amazed at the beyond-excellent quality of Melanie and the staff of Pixel Painters. Wow times a thousand! Tom Woodward Apologetics Inc. PrintDec 2025 Rodney did a great job following our inspiration and making the requested edits. Andrea Kerch Tucson Baptist Church PrintDec 2025 Claire elevates our vision and is so accommodating with the iterations on each project! Melody Nicholson First McKinney Church PrintNov 2025 Great first experience. It was quick and easy, minimal edits needed. Good response time. The only thing I wish was different was utilizing Dropbox. Not sure if there is an option to choose how files are received. Was good though. Mistie Osterhouse Lifeway Church PrintNov 2025 Jen did a great job with concepts throughout the project and getting the final project to something we love. Franklyn François Creekside Community Church Sermon SeriesNov 2025 Rodney nailed the design and was super fast with structure edits. Thank you! Emily James Legacy Church PrintNov 2025 Great end result after a pivot from the initial design. Responsive to edits and created a result we were happy with! Chenoa Wyman Victory Highway Wesleyan Church Sermon SeriesNov 2025 Love the final product! Thank you for working with our ministry to get what they were dreaming up. Melody Nicholson First McKinney Church PrintNov 2025 Jen did a great job with this, thankful for her walking beside us on this journey of back and forth. She is AWESOME! Alex Dayvolt FC Newburgh Sermon SeriesNov 2025 Had a good laugh with Jonah that the stock music is "inspired" by Hans Zimmer's 'Inception'. Making this Christmas series, "The Immaculate Inception". :) Jay Kent Crosspoint Church VideoNov 2025 Love the end result and working with Claire is a joy. She can almost read my mind now! :-) Jan Hoover River Lake Church Sermon SeriesOct 2025 Haley was easy to communicate with and made the changes right away. She took the ideas I sent and made something great for us! Shamus Staubach Lakeside Church EventsOct 2025 Cuts were good, transitions were good, but the text was rolling instead of hard cuts which is dated if the music isn’t going to match the grunge rock feel. If you’re going modern use a sarif font like we have in all of our examples. Stephen Canfield Grace Church EventsOct 2025 This design was exactly on point with what I wanted it to look like, very thankful for Jonah and his hard work and quick turn around time for this project! Chris Todd Midway Church VideoOct 2025 Jen is always super helpful, and so kind. And extremely great quality work. Thank you! Karen Tarantino South Brook Church ApparelOct 2025 Got this to print on time and couldn't be happier! Claire is an absolute machine with a gift! Aaron Nebrija City Life Charleston PrintOct 2025 Great job Jonah! Appreciate the way you took our vision and materials and crafted a powerful video for our Campaign Launch! Kasey Myers San Clemente Presbyterian Church VideoOct 2025 Exactly what I envisioned. Loved that you were able to pull elements from specific inspiration and combine it into one cohesive look. Tori Smith Crosspoint Church EventsSep 2025 I always think your work is great! Love your creativity and taste. Thank you! Mical Baez Feather Sound Church EventsSep 2025 Jen was great to work with, she heard/saw our vision and came up with an awesome piece for us! Kevin Brimner FC Newburgh Sermon SeriesSep 2025 Jen did a great job on our sermon series graphics and made the changes we needed quickly! Bob Horn Living Water Sermon SeriesSep 2025 You are amazing how many details you deal with. Thank you for your assistance Kenna. John Nugier The Mentoring Project PrintSep 2025 Good job Claire! If there are any tweaks we need in the future, we'll let you know. But, thanks for meeting our "must have timeline." Kasey Myers San Clemente Presbyterian Church PrintAug 2025 Thank you for your great work on this. I know we had a lot of back and forth, but the result is exactly what our Pastor wanted. Karen Tarantino South Brook Church Sermon SeriesAug 2025 I think may struggle with understanding how to start a design knowing you'll have bleeds and then exporting with correct crop marks Callie Manias Graceland Baptist PrintAug 2025 Thank you for making this beautiful and giving me the tools to create on my own as well! Emily James Legacy Church EventsAug 2025 Kenna was very patient in making changes and working through what we needed. Thanks again Kenna! Ajaika McLemore Citizen Heights PrintAug 2025 We got it! Sometimes communication takes a few rounds to get it right. Thank you Kenna. John Nugier The Mentoring Project PrintAug 2025 Melanie nails her graphic design and hears the need from my end. She is able to find a way to project the need into a graphic very well! Highly thankful! Laura Rizkallah (Kids & Family Director) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church Social MediaAug 2025 Great working with Jonah. He captured our vision well and then was quick with revisions throughout! Kevin Brimner FC Newburgh VideoAug 2025 Loved that Jen went outside the usual box and did something totally different but very appropiate. Great job! Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church EventsAug 2025 Thank you - I'll update after we get some advance copies - should any amendments be needed. :-) Jan Hoover River Lake Church PrintJul 2025 Jonah is an artist and I am thankful for his hard work and for being able to work with my "nitpickyness" Chris Todd Midway Church VideoJul 2025 The matching advertisement and flyers are wonderful making a powerful statement to our congregation to pray for our youth. Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church EventsJul 2025 Andrea did a great job capturing the visual ideas we had. There were some key details missed initially, but she was quick to correct that. Izzy Murch (Student Ministry Assistant Pastor) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church EventsJul 2025 Melanie was helpful in making changes to an existing piece that I did not have the source files for. I am very grateful! Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church PrintJul 2025 Great job! Thank you so much for pulling through with this short term request. I really appreciate the hard work you put in. Mical Baez Feather Sound Church Sermon SeriesJul 2025 Jen created exactly what I asked for without me having to reenforce anything or give reminders about details. She read the instructions carefully. Very thankful for her attention to detail on this and for her efficiency and speed. Elli Ramirez Summit Social MediaJul 2025 This was our first project. It was a good start for us to learn how and what to communicate. Thanks! Melissa Rowe Lakeside Church EventsJul 2025 You are the best. I LOVE WORKING with you. I hear you will be on our iOS Android app team to build a wonderful phone app for our global audience John Nugier The Mentoring Project PrintJul 2025 Excellent job on executing the project! Everything was delivered on time, communication was clear, and the results exceeded expectations. Well done! Dawn Gergen Christ Church - MI PrintJul 2025 Claire worked so hard in getting us the perfect design for our church to be able to visualize exactly what this sermon series means to our congregation! Chris Todd Midway Church Sermon SeriesJun 2025 Love that you added the text, something we didn't think of, to the arrows! Thank you so much for all that you do! Janet Hurst PRS PrintJun 2025 Thank you Kenna! It's perfect!!!! Please go live with the improved version. John Nugier The Mentoring Project EventsJun 2025 I am excited to share the final piece with our church. It is branded well to our church and it captures the "fun with a serious purpose" vibe I was going for. Great work. Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church PrintJun 2025 Melanie, was quick and responsive! As always loved the outcome of this project Diana Ramirez Springcreek Church Sermon SeriesJun 2025 This was rebranding made easy! Claire was so patient with us and delivered a final product that was better than we envisioned when we first started the process. We love Pixel Painters! Ben Daniel South Brook Church LogosMay 2025 Great design, but missed a few details written in the project. Was quite prompt in fixing those! Izzy Murch (Student Ministry Assistant Pastor) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church EventsMay 2025 We had to go back and forth a few more times than we wanted, but we got there. Thanks for your work. Kandi Poppler Crossview Covenant Church Sermon SeriesMay 2025 So glad that she was able to quickly add supplemental material with great continuity when I asked! Samantha Smith The Well Church Network Sermon SeriesMay 2025 Melanie, is extremely creative and easy to work with! The art work for this series is amazing! Diana Ramirez Springcreek Church Sermon SeriesApr 2025 This was a good experience. Everything was handled well and the finished product looks good. Todd Hixenbaugh Community Church of Portage Lakes Social MediaApr 2025 This is the best and most accurate project yet, everything that was desired to be in this video has been fulfilled and I am thankful Chris Todd Midway Church VideoApr 2025 Claire was very helpful to make quick edits to a time-sensitive project. It turned out great! Franklyn François Creekside Community Church Sermon SeriesApr 2025 Thank you for your hard work and time put into this, I loved how this turned out and can't wait to show this to our church! Chris Todd Midway Church VideoApr 2025 Chris continues to knock it out of the park. Thankful for his work on this big project for us! Alex Dayvolt FC Newburgh PrintApr 2025 Andrea is great to work with. I had more changes than I had hoped, but Andrea was gracious and worked with me to get it where I love the design! Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church PrintApr 2025 Great Idea! Met the vision behind the series! Love how unique and strong these graphic series are. Diana Ramirez Springcreek Church Sermon SeriesApr 2025 Thankful for Chris and his hard work! He has an excellent eye for graphic design! Chris Todd Midway Church PrintApr 2025 Thankful for the quick response and turn around time with a simple clean design! Chris Todd Midway Church PrintApr 2025 AMAZING job. Thank you for being so responsive and finishing this so quickly Ajaika McLemore Citizen Heights Sermon SeriesApr 2025 I am canceling this project! I am not sure if there is another way I'm supposed to do that but if so, let me know! Ashton VeStrand Lifeline Christian Mission PrintMar 2025 Thankful for Chris and his work on making clean logo designs and a beautiful branding kit! Chris Todd Midway Church LogosMar 2025 Andrea is great to work with, and very quick to respond. She is responsive to our tweaks when we need to make them. Izzy Murch (Student Ministry Assistant Pastor) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church Sermon SeriesMar 2025 We are so appreciative of all the time Ashley and everyone else on the team is putting towards our Easter graphics! We have lots of needs across our 4 campuses and Ashley and the team have been amazing to keep up with all our back-and-forth. Kayla Hetherington Eagle Christian Church PrintMar 2025 I was making an SOP for our team to submit projects. This was just an example. I am completing it now. The Rock Jonesboro The Rock Jonesboro PrintMar 2025 Claire is so wonderful to work with and always listens to our requests and makes quick and detail oriented edits! We're very excited about the design she made for our Easter services this year! Kayla Hetherington Eagle Christian Church Sermon SeriesFeb 2025 Our Welcome Card looks great. Very inviting. Jen was amazing, as always, to work with. Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church PrintFeb 2025 Appreciate the quick turnaround and quality of the video! Chris listened to our edit requests and worked fast to get us what we wanted! Kayla Hetherington Eagle Christian Church VideoFeb 2025 This was a MARATHON! Thank your for your kindness and patience and flexibility Andrea! Malia Isenhart Living Water Sermon SeriesFeb 2025 Chris was exceptional! He truly exceeded my expectations and played a crucial role in crafting the perfect design for our students' summer project. Ethan McGowan FC Newburgh EventsFeb 2025 Love working with Melanie! She is always goes above and beyond to ensure we get exactly what we are looking for…. Even when we don’t know what we are looking for :). Jaana Forrester We Are Kingdom Life PrintFeb 2025 Sorry we changed out minds and we are going to do this in-house. Thanks anyways! The Rock Jonesboro The Rock Jonesboro EventsFeb 2025 Great work! I really appreciate how Jen was able to take my feedback and turn around new designs that accurately reflected my input and direction. Very pleased! Bob Horn Living Water Sermon SeriesFeb 2025 What seemed impossible to us (recreating a complex infographic) became super easy with Pixel Painters. Ben Daniel South Brook Church PrintJan 2025 Great video, some rough edges to the animation (hard borders on pre-comps between each "slide") but overall a great sermon bumper for us that fit the design of the series and has great music. Hunter Croft Crossroads Church - Hunter Croft VideoJan 2025 So quick and easy! Andrea nailed it and our youth Pastor only wants to work with her now (lol) Malia Isenhart Living Water EventsJan 2025 Andrea was wonderful! So thankful for her quick turnaround and we loved the design. Kayla Hetherington Eagle Christian Church EventsJan 2025 Excellent -Claire is very responsive and catches all the details. Very grateful! Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church PrintJan 2025 Amazing!! Jen is very creative, and she did more than I even knew how to articulate Temi Adeola Ignite Church NYC PrintJan 2025 I really like working with Chris! He always has great designs and I think his style really matches what we're looking for. Thank you! Dan Mitchell Community Church of Portage Lakes ApparelJan 2025 Love the care for this project making the vision come true! thank you for the hard work! Chris Todd Midway Church VideoJan 2025 Austin thank you for being quick in responding! Love the work you created here! Diana Ramirez Springcreek Church EventsJan 2025 Appreciated Chris on this project. Lots of back and forth but the end results were great!! Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church PrintJan 2025 Great work! This was turned quickly, and the designs are bold and wonderful. Sojourn East Sojourn East Sermon SeriesJan 2025 Lot’s of grace from PP for our first bumper project with them. Appreciate all the flexibility! Glen McKinney Riverside Church VideoDec 2024 Claire is the best! Always patient especially with this one that had a million revisions, thank you for helping us achieve our vision with this! Nick Bible Arrowhead Church EventsDec 2024 Melanie added color to enhance our idea and better illustrate our event. Thank you!!! Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church EventsDec 2024 Thank you so much for your hard work on this project and being willing to work on a lengthy timeline! Ashley Clubb Center Church PrintDec 2024 Jen did it again! Amazing work! Love the little details she thinks of that I don't. Franklyn François Creekside Community Church Sermon SeriesDec 2024 Great job! VERY quick turnaround! Compared to another service I've used, this was AMAZING turnaround! Bob Horn Living Water EventsDec 2024 Chris was able to help me get a good design together that my whole team was on board with! I am looking forward to seeing the design develop over the next couple months as we get closer to the conference! Chris Walden Vineyard Northwest Sermon SeriesNov 2024 Always helpful and considerate of timelines! I had a time constraint on my end and needed to cancel this request! Lizzie Jonte Presbyterian Church of the Master Sermon SeriesNov 2024 Always great working with Chris! And he made me chuckle when he changed my name to Andy today! Alex Dayvolt FC Newburgh VideoNov 2024 This simple project was more complex than expected (on my end) Claire was especially patient and gracious with our many changes. And it looks great! Thank you. Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church PrintNov 2024 Thanks for being game for my suggestions even when they weren't design friendly! Lol-turned out great Malia Isenhart Living Water PrintNov 2024 Nailed it with this design. Everyone I have shown loves it too. I will be sending in another project next week for a pamphlet to use at the event. Thanks! Chris Walden Vineyard Northwest EventsNov 2024 The attention you gave this and on a federal holiday is incredible! Thank you so much! Lyndsey Rickabaugh Coram Deo Church PrintNov 2024 Andrea did a great job with a sermon graphic I had requested from her. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. Franklyn François Creekside Community Church Sermon SeriesNov 2024 Melanie went ABOVE and BEYOND in getting this booklet ready! Grateful for her hard work. David Postier Valley View Christian Church PrintNov 2024 Amazing. Claire was wonderful to work with, as usual. =) This is the earliest I've ever had Christmas graphics completed. Stoked! Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church Sermon SeriesOct 2024 Really appreciated Jen's willingness to make changes relatively quickly as I asked for them. Thanks Jen! Franklyn François Creekside Community Church EventsOct 2024 Andrea did a great job working with our team, even if we asked for a couple of different examples. We appreciated the effort she put into it. :) Aaron Thompson Crossview Covenant Church Sermon SeriesOct 2024 Claire is amazing. She usually gets the final product very quickly and "gets us" with out needs. Lyndsey Rickabaugh Coram Deo Church PrintOct 2024 Claire did a great job on this booklet and was on time with the changes we needed. Our congregation will cherish this piece as a momento of our Centennial Anniversary! Shelly Hollis - Discipleship Highland Baptist Church PrintOct 2024 Need a quick turn around and Pixel Painter did not let me down. Great graphic, 24 hour turn around, and we love it!!! Thank you Melanie!!! Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church EventsOct 2024 Thanks, Chris for working with me. You always do such a great job and are truly gifted. Aaron Thompson Crossview Covenant Church VideoOct 2024 Andrea was very patient and helpful! She worked quickly to meet the deadlines on a big project for our Missions ministry booklet. Lakeway Church Lakeway Church PrintOct 2024 Andrea went the extra mile. I wasn't thrilled with initial concepts so I asked for a different direction and she knocked it out of the park. Great attitude, timely, & a total joy to work with, even though I asked for so many adjustments. Very pleased! Jared Lyda All of Life Church Sermon SeriesOct 2024 Slight delay with getting started but Andrea was very responsive and quick to finish the project! Thanks! Christian Cheek Trailhead Church PrintOct 2024 Great work! Chris knocked this one out of the park, making our publication look professional! Sojourn East Sojourn East PrintOct 2024 As always another great project complete. Jen and the crew are amazing designers. I so appreciate their timely manner, the ease it is to work with them even though it is only through emails. It works! Thank you Pixel Painters staff!!! Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church EventsSep 2024 Chris is a rockstar and very good at sketching out pictures. Wonderful job Chris! Elli Ramirez Summit ApparelSep 2024 Chris did exactly what I needed in a timely manner. I'm pleased with the work he did for us. Franklyn François Creekside Community Church Social MediaSep 2024 Jen did a great job on this project, improvising with a graphic with limits. Appreciate the work and the timeliness of getting the graphics back to me. Franklyn François Creekside Community Church EventsSep 2024 I loved working with Andrea. She was so fast and created the perfect graphic for our event. Emma Qualls West Cabarrus Church EventsSep 2024 Awesome to work with, THIS quality of work is exactly what we are looking for! Thank you for the quick response and multiple sizing requirements! Very very appreciated!! Emily McMahan Medway Church EventsSep 2024 I appreciate Chris getting all the files and having all the graphics separated and labeled, the file management makes life a lot easier. Nick Bible Arrowhead Church EventsSep 2024 Loved working with Andrea! She was super fast and did a great job on our sermon series graphics! Emma Qualls West Cabarrus Church Sermon SeriesAug 2024 Awesome as always, love the design and color choices, thank you Ashley for the quick and awesome work!! - Emily Emily McMahan Medway Church Social MediaAug 2024 I never expected this project to be completed in less than 24 hours. Granted, it was a simple project, but it was still unexpected. Great work Kaitlyn!! Vaughn VanSkiver (Spiritual Formation Pastor) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church EventsAug 2024 It was a simple project but I didn't expect it to be completed in less than 24 hours!! Thanks!! Vaughn VanSkiver (Spiritual Formation Pastor) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church EventsAug 2024 Wasn't really able to get something I wanted, but that might have been on me for not properly knowing what I wanted. Chris Walden Vineyard Northwest LogosAug 2024 I really liked how this one came out, especially with the texture and the way the dove appeared - enough to be there and be associated with our church, and tied in well with the series graphic. Clint Augustyn Desert Grace Community Church of the Nazarene Sermon SeriesAug 2024 Claire did an amazing job taking my vague idea and turning it into a beautiful design! Very happy with how this turned out. Grace Kling Southlands Brea Sermon SeriesJul 2024 Thank you Claire, so much, for coming through in a pinch and being patient with me! Jared Lyda All of Life Church PrintJul 2024 Kaitlyn did a wonderful job brining the vision to life! I am so excited to share these with students this fall! Elizabeth Johnson Summit ApparelJul 2024 Great work! I couldn't hardly choose from Chris' options - they were all great. Sojourn East Sojourn East Sermon SeriesMay 2024 I love that I can give them an idea and they run with it! The outcome is usually what I am looking for or better. Fast, reliable and great to work with. Would highly recommend. Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church EventsMay 2024 Claire is awesome! Her work was amazing! She listened to what I envisioned, and she delivered excellent work! Thank you so much Pixel Painters and Claire! Ethan McGowan FC Newburgh EventsApr 2024 Claire is always very responsive and helpful! The first draft was a day or two later than the due date. Izzy Murch (Student Ministry Assistant Pastor) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church Sermon SeriesApr 2024 While it was a little slow to get going, appreciate his timeliness with edits! Callie Manias Graceland Baptist VideoApr 2024 Praying for you and your family! These are fantastic and I can take it from here. Thank you. Kerry Glenn New Hills PrintApr 2024 After a quick change to the Top Third version, Claire was able to satisfy what I was looking for with this project. Marcus Duckworth Bayside Chapel Sermon SeriesApr 2024 Great experience. Love the design, Chris was quick at making changes and adding extra stuff u forgot :). Jaana Forrester We Are Kingdom Life PrintMar 2024 Love the design! Process was quick and easy. Got exactly what I was looking for Jaana Forrester We Are Kingdom Life PrintMar 2024 I recognize that vague and unspoken parameters made this project difficult. I'll do better in the future! Thanks for your patience! Andy Ulrich Foothills Stayton ApparelMar 2024 Chris was able to give me what I needed with no revision on a tight turn around time!! THANK YOU! StoryHeights Church StoryHeights Church VideoMar 2024 Only 4 cause it needed to be PNG - If you dont mind double checking those - the past couple lower thirds have bee in JPEG and it just makes the process a bit weird. AMAZING design though and perfectly on time Solon Miller New Hills PrintMar 2024 Melanie was great to work with. Super patient with our slow response time 🙃 and helped me know what to look out for as we think about sending this design into production. Communications Director Explore the Grove ApparelFeb 2024 Melanie was great to work with. Super patient with our slow response time 🙃 and helped me know what to look out for as we think about sending this design into production. Communications Director Explore the Grove ApparelFeb 2024 Melanie was great to work with. Super patient with our slow response time 🙃 and helped me know what to look out for as we think about sending this design into production. Communications Director Explore the Grove ApparelFeb 2024 Chris' ability to choose really great audio beds are such a breath of fresh air! Brandi Roberts StoryHeights Church VideoFeb 2024 Awesome! I love these graphics and the progression from Palm Sunday to Good Friday to Easter. Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church Sermon SeriesFeb 2024 Great work! We were given a very short deadline to get a pretty big project done, and this component was one of the linchpins. Thanks so much for your continued excellent work and partnership. Sojourn East Sojourn East LogosFeb 2024 Great work! Jen took my ideas and gave me exactly what our church needed. I love the look of this new deck! Sojourn East Sojourn East PrintFeb 2024 Great work! Chris made a tutorial video on how to handle smart objects that helped our team, who have limited degrees of experience in Photoshop. So helpful! Sojourn East Sojourn East EventsFeb 2024 Kaitlyn was wonderful to work with and delivered great designs for us for Easter! Sojourn East Sojourn East Sermon SeriesFeb 2024 Just send us the simple background, the jpegs and the Adobe, and bumper and that would be great. The team loved the bright colors Aaron Thompson Crossview Covenant Church Sermon SeriesFeb 2024 Really enjoy Jen’s work and would love to work with her in the future on future campaigns and projects! Jazmyn Jean We Are Kingdom Life EventsFeb 2024 Claire did a great job on these and this will take a ton off of my plate. Much appreciated! Rachelle Baker First Baptist Church Round Rock PrintFeb 2024 Chris is really starting to get the feel/vibe of us which is great. Thank you! Brandi Roberts StoryHeights Church VideoJan 2024 Sorry this one was such a mess. We had some very strong opinions that weren't particularly mindful of your designer's time and efforts. I will do what I can to address it on our end and am open to feedback from you guys. Victory Admin Victory Highway Wesleyan Church Sermon SeriesJan 2024 Next time I will schedule a phone call if I come in on the process because I wasn't communicating clearly over text and that was causing some frustrations that I think would have been nixed if I would have requested a call. Chris is great to work with. Kevin Brimner FC Newburgh Sermon SeriesJan 2024 Wonderful to work with! Prompt communication and turn around! Highly Recommend! Abby Ditmer Community of Faith LogosJan 2024 Melanie is super responsive and easy to work with! Highly recommend!! Abby Ditmer Community of Faith Sermon SeriesDec 2023 The process was quick and easy and got exactly what I wanted! Jaana Forrester We Are Kingdom Life PrintDec 2023 Thank you for your quick response and changing what needed to be changed. April Keeran Cornerstone Church VideoDec 2023 Ashley was amazing to work with! She did exactly what we were looking for! Jaana Forrester We Are Kingdom Life PrintDec 2023 Chris was very helpful in quickly getting an edit revised after the project was completed when we realized a slight color contrast when projected. Elena Tam Fort Bend Community Church PrintDec 2023 Just needed a little more attention to detail along the way, but otherwise a really great job. We love the design! Victory Admin Victory Highway Wesleyan Church Sermon SeriesDec 2023 My favorite thing from Pixel Painters so far. Thanks so much. The Rock Jonesboro The Rock Jonesboro PrintDec 2023 Glad to get a system started. We did have some delays on due dates and actual delivery took longer than hoped but i'm sure this will get better as we move forward. Thanks! Kathy Wellman Springcreek Church Sermon SeriesNov 2023 Chris was very helpful with all the comments and timely in getting the project accomplished. Elena Tam Fort Bend Community Church PrintNov 2023 Love the template. Missed the deadline on this one but we are happy with the design. Thanks. Kathy Wellman Springcreek Church Sermon SeriesNov 2023 Ashley was very open to our feedback and changes that we requested! Erin Grider North Point Church EventsNov 2023 Thank you- the graphics are great however the stakeholder decided to go another direction so we won't be needing these visuals. Thank you again. Nadine Wardwell Presbyterian Church of the Master PrintNov 2023 Thank you for making this project so easy and look fantastic! Partnering with Pixel Painters designers really helps our teams workload! Lakeway Church Lakeway Church PrintOct 2023 Chris was awesome to work with! He gave me exactly what I requested. Katie Ingle Trailhead Church Sermon SeriesOct 2023 Thank you so much for getting this done in such a short time. Jenni Douglas Cedar Park Church Sermon SeriesAug 2023 a little late and they didn't upload the artwork originally but the art work worked first view. Ryan Zeulner Grace Fellowship Church EventsAug 2023 Hi there! I'm closing this out b/c I'm not sure what direction we're going at this point. If this idea is revisited, I'll reopen. Jenny Schmidt The Church Maumee PrintAug 2023 Laine was able to provide what I was looking for after a few minor changes. Thank you. Talanna Williams Southwinds Church PrintJul 2023 leadership decided to go in a different direction. Not sure yet, but don't do this. Jenny Schmidt The Church Maumee PrintJul 2023 THANK YOU SO MUCH for completing this in such short notice! Jenny Schmidt The Church Maumee Sermon SeriesMay 2023 Great work and responsive to revisions(most of which were my fault in inadequate descriptions) Carlos DeVitis Eastwind Community Church Sermon SeriesMar 2023 I was finally able to provide the files in a manner that made it easier to convert into what I wanted and since back from vacation able to submit in a timely manner to make necessary changes. Laine did a great job. Thanks. FYI - so did Claire on previous projects with limited time and difficult files to work with. Talanna Williams Southwinds Church PrintJan 2023 Designs were great and designers was great to work with. It was a day late, which was not a big deal, but would have been better if there had been communication on the delay. Jason Smith Valley Center Community Church Sermon SeriesJan 2023 Claire is so awesome to work with! A great communicator and she delivers with attention to detail. Monica Deskins Scarlet Hope PrintNov 2022 Overall good design, needed some back and forth where design impeded clarity. We are happy with the final product! Josh Spencer Calvary Evangelical Free Church EventsSep 2022 I know it's a heavy workload right now--I appreciate Claire getting it in at least before Sunday! Josh Spencer Calvary Evangelical Free Church EventsSep 2022 This was a complex project with a LOT of little details and edits. Abby-Grace did a good job of responding to feedback and making the requested changes. I think getting the Adobe files earlier on in the process might have allowed us to do some of the text edits on our own... Josh Spencer Calvary Evangelical Free Church PrintSep 2022 Seth puts an impressive amount of quality into both his art and his customer service. Josh Spencer Calvary Evangelical Free Church Sermon SeriesAug 2022 This was a complicated request without a lot of help given, and Seth did a great job with it! Josh Spencer Calvary Evangelical Free Church EventsAug 2022 Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. It's been a crazy week. We spoke and decided to use this graphic. Thanks so much for all you do! Angela Wright First Northeast Baptist Church Sermon SeriesMar 2022 Haley did a great job on our complicated Budget graphic. Thanks! Karen Tarantino South Brook Church PrintFeb 2026 Jen was awesome! Her patience was incredible and we love our design Erica Merriam Tucson Baptist Church PrintFeb 2026 Andrea did a great job following the brief and making edits quickly! Andrea Kerch Tucson Baptist Church EventsFeb 2026 I know this was a large project, and it turned out great. Thanks!! Karen Tarantino South Brook Church PrintJan 2026 so grateful for your work on these videos, Jonah! Excellent work! Lauren Shear Christ Church - MI PrintJan 2026 Excellent job! Multiple people expressed how good these slides looked. Stephen Canfield Grace Church Sermon SeriesDec 2025 Melanie was so patient with me as we worked towards this awesome graphic! WoMin Bellefontaine Grace Church Sermon SeriesDec 2025 excellent feedback and adjustments. Thank you for your talents and time. Dawn Gergen Christ Church - MI PrintDec 2025 Claire is wonderful to work with and takes our vision and elevates it! Melody Nicholson First McKinney Church PrintNov 2025 Took a bit longer than expected but great job on the end result. Stephen Canfield Grace Church Sermon SeriesNov 2025 Thank you for your patience and listening to what we need! Malia Isenhart Living Water PrintNov 2025 Bull's eye! Thank you so much Haley-can't wait to work with you again:) Malia Isenhart Living Water EventsNov 2025 I love working with Jonah, we met in Japan of all places! Small world! Jay Kent Crosspoint Church Sermon SeriesNov 2025 This was an easy one but everything was timely and as we desired! Melody Nicholson First McKinney Church PrintOct 2025 Brought lots of ideas and worked well through multiple revisions Dan Mitchell Community Church of Portage Lakes PrintOct 2025 Great job. Sorry I forgot to mark the project as completed. Mark Krieger Modesto Covenant Church Sermon SeriesOct 2025 Thanks so much, Jen! This was exactly what we were looking for! Audrey Hatfield FC Newburgh PrintOct 2025 Created a beautiful graphic and made adjustments as needed. Thank you!! Karen Tarantino South Brook Church Sermon SeriesOct 2025 Thank you for your work on this. We enjoy our experiences with you! Kandi Poppler Crossview Covenant Church PrintSep 2025 thanks for working with us on this!!!!! love the modifications Jan Hoover River Lake Church Sermon SeriesSep 2025 Would have been 5 stars, but was very late past due date. Jared Lyda All of Life Church ApparelSep 2025 Love these! They are exactly what we needed!! Thank you! Lisa Schell Lakeside Church PrintSep 2025 Jen is awesome! Super responsive, helpful, and creative! Lakeway Church Lakeway Church Sermon SeriesSep 2025 Thank you for your flexibility and getting it done so quickly. Thank you! Mical Baez Feather Sound Church Sermon SeriesSep 2025 Always helpful, professional and the end result is what we need. Karen Tarantino South Brook Church PrintAug 2025 Rodney was enthusiastic to help us get to what we were envisioning. Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church PrintJul 2025 Clarie is a rockstar and always knocks it out of the park! Kristi Wells Scarlet Hope PrintJul 2025 Very helpful and pointed our team towards the right direction! Chris Todd Midway Church LogosJul 2025 Excellent Video and very specific to what was requested! Thank you! Chris Todd Midway Church VideoJul 2025 Thank you for researching to find the information that I didn't provide! Dawn Gergen Christ Church - MI PrintJun 2025 Thank you for the clean looks and logos, they turned out great! Chris Todd Midway Church PrintJun 2025 Love the look of the series you created. Great colors for the summer! Gina Indelicato Modesto Covenant Church Sermon SeriesMay 2025 Andrea did a great job with being prompt and she hit my expectations well. Todd Hixenbaugh Community Church of Portage Lakes Social MediaMay 2025 This really looks good. Thank you so much for the attention to detail. Todd Hixenbaugh Community Church of Portage Lakes Social MediaApr 2025 Jen nailed our look and was creative with slight tweaks to the elements! Erin Grider North Point Church EventsApr 2025 Thank you for being so willing to listen and adjust! Love the final:) Malia Isenhart Living Water PrintApr 2025 THANK YOU Chris! I really appreciate your patience and adaptability! Malia Isenhart Living Water Sermon SeriesMar 2025 Quick turnaround and able to help make tweaks along the way :) Pacific Coast Church Pacific Coast Church PrintMar 2025 Chis did great and was quick with everything as well. Thank you!! Austin McBride The Well Church Network LogosMar 2025 Better than what I asked for. Provided me with great options Temi Adeola Ignite Church NYC PrintMar 2025 Chris has always been so great to work with! We love our Easter designs! Emma Qualls West Cabarrus Church EventsFeb 2025 Andrea was very helpful and responsive with our project design. Lakeway Church Lakeway Church Sermon SeriesFeb 2025 Loved the way you integrated pics from our flickr and made it cool! Pacific Coast Church Pacific Coast Church EventsFeb 2025 loved the design and the quick and efficient communication! Kayla Hetherington Eagle Christian Church PrintFeb 2025 Love working with Ashley, she is prompt, and high quality!! Thanks again! Emily McMahan Medway Church Sermon SeriesJan 2025 Thanks, Andrea, for making exactly what we're looking for! Franklyn François Creekside Community Church Sermon SeriesJan 2025 Awesome graphic! Quick and exactly what we were looking for! Thanks Diana Ramirez Springcreek Church Sermon SeriesJan 2025 Quick and great communication! Exactly what I was needing! Diana Ramirez Springcreek Church Sermon SeriesJan 2025 Love the design and music! Very thankful for the animated font! Chris Todd Midway Church VideoJan 2025 Thank you for the help putting this one together. I know it was a big project. The Rock Jonesboro The Rock Jonesboro PrintDec 2024 As always, Jen was incredibly patient and flexible. Thank you!!! Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church Sermon SeriesDec 2024 Claire is so good at taking our notes and making our assets Ashley Clubb Center Church LogosDec 2024 Thank you Melanie! This was a tricky one but you worked it out beautufully! Malia Isenhart Living Water Sermon SeriesDec 2024 Great to work with. Flexible and gave us may options to review. Jeremy Bean Pleasant Valley Community Church ApparelNov 2024 Chris was easy to work with even though we wanted changes. Thank you! Aaron Thompson Crossview Covenant Church VideoNov 2024 Thanks for listening to what we wanting and making it so pretty:) Malia Isenhart Living Water LogosNov 2024 We are shifting gears. I need to circle back on this one. The Rock Jonesboro The Rock Jonesboro EventsNov 2024 Awesome work! Would love to continue working with you on other social posts! BreAna We Are Kingdom Life Social MediaNov 2024 Melanie was great to work with, accepted critiques and worked fast. Vaughn VanSkiver (Spiritual Formation Pastor) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church EventsNov 2024 Claire consistently delivers exceptional work, and I am truly grateful for it! Jeff Dyke Rocky Point Baptist Church PrintOct 2024 Thank you Melanie! Just what I was looking for and met the (tight) deadline! Jared Lyda All of Life Church PrintOct 2024 Andrea did exactly what I commissioned. Great work on her end and timely Franklyn François Creekside Community Church EventsOct 2024 I would like to work with Chris again on youth items. Thanks Jori Stockdale Regina Apostolic Church LogosOct 2024 Great work, as usual. Jen turned this quickly and superbly! Sojourn East Sojourn East PrintSep 2024 Andrea is extremely prompt and willing to help us find exactly what we need. Izzy Murch (Student Ministry Assistant Pastor) Victory Highway Wesleyan Church PrintSep 2024 Amazing work on our election sermon series graphics pack! Logan Fisher Valley View Christian Church Sermon SeriesSep 2024 Love the new branding and how it looks on everything. Thanks! Logan Fisher Valley View Christian Church PrintSep 2024 We love working with Claire! She is so creative and helpful! Amie Lewis Regina Apostolic Church PrintSep 2024 Thanks for such a fast turnaround! This project turned out amazing! Logan Fisher Valley View Christian Church PrintAug 2024 Wonderful! Jen really captured our vision for this project! Lakeway Church Lakeway Church Sermon SeriesJul 2024 Melanie this was a labor of LOVE! I feel like we did it! Thanks! Lyndsey Rickabaugh Coram Deo Church PrintMay 2024 Melanie is so fast with last minute requests on a current project! Communications Director Explore the Grove Sermon SeriesMay 2024 Chris was great! Super patient with all the changes and revisions we sent! Robyn Ross The Journey NoVa Sermon SeriesMay 2024 Loved working with Jen. She was on point and fast with revisions! Communications Director Explore the Grove Sermon SeriesApr 2024 I'll reopen if needed, but I guess it's all good for now! Natalie Harrison Graceland Baptist PrintApr 2024 Didnt end up needing this so I am completing this task before it is picked up. Jonathan Watson New Day Church Sermon SeriesApr 2024 This sermon turned into #Viral so deleting this request StoryHeights Church StoryHeights Church PrintMar 2024 Sorry I thought we were going to need this, guess not! lol Thanks! Ryan Schuler Feather Sound Church EventsMar 2024 Claire is such a pleasure to work with! She does fantastic work! Andy Pisciotti Centerpoint Murrieta PrintMar 2024 Ashley took feedback well and applied it quickly. Thanks so much! Communications Director Explore the Grove EventsMar 2024 Claire is super easy to work with and got this on the first round Brandi Roberts StoryHeights Church PrintFeb 2024 This was no longer needed as was taken care of in a different project request Brandi Roberts StoryHeights Church Sermon SeriesFeb 2024 Thank you for your patience on this one! Lots of logos!!! Community Fellowship Church Community Fellowship Church LogosFeb 2024 Thanks for the last green slides. Everything's great!! Mark Krieger Modesto Covenant Church Sermon SeriesFeb 2024 Love the outcome and Claire is always easy to work with StoryHeights Church StoryHeights Church LogosFeb 2024 Process was quick and Easy and got exactly what I wanted! Jaana Forrester We Are Kingdom Life PrintDec 2023 Great experience! Quick easy and love the end result Jaana Forrester We Are Kingdom Life Sermon SeriesDec 2023 Ashley was great to work with. Love the end result! Jaana Forrester We Are Kingdom Life PrintDec 2023 Great job! Thanks for working so hard on this project! Jason Scoles Fearless Follower PrintNov 2023 Thanks for the quick edits. Love where we landed. The Rock Jonesboro The Rock Jonesboro PrintOct 2023 Thanks for being responsive to the changes we needed. Jonny Mac Hope City Church Sermon SeriesJul 2023 Once we got on the same page, it was exactly what I wanted. Andy Pisciotti Centerpoint Murrieta PrintJul 2023 I got what I needed form the event organizer. Thanks. Ryan Zeulner Grace Fellowship Church PrintApr 2023 Abby-Grace captured the vision I had for these! Great work! Jeff Dyke Rocky Point Baptist Church PrintMar 2023 Claire is the bee's knees. Give her a raise. And a new car. Daryl Ellis Presbyterian Church of the Master Sermon SeriesMar 2023 Thanks so much on this! 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RebrandingThe Impact of PixelPainters Graphic Design on Church Communication and Engagement Valley View Christian Church (Littleton, CO) A cohesive new identity across signage, web, events, and ministries, without burning out staff. •Month-long rebrand across channels •Consistent ministry branding under one umbrella •Faster execution during staff transitions Read case study Consistency & WorkflowBringing the Church's Vision to LIFE Elevate Church More clarity, more polish, and a smoother content rhythm for a growing church. •Stronger consistency across channels •Reduced workload for comms team •Faster tweaks when deadlines hit Read case study Social & EngagementBoosting Visual Communication for All Souls Church with Pixel Painters All Souls Church (Los Angeles) Higher-quality design on tight timelines, helping a small church communicate like a bigger one. •One-stop-shop design support •Reliable last-minute turnaround •Better community engagement Read case study Social & EngagementGrace Marriage Transforms Communication and Engagement with Pixel Painters Grace Marriage Cohesive, professional visuals that increased engagement and freed up a lean team. •Unified visual identity •Less revision churn •More bandwidth for the mission Read case study Church LaunchAgape City Church Launches with the Support of Pixel Painters Agape City Church A new church plant launched with a professional look, without hiring in-house. •Launch-ready identity + assets •Support for comms lead •Flexible on last-minute needs Read case study RebrandingThe Rebranding of Hope Springs Church with Pixel Painters Hope Springs Church A fresh identity extended into print and campaigns, beyond what volunteers could sustain. •New logo + cohesive system •Stronger community visibility •Peak-season support Read case study Event PromotionEnhancing Communication at Sojourn East with Pixel Painters Sojourn East Sharper event visuals and smoother collaboration, even when timelines tightened. •Better event visibility •Fewer misunderstandings •Support for comms director Read case study Consistency & WorkflowEnhancing Church Communication through Consistent, High-Quality Design at Graceland Baptist Graceland Baptist Consistent design across signage, banners, and ads, boosting visibility and engagement. •Christmas promo visuals across platforms •Faster execution for staff •Stronger brand consistency Read case study Event PromotionEnhancing Church Communications through Graphic Design, New Day Church New Day Church Design that supported outreach, sermon experience, and a second-location push. •Invite cards + A-frames for outreach •Sermon slides + supporting visuals •Streamlined request workflow Read case study Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Design Resources | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/resources Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Resources for Church CommunicatorsDesign Tips & Guides for Churches Free resources to help your church communicate more effectively through better design, social media, and digital presence. Church Design Weekly, our podcastA five minute weekly rundown of what crossed our design desks, plus tips church media teams can steal. New episodes every week, also on Apple Podcasts.Listen now Ready to upgrade your church's design? Trusted by 614+ churches with 7,500+ five-star reviews in our design portal. Book a Free Consultation See Plans and Pricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### PixelPainters vs Church Media Squad | Comparison https://pixelpainters.com/pixelpainters-vs-church-media-squad Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation PixelPainters vs Church Media Squad An honest comparison to help you choose the right design partner for your church. What changed in October 2026 Church Media Squad now lists a 12-month agreement as its standard rate, and starting as early as January 2027 every plan includes a set number of graphics and videos each month, on top of its 7 to 15 active-project limit. PixelPainters is still month to month with unlimited requests and no cap on open projects. Note: Competitor information is based on Church Media Squad's public pricing, FAQ and Fair Use pages as of October 15, 2026. Please verify current pricing and terms directly with Church Media Squad before making a decision. FeaturePixelPaintersChurch Media SquadPricingFlat monthly rate from $490/mo (Unlimited Graphics) or $590/mo (PRO)$797 to $3,497/mo on a 12-month agreement billed monthly, their standard published rate. Month-to-month is available at a higher monthly rateContractNo contract. Month to month, cancel anytime12-month agreement is standard. Cancel in the first 60 days and owe nothing; after that, leaving early costs half the remaining months (up to three), and pausing isn't available during the termMonthly VolumeUnlimited requests and revisions. No monthly countStarting as early as January 2027 (each church's date is in its notice email), plans include a monthly count: 5 graphics on Graphics, 5 graphics + 2 videos on Graphics + Video, 10 + 2 on All-In, 15 + 2 on All-In Premium. A series design with all its sizes counts as 1. Extras are $397 per graphic or $997 per videoActive ProjectsNo cap on open projects on Unlimited Graphics or PRO. Submit as many as you need and we work through them in order7 to 15 in production at a time by plan (7 on Graphics, 12 on Graphics + Video, 15 on All-In plans). A project stays active, including while it waits on your feedback, until it's closedTrial & Guarantee14-day money-back guarantee14-day free trial on every plan, plus a 60-day no-penalty window on 12-month plansTurnaround Time2-3 business daysNot stated for standard graphics on their current pricing or FAQ pagesRevisionsUnlimited revisions includedRevisions until it's right, at no extra chargeTeam MembersUnlimited users on every planWhole team can submit, no per-seat chargeSource FilesIncluded with PRO plan ($590/mo)Editable source files included on every planTarget AudienceChurches & ministries exclusivelyChurch-focused, tailored to churches and ministry organizationsAdd-On ServicesSocial Media ($390), Reels ($249), Websites ($299), Video ($890)Social, branding and website support built into All-In tiers; extra graphics ($397) and videos ($997) past your monthly count from January 2027 Important Note This comparison is provided for informational purposes only and reflects Church Media Squad's public pricing, FAQ and Fair Use pages as of October 15, 2026. Their monthly counts start on a date set in each church's notice email (never before January 4, 2027), and churches that joined on older plans may have different numbers, so please verify current pricing, contract terms, and plan details directly with Church Media Squad before making a decision. Both companies serve the church community with passion and excellence. Why Churches Choose PixelPainters Christian Designers Our team understands church culture because we've lived it. Many of our designers have served on church staff. Flexible Add-Ons Build your perfect package with social media, video, websites, and more, all seamlessly integrated. 14-Day Guarantee Try us risk-free. If you're not satisfied within 14 days, get a full refund, no questions asked. No Contracts Month-to-month flexibility means you're never locked in. Pause or cancel whenever you need. Still Unlimited No monthly request count and no cap on open projects. Send everything your church needs and we work through it in order. Your Whole Team Unlimited users on every plan, so your pastors, kids director and worship team can all submit directly. Choose Based on Your Church's Needs Both PixelPainters and Church Media Squad are excellent options for churches seeking professional design support. The best choice depends on your specific needs, budget, and preferences. We recommend trying both services (most offer guarantees) to see which is the best fit for your ministry. Book a Free ConsultationView Our Pricing Pricing & PlansOur WorkCase StudiesTestimonialsFree Consultation TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Unlimited Church Graphic Design: Plans, Pricing & How It Works | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/unlimited-graphic-design-for-churches Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Designed Exclusively for Churches Unlimited Graphic Design for Churches Professional church graphics with fast turnaround, unlimited revisions, and simple monthly pricing. No contracts, no hassle, just beautiful designs for your ministry. Start Today, $490/moSee Our Work 14-day money-back guarantee • Cancel anytime • No contracts $490 per month 2-3 Days turnaround Unlimited revisions No contracts Who It's For Built for Church Leaders & Communications Teams Whether you're a solo pastor wearing many hats or a communications director managing multiple campuses, our unlimited design service gives you the creative support you need without the overhead of hiring in-house designers. Pastors & Ministry Leaders Church Communications Directors Worship & Creative Teams Multi-Campus Churches Church Planters Nonprofit Ministries What's Included Everything Your Church Needs Sermon series graphics Social media posts & stories Church bulletins & programs Event flyers & posters Presentation slides Banners & signage Apparel & merch designs Logo design & branding Print materials Digital advertisements Want to talk it through first? Book a call about our church graphic design services. Why Churches Choose PixelPainters We're not just designers, we're ministry partners who understand your mission. Fast 2-3 Day Turnaround Get your designs quickly so you can stay ahead of your church calendar. Unlimited Revisions We'll refine every design until it's exactly what you envisioned. Dedicated Design Team Work with designers who understand church culture and ministry needs. All Source Files Included Get full ownership of your designs with source files on PRO plans. How It Works Getting started is simple. Here's what to expect. 1 Subscribe Choose your plan and get instant access to our project app. 2 Submit Upload your design request with any brand assets or inspiration. 3 Review Receive your design in 2-3 days. Request unlimited revisions. 4 Download Download your final files and use them anywhere. Frequently Asked Questions What is unlimited graphic design for churches? Unlimited graphic design is a subscription service where your church gets access to professional designers who create as many designs as you need for a flat monthly fee. This includes sermon series graphics, social media posts, print materials, slides, and more, with no per-project costs or hourly rates. How fast will I receive my designs? Most designs are completed within 2-3 business days. Complex projects like multi-piece sermon series may take slightly longer, but you'll always know the timeline upfront. Are revisions really unlimited? Yes! We offer unlimited revisions on every project. We'll keep refining until you're 100% satisfied with the final design. What if I'm not happy with the service? We offer a 14-day money-back guarantee. If you're not completely satisfied within your first 14 days, we'll refund your subscription, no questions asked. Can I cancel anytime? Absolutely. There are no long-term contracts. You can pause or cancel your subscription at any time with no cancellation fees. What types of designs can I request? You can request sermon series graphics, social media posts, church bulletins, event flyers, banners, slides, apparel designs, logos, and much more. If it's a graphic, we can create it. Ready to Elevate Your Church's Visual Identity? Join 614+ churches and ministries who trust PixelPainters for their design needs. Get Started TodayBook a Free Consultation Pricing & PlansOur WorkCase StudiesTestimonialsFree Consultation TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Workshop Recap: Google Ads for Your Church | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/workshop Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation WORKSHOP RECAPFree Google ads for your church. The recap: how to get and use the $10k Ad Grant. Google gives churches up to $10,000 a month in free search ads. Most never apply, or use a tiny slice of it. In 45 minutes I'll show you how to qualify, how to keep it, and what to advertise so it actually brings people in. Thursday, October 1, 20261:00pm ET / 12 CT / 11 MT / 10 PT, about 45 minutes plus Q&AHeld live on October 1. Get the recap and slides by email. What you'll learn Whether your church qualifies, and the paperwork where most churches get stuck The rules that keep a grant account from getting shut off Live: we check a few churches' Google presence on the spot What to advertise so the grant brings people in, including Christmas Eve Hosted by Josh Starr, founder of PixelPainters. We've served 614+ churches since 2018, rated 4.9 from 7,657 client reviews. Get the recap Your name Email Church or ministry Your role PastorComms / marketingAdmin / operationsOther Does your church have the Google Ad Grant? YesNot yetNot sure Website Send me the recapFree. We'll email you the recap and slides. Questions Is it really free? Yes. It's a free live session. You don't need to buy anything to get a lot out of it. Is there a recap? Yes. Sign up and we'll email you the recap and the slides, including the website checker we used live. Do we need to have the Google Ad Grant already? No. We'll cover how to qualify and apply, and how to get more out of a grant you already have. Is this a sales pitch? It's a teaching session. At the end I'll take a few minutes to share how PixelPainters can run the grant for you, for anyone who wants help. Everything before that is useful on its own. Who should come? Pastors, communications and marketing staff, and church admins. Anyone who wants more people from your town to find your church. Want the written version first? Read our Google Ad Grants guide for churches. Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Google Ad Grants for Churches: How to Qualify, Apply & Use It (2026) | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/google-ad-grants-for-churches Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation THE PLAIN-ENGLISH GUIDE, UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2026Google Ad Grants for Churches Google gives qualifying nonprofits, including most churches, up to $10,000 a month in free Search ads. Here is how to qualify, how to apply, the rules that keep your account alive, and what to advertise so the grant actually brings people through your doors. Book a free grant check Jump to how to apply By Josh Starr, founder of PixelPainters. We have served 614+ churches since 2018. Workshop recap: the slides and our church website checker. Up to $10,000 a month in Google Search ads 501(c)(3) required verified through Goodstack 5% click rate every month, account-wide 1+ conversion every month, a real action What the grant is, and what it isn't The Google Ad Grant is advertising credit for Google Search. When someone in your area searches for something your church offers, your ad can show at the top of the results and send them to a page on your website. Google pays for the clicks, up to $10,000 a month. It is not cash, it does not roll over month to month, and it does not pay for anyone to manage it. It also has rules, stricter than a normal paid account, because Google wants grant ads to be genuinely useful to the person searching. Most churches either never apply or apply and then use a small slice of it. The churches that get real value from it treat it like a front door: specific ads, pointing to specific pages, with one clear next step on each. How to apply, step by step Churches qualify the same way any US nonprofit does. Google excludes government entities, hospitals and health care organizations, and schools and universities. Fiscally sponsored groups without their own 501(c)(3) status are not eligible. 01 Confirm your 501(c)(3) status Google requires IRS recognition under Section 501(c)(3), or membership in a group exemption with proof you belong to the parent organization. Many churches are tax-exempt automatically and never requested a determination letter, so find your paperwork first: your IRS letter, or your denomination's group exemption number plus a letter confirming you are part of it. 02 Create a Google for Nonprofits account Use a shared church email that will outlive any one staff member, not a personal Gmail. Register the organization with your EIN and legal name exactly as the IRS has it. 03 Get verified by Goodstack Google uses Goodstack to confirm you are a real nonprofit. This is where churches most often get stuck. If you are under a group exemption, expect to upload the affiliation letter and answer a follow-up or two. 04 Get your website ready Google checks your site before it activates the grant. You need your own domain, HTTPS on every page, clear information about your church and mission, working links, and content that is useful on a phone. 05 Activate Ad Grants and build your first campaigns Once Google for Nonprofits approves you, request Ad Grants from your dashboard. After it is activated, set up conversion tracking before anything else, then launch campaigns built around what people in your town actually search for. The rules that keep your account active These come from Google's Ad Grants policies. Break them and Google can pause the account without much warning. Keep a 5% click-through rate across the account each month. Two months in a row below that can get the account temporarily deactivated. Report at least one real conversion a month, like a plan-a-visit form or a group sign-up. Homepage visits and time on site do not count. No single-word keywords, except your own church name and a few Google exceptions. "Church" alone is out. "Church near me" is fine. Pause overly generic keywords and anything with a quality score of 1 or 2. Every campaign needs at least 2 ad groups, and the account needs at least 2 sitelinks. Newer accounts must use conversion-based smart bidding, like Maximize Conversions. That also lifts the old $2 cost-per-click limit. Answer Google's annual program survey, sent to the account login email. Miss it and you can lose the grant. Source: Google Ad Grants account requirements and Google for Nonprofits eligibility. Google updates these; check the source before you build. WHAT TO ADVERTISEEight church campaigns that fit the grant Start with what people in your town already search for. Pair each search with a page built to answer it, and give that page one clear next step. THEY SEARCH "church near me" THEY LAND ON A plan-a-visit page: service times, parking, what to expect, kids check-in THEY SEARCH "christmas eve service times" THEY LAND ON A Christmas page listing every service, with a simple RSVP THEY SEARCH "grief support group" THEY LAND ON Your GriefShare or care group page with the next start date and a sign-up THEY SEARCH "addiction recovery group" THEY LAND ON Your recovery ministry page, meeting times and a confidential contact form THEY SEARCH "marriage help christian" THEY LAND ON Your marriage ministry or class page with the next session THEY SEARCH "food pantry near me" THEY LAND ON Your pantry or benevolence page: hours, address, how to get help THEY SEARCH "church with kids ministry" THEY LAND ON Your kids page: safety, check-in, what Sunday looks like THEY SEARCH "easter service" THEY LAND ON An Easter page with times, locations and an invite-a-friend link Why most church grants underperform Most struggling grant accounts have at least two of these. 01Sending every ad to the homepage Someone searching for a grief group should land on the grief group page, not a hero video. Matching pages raise your click rate and your conversions. 02No conversion tracking Without it, Google's smart bidding has nothing to learn from, you cannot meet the monthly conversion rule, and you have no idea what worked. 03Keywords nobody in your town searches Church words like "discipleship pathway" get almost no searches. People search for what they need: help, times, groups, kids, Christmas. 04Set it and forget it Grant accounts drift below the 5% click rate quietly. A weekly look at search terms, keywords and ads keeps you in good standing. 05Targeting too wide Show ads where people could realistically attend. A national audience burns the budget on clicks that will never walk through your doors. Do it yourself, or get help? You can absolutely run the grant yourself. Plan on a few hours to set it up properly, then a little time each week: check the search terms, pause what is not working, and keep the click rate above 5%. A detail-minded staff member or volunteer can do this well. If nobody on your team has that time, that is what we do. We help you get approved, build the campaigns and conversion tracking, and keep the account healthy every week. Google Ad Grants management is $249 a month with no setup fee, and if Google does not approve your church, we refund what you paid us. If you want your website handled too, the combined plan is $499 a month. Book a free grant check See plans and pricing Google Ad Grant questions from churches Can churches get the Google Ad Grant? Yes. US churches qualify the same way other nonprofits do: 501(c)(3) recognition, or membership in a group exemption, verified through Google's partner Goodstack. Google excludes government entities, hospitals and health care organizations, and schools and universities. Is the Google Ad Grant really free? The ad credit is free, up to $10,000 a month in Google Search ads. There is no application fee. Unused credit does not roll over, and management help, if you want it, is a separate cost. How long does it take to get approved? It varies. Verification can be quick when your paperwork matches the IRS records, and it can take several weeks for churches under a group exemption. Plan on a few weeks from start to live ads. What kinds of ads can a church run with the grant? Mostly text ads on Google Search that point to pages on your own website. Good grant ads promote something specific people are looking for: service times, kids ministry, groups, care ministries, Easter and Christmas services. How much of the $10,000 will our church actually use? That depends on how many people near you search for what your church offers, and how well your ads and pages match those searches. Many accounts use only a small slice of the grant. Specific pages, good keywords and conversion tracking are what move it. What happens if our account breaks the rules? Google can pause the account, for example after two straight months under a 5% click rate. Reactivation usually means fixing the problem and submitting a reinstatement request, so it is easier to stay compliant than to recover. Can we manage the grant ourselves? Yes. Plan on a few hours to set it up well and a little time every week to keep it healthy. Many churches hand it to a staff member or volunteer who likes data. If nobody has the time, a management service can run it for you. When should we start if we want ads for Christmas? Now. Between verification, website fixes, campaign setup and a few weeks for smart bidding to learn, a church that starts in October is in good shape for Advent and Christmas Eve. Want a second set of eyes? Twenty minutes with Josh. We will check whether your church qualifies or where your current grant stands, look at your website, and show you what people near you are searching for. Free, and no pressure. Book a free grant check TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Sermon Series Graphics | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/church-sermon-series-graphics Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Sermon Series Design Church Sermon Series Graphics Cohesive, professional sermon series artwork that captures your message and engages your congregation across every platform. Start Creating, $490/moView Examples Custom Artwork 2-3 Day Turnaround Unlimited Revisions All Platforms What's Included in Your Sermon Series Package Main series artwork Weekly title slides Social media graphics Instagram stories Bulletin inserts Website banners Announcement slides Print-ready files How It Works 1 Share Your Vision Tell us about your sermon series theme, scripture, and any inspiration. 2 We Design Our team creates cohesive artwork that captures your message. 3 Review & Refine Request unlimited revisions until everything is perfect. 4 Launch Your Series Download all files and use them across every platform. Free downloadNot ready to talk? Take the free planning kits. The new Christmas and Advent Planning Kit, the Church Graphics Planning Kit and the Gospel Design book. The same tools 614+ churches use to plan a season. No pitch, no card. First name (optional) Email * Send me the kitWe never share your email. Unsubscribe anytime. Frequently Asked Questions What's included in a sermon series graphics package? A typical sermon series package includes the main series artwork, weekly title slides, social media graphics (feed posts and stories), bulletin inserts, website banners, and announcement slides. We can customize the deliverables based on your church's specific needs. How far in advance should I submit my sermon series request? We recommend submitting your request at least 1-2 weeks before you need the graphics. This gives us time to create the initial design and incorporate any revisions. For complex series or multiple deliverables, 2-3 weeks is ideal. Can you match our church's existing brand guidelines? Absolutely! We encourage you to share your brand guidelines, fonts, colors, and any existing assets. Our designers will create sermon series graphics that perfectly align with your church's visual identity. Do I get the source files for my sermon series graphics? Source files are included with our Unlimited Graphics PRO plan ($590/mo). The standard Unlimited Graphics plan ($490/mo) includes all final files in common formats (PNG, JPG, PDF) but not the editable source files. How many revisions can I request? Unlimited! We'll keep refining your sermon series graphics until you're completely satisfied. Most projects are finalized within 1-2 rounds of revisions. Ready to Create Your Next Sermon Series? Get professional graphics that bring your message to life. Get StartedBook a Consultation Pricing & PlansOur WorkCase StudiesTestimonials TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Social Media Management | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/church-social-media-management Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Social Media for Churches Church Social Media Management Stop stressing about social media. We'll handle your church's entire social presence, strategy, design, and posting, so you can focus on ministry. Start for $390/moFree Consultation 10 Posts/Week 4 Channels Monthly Reports Full Strategy What's Included 10 posts per week Up to 4 social channels Custom content calendar Strategy & planning Graphic design included Monthly Zoom meetings Analytics & reporting Hashtag research Frequently Asked Questions How many posts per week do you create? Our social media management package includes 10 posts per week distributed across up to 4 channels. This includes a mix of sermon quotes, event promotions, announcements, and engagement content. Which social media platforms do you manage? We manage Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn. We can also work with YouTube and other platforms based on your church's needs. Do you create video content for social media? Our social media management package focuses on static graphics and written content. For video content like reels and shorts, we offer a separate add-on service starting at $249/month. How do you learn our church's voice and brand? We start with an onboarding call to understand your church's mission, values, and communication style. We'll also review your existing content and brand guidelines to ensure everything we create feels authentically yours. Can we review posts before they go live? Absolutely! We provide a content calendar in advance so you can review and approve all posts before they're scheduled. We use monthly Zoom meetings to align on strategy and content direction. Ready to Grow Your Church's Social Presence? Let us handle your social media so you can focus on what matters most. Get StartedBook a Consultation Pricing & PlansOur WorkCase StudiesTestimonials TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Sermon Reels & Shorts for Churches | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/sermon-reels-and-shorts Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Short-Form Video for Churches Sermon Reels & Shorts Transform your weekly sermons into scroll-stopping short-form content. We create 5 engaging clips per sermon, ready to post on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and beyond. Start for $249/moFree Consultation 5 Clips/Sermon AI-Assisted All Platforms Weekly Delivery What's Included 5 reels/shorts per sermon AI-assisted clip selection Professional editing Caption overlays Custom branding Platform optimization Weekly delivery All social formats Frequently Asked Questions How many reels/shorts do I get per week? You receive 5 reels/shorts per sermon. Submit your weekly sermon and we'll deliver 5 optimized clips ready to post on Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Facebook. How does the AI-assisted editing work? We use AI tools to identify the most engaging moments from your sermon, powerful quotes, emotional moments, and key teaching points. Our human editors then refine these clips, add captions, branding, and ensure quality. What format should I submit my sermon in? You can submit a video file (MP4, MOV) or a link to your sermon on YouTube, Vimeo, or your church's website. We'll handle the rest. Are captions included? Yes! All reels and shorts include professional caption overlays, which are essential for engagement since most social media viewers watch without sound. How quickly will I receive my clips? We deliver your 5 reels/shorts within a few days of receiving your sermon. You'll have them in time to post throughout the week. Ready to Reach More People with Your Sermons? Short-form video is the fastest way to grow your church's online presence. Get StartedBook a Consultation Pricing & PlansOur WorkCase StudiesTestimonials TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Motion Graphics & Video Editing | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/church-motion-graphics-and-video-editing Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Video Production for Churches Church Motion Graphics & Video Editing Bring your message to life with professional video content. Unlimited custom videos, motion graphics, and editing, all for a flat monthly rate. Start for $890/moFree Consultation Unlimited Videos Up to 30 Min 2-3 Day Turnaround Unlimited Revisions What's Included Unlimited custom videos Videos up to 30 min Motion graphics Professional editing Color grading 2-3 day turnaround Unlimited revisions All file formats Frequently Asked Questions What types of videos can you create? We create sermon bumpers, testimonial videos, event recaps, announcement videos, lyric videos, countdown timers, social media clips, and any other motion graphics your church needs. Videos can be up to 30 minutes in length. How long does a video project take? Most video projects are completed within 2-3 business days. Complex projects with extensive motion graphics may take slightly longer, but you'll always know the timeline upfront. Do I need to provide footage? It depends on the project. For sermon bumpers and motion graphics, we create everything from scratch. For testimonial videos or event recaps, you'll provide the raw footage and we'll edit it professionally. Can I request unlimited revisions? Yes! Just like our graphics service, all video projects include unlimited revisions. We'll keep refining until you're completely satisfied. What file formats do you deliver? We deliver videos in the formats you need, MP4, MOV, or specific formats for platforms like ProPresenter. Just let us know your requirements. Ready to Bring Your Message to Life? Professional video content that captivates and inspires. Get StartedBook a Consultation Pricing & PlansOur WorkCase StudiesTestimonials TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Unlimited Graphics PRO Bundle | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/unlimited-graphics-pro-bundle Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation UNLIMITED GRAPHICS PROYour church's on-call creative department, without hiring staff Stop wrestling with design. Get a dedicated Christian creative team that understands ministry timelines, turns work fast, and keeps every ministry and campus on brand, week after week. Book a Free ConsultationStart PRO Risk-Free Unlimited requests • Unlimited revisions • Fast turnaround (typically 2-3 business days) • No contracts Here's what PRO includes, and how we plug into your team. Unlimited graphics & revisions Creative Director + monthly strategy calls Source files + multi-campus support MOST POPULAR Unlimited Graphics PRO Bundle $6,490 / year (one month free!) Unlimited Graphics PRO, $590/mo billed yearly (12 months for the price of 11). Unlimited custom designs & revisions Unlimited active projects & unlimited users Fast turnaround (typically 2-3 business days) No contracts Dedicated Creative Director and monthly strategy calls Full source files (own your PSD/AI/Canva) Multi-campus support Unlimited sermon bumpers (included with PRO only) Book a Free ConsultationStart PRO Risk-Free Backed by our 14-day money-back guarantee. Cancel within your first 14 days for a 100% refund. INCLUDED SIGNUP BONUSESYour bonus stack (included today) $590 value One Month Free 12 months for the price of 11. $348 value PixelChurch.co, 1 year FREE Instant downloads from the entire graphics library all year. $2,988 value Reels & Shorts, 1 year FREE Send your sermon video; we cut weekly Reels/Shorts ready to post. Total bonus value today: $3,926 in done-for-you media, stacked on top of Unlimited Graphics PRO. Start PRO Risk-Free Why this is a Category of One for churches Specialized for ministry We've served on church staffs; we view this as ministry and speak your language. One plan, every ministry Sermon art, slides, social, print, signage, apparel, reports, more, submit it, we do it. Design + Distribution leverage Unlimited Graphics + PixelChurch's instant library + weekly Reels/Shorts, the trifecta most churches can't assemble in-house at this price. Look 5× your size Consistent, modern visuals across every channel, without burning out volunteers. We have Pixel-Perfect Proof Jared Belcher Arrowhead Church "We moved from an in-house graphic designer to Pixel Painters and the transition has been so easy." Philip Carroll Lakeside Christian Church "Pixel Painters has helped bring our ideas to life… with a quick turnaround." JB Jeremy Bennett Grace Marriage "The amount of pressure that Pixel Painters took off me was huge." Jay Mills Southwinds Church "An answer to our prayers… exceeded our expectations." Chris Culver Birmingham Community Church "Working with Pixel Painters has been like having an in-house designer." Video Testimonials Justin All Souls Church Callie Manias GRACELANDCHURCH Andy Pleasant Valley Community Church Pastor Splawn First Northeast Baptist Church WHATEVER YOU NEED DESIGNED TO SERVE YOUR CHURCH Sermon series to signage, we've got you. See how our church graphic design services work. Sermon Series Worship Slides Event Graphics Social Media Youth Ministry Bible Study Special Events Outreach Spiritual Growth Sermon Series Worship Slides Event Graphics Social Media Youth Ministry Bible Study Special Events Outreach Spiritual Growth Explore Our Work YOUR CREATIVE COMMAND CENTER A clean workflow that replaces email chaos. 01 Submit your request Brief it once. Attach files. Invite your team. 02 We design Fast first draft. Clear status updates. 03 Review & revise Comment in-app. Unlimited revisions. 04 Download & deploy Ready-to-post and print-ready files delivered. app.pixelpainters.co Create Project Title (Required) Due Date Content Unlimited users Unlimited active projects Comment threads + approvals Organized delivery Meet your PRO team Josh Founder & CEO Claire Creative Director Melanie Project Director Ashley Social Media Manager Andrea Graphic Designer Jen Graphic Designer Xen Web Designer Jonah Video & Motion Graphics Shawn Director of Sales Haley Graphic Designer Ready to never worry about graphics again? Get a real creative department, without hiring staff. Book a Free ConsultationStart PRO Risk-Free TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Graphic Design for Multisite Churches | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/church-graphic-design-for-multisite-churches Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation For Multi-Campus ChurchesConsistent Design for Every Campus One design subscription serves your whole church. Unlimited requests, unlimited users, a shared brand kit, and a Creative Director keeping every campus visually aligned. Book a Free ConsultationSee Plans & Pricing The multi-campus design problem When your church grows to multiple locations, design gets fragmented fast. Here's what we hear from multi-campus comms directors. Brand drift across campuses Every campus tweaks the fonts, colors, and layouts a little differently. Over a year, your church looks like five different churches. Volunteer bottlenecks One or two volunteers can't keep up with the design needs of multiple locations, and requests pile up before Sunday. Inconsistent quality per location A/B testing on your congregation isn't the goal. Every campus should experience the same level of design excellence. One subscription serves every campus Instead of paying a designer per site or drowning volunteers, one flat monthly plan covers the entire church. Unlimited requests across every campus Unlimited users, every campus can submit Shared brand kit that stays in sync Source file access (PRO plan) Dedicated Creative Director on PRO One flat monthly price for the whole church Recommended for Multi-CampusUnlimited Graphics PRO Built for churches that need brand consistency at scale. $590/month Everything in the standard plan Source file access Dedicated Creative Director Multi-campus support Monthly creative video meetings Start with PRO Prefer the standard plan? Unlimited Graphics is $490/mo and still covers every campus. How it works for multi-campus churches A simple 3-step system to keep every location on-brand. 01 One shared brand kit We centralize your logos, colors, and fonts so every campus pulls from the same source of truth. 02 Every campus submits Unlimited users means every campus lead can submit requests directly, no forwarding, no gatekeeping. 03 We deliver, on-brand Our team keeps every asset visually consistent across every location, week after week. 4.9 from 7,657 project reviews Trusted by churches across the country, from single-site to multi-campus. Read testimonials Multi-campus FAQ Common questions from multisite comms directors. How do individual campuses submit design requests? Each campus lead gets their own login to our project app. They submit requests directly, no forwarding through a central staff person, and our team routes and produces everything. How do you keep every campus visually consistent? We build one shared brand kit and a component library that lives with our team. Every request pulls from the same fonts, colors, and templates so campuses look like one church, not five. How many users or seats do we get? Unlimited. Every campus pastor, comms lead, and volunteer can submit and comment on projects. There is no per-seat fee. Do we get source files for multi-campus edits? Source files are included with the Unlimited Graphics PRO plan ($590/mo). This is ideal for multi-campus churches that occasionally need to make on-site edits or hand assets to a volunteer for print variants. Ready to unify your campus design? Book a free consultation and we'll walk through how PixelPainters serves your specific campus setup. Book a Free Consultation TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Graphics: Templates vs. Custom Design Subscription https://pixelpainters.com/custom-church-design-vs-templates Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Honest ComparisonTemplates vs. Custom Church Design Template libraries are a great tool. So is a custom design subscription. They're just built for very different churches. Here's how to know which one fits yours, with zero shade thrown at anyone. When templates are the right call Template packs exist for good reasons. If any of these describe you, a library is probably the smarter move, no subscription needed. Your design budget is genuinely $0. Your needs are generic (a coffee announcement, a serve-team promo). You have someone on staff or in the congregation who genuinely enjoys design work. You're okay with your church looking similar to hundreds of other churches using the same pack. When custom design wins Once you scale past a couple of announcements a week, or you need a series to feel like yours, the math flips. Your sermon series deserves its own visual identity, not a swap of the words on a stock layout. You want brand consistency across slides, socials, print, and web. Nobody on staff has real design skills or wants to spend Saturday customizing a template. You've done the math on volunteer time and template subscriptions and realized the 'free' option costs more than it looks. Side by side Template LibraryCustom SubscriptionUpfront cost $15, $40/mo per library $490, $590/mo, all-in Time per finished piece 1-3 hours of customization You brief, we deliver Uniqueness Shared with hundreds of churches Custom to your church Revisions Do it yourself Unlimited, done for you Brand fit You force fit fonts and colors Built on your brand kit Deliverable variety One size, you resize Every size we deliver, included Estimates based on typical church workflows. Your mileage will vary. Not sure which fits your church? Book a free consultation and we'll be honest about whether custom design is worth it for your specific situation. If templates are a better fit, we'll tell you. Book a Free ConsultationCompare us to another subscription TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Free Church Graphics Kit | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/free-church-graphics-kit Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Free Church Graphics KitFree Church Graphics Kit Instantly get four church design resources: the new Christmas and Advent Planning Kit, the Church Graphics Planning Kit, the Timelines and File Size Cheat Sheet, and the Gospel Design Book. The same tools our clients use to plan sermon series, save hours on production, and level up their comms team. Used by 614+ churches. Rated 4.9 from 7,657 client reviews. First name (optional) Email * Get the Free KitWe'll never share your email. Unsubscribe anytime. What happens next Instant download, all four PDFs, right here. A few short planning emails over the next few weeks. Reply to any of them, they reach a real inbox. No sales calls unless you ask for one. What's inside Christmas and Advent Planning Kit, 2026 edition New for 2026 Every date and deadline from the first Sunday of Advent through New Year's, worked backward, plus the checklist and a one-page brief. Church Graphics Planning Kit Plan your sermon series, events, and weekly graphics with one practical kit. Timelines and File Size Cheat Sheet Sizes for every screen, social and print piece, and how long each really takes. Gospel Design Book A chapter from our founder's book on design as ministry. TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Valley View Christian Church Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/logan-fisher-case-study Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies RebrandWebsiteSignageSocial MediaScale The Impact of PixelPainters on Church Communication and Engagement Valley View Christian Church Littleton, CO, ~650 members A comprehensive rebrand modernized Valley View's presence across signage, web, and ministries, boosting consistency and engagement even during staff changes. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge Outdated, inconsistent visuals across web, print, and ministries. What We Did Full rebrand + website refresh + signage + ongoing design + social. Results Stronger visibility, consistency across ministries, and smoother operations. The Story Valley View wanted a clear, modern identity that felt cohesive everywhere: website, printed materials, and physical signage. PixelPainters ran a comprehensive rebrand that touched nearly every channel, including a refreshed website and updated building signage. Ministry-specific branding stayed distinct while still fitting the church-wide system. Social media engagement improved with more intentional content. The partnership also added resilience: when their Communications Director left, PixelPainters helped carry the design load so leadership could focus on ministry priorities. The new design made Valley View look much larger than before. Deliverables New logo + rebrand system Website and digital graphics Building signage + print assets Social media content support Key Results Increased visibility and engagement Consistency across all ministries Operational breathing room during hiring transitions "The new design made us look much larger." PreviousNew Day Church NextElevate Church Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Elevate Church Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/vision-to-life-will Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies GrowthConsistencyWebsiteSocialWorkflow Bringing the Church's Vision to LIFE Elevate Church As Elevate grew, they needed a cohesive, professional visual system. PixelPainters helped bring ideas to life across events, web, and social, while reducing strain on the comms team. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge Inconsistent materials; limited polish; fast-changing needs during growth. What We Did Event graphics, social content, website design support, fast adjustments. Results Greater visibility, higher engagement, and a streamlined process. The Story Elevate Church was growing quickly and needed communications that matched the momentum. Before PixelPainters, visuals lacked consistency and clarity, making it harder to engage their congregation and local community. PixelPainters helped build and maintain a cohesive design presence across event promotions, social media, and web. The team valued ministry-aware collaboration, plus responsiveness when last-minute adjustments were needed (including changes after seeing designs in physical spaces). Over time, the process became more streamlined: faster from concept to final, less stress for the Communications Director, and more consistent messaging across channels. Deliverables Event + campaign graphics Social content + planning support Website design support Rapid revisions under deadline Key Results Enhanced community visibility Increased social engagement Reduced workload and smoother workflow "We can focus on ministry while design gets handled." PreviousValley View Christian Church NextAll Souls Church Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### All Souls Church Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/boosting-visual-communication-for-all-souls-church-with-pixel-painters Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies Small ChurchFast TurnaroundCommunity Engagement Boosting Visual Communication for All Souls Church All Souls Church Los Angeles A small church in LA needed higher-quality visuals on tight timelines. PixelPainters became their go-to design partner, helping them communicate with clarity and confidence. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge Limited resources + short deadlines in an aesthetics-heavy city. What We Did Sermon graphics, social posts, event designs, ads, and brand assets. Results More consistent communication and stronger community engagement. The Story All Souls Church was juggling urgent deadlines and a small team. They needed a partner who could deliver professional design without a long onboarding process. PixelPainters stepped in as a dependable extension of their communications work, handling everything from sermon series visuals to social and event graphics. Because the work was built specifically for ministry contexts, less time was spent translating "church language," and more time went into execution. The result was a steady stream of polished, on-brand visuals that helped this small LA congregation punch above its weight. Deliverables Sermon series graphics Social media + advertising visuals Event graphics + logos Key Results Higher design quality and consistency Reliable response for last-minute needs Increased community visibility and engagement "There's literally nothing they can't do." PreviousElevate Church NextGrace Marriage Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Grace Marriage Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/grace-marriage-transforms-communication-and-engagement-with-pixel-painters Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies MinistrySocialBandwidthConsistency Grace Marriage Transforms Communication and Engagement Grace Marriage A lean team with a big mission needed cohesive visuals and quick execution. PixelPainters helped unify their look and improve engagement while freeing staff for core work. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge Wide range of design needs with limited internal capacity. What We Did Cohesive visuals across social, promos, resources; responsive iterations. Results Better-looking communications + stronger engagement + reduced staff pressure. The Story Grace Marriage needed consistent design across multiple touchpoints: social media, promotional materials, flyers, and downloadable resources. PixelPainters took ownership of the visual system so the team could focus on their ministry work. The collaboration was designed to stay fast: quick response times, fewer revision loops, and support when last-minute needs popped up, all while keeping the brand cohesive. The result was a unified visual identity that elevated every piece of communication. Deliverables Social graphics + promo assets Flyers + downloadable resources Visual identity consistency Key Results Improved social media engagement and visibility Reduced workload and pressure on staff Streamlined workflow with fewer revisions "The pressure PixelPainters took off me was huge." PreviousAll Souls Church NextAgape City Church Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Agape City Church Launch Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/agape-city-church-launches-with-the-support-of-pixel-painters Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies Church PlantLaunchBrandingFast Response Agape City Church Launches with PixelPainters Agape City Church A new church plant launched without the budget for in-house design. PixelPainters helped them look established from day one with launch-ready creative. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge Launching a church with no in-house designer and fast-moving needs. What We Did Built an identity + created a full range of launch assets. Results Immediate professionalism, stronger engagement, and support for comms lead. The Story Agape City Church launched in 2022 and needed a full set of visuals quickly, without hiring a staff designer. PixelPainters provided a broad range of assets (logos, events, social posts, sermon series graphics) that made communications feel polished and trustworthy to first-time attenders. The team also valued quick responsiveness during critical moments when requests became urgent. From day one, Agape looked like an established church, not a startup scrambling to keep up with design needs. Deliverables Launch brand assets + logo support Sermon series + event graphics Social media visuals Key Results Stronger first impression and professionalism Increased community engagement Flexible help during last-minute requests "Working at the speed of inspiration." PreviousGrace Marriage NextHope Springs Church Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Hope Springs Church Rebrand Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/the-rebranding-of-hope-springs-church-with-pixel-painters Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies RebrandVolunteersPrintVisibility The Rebranding of Hope Springs Church Hope Springs Church Hope Springs needed a modern identity and a consistent design system, beyond what volunteers could maintain. PixelPainters delivered a cohesive rebrand and extended it across campaigns. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge No dedicated comms lead; inconsistent visuals; volunteer limitations. What We Did New logo + brand system + rollout across print and media. Results Higher visibility, stronger cohesion, and reliable support during peak seasons. The Story Hope Springs partnered with PixelPainters for a full rebrand, a fresh logo and a consistent communication style that raised the perceived quality of everything they put out. The new identity wasn't just "a logo"; it was rolled out across multiple formats, from brochures and postcards to seasonal graphics. The team also needed dependable help during high-volume seasons (like Christmas) and got design support that stayed thoughtful and timely. The rebrand created a surge of excitement in the community. Deliverables New logo + brand system Campaign rollouts (print + digital) Seasonal graphics support Key Results Increased visibility and conversation in the community More professional, cohesive communications Elevated output beyond volunteer capacity "A surge of excitement around the new brand." PreviousAgape City Church NextSojourn East Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Sojourn East Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/enhancing-communication-at-sojourn-east-with-pixel-painters Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies EventsMinistry LanguageFast TurnaroundSmall Church Enhancing Communication at Sojourn East Sojourn East Sojourn East needed arresting visuals and a partner who spoke ministry language. PixelPainters delivered diverse assets quickly and reduced communication friction. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge Limited resources, tight timelines, many types of recurring graphics. What We Did Announcement slides, promos, and time-sensitive pieces with clarity. Results Better event visibility, faster workflow, and lighter load for staff. The Story Sojourn East needed a design partner who could move quickly and understand how church communications work. PixelPainters provided a wide range of deliverables, from weekly slides to mission and event promos, with fewer back-and-forth misunderstandings. The partnership also supported their Communications Director, Scott Slucher, especially when last-minute needs hit (including an Easter postcard). The result was sharper event visuals and smoother collaboration even when timelines tightened. Deliverables Announcement slides + promo graphics Event visibility assets Print pieces (postcards) Key Results Increased event visibility and engagement Faster turnaround with clearer communication Reduced load on communications leadership "Arresting visuals that reinforced calls to action." PreviousHope Springs Church NextGraceland Baptist Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Graceland Baptist Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/case-study-enhancing-church-communication-through-consistent-high-quality-design-at-graceland-baptist Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies ConsistencySeasonal CampaignsSignageAds Consistent, High-Quality Design at Graceland Baptist Graceland Baptist Graceland Baptist wanted consistent visuals across every channel. PixelPainters helped deliver recognizable design, especially during seasonal campaigns, to boost visibility. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge Staff time + inconsistent DIY quality across channels. What We Did Multi-platform campaign visuals and ongoing design support. Results More consistent communication and better community visibility. The Story Graceland Baptist saw a noticeable impact when design shifted from "good enough" to consistent and professional. PixelPainters supported a range of needs, including a standout Christmas promotion that spanned yard signs, banners, and Facebook ads. Over time, the relationship became more than outsourcing: it functioned like adding a reliable creative partner who understood the church's style and boundaries. Week-to-week consistency made all the difference. Deliverables Seasonal campaign visuals Yard signs + banners Social / ad graphics Key Results Increased visibility across platforms Reduced pressure on communications staff Stronger brand consistency week-to-week "Like adding a valuable member to their team." PreviousSojourn East NextNew Day Church Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### New Day Church Case Study | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/case-study-enhancing-church-communications-through-graphic-design-new-day-church Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Back to Case Studies OutreachSermon ExperienceSecond LocationWorkflow Design-Driven Communication at New Day Church New Day Church New Day Church needed a wide range of assets for outreach and teaching. PixelPainters delivered invite materials, signage, and sermon-support visuals, with a smoother request process. Book a Free ConsultationSee Pricing At a Glance Challenge Many asset types needed (print, signage, slides) with a small team. What We Did Invite cards, A-frames, sermon slides, maps, and more. Results Stronger outreach, richer sermon experience, reduced comms pressure. The Story New Day Church worked with PixelPainters to build a full suite of communication tools, from invite cards that supported visitor outreach to A-frame signage for community events promoting a second location. Beyond marketing, PixelPainters also created sermon slides and even custom maps that helped the congregation better understand biblical context. A simple request workflow made project management easier and turnaround faster for their communications director, Jonathan Watson. Deliverables Invite cards + A-frame signs Sermon slides + supporting visuals Custom educational graphics (maps) Key Results Improved outreach and community engagement Enhanced sermon delivery visuals Streamlined project requests and turnaround "Make, mark, and mature disciples." PreviousGraceland Baptist NextValley View Christian Church Ready for consistent creative? Turn design into a system, not a weekly scramble. Book a Free ConsultationPricing TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Give a Month, Get a Month | PixelPainters Referral Program https://pixelpainters.com/referral Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation Referral ProgramGive a Month, Get a Month Refer a church you love. When they become a PixelPainters client, you both get one month of Unlimited Graphics free. That is a $490 value for each of you, and one less thing on their communications team's plate. You tell us about your friend Fill out the short form below with your info and a few details about the church you have in mind. We reach out gently Our team will send a warm, no pressure introduction and let them know you sent us their way. You each get a free month When they become a client, we credit both of you a free month of Unlimited Graphics (a $490 value each). Your name Your church Your email * About the church you are referring Friend's church Friend's contact name Friend's email * Optional note Send ReferralWe will only use these details to reach out to your friend and to credit your free month. TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Fall Series Sprint | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/fall Our Services About Us Our Work Free Kit Pricing Book a Free Consultation For Churches Planning FallYour fall sermon series, designed this week. Start PixelPainters today and our team designs your fall series first. First draft typically within 24 hours, unlimited revisions until you love it, and a 14-day 100% money-back guarantee. Start Risk-Free, $490/moBook a 15-min call first 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal ·614+ churches and ministries·Avg first draft 11h 06m The people behind it Melanie, Project Director She runs your projects and keeps every deadline honest. Claire, Creative Director Her team designs your series, slides, print, and socials. Fall-ready sermon series work A sample of series our team has designed for churches like yours. See more of our work How it works 1 Brief your series once in our simple portal. 2 First draft lands typically within 24 hours. 3 Revise until you love it, then get print, slides, and socials cut and delivered. Try us for 14 days, risk-free. If you don't love what we make, request a 100% refund. No awkward conversation. Start Risk-Free, $490/moBook a 15-min call first Common questions How fast is the first draft?+Our average time to first draft is 11h 06m, measured over the last 365 days in our design portal. Most churches see their fall series concept the same week they sign up. Is it really unlimited?+Yes. Unlimited requests, unlimited revisions, and unlimited active projects on every plan. We work through them in order to keep turnaround fast. What if we do not love it?+You are covered by our 14-day, 100% money-back guarantee. If it is not the right fit, request a refund inside your first 14 days and we take care of it. No awkward conversation. TRY PIXELPAINTERS RISK-FREE FOR 14 DAYS Start any plan. If you don't love it in your first 14 days, request a 100% refund. No awkwardness. Free ConsultationGet Started Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. Client Portal Log in to your dashboard Services Unlimited Graphics Social Media Sermon Reels & Shorts Website Agent Motion Graphics Company About Team Case Studies Testimonials Resources Client Map Careers Resources Our Work Pricing FAQ Book a Free Consultation Free Kit Podcast Referral Program Compare Services Guides Church Graphic Design Services Unlimited Church Design Sermon Series Graphics Church Social Media Church Website Agent Google Ad Grants Guide Sermon Reels & Shorts Church Motion Graphics Multisite Church Design Custom vs Templates PRO Bundle © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyTerms --- ### Church Graphic Design Services, Unlimited for One Flat Rate | PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/church-graphic-design Our WorkPricingReviews Free CallBook a Free Call Your church's design teamChurch graphic design services, unlimited for one flat monthly rate. Sermon series art, slides, flyers and social graphics from church graphic designers who have served on church staff. Unlimited requests and revisions, first draft in 2 to 3 business days, from $490 a month, month to month, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. See Open TimesA short call with Melanie. Your next sermon series title slide, designed free. See Plans & Pricing Month to month. No contract. Cancel anytime. 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews·614+ churches and ministries served·14-day money-back guarantee Turnaround Avg First Draft: 11h 06mDetails Avg Project Completion: 4 days 05 hours Real sermon series we designed for real churches. BOOK A CALL, GET A FREE SERMON SERIES TITLE SLIDE Pick a time with Melanie, our project director. Tell her the name of your next sermon series and our designers will create the title slide for you, free, whether or not you sign up. She will also look at what you are using now and map out what a plan could look like for your church. You will meet Melanie Project Director, PixelPainters Your next sermon series title slide, designed free An honest look at what you are using now Straight answers on pricing, turnaround and fit 14-day money-back guarantee. Not happy in the first 14 days? You get 100% of your money back, no questions. What happens on the call · 28 sec Loading open times... Showing Melanie's calendar. Need a Friday or a later time? See Josh's calendar.Open the calendar in a new tab No time that works? Leave your number and we will call you. Churches and ministries we serve HOW OUR CHURCH GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICE WORKS 1 Send a request. Sermon series, event flyer, slides, social posts, a bulletin. A sentence or two and a deadline is all we need. 2 Real designers get to work. Your first draft lands in 2 to 3 business days. Revisions are unlimited until it is right. 3 Keep everything, request the next one. One flat monthly rate covers every request. Month to month, cancel anytime, and the art is always yours. See Open TimesA short call with Melanie. Your next sermon series title slide, designed free. See Plans & Pricing WHAT EVERY CHURCH DESIGN PLAN INCLUDES Unlimited design requests and unlimited revisions First draft in 2 to 3 business days Unlimited users on your team A dedicated project director who learns your church A simple project app to manage everything No contracts, month to month, cancel anytime Unlimited Graphics $490 a month Everything above. Sermon series, print, social, slides, signage, logos. Unlimited Graphics PRO $590 a month Adds sermon bumper videos, book and booklet layout, source files, multi-campus support and a creative director. Month to month. No contract. Not sure which fits? That is what the call is for. Not happy in the first 14 days? You get 100% of your money back, no questions. Turnaround Avg First Draft: 11h 06mDetails Avg Project Completion: 4 days 05 hours RECENT CHURCH GRAPHIC DESIGN WORK A few projects we designed for churches like yours. See Open TimesA short call with Melanie. Your next sermon series title slide, designed free. See Plans & Pricing WHAT WE DESIGN FOR CHURCHES One team handles every piece of church graphic design your calendar needs, so every series, event and announcement looks like it came from the same church. Sermon series graphics Title slides, lower thirds, social and print versions of every series, built as one set. Sermon series graphics → Slides and worship backgrounds Announcement slides, lyric backgrounds and countdowns sized for your screens. Social media graphics Posts, stories and event graphics for every channel you use. Church social media → Print and signage Bulletins, flyers, postcards, banners, wayfinding and connection cards, print-ready. Logos and church branding New logos, ministry sub-brands and a brand kit volunteers can follow. Motion and video Sermon bumpers and motion graphics on the PRO plan. Church motion graphics → Multisite churches One team, one brand kit, every campus on-brand. Design for multisite churches → CHURCH GRAPHIC DESIGN OPTIONS, COMPARED Most churches get their graphics one of four ways. Here is how they stack up. Hire a church graphic designer Cost modelSalary plus benefits and softwareSpeedFast once hired, but one person has one queueCustom to your churchYesWho manages itYou hire, train and manage them Freelancers per project Cost modelBilled per projectSpeedDepends on who is availableCustom to your churchYes, if you find the right oneWho manages itYou find, brief and chase each one Template libraries Cost modelLow monthly feeSpeedInstant, but you do the editingCustom to your churchNo, other churches use the same artWho manages itYour staff or volunteers PixelPainters Cost modelOne flat rate, $490 or $590 a monthSpeedFirst draft in 2 to 3 business daysCustom to your churchYes, designed for your churchWho manages itYour dedicated project director OptionCost modelSpeedCustom to your churchWho manages itHire a church graphic designerSalary plus benefits and softwareFast once hired, but one person has one queueYesYou hire, train and manage themFreelancers per projectBilled per projectDepends on who is availableYes, if you find the right oneYou find, brief and chase each oneTemplate librariesLow monthly feeInstant, but you do the editingNo, other churches use the same artYour staff or volunteersPixelPaintersOne flat rate, $490 or $590 a monthFirst draft in 2 to 3 business daysYes, designed for your churchYour dedicated project director Want the full math? Read hiring a church graphic designer vs a design subscription and what church graphic design costs in 2026. Considering templates? See templates vs custom church design. DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT JustinAll Souls Church · 0:49 "PixelPainters has been a game-changer for our church communications. They understand our culture, our deadlines, and deliver consistently beautiful work that elevates everything we do." Jay Mills Executive Pastor, Southwinds Church "Claire worked so hard in getting us the perfect design for our church to be able to visualize exactly what this sermon series means to our congregation!" Chris Todd Midway Church "Great job! VERY quick turnaround! Compared to another service I've used, this was AMAZING turnaround!" Bob Horn Living Water CHURCH GRAPHIC DESIGN QUESTIONS What does it cost? Unlimited Graphics is $490 a month. PRO is $590 a month and adds sermon bumper videos, book layout, source files and a creative director. Both are month to month with no contract, and both come with a 14-day money-back guarantee. What if it's not a fit? Every plan comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee. If you are not happy for any reason in the first two weeks, you get 100% of your money back, no questions. After that it is month to month and you can cancel anytime. How much does church graphic design cost compared to hiring? A full-time church graphic designer means a salary, benefits and software. Freelancers bill per project. PixelPainters is one flat rate: $490 a month for Unlimited Graphics or $590 for PRO, with unlimited requests and revisions. See the full cost breakdown Is it really unlimited? Yes. Send as many requests as you like and we work through them in order. Most first drafts land in 2 to 3 business days, and revisions are unlimited. What can I request? Anything a church needs designed: sermon series art, slides, flyers, social graphics, bulletins, signage, logos, booklets. Video work is included on PRO. Who are your church graphic designers? Professional Christian designers, many of whom have served on church staff as communication directors and designers. We only work with churches and ministries. Can you work with our volunteer or staff designer? Yes. We are happy to work alongside your existing team and can work from their files. Do we own the designs? Yes, the art is always yours. Editable source files are included on PRO. What hours do you work? Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm Eastern. Typical turnaround is 2 to 3 business days, and we usually complete one revision cycle per business day. What happens on the call? A short Google Meet with Melanie, our project director. Tell her the name of your next sermon series and our designers will create the title slide free, whether or not you sign up. She also looks at what you are using now, hears what is coming up on your calendar, and maps out what a plan would look like for your church. No slides, no pressure. Do I have to get on a call? No. The call is for people who want to talk it through first. You can also pick a plan and start online in about two minutes. Is there a contract? No. Both plans are month to month and you can cancel anytime. You keep every design we made for you. SUNDAY IS COMING. WE CAN HELP. Talk it through with Melanie, or pick a plan and send us your next project today. Month to month, with a 14-day money-back guarantee. See Open TimesA short call with Melanie. Your next sermon series title slide, designed free. See Plans & Pricing Exclusively for Churches & Ministries 4.9 from 7,500+ client reviews in our design portal Unlimited graphics for your church, created by Christian designers. © 2018-2026 Pixel Painters LLC. All rights reserved. AboutFAQOur WorkPrivacy PolicyTerms --- ## Articles ### How to Build a Church Brand Kit That Volunteers Can Follow https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-brand-kit-volunteers-can-follow A simple brand kit helps volunteers and staff create on-brand graphics without starting from scratch every time. Here is how to build one your whole team can actually use. If your church has ever published a flyer that looked nothing like your website, or watched a volunteer create a slide deck in five different fonts, you already understand the problem a brand kit solves. A brand kit is not a corporate luxury. It is a practical document that saves your team time, reduces back-and-forth, and helps your church look like one unified community across every touchpoint. The good news is that building one does not require a design agency or a big budget. It requires about an afternoon of focused work and a willingness to make a few decisions in writing. What a Church Brand Kit Actually Includes Keep it simple. A brand kit for a church of 100 to 1,000 people does not need to be a 40-page PDF. It needs to answer the questions volunteers will actually ask when they sit down to make something. 1. Logo Files Provide your logo in at least three formats: a full-color version, a one-color version, and a version that works on dark backgrounds. Save them as PNG files with transparent backgrounds so volunteers can drop them onto any design without a white box appearing. Store these in a shared Google Drive or Dropbox folder everyone can access. 2. Color Palette List your primary and secondary colors with their exact hex codes (for digital use) and RGB values. Limit your palette to three to five colors. More than that and volunteers will not know which ones to reach for, and your materials will start to drift. A simple table works fine here. 3. Typography Choose two fonts: one for headlines and one for body text. If possible, use fonts available in Google Fonts so volunteers do not need to purchase or install anything. Write down the font name, the weight to use (for example, Bold for headlines, Regular for body), and any rules about sizing or spacing you care about. 4. Photography Style Words like "bright" and "warm" are more useful than you might think. Write two or three sentences describing the kinds of photos that feel like your church. Do you prefer candid moments or posed shots? Outdoor or indoor settings? This helps volunteers choose stock photos that feel consistent even when they are not taken by your photographer. 5. Voice and Tone Guidelines A brand kit is not just visual. Include a short paragraph describing how your church communicates in writing. Are you conversational and warm, or more formal and reverent? Do you use first-person plural ("we" and "our") when writing as the church? Do you capitalize "Gospel" or not? These small decisions add up. How to Distribute It So People Actually Use It A brand kit that lives in someone's email archive helps no one. Put it somewhere central and make sure every volunteer who creates content knows it exists. Create a single shared folder (Google Drive works well) with clearly labeled subfolders for logos, fonts, and the brand guide document. Pin the link in your team's communication channel, whether that is Slack, GroupMe, or a staff email thread. Walk new volunteers through it during onboarding. A five-minute screen-share is worth more than a 20-page document left unread. Review it once a year. If your church goes through a rebrand or adds a new ministry, update the kit so it stays accurate. When to Involve a Professional Designer Volunteers can maintain a brand kit, but they should not usually be the ones building it from scratch. If your church does not have consistent logos, a defined color palette, or fonts you feel confident about, it is worth investing in professional help to get those foundations right before asking volunteers to run with them. If your team regularly needs sermon series graphics, social media posts, or event materials, a design subscription can be a more sustainable option than hiring freelancers project by project. See the kind of work that is possible when a dedicated team knows your brand inside and out. Services like PixelPainters are built specifically for churches and ministries, which means the designers already understand the context, the vocabulary, and the pace of church life. Your Brand Kit Build Checklist Use this checklist to build your brand kit in one focused work session. Collect all existing logo files and save clean PNG versions with transparent backgrounds. Identify your primary and secondary colors and write down their hex codes. Choose two fonts and confirm they are accessible to volunteers for free. Write two to three sentences describing your photography style. Write one paragraph describing your church's voice and tone in writing. Create a shared folder and organize files into labeled subfolders. Share the folder link with all content-creating volunteers and staff. Set a calendar reminder to review the kit in 12 months. A Consistent Brand Is an Act of Hospitality When someone visits your website, sees your sign, picks up a bulletin, and scrolls past your social media post, they are forming an impression of your church. Consistency in those touchpoints is not about vanity. It is about helping people feel like they are encountering one coherent community, not a collection of unrelated projects. If you want help getting your brand foundations in place or keeping up with the week-to-week design needs that come with church life, schedule a free consultation to see whether a design subscription makes sense for your ministry. PixelPainters works exclusively with churches and ministries, with flat monthly pricing and a team that understands the unique pressures church communicators face. --- ### Volunteer vs Subscription Design: Pros, Cons, and When to Switch https://pixelpainters.com/resources/volunteer-vs-subscription-design Trying to decide between leaning on volunteers or paying for a design subscription? This practical guide walks church communicators through the real tradeoffs so you can make the right call for your team and budget. Most churches land in one of two situations: a generous volunteer handles the bulletin and social graphics, or a staff member is quietly doing design work on top of everything else. Both approaches can work for a season. But as your church grows and your communication needs multiply, it's worth stepping back and honestly evaluating what's actually serving your mission well. The Case for Volunteer Design Volunteers are a genuine gift. When someone in your congregation has real design skills and wants to serve, that relationship can be deeply meaningful, both for them and for your team. Low cost. For churches with tight budgets, volunteer labor keeps design expenses near zero. Ministry investment. Skilled volunteers often care deeply about the work and bring personal faith into what they create. Flexibility for small needs. A weekly bulletin, a simple announcement slide, a one-off flyer, these are manageable requests for a capable volunteer. If your church is under 150 people, your communication calendar is fairly light, and you have a reliable volunteer with genuine design ability, this arrangement may be exactly right for where you are. Where Volunteer Design Breaks Down The problems tend to creep in quietly. A few worth naming honestly: Availability is unpredictable. Volunteers have jobs, families, and seasons of life. When a sermon series launch week collides with their vacation, you're scrambling. Revision requests are awkward. Asking a volunteer to redo something a third time feels uncomfortable. So churches often settle for work that isn't quite right. Scope grows faster than capacity. Social media alone, across platforms, can require 10 to 20 new graphics per month. Add a sermon series, event flyers, and a giving campaign and one volunteer is overwhelmed. Inconsistent branding. When a volunteer creates without a strong style guide or professional feedback loop, visual identity drifts over time. Burnout and turnover. Design volunteers burn out at high rates when the requests never stop. Losing them mid-season is painful for everyone. The Case for a Design Subscription A subscription service trades variable volunteer availability for consistent, professional output at a predictable monthly cost. The tradeoffs are real, but so are the advantages. Reliable turnaround. Most professional design services commit to a specific timeline, typically two to three business days per request, so you can plan your calendar around it. Unlimited revisions without guilt. You can ask for changes until the piece is right, because that's what you're paying for. Broader scope. Need sermon series graphics, social posts, event banners, and a giving campaign all in the same month? A subscription can handle the volume without hitting a ceiling. Brand consistency. Professional designers maintain your visual identity across every deliverable. The honest downside is cost. At $490 to $590 per month, a subscription is a real budget line. For churches already stretched thin, that number deserves careful evaluation, not a quick yes or no. If your team is curious what that kind of support actually looks like in practice, browsing real project examples is a good starting point before making any decision. When It Makes Sense to Switch There's no universal answer, but these signals tend to show up before a transition becomes necessary: Your communications director is spending more than four hours a week on design tasks that aren't their primary role. You've missed deadlines or launched a series with graphics you weren't proud of. Your volunteer has signaled they're feeling overwhelmed or have mentioned stepping back. Your church is adding services, campuses, or major seasonal campaigns. Your design output looks inconsistent across platforms and print materials. If two or more of these are true right now, the cost of staying in your current setup may already be higher than the cost of a subscription, in staff time, missed opportunities, and ministry credibility. A Simple Decision Checklist Work through this before committing either way: How many design requests does your church realistically need each month? Count them. How many hours per week is design work costing a paid staff member? Has your volunteer expressed any hesitation or stress in the last 90 days? Do your current graphics accurately represent the quality of your church's ministry? Could you redirect a staff member's time to higher-value ministry work if design were handled externally? Does your budget have room for a flat monthly design cost, or would you need to reallocate something? If most of your answers point toward strain, it's worth at least pricing out what professional support would cost and comparing that honestly to your current situation. Making the Right Call for Your Church Volunteers are not a stopgap. They can be a beautiful part of how a church runs. But they work best when the scope is manageable, the expectations are clear, and the relationship is protected. When communication demands outgrow what a volunteer can reasonably carry, finding a sustainable alternative is itself an act of good stewardship. PixelPainters was built specifically for churches in this in-between season, teams that need professional, consistent design without hiring a full-time creative. With flat monthly pricing, Christian designers who understand ministry context, and a 4.9 rating across thousands of completed projects, it's a practical option worth considering. If you want to talk through whether it fits your church before committing, a free consultation is a low-pressure place to start. --- ### Social Media Content Calendar for Churches (simple framework) https://pixelpainters.com/resources/social-media-content-calendar-churches A simple, repeatable content calendar framework to help church communicators plan social media without burning out. Practical steps you can put to work this week. If social media feels like a last-minute scramble every week, you are not alone. Most church communications teams are running lean, and "post something today" often wins over "plan something thoughtful." The good news is that a content calendar does not have to be complicated to be effective. A simple framework, consistently applied, will do more for your church's online presence than any single viral post ever could. Why Churches Struggle with Consistent Posting The challenge is rarely creativity. Church staff and volunteers have plenty of good ideas. The challenge is capacity and rhythm. Without a repeatable system, every week starts from scratch, and that is exhausting. A content calendar solves this by shifting the question from "what do we post today?" to "what slot does this fill?" Start with Your Content Pillars Before you build a calendar, define three to five content categories that reflect your church's communication goals. These become the backbone of everything you schedule. Common pillars for churches include: Sermon and teaching content - quotes, key scriptures, short clips from the message Events and announcements - service times, upcoming programs, registration deadlines Community and culture - behind-the-scenes moments, volunteer spotlights, congregation life Encouragement and devotional - scripture graphics, prayer prompts, midweek encouragement Calls to action - giving, volunteering, small group sign-ups, first-time visitor info Rotate through these pillars across the week so your feed stays balanced. You are not just advertising services. You are building a consistent online presence that reflects who your church actually is. A Simple Weekly Posting Framework You do not need to post every day. For most churches, three to five posts per week is a realistic and sustainable target. Here is a starting framework you can adapt: Sunday or Monday - Sermon recap graphic or pull quote from the weekend message Tuesday or Wednesday - Midweek encouragement, scripture graphic, or short devotional prompt Thursday - Upcoming event or announcement with a clear call to action Friday or Saturday - Invite post, weekend service reminder, or community story This structure gives you a default pattern so you are never staring at a blank screen. When something special comes up, like a baptism Sunday or a community outreach event, you simply swap one of these default slots for timely content. Planning One Month at a Time Once your weekly rhythm is set, zoom out to the month. At the start of each month, block 30 to 60 minutes to map out the major moments coming up: sermon series transitions, holidays, church-wide events, and any community initiatives. This single planning session prevents the last-minute scramble that leads to inconsistent posting. A simple spreadsheet or a free tool like Trello or Google Sheets works fine. You do not need a sophisticated platform to get started. The goal is visibility, not complexity. If your church runs multi-week sermon series, those series become a natural content anchor for the entire month. Graphics, quote cards, and short video clips from sermons can all tie back to the same visual theme, giving your feed a cohesive, professional look without extra creative effort each week. Batch Your Content Creation One of the biggest time-savers for lean teams is batching. Instead of designing one graphic at a time, set aside a block each week or month to create several pieces at once. When you are already in design mode, producing four graphics takes only a little more time than producing one. If design is a bottleneck for your team, that is worth addressing directly. Many churches use volunteers or DIY tools, which works until it does not. When the quality gap starts affecting how your community perceives your church's credibility online, it may be time to explore other options. Church social media design support from a team that understands ministry context can remove that bottleneck entirely, freeing your staff to focus on strategy and relationships rather than file exports. PixelPainters works specifically with churches and ministries, and a flat monthly subscription means you can submit graphics requests throughout the month without worrying about per-project costs. That model fits naturally into a batching workflow. Monthly Content Calendar Checklist Identify your three to five content pillars Map out all major events and sermon series for the month Assign a content pillar to each posting slot on your weekly schedule Write copy and gather photos or assets one week in advance Design or request all graphics before the week begins Schedule posts using a free tool like Buffer or Meta Business Suite Review performance monthly and adjust pillars or frequency as needed Keep It Simple and Keep Going The best content calendar is the one your team will actually use. Start with the basics, build the habit, and refine as you go. Consistency over time will always outperform sporadic bursts of high-effort content. If you want to see how other churches have built sustainable design and content workflows, the PixelPainters case studies are worth a look. And if your team is ready to stop starting from scratch every week, a simple system like this one is a good first step. --- ### Easter Church Graphics: What to Create (and When) https://pixelpainters.com/resources/easter-church-graphics-what-to-create Easter is one of the highest-attendance Sundays of the year, and your graphics need to be ready weeks before the doors open. Here is a practical guide to every asset you need and a timeline to keep your team on track. Easter Sunday brings more first-time guests through your doors than almost any other weekend of the year. That means your graphics, signage, and social posts are doing real work, welcoming strangers, setting the tone, and communicating that your church is worth coming back to. The problem is that Easter sneaks up fast, especially when you are also managing volunteers, service planning, and a dozen other priorities. This guide walks you through exactly what to create and when to have it ready, so nothing falls through the cracks. Start With a Single Visual Theme Before you open Canva or submit a single request to a designer, settle on one cohesive look. That means a color palette, a title treatment for your Easter message series, and a general mood (hopeful and bright, reverent and clean, bold and modern). Everything else you create will pull from this foundation, so getting it right early saves you from redoing work later. If your Easter service is part of a broader series, your sermon series graphics should anchor the whole campaign. The series title, key art, and typography choices become the building blocks for every other asset below. The Assets You Actually Need Digital and Social Series key art (the foundational image everything else is built from) Social media announcement graphics (square and story formats) Countdown posts for the two to three weeks leading up to Easter Invitation graphics people can share with friends and family Event cover images for Facebook and your church app Message title slides for the day-of service Print and On-Site Bulletin or program cover Welcome card or connect card insert Directional signage for first-time guests (parking, kids check-in, restrooms) Lobby or stage backdrop design (if applicable) Postcard or door hanger for community outreach After Easter Thank-you graphics for volunteers and guests Message recap posts with sermon quotes or key scriptures Sermon clip graphics if you are posting video highlights That last category is easy to skip, but it matters. The week after Easter is a natural follow-up moment for guests who attended. A well-designed recap post or a short sermon reel keeps the conversation going and gives people a reason to return the following Sunday. A Realistic Easter Graphics Timeline Here is a simple timeline you can work backward from Easter Sunday. Adjust dates based on your specific service date. 8 weeks out: Finalize your Easter series theme and title. Brief your designer or design team with all the details: dates, service times, any special programming like egg hunts or Good Friday services. 6 weeks out: Receive and approve key art and series graphics. This is your foundation, so take time with revisions here. 5 weeks out: Complete all print files. Postcards, bulletins, and signage need lead time for printing and mailing. 4 weeks out: Begin social media countdown posts. Start warming up your audience with invitation-focused content. 2 weeks out: All digital graphics should be finalized and scheduled. Invitation shareable images should be live so your congregation can start spreading the word. 1 week out: Confirm service slides, lobby graphics, and any last-minute adjustments. Give yourself buffer time, because something always comes up. Day after Easter: Post recap and thank-you content. Start planning your follow-up series before the momentum fades. If You Are Stretched Thin Most church communications teams are small, and Easter puts pressure on everyone at once. If you are relying on a volunteer designer or piecing things together yourself, it is easy to end up with graphics that look inconsistent or take far longer than expected to produce. This is where a service like PixelPainters can fill the gap. With a flat monthly subscription, you can submit unlimited requests and get professional, church-specific graphics back in two to three business days, without hiring a full-time designer or locking into a per-project agency fee. The designers understand church culture and ministry needs, which means less back-and-forth explaining what you are going for. A Few Things Worth Prioritizing If you have to make tradeoffs, here is how to think about it: Key art and social invitation graphics have the highest reach. Prioritize these first. First-time guest signage has a disproportionate impact on the experience inside your building. Do not skip it. Fancy lobby displays are nice but optional. A clean, well-designed welcome banner does the job. You do not need a massive budget or a large team to execute Easter well. You need a clear plan, a consistent visual theme, and enough lead time to avoid the last-minute scramble. Get a Head Start Whether you handle design in-house or work with outside help, the single best thing you can do is start earlier than feels necessary. Easter graphics that are done four weeks out are always better than ones rushed in the final week. If you want to see how other churches have approached their Easter creative, browse our work for examples across a range of church sizes and styles. And if you are considering whether a design subscription makes sense for your team this season, we are happy to talk through what that looks like for your specific situation. --- ### Church Graphic Design Subscription: Is It Worth It? https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-graphic-design-subscription-worth-it Graphic design subscriptions promise unlimited work for a flat monthly fee, but are they actually a good fit for churches? Here is a practical breakdown to help you decide. If you lead communications at a church, you already know the tension. Sunday is always coming, and the list of design needs never shrinks. Sermon series graphics, event flyers, social media posts, bulletin covers, screen slides, and announcement videos all compete for the same limited hours. At some point, most church communicators ask the same question: is there a better way to keep up? Graphic design subscription services have become one popular answer. For a flat monthly fee, you submit unlimited design requests and get work back on a rolling basis. No hourly billing, no project quotes, no chasing down freelancers. But the model is not perfect for everyone, and it is worth thinking through before you commit a budget line to it. What a Design Subscription Actually Looks Like Most subscription services work on a queue model. You submit a request, a designer picks it up, and you receive a draft within a set turnaround window. Common turnaround times range from one to three business days per asset. You can request revisions until the piece is right, then move to the next item in your queue. What this means in practice is that you can keep a steady pipeline of work moving without bottlenecks. One week you might need a sermon series key art. The next week you need four Instagram posts and a volunteer recruitment flyer. The month after that, you are building graphics for a stewardship campaign. A subscription handles all of it under one predictable cost. Where the Model Works Well for Churches A design subscription tends to deliver strong value when a few conditions are true for your church. You have consistent, recurring design needs. If you are publishing social content weekly, running sermon series every six to eight weeks, and promoting events year-round, you will keep a subscription busy. Your current setup is costing you hidden time. Volunteers burning out, staff spending hours in Canva, or projects sitting unfinished all carry real costs even if they do not show up as a line item. You value brand consistency. A dedicated team that learns your brand will produce more consistent work over time than rotating freelancers or volunteer designers. Your design spending is unpredictable. If you are cobbling together freelance invoices that vary wildly month to month, a flat rate simplifies your budget significantly. Where It May Not Be the Right Fit Subscriptions are not the right tool for every situation. Be honest with yourself here. If your church only needs a handful of designs per month, you may not generate enough requests to justify the cost. A one-time freelancer or a good template library might serve you better. If you need highly specialized work, like custom illustration or complex motion graphics, confirm that the service covers those before signing up. If your team struggles to write clear creative briefs, the process will slow down. The quality of your output is directly tied to the clarity of your input. A Practical Checklist Before You Subscribe Run through these questions before committing to any design subscription service. List every recurring design need your church has each month. Count the actual number of assets. Calculate what you currently spend on design, including volunteer hours valued at a realistic rate. Identify the three to five projects from the past year where slow or poor design cost you momentum. Check whether the service has experience with churches specifically. Terminology, theology, and church culture matter in design. Review sample work relevant to your needs, such as sermon series graphics or social media content. Confirm turnaround times, revision policies, and what happens during busy seasons like Easter or Christmas. Ask whether you can see real work from real clients before committing. A portfolio review tells you more than a sales page. What to Look for in a Church-Focused Service Generic design subscriptions can produce clean work, but church communications have a specific vocabulary and visual culture. Designers who have worked inside a church understand the difference between a series graphic that feels genuinely worshipful and one that just looks like a corporate keynote slide. They know what a connection card is, how a bulletin flows, and why your Easter campaign cannot look identical to last year's. Services like PixelPainters are built specifically for churches and ministries. The team includes designers with hands-on church staff experience, which shortens the feedback loop and reduces the back-and-forth that happens when a designer does not understand church context. With a 4.9 average rating across more than 7,600 project reviews and typical turnaround of two to three business days, it is a model built around the reality of weekly ministry demands. The Bottom Line A graphic design subscription is worth it when your volume of needs is consistent, your current approach is draining time or money, and you find a service that genuinely understands church culture. It is not a magic solution, but for many church communications teams, it removes one of the most persistent sources of friction in weekly ministry work. If you are trying to decide whether a subscription makes sense for your church's size and budget, PixelPainters offers a free consultation and transparent flat-rate pricing starting at $490 per month. You can review the plans and get started without any pressure to commit on the spot. Start with an honest audit of your current design workload, and the answer will usually become clear. --- ### Christmas Church Promo Graphics: A Timeline https://pixelpainters.com/resources/christmas-church-promo-graphics-timeline A practical week-by-week timeline to help church communicators plan, create, and deploy all the Christmas graphics they need without scrambling at the last minute. Christmas is the single most attended season for most churches, which means it is also the most demanding season for whoever handles communications. Sermon series art, event flyers, social posts, welcome slides, outdoor banners, bulletin covers, countdown videos, and more all need to come together in a few short weeks. Without a clear plan, it becomes a frantic rush that produces inconsistent work and exhausted volunteers. This timeline is designed to help you work backward from Christmas Eve so every piece is ready when you need it, without heroic last-minute efforts. Why the Timeline Matters More Than the Tools Most church communicators already know what assets they need. What trips them up is sequencing. A social post can be designed in a day, but an outdoor banner needs print lead time. A sermon series graphic shapes everything else, so it has to come first. Getting the order right saves rework and keeps your theme consistent across every touchpoint. The Christmas Graphics Timeline The dates below assume a Christmas Eve service. Adjust each window proportionally if your church starts earlier or finishes with a different final service date. 10-12 Weeks Out (Early to Mid-October) Finalize your Christmas series title, scripture anchor, and one-sentence creative direction. Decide on a color palette and visual direction before any design work begins. List every asset you will need so nothing gets forgotten later (see the checklist below). If you are using an outside designer or service, brief them now. Complex series artwork can take multiple revision rounds. 8-10 Weeks Out (Late October) Series key art should be approved and locked. Everything else builds from this file. Order any printed pieces with long lead times: outdoor banners, yard signs, large-format posters. Draft social media copy for the first wave of posts so design and copy move together. 6-8 Weeks Out (Early November) Complete digital ad graphics for Facebook, Instagram, and any paid promotion. Deliver bulletin covers and print-ready files to your printer with enough buffer for proofing. Build out social media templates so your team can swap text without redesigning each week. This is also a good moment to review your sermon series graphics workflow if you are managing multiple series or campuses heading into the new year. Getting a repeatable system in place before the holiday rush pays dividends in January. 4-6 Weeks Out (Mid-November) Finalize all in-service slides: welcome, announcements, countdown, and lower thirds. Deliver any video motion graphics or countdown loops to your media team for testing. Prepare Christmas Eve-specific assets separately from regular service materials to avoid confusion on the day. 2-4 Weeks Out (Early December) Schedule all social media posts in your publishing tool so your team is not posting manually during the busiest season. Send email graphics and header images to your communications team. Do one final consistency check: do all assets share the same fonts, palette, and series logo treatment? 1-2 Weeks Out (Mid-December) Hold this window for revisions and anything that slipped through earlier. Prepare a simple folder structure so media volunteers can find files quickly on Christmas Eve morning. The Christmas Asset Checklist Use this list at the 10-12 week mark to scope your full project before design begins. Series key art (print and digital versions) Outdoor banner and yard sign files Bulletin cover and interior graphics Social media post templates (square, story, and landscape) Facebook and Instagram ad graphics Email header image In-service slides (welcome, countdown, announcement, sermon title) Video countdown loop or motion graphic Website event banner or homepage graphic Christmas Eve-specific welcome and closing slides What to Do When You Are Behind If you are reading this in late November, do not try to catch up on everything at once. Triage by lead time first. Print assets need to move immediately. Digital assets are more forgiving because you can turn them around in days rather than weeks. Cut any asset that is nice to have rather than essential, and protect the pieces your congregation will actually see: the series art, the in-service slides, and the Christmas Eve materials. If your current design resources cannot keep pace, a quick consultation can help you figure out what is realistic and where outside help makes the most sense. Keeping It Consistent Across Every Piece Consistency is what makes a seasonal campaign feel intentional rather than assembled. Build one master brand sheet for your Christmas series (fonts, hex codes, logo file, and key art) and share it with every person touching the project. When everyone works from the same source file, your social posts, slides, and printed materials look like they belong together even if multiple people created them. If you want a team of Christian designers who understand church communications and can turn around assets in 2-3 business days, PixelPainters offers flat-rate unlimited design subscriptions built specifically for churches and ministries. Having a dedicated design team on call from October through December is one of the simplest ways to protect your staff from the annual holiday crunch while keeping quality high across every asset your congregation sees. --- ### Church Slide Design: 10 Rules for Readability https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-slide-design-rules-readability Poor slide design quietly undermines your Sunday morning message. These 10 practical rules will help your congregation read every word, follow every point, and stay engaged from the first song to the final amen. You spend hours preparing a sermon or selecting worship songs. Then the slides go up and half the room is squinting. Readability problems are common in church slides, and they are almost always fixable. Whether you are building slides yourself in ProPresenter, PowerPoint, or Google Slides, these rules will make an immediate difference. Why Readability Matters More Than Aesthetics A beautiful slide that nobody can read is worse than a plain one. When text is hard to read, people disengage. They miss lyrics, lose the scripture reference, or give up following the sermon outline entirely. Readability is not a design luxury. It is a communication essential. The 10 Rules 1. Keep Font Size Large Enough to Scan Instantly For body text on a standard 16:9 slide, use a minimum of 36pt for lyrics and scripture. Sermon point text can drop to 28pt if the words are few. If someone sitting in the back row needs more than two seconds to read a line, the font is too small. 2. Limit Yourself to Two Fonts Per Slide Deck Pick one clean sans-serif for body text and one display font for headings or titles. Mixing three or more fonts creates visual noise and makes every slide feel like a different design. Consistency builds trust and lets the content breathe. 3. Use High Contrast Between Text and Background White or light yellow text on a dark background is the most reliable combination for sanctuary environments. Avoid grey on white, dark navy on black, or any pairing where the text and background are within the same tonal range. If you have to look twice, contrast is too low. 4. Never Put Text Directly Over a Busy Image If you are using a photo background, add a dark overlay at 50 to 70 percent opacity before placing text on top. Alternatively, blur the image slightly or use a solid color bar behind the text. The image should support the message, not compete with it. 5. Limit Words Per Slide A good rule of thumb: no more than two lines of lyrics per slide, and no more than one sermon point per slide. Crowded slides force the congregation to read instead of listen. When in doubt, split the content across two slides. 6. Leave Breathing Room Around Text Margins matter. Keep text at least 80 to 100 pixels away from every edge of the slide. Text that runs to the edge feels cramped and is harder to read on curved or older projection screens where edges can blur. 7. Align Text Consistently Center alignment works well for worship lyrics. Left alignment is generally better for sermon notes and scripture references because it follows natural reading patterns. Avoid justified text on slides. It creates uneven spacing and broken rhythm between words. 8. Watch Your Line Length Long lines of text that stretch edge to edge are exhausting to read. Aim for 40 to 60 characters per line on most slides. If a lyric or scripture verse is long, break it intentionally at a natural phrase boundary rather than letting the software wrap it automatically. 9. Test Slides From the Back of the Room Before Sunday, walk to the last row of your sanctuary and view the slides at actual size on the actual screen. What looks fine on your laptop monitor can be illegible at projection distance. This single habit will catch more problems than any design rule. 10. Build a Master Slide Template and Use It Every Week Consistency reduces cognitive load for your congregation. When slides follow a predictable format, people spend less mental energy orienting themselves and more energy engaging with the content. A locked template also protects against well-meaning volunteers making last-minute changes that break readability. If you need help creating a polished, on-brand template, the team at PixelPainters' church sermon series graphics service can build one designed specifically for your ministry context. Quick Readability Checklist for Sunday Slides Run through this before every service: Body text is 36pt or larger Only two fonts are used across the entire deck Text and background have strong contrast No text sits directly on a busy, unmodified photo Each slide contains one idea or two lines of lyrics maximum Margins are consistent and text does not crowd the edges Alignment is uniform throughout the deck Line breaks fall at natural phrase boundaries Slides have been reviewed from the back of the room The master template was used as the starting point When DIY Hits Its Limit Most church communications teams are small, and slides are only one item on a long list that also includes bulletins, social graphics, event flyers, and sermon series artwork. If your team is stretched and the quality of your visual communication is suffering, it may be worth exploring a more sustainable system. You can schedule a free consultation to talk through what a flat-rate design subscription could look like for your church, or browse real project examples to see the kind of work that goes out the door for ministries like yours. PixelPainters works exclusively with churches and ministries, so the designers already understand the rhythms of church life, the weight of Sunday deadlines, and what it means to serve a congregation well through every visual detail. --- ### Church Website Updates: What to Improve First https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-website-updates-what-to-improve Your church website is often the first impression a visitor gets. This practical guide helps communications directors and ministry leaders prioritize the updates that matter most, without wasting time or budget. Most church websites were built with good intentions and not enough time. A volunteer set it up years ago, a few pages got added along the way, and now it is a patchwork of outdated announcements, broken links, and a staff photo from 2019. Sound familiar? You are not alone, and the good news is that you do not need to rebuild everything from scratch. You just need to know where to start. Start With the Pages Visitors Actually Land On Before you touch anything else, open your website analytics and look at your top five most-visited pages. For most churches, those will be the homepage, the "Plan Your Visit" or "I'm New" page, the service times page, and occasionally a sermon archive or events calendar. These are your priority pages because they are doing the heaviest lifting for first-time guests. Ask yourself these questions about each of those pages: Is the information current and accurate? Can someone find your service times in under ten seconds? Does the page load quickly on a mobile phone? Is there a clear next step for someone who has never visited before? If any of those answers are no, that is where you begin. Fix the basics before you invest in anything decorative. The Four Updates That Make the Biggest Difference 1. Clarify Your Homepage Message Your homepage should answer three questions within the first few seconds: Who are you, where are you located, and what should a new visitor do next? Many church homepages bury this information under rotating banner slides, event announcements, and stock photography. Simplify the hero section. Put your church name, city, and service times front and center. Add one clear button, something like "Plan Your Visit" or "I'm New Here," and link it to a page that actually helps someone feel welcome. 2. Update Your Staff and Leadership Page People want to know who they are walking in to meet. A staff page with outdated photos or missing team members sends a quiet but real message about how current the rest of your site is. Refresh the photos, update the bios, and make sure everyone who is currently on staff is actually listed. This is also a great moment to humanize your team with a short sentence about each person beyond their title. 3. Make Your Sermon Content Easy to Find Sermon content is one of the most-searched items on church websites, especially for people checking out your church before they visit. If your sermons are buried three clicks deep or your archive has not been updated in months, you are losing a meaningful connection point. Whether you use a dedicated sermon page or embed from a platform like YouTube or Vimeo, make it accessible from your main navigation. If you also want your sermon content working for you on social media, it is worth looking at how sermon reels and shorts can extend your reach without adding more to your plate. 4. Fix Broken Links and Remove Outdated Events This one takes an afternoon, not a redesign. Use a free tool like Broken Link Checker or simply click through your site page by page and note anything that is outdated or broken. Old event registrations that are no longer active, ministry pages for programs you no longer run, and links to external sites that have changed are all quiet credibility killers. Clean them up before doing anything else. A Simple Website Audit Checklist Use this checklist to do a focused audit in one sitting. You do not need a web developer for most of these items. Confirm service times and location are visible on the homepage without scrolling Check that your "Plan Your Visit" or visitor page is linked from the main navigation Review your staff page and update any outdated photos or missing team members Confirm your most recent sermon is posted and the archive is accessible Click every button and link on your top five pages and note anything broken Open your homepage on a mobile phone and evaluate the experience honestly Remove or archive any events or announcements older than 30 days Check that your contact form or email address actually works by sending a test message Where Graphics Fit Into Website Updates Once the structural and content issues are resolved, visual consistency becomes the next opportunity. Mismatched fonts, low-quality images, and graphics that were clearly made in a hurry can undermine an otherwise solid site. If your team is stretched thin on design, a service like what PixelPainters produces for churches can give you a sense of what consistent, professional church graphics look like in practice. Having a steady source for sermon series artwork, event graphics, and ministry visuals means your site stays current without putting that burden on a volunteer. Keep It Maintained, Not Just Updated A website audit should not be a once-a-year panic. Build a simple monthly habit: check your top pages, update your events, and post your latest sermon. Assign one person to own it, even if that person only has a few hours a month. Consistency over time matters far more than a big redesign every few years. If your church is ready to take the visual side of communications more seriously without hiring a full-time designer, a free consultation with PixelPainters is a no-pressure way to explore what ongoing design support could look like for your specific situation. The goal is always to make your team's work lighter, not to add another vendor to manage. --- ### How to Keep Ministry Graphics Consistent Across Campuses https://pixelpainters.com/resources/ministry-graphics-consistent-across-campuses Managing graphics across multiple campuses does not have to mean constant confusion or mismatched branding. Here is a practical framework to help your ministry look unified everywhere people encounter it. When a church grows to two or three campuses, something almost always breaks down in the communications department. The main campus has one version of the sermon series graphic. The north campus printed a slightly different color. The east campus volunteer made their own version because they could not find the file. Three weeks later, your congregation is looking at three variations of the same message, and none of them feel quite right. This is not a failure of effort. It is usually a failure of systems. The good news is that the fix is simpler than it looks, and you do not need a large budget or a full-time design staff to make it happen. Start with a Centralized Brand Guide Before you can expect consistency across campuses, every person touching your graphics needs to know what "on brand" actually means for your church. A brand guide does not have to be a 40-page document. For most churches in the 100-1000 range, a single well-organized page covers the basics. Your brand guide should include: Your official logo files in PNG and SVG formats, with clear rules about spacing and backgrounds Your primary and secondary color palette with exact hex codes The fonts you use for headings and body text, and where to download them A short list of what not to do, like stretching the logo or using unapproved color combinations Keep this document in a shared folder that every campus communicator can access. Google Drive or Dropbox both work fine. The goal is that no one should ever have to guess. Build a Shared Asset Library A brand guide tells people what to do. An asset library gives them the tools to do it. Once you finish a sermon series graphic or an event banner, the original files should live in one place that all campuses can pull from, not sitting in someone's personal downloads folder. Organize your library by category: sermon series, events, social media templates, bulletin covers, and so on. When a new graphic is completed, one person is responsible for uploading it to the shared folder immediately. That step prevents the "I thought you had the file" problem that derails a lot of multi-campus teams. Editable Templates vs. Final Files Consider keeping two versions of key graphics. One is the locked final file ready to use as-is. The other is an editable template, often a Canva file or a layered Photoshop document, that campus teams can update with their own service times or location-specific details. This gives local teams flexibility without opening the door to full redesigns. Establish a Clear Request and Approval Workflow Consistency breaks down when every campus is making its own design decisions independently. You do not need to centralize all creativity, but you do need a clear process for who requests graphics, who creates them, and who approves them before they go public. A simple workflow looks like this: Campus communicator submits a request using a shared form or project management tool The central communications team or your design partner creates the graphic The requesting campus reviews and approves it The final file is uploaded to the shared asset library All campuses are notified that the asset is available If your team is stretched thin and you are producing graphics for multiple campuses every week, it may be worth looking at a dedicated design partner. Church sermon series graphics in particular tend to multiply fast across print, digital, and social formats, and keeping all those variations consistent is a real workload. Services like PixelPainters' PRO plan are built specifically for multi-campus needs, with unlimited requests, fast turnaround, and designers who already understand church ministry rhythms. Multi-Campus Consistency Checklist Use this checklist when launching a new sermon series or event campaign: Brand guide is updated and accessible to all campus teams All logo and font files are in the shared library Master graphic is created and approved by lead communications staff Campus-specific editable templates are prepared with correct service times and locations All final and editable files are uploaded to the shared folder before the launch date All campus communicators are notified and confirm they have the files Social media versions are sized and labeled for each platform Print files are confirmed at correct resolution before sending to the printer Do Not Skip the Communication Step Even the best system falls apart if people do not know the assets are ready. A simple weekly email or a pinned message in a group chat that says "this week's files are in the folder" takes two minutes and prevents a lot of confusion. Consistency is as much about communication habits as it is about design processes. If your church is ready to take the pressure off your internal team and get professionally designed, brand-consistent graphics on a reliable schedule, see examples of what a dedicated church design partner can produce. Building the right systems now means your ministry can grow without your communications quality falling behind. --- ### Sermon Reels and Shorts: What Actually Performs https://pixelpainters.com/resources/sermon-reels-shorts-what-performs Short-form sermon video is one of the highest-return content formats a church can produce, but only when you know what to clip, how to frame it, and what to put around it. Here is a practical guide to making your sermon reels actually work. Your pastor delivers a powerful moment on Sunday morning. Forty-eight hours later it is buried in a full-length YouTube upload that maybe a few hundred people will watch start to finish. Meanwhile, a 60-second clip of that same moment, formatted correctly for Reels or Shorts, could reach thousands of people who have never heard of your church. The gap between those two outcomes is almost never about the quality of the preaching. It is about the packaging. Why Short-Form Sermon Clips Work Differently Than You Think Most church teams approach sermon clips as a highlight reel. Cut the funniest line, the loudest moment, or the most quotable sentence and post it. That approach gets views occasionally, but it rarely builds consistent reach or leads new people toward your church. What actually performs is a clip that does three things at once: it creates curiosity, it delivers a complete thought, and it makes the viewer feel something they want to feel again. Those three things are not always found in the loudest moment of a sermon. They are often found in a quieter, more personal beat where the pastor speaks directly to a struggle that a lot of people carry. Choosing the Right Clip When you review the full sermon recording, look for moments that check most of these boxes: The pastor is speaking to a specific person or situation, not making a broad doctrinal statement The point is self-contained and does not require the surrounding sermon to make sense There is an emotional arc, even a small one, within 45 to 90 seconds The moment invites a follow-up question in the viewer's mind Body language and energy are natural and not distracted by stage movement or slide changes A moment where someone in the congregation is visibly moved can work well if your camera captured it cleanly. But do not force it. Authenticity reads on a small screen and so does its absence. Formatting for the Platform Vertical First Reels and Shorts are vertical formats. If your worship team films in landscape only, your clips will have black bars on the sides unless you reframe. Budget for a dedicated vertical camera or use your editing software to reframe the speaker in the center of a 9:16 crop. It takes a few extra minutes but it changes how the clip feels to a mobile viewer. Captions Are Not Optional A significant portion of short-form video is watched without sound, especially in public spaces. Auto-captions on Instagram and YouTube are a start, but they introduce errors that can undermine a theological point or just look sloppy. Spend ten minutes cleaning captions before you post. Styled, on-brand captions also improve accessibility and tend to increase watch time. The First Three Seconds Algorithms reward clips that hold viewers past the three-second mark. That means your clip cannot open with a church logo bumper, a slide of the sermon title, or a wide shot of the stage. Start on the pastor's face or on a compelling line of dialogue. You can add your branding at the end or in the caption. What to Put Around the Clip The visual packaging around the clip matters more than most church teams realize. A thumbnail that looks pixelated or generic signals low production value before anyone presses play. A consistent visual identity across your clips builds recognition over time so that a regular viewer starts to recognize your church's content in their feed before they even read the handle. If your team is already stretched thin handling weekly bulletins and series graphics, adding polished reel covers and caption graphics to the workload can feel impossible. That is exactly the kind of recurring visual need that a subscription design service handles well. Our sermon reels and shorts service at PixelPainters is built specifically for this workflow, with designers who understand church communication calendars and can turn around graphics in two to three business days. A Practical Weekly Clip Checklist Review the sermon recording by Monday afternoon and mark two or three candidate moments Choose the strongest clip based on the criteria above, target 45 to 75 seconds Reframe to 9:16 vertical if needed Clean auto-captions and apply brand styling Create or request a thumbnail and cover graphic that matches your current series look Write a caption that asks a question or names the struggle the clip addresses Post to Reels and Shorts separately, each with native upload rather than cross-posting links Reply to comments within the first two hours after posting Consistency Beats Virality Churches that see real growth from short-form video are almost never the ones chasing a single viral moment. They are the ones posting one solid clip every week for a year. The compound effect of showing up consistently in someone's feed, offering something genuinely helpful, and pointing back to a warm and welcoming church community is what moves a casual viewer toward a first visit. You do not need a full production team or a broadcast budget to make this work. You need a clear process, clean visuals, and the discipline to execute it week after week. If the design side of that process is where things stall, schedule a free consultation to see whether a flat-rate design subscription makes sense for your church's workflow and budget. Many teams find that removing the design bottleneck is what finally makes the rest of the process sustainable. --- ### Sermon Series Graphics: A Planning Checklist for Comms Teams https://pixelpainters.com/resources/sermon-series-graphics-planning-checklist A practical, step-by-step planning guide to help church communications teams produce sermon series graphics on time, on brand, and without the last-minute scramble. Sermon series graphics touch nearly every corner of your church's communication, from the weekend bulletin to the lobby screen to Instagram. When they come together well, they create a cohesive experience that helps people engage with the message before they even sit down on Sunday. When they fall apart, they create extra stress for an already stretched team. This checklist is designed to help you get ahead of the chaos, whether you are managing graphics in-house, working with volunteers, or partnering with a design service. Walk through it before your next series kicks off and adjust it to fit your church's rhythm. Start With the Big Picture (6-8 Weeks Out) Good design starts with good information. Before any creative work begins, your team needs clarity on the series itself. The earlier you can gather this, the better your final graphics will be. Confirm the series title, subtitle, and any Scripture references the pastor wants featured Get a rough outline of the number of weeks and individual sermon titles if they are available Identify the tone and theme - is this series heavy and reflective, hopeful and uplifting, or practical and everyday? Collect any creative direction the pastor or teaching team already has in mind (colors, imagery, words that come to mind) Decide who owns the design process - a staff member, a volunteer, or an outside design partner This intake step is the one most teams skip, and it is the one that causes the most revisions later. A 20-minute conversation with your pastor at this stage can save hours down the road. Define Every Graphic You Actually Need One of the most common mistakes in sermon series planning is underestimating how many distinct graphic assets the series requires. A single series can easily need 15 to 20 individual files across different formats and channels. Common asset categories to plan for: Print and in-person: bulletin cover, sermon notes header, connection card graphic, signage for lobby displays Digital screens: announcement loop slides (landscape), countdown screen, title slide for livestream Social media: series launch post, weekly sermon quote graphics, Instagram Stories, Facebook event cover Web: series banner for your website or sermon archive page Video: title card or lower-third for sermon recordings, thumbnail for YouTube Write out every asset your church actually uses. Then prioritize ruthlessly. If your church barely uses Twitter, drop it from the list. If your lobby screens are the first thing guests see, put those near the top. If you want to see examples of how other churches handle this scope of work, the PixelPainters portfolio shows a range of series graphic packages across different church sizes and styles. Build a Realistic Timeline Working backward from your series launch date is the most effective way to keep everything on track. Here is a sample timeline for a series launching on a Sunday. 6-8 weeks out: Series creative brief finalized, design work assigned or requested 4-5 weeks out: First design concepts reviewed and feedback given 3 weeks out: Approved master graphic delivered, all asset sizes in production 2 weeks out: All print files sent to printer or service bureau 1 week out: Digital assets loaded into planning software (Planning Center, ProPresenter, etc.), social posts scheduled Launch Sunday: Everything is already done. Your job today is ministry, not troubleshooting files. If your design process runs through a service like PixelPainters' sermon series graphics workflow, factor in their standard turnaround time when placing your initial request. Building in a buffer of a few extra days is always worth it. Get Approvals Early and In Writing Approval bottlenecks are one of the top reasons graphics get finished late. Establish a clear review process before the series even begins. Identify who has final approval authority - usually the lead pastor or executive pastor Set a hard deadline for feedback, not just a soft request Use a simple shared document or project management tool to log revision notes rather than sorting through email threads Limit revision rounds by front-loading the creative brief with enough detail Prepare Your Files for Reuse Once your series graphics are complete, take 30 minutes to organize and archive them properly. Store layered files, not just flattened exports. Label folders clearly by series name and year. This makes it much easier to repurpose elements for future series or pull assets if the series runs again. A Note for Teams That Are Stretched Thin If this checklist feels like more than your current capacity can handle, that is a completely normal place to be. Many church comms teams are running on limited hours, volunteer help, and tools that were not really built for this kind of output. A flat-rate design subscription can absorb a significant portion of this workload without requiring you to hire a full-time designer. If that is something worth exploring for your team, a free consultation is a low-pressure way to see whether it fits your church's size and budget. Whatever tools or team you have right now, the goal of this checklist is simple: help your church walk into Sunday morning with graphics that are ready, consistent, and one less thing to worry about. --- ### How to Write a Great Design Request Brief (with examples) https://pixelpainters.com/resources/write-great-design-request-brief A clear design brief saves time, reduces revisions, and gets you graphics you actually love. Here is exactly what to include, with real examples for church teams. If you have ever sent a design request and received something that missed the mark, the brief is usually where things went sideways. Not because anyone did anything wrong, but because design without context is guesswork. A good brief removes the guesswork and gives your designer everything they need to serve you well on the first attempt. This guide walks you through what belongs in a great brief, with practical examples written for church communications teams. Why a Brief Matters More Than You Think Church staff are busy. You may be juggling Sunday announcements, a sermon series launch, volunteer coordination, and a dozen other things. Writing a detailed brief feels like extra work, but it actually saves time. A vague request leads to revision rounds. A clear brief gets you closer to done on day one. Think of the brief as a conversation in writing. You are giving your designer the context they need to make good creative decisions on your behalf. The Seven Elements of a Strong Design Brief 1. Project Name and Type Start with a simple label so everyone knows what they are working on. Include the format you need, such as a sermon series graphic, a social post, a bulletin cover, or an event flyer. Example: "Easter Sunday bulletin cover, 8.5x11 print-ready PDF" 2. Purpose and Audience Who will see this, and what do you want them to do or feel? A graphic for a women's Bible study and a graphic for a men's retreat serve different audiences and should feel different visually. Example: "This is for our church lobby display and Instagram feed. We want first-time guests to feel welcome and curious, not overwhelmed." 3. Key Text and Copy List every word that must appear in the design. Do not leave your designer to guess the sermon title, the date, the speaker name, or the event details. Spelling errors in the brief become spelling errors in the design. Example: "Series title: Firm Foundation. Week 3 of 6. Speaker: Pastor James Okafor. Sunday, September 14, 10am and 12pm." 4. Visual Direction Describe the look and feel you want, or share reference images. You do not need design vocabulary. Words like warm, modern, bold, peaceful, earthy, or clean go a long way. If you have found something you like online, drop in a link or attach a screenshot. Example: "We are thinking stone textures, muted earth tones, and clean sans-serif fonts. Nothing too trendy. Something that could work for all ages." 5. Brand Guidelines or Assets Include your logo file, brand colors (hex codes if you have them), and any fonts you use regularly. If you do not have a formal brand guide, a past design you loved works as a reference point. Consistent branding builds trust with your congregation over time. If you want to learn more about building that consistency, our portfolio of church projects shows how a unified look develops across a full season of graphics. 6. Deliverable Specs Tell your designer exactly what file formats and sizes you need. Print and digital have different requirements, and a graphic sized for Instagram Stories will not work for a horizontal stage screen without adjustment. Example: "We need a 1080x1080 social post, a 1920x1080 slide for our screens, and a print-ready 4x6 postcard at 300dpi." 7. Deadline Give the real deadline, not a padded one. If you are working with a service that offers 2-3 business day turnaround, count backward from your Sunday and submit accordingly. If you have a hard print deadline with a vendor, say so clearly. A Reusable Brief Checklist Project name and file format Purpose of the piece and who will see it All required text, proofread before submitting Visual direction or reference images Logo, brand colors, and fonts Exact sizes and file formats needed Real deadline, including any print vendor cutoffs Common Mistakes to Avoid Sending a brief with only a title and a vague description like "something that looks Easter-y" puts the full creative burden on your designer without the information they need. Similarly, sending copy that has not been proofread means corrections come later and slow everything down. Avoid submitting low-resolution logos or telling your designer to "pull it from the website." Export a clean file before you submit. If you are producing sermon series graphics across multiple weeks, submit all the series details at once when possible. It gives your designer a complete picture and keeps the visual family consistent from week one to the finale. How This Works in Practice A well-written brief does not need to be long. Two or three focused paragraphs, a copy block, and a list of specs is often enough. The goal is clarity, not length. Many church communications directors find it helpful to build a simple template they reuse each week, filling in the project-specific details each time. At PixelPainters, every project submission goes through a structured intake process that walks you through exactly these details. The team includes designers with church staff backgrounds, so they understand the language of ministry and the pace of church life. If you are not sure whether a subscription model makes sense for your church's volume of design work, a free consultation is a good place to start the conversation without any pressure. Good design starts with good communication. Write the brief you would want to receive, and you will almost always get the design you were hoping for. --- ### Church Welcome Series Graphics: First Impressions That Stick https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-welcome-series-graphics-first-impressions A strong welcome series sets the tone for how new guests experience your church. Here is how to plan the graphics that make those first weeks count. Someone visits your church for the first time on a Sunday morning. They walk in a little unsure, scan the room, pick up a bulletin, and glance at the screens. In those first few minutes, your visual communication is already speaking. The question is whether it is saying what you want it to say. A welcome series, typically a four to six week teaching arc designed for new and returning guests, is one of the most important things your church produces each year. The graphics that support it deserve real thought and real investment. This guide walks you through exactly how to approach them. Why Welcome Series Graphics Are Different Most sermon series graphics serve people who already know your church. Welcome series graphics serve people who are still deciding whether to come back. That changes what good design actually means here. Your visuals need to do three things at once: Feel welcoming and human, not slick or corporate Reflect your church's actual culture and personality Work across every touchpoint a new guest might encounter That last point is where most churches underplan. A great title slide for the screen does not automatically translate into a useful social graphic, a mailer, or a slide your small group leader can drop into a group chat. Think in systems, not individual pieces. The Touchpoints to Plan For Before you brief a designer or open Canva, map out every place a guest might see your welcome series branding. A realistic list looks something like this: Sunday morning screen graphics, title slide, lower thirds, and announcement loops Printed bulletin insert or handout Social media posts for each week of the series Story-sized graphics for Instagram and Facebook A web banner or homepage graphic Email header image for your new guest follow-up sequence Digital invite card guests can text or share You do not have to use every one of these. But deciding intentionally which ones matter for your context is much better than scrambling to adapt your title slide into twelve other formats after the fact. Design Principles That Actually Work Lead with warmth, not complexity Resist the temptation to make the welcome series your most visually ambitious project of the year. New guests are not looking for impressive. They are looking for clear and approachable. A clean design with a warm color palette and readable typography will serve you better than something highly detailed or abstract. Ground it in real language The series title and any tagline should sound like something a real person would say. Avoid insider church vocabulary. If the graphic says something a curious unchurched neighbor could understand and feel curious about, you are on the right track. If it requires explanation, revise it. Build in flexibility Plan for week-by-week variations from the start. Each message in the series will have its own title. Make sure your design system has a clear, easy-to-update spot for that text. If you are working with a designer, ask for editable layered files or a template version so your team can make small weekly updates without starting over. If you want to see how this applies to ongoing series work, our sermon series graphics page walks through the process in more detail. Consider the context A graphic that looks great on a 4K screen in a 500-seat auditorium may look muddy as a 1080-pixel social post thumbnail. Design with the smallest use case in mind and scale up, not the other way around. A Practical Planning Timeline Use this as a starting point and adjust for how your church works: Six weeks before launch: Confirm the series title, message titles, and key dates. Define your touchpoint list. Five weeks before launch: Share the creative brief with your designer, including color preferences, tone, and any existing brand guidelines. Three to four weeks before launch: Review initial concepts and request revisions. Get stakeholder sign-off on the direction. Two weeks before launch: Finalize all master graphics. Begin adapting into format-specific versions. One week before launch: Load screen graphics, schedule social posts, send graphics to campus or ministry leads if applicable. During the series: Release weekly social content on schedule. Monitor for any graphics that need updates. If your team is stretched thin, a service like PixelPainters can handle the full graphic load for a flat monthly rate. With typical turnaround of two to three business days and designers who understand how churches actually operate, it is worth considering if producing this in-house is eating more time than it is worth. What to Hand Off to a Designer Clear briefs produce better results, faster. When you bring in a designer, give them: The series title and a one or two sentence description of the theme Your complete list of needed formats and sizes Your brand colors and fonts, or a link to existing examples you like Two or three reference images showing the visual tone you are going for The launch date and any hard deadlines within the series The more specific you are upfront, the fewer revision rounds you will need. That saves time for everyone. Making It Last Beyond the Series A well-designed welcome series graphic system does not have to disappear after six weeks. The color palette and visual style you land on can inform your new guest follow-up emails, your connection card design, and your first-time visitor page on your website for months afterward. Think of it as a foundation, not a one-time project. If your church is ready to put real intention behind your visual first impression, explore PixelPainters' plans to see how an unlimited design subscription might fit your workflow and budget. Unlimited requests and revisions, flat pricing, and a team that has worked with church communications from the inside makes it easier to stay consistent without burning out your staff or volunteers. --- ### Church Media Squad Alternatives: Fully Custom Design for Less https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-media-squad-alternatives If Church Media Squad's pricing no longer fits your ministry budget, there are solid alternatives worth knowing. Here is an honest, side-by-side look at what your options actually include. Church Media Squad has built a real reputation in the church communications world. They understand ministry, their work is polished, and their team knows the language of the local church. If you are using them right now and getting good results, that matters. But pricing deserves a look. As of October 2026, Church Media Squad's plans run from $797 to $3,497 per month on a 12-month agreement, their standard published rate, with month-to-month available at a higher monthly rate. The entry Graphics plan covers design, higher tiers add video, and the All-In plans bundle branding, website support, and sermon-driven social media. For a church of 200 or 400 people running lean on a communications budget, those numbers deserve a second look. This article is not about talking you out of anything. It is about giving you a clear picture so you can decide what actually fits your ministry. What Changed in October 2026 Church Media Squad updated its plans this fall, and three changes are worth knowing about if you are a current member or weighing them against other options. All three come from their own pricing, FAQ, and Fair Use pages. A 12-month agreement is now the standard rate. You can cancel in the first 60 days and owe nothing. After that, leaving early costs half of the remaining months, up to three, and pausing is not available during the term. Monthly counts start as early as January 2027. Each church's start date is in its notice email. The Graphics plan includes 5 graphics a month, Graphics + Video includes 5 graphics and 2 videos, All-In includes 10 and 2, and All-In Premium includes 15 and 2. A sermon series counts as one graphic with all of its sizes, slides, and print pieces. Past your number, an extra graphic is $397 and an extra video is $997, or you can move up a plan. Active-project limits stay in place. Graphics runs 7 projects in production at a time, Graphics + Video runs 12, and the All-In plans run 15. A project counts as active until it is closed, including while it waits on your feedback. None of that makes them a bad choice. It does change the math for churches that send a lot of requests or want to stay month to month. What Church Media Squad Does Well Before comparing options, it is worth being honest about what Church Media Squad brings to the table. They focus on churches and ministries, so their designers understand sermon series, event graphics, and ministry branding. Your whole team can submit with no per-seat charge, and revisions continue until the work is right. Their All-In plans bundle branding, website support, and sermon-driven social media, and All-In Premium adds a full website build with hosting. Editable source files are included, and the work stays yours whether or not you remain a member. They have been around long enough to have a track record and a support process. If your church has a larger communications budget and wants a one-stop shop for graphics, video, and web, Church Media Squad can deliver that. The question is whether the pricing makes sense for where your church is right now. Where the Budget Gap Becomes Real At $797 per month, a church communications budget takes a meaningful hit. Over twelve months, that is roughly $9,564 per year on design alone, and on their standard 12-month agreement it is a year-long commitment. For many churches in the 100 to 1,000 attendance range, that approaches or exceeds what a part-time communications staff position might cost. One more factor worth weighing across this whole category is templates versus custom work. Some design services in the church space lean on pre-designed template libraries that you adapt to your branding. That is faster to produce, but it can mean your church's visual identity looks similar to other churches drawing from the same library. Custom design, built specifically around your church's brand and season, tends to hold up better over time and communicate more distinctly. Wherever you land, ask any service you evaluate how much of their work is built from scratch for you. Custom Design Subscriptions as an Alternative The subscription design model has matured enough that you can now get fully custom, done-for-you graphics at a meaningfully lower price than Church Media Squad's entry level. PixelPainters offers unlimited custom graphic design starting at $490 per month for the Unlimited Graphics plan, or $590 per month for the PRO plan, which adds unlimited sermon bumper videos, book and booklet design, source file access, and multi-campus support. Both plans include unlimited requests, unlimited revisions, no monthly count, no cap on open projects, and a typical turnaround of two to three business days, month to month with no contract. All work is done by Christian designers who have direct experience working in or alongside church staff. That price difference, $207 to $307 less per month compared to Church Media Squad's starting price, adds up. Over a year, that is between $2,484 and $3,684 back into your ministry budget. For many churches, that is a meaningful number. You can also browse real project examples to get a feel for the style and quality before committing to anything. Side-by-Side Comparison Church Media Squad Starting price: $797 per month for Graphics on a 12-month agreement (as of October 2026); month-to-month costs more Tiered plans: graphics, graphics plus video, and an All-In package with branding, web support, and social Church-focused team Editable source files included 7 to 15 projects in production at a time by plan Monthly graphic and video counts starting as early as January 2027 (5 graphics a month on Graphics) PixelPainters Starting price: $490 per month (Unlimited Graphics) or $590 per month (PRO) Fully custom design built around your church's brand Christian designers with church staff experience Sermon bumper videos, source files, and multi-campus support on the PRO plan No monthly count and no cap on open projects on Unlimited Graphics or PRO Month to month, no contract 4.9 average rating across more than 7,657 project reviews Typical turnaround of two to three business days A Simple Checklist Before You Switch Anything Before changing any design subscription or service, work through these questions first. List every type of graphic your team requests in a typical month (sermon series art, social posts, event flyers, bulletin covers, slide backgrounds, etc.). Note which of those are currently custom-built versus adapted from templates. Identify where your current service causes friction, such as slow turnaround, revision limits, active-project caps, monthly request counts, contract length, or lack of brand consistency. Calculate your current annual spend and compare it against alternatives at the same capability level. Check whether video content and sermon reels are part of your current or upcoming strategy, since that affects which plan and add-ons fit. Ask for a sample project or consultation before committing so you can evaluate quality and communication style firsthand. The Right Fit Depends on Your Church There is no single right answer here. Some churches will find that Church Media Squad's workflow and plan structure genuinely fits how their team operates, and for them the pricing may be worth it. Other churches, especially those in a growth season trying to stretch every budget dollar, will find that a fully custom design subscription at a lower price point serves them better. If you are in that second group and want to see whether a different approach makes sense, PixelPainters offers a free consultation where you can ask questions, share your current design needs, and get an honest answer about whether it is a good fit. No pressure, no sales script. Just a real conversation about what your church actually needs. --- ### Hiring a Church Graphic Designer vs a Design Subscription: The Real Math https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-graphic-designer-vs-design-subscription Before you post that job listing or sign up for another tool, here is an honest side-by-side look at what a full-time designer actually costs versus a flat-rate design subscription, so your church can make the right call for your size and budget. If your church is drowning in design requests and your current solution is a volunteer with Canva or a pastor copying last year's bulletin, you have probably asked yourself: should we hire someone, or is there a smarter way? The answer depends almost entirely on your actual numbers, not gut feelings. Let's walk through both options honestly. The True Cost of a Full-Time Church Graphic Designer The salary conversation usually starts around $45,000 to $55,000 per year for a mid-level designer in 2026, depending on your region and the candidate's experience. That number feels manageable until you add everything around it. Base salary: $48,000 to $55,000 per year (national median for a church communications role) Employer payroll taxes (roughly 7.65%): $3,700 to $4,200 Health insurance contribution: $6,000 to $9,000 per year depending on your plan Adobe Creative Cloud and other software: $800 to $1,500 per year Stock photo and font licenses: $500 to $1,000 per year Onboarding, training, and management time: real hours from your lead pastor or communications director, often 3 to 5 hours per week in the first six months Add it up and you are realistically looking at $60,000 to $72,000 per year in total cost for one full-time designer. That is $5,000 to $6,000 per month before you account for turnover risk, which in creative roles runs high. The Hidden Cost Nobody Talks About When a staff designer leaves, and in church ministry that happens more than budgets like to admit, you absorb recruiting costs, a gap in output, and another onboarding cycle. Many churches find themselves back at square one every 18 to 24 months. That cycle is expensive and exhausting for everyone involved. The Real Cost of a Flat-Rate Design Subscription A design subscription flips the model. You pay a fixed monthly fee and submit as many requests as your queue allows. At PixelPainters, that is $490 per month for unlimited graphics or $590 per month for the PRO plan that adds video deliverables like sermon reels and multi-campus support. Over a full year, that is $5,880 to $7,080. Compare that to $60,000 or more for a staff hire and the math is hard to argue with for most churches. No payroll taxes, no benefits, no software licenses to manage No recruiting costs or onboarding cycles Typical turnaround of 2 to 3 business days per deliverable Pause or cancel if your ministry season slows down The tradeoff is availability. A subscription team is not sitting in your building for spontaneous requests or same-day walk-ins. If your church runs a daily print operation or needs someone physically on site for live event design, that matters. When a Staff Hire Actually Makes Sense Being honest here: a full-time designer is the right call in some situations. Specifically, consider hiring staff if your church meets most of these criteria. Weekend attendance above 2,000 with a daily volume of 10 or more design requests You run a school, daycare, or large community center with constant print needs Your communications team already includes a director who can manage a designer well You produce broadcast-quality video content that requires on-site collaboration daily For churches between 100 and 1,000 in attendance, that threshold is rarely met. Most churches in that range generate enough design work to keep a subscription busy without justifying a $60,000-plus salary line. A Simple Decision Checklist Before making your call, work through these questions honestly with your team. How many design deliverables does your church actually need each week? Count them: sermon graphics, social posts, event flyers, bulletin covers, screens, emails. Do you need someone physically present, or do digital handoffs work for your workflow? Does your budget have room for $60,000 or more in total annual compensation without cutting something else? Do you have a staff member with time and skill to manage a designer day to day? Have you looked at your existing design output and honestly rated its quality and consistency? Is design a seasonal spike problem, such as Christmas and Easter, or a year-round volume problem? If you answered no to questions 2, 3, or 4, a subscription is almost certainly the more practical choice for this season of your ministry. Getting Started Without Overcommitting One of the advantages of a subscription model is that you can test it without a long-term commitment. If you want to see what consistent, church-specific design support actually looks like before making any bigger decisions, schedule a free consultation to talk through your church's specific needs and workload. PixelPainters was built specifically for churches and ministries, with Christian designers who have worked in church environments and understand the difference between a sermon series graphic and a generic motivational poster. With a 4.9 average rating across more than 7,600 project reviews and plans starting at $490 per month, it is a practical way for most churches to get professional, consistent design without adding a salary line to the budget. The right answer is not the same for every church. But now you have the actual numbers to make the call clearly, not based on what feels right in a budget meeting. --- ### Sunday Social vs Custom Church Design: When Templates Stop Working https://pixelpainters.com/resources/sunday-social-vs-custom-church-design Template libraries like Sunday Social are a genuine lifeline for small church teams, but there are clear signals when they start holding you back. Here is an honest look at both sides so you can make the right call for your ministry. If you lead communications for a church, you have probably heard of Sunday Social, and you may already be using it. Template libraries built specifically for churches have changed the game for small teams who need to produce graphics every single week without a dedicated designer. That is a real gift. But templates are not a permanent solution for every church, and knowing when to move on can save you a lot of frustration. This article is not a takedown of template tools. It is an honest look at where they shine, where they hit a ceiling, and how to know which side of that ceiling your church is on right now. Where Template Libraries Genuinely Serve Churches Well Sunday Social operates on a subscription model with tiered pricing. As of 2026, their plans run from roughly $29 per month for a basic library up to around $99 per month for their pro tier with extended access and team features. For a church of 50 to 200 people with a part-time communications volunteer, that price point is hard to argue with. Here is what template libraries do well: They give you a starting point every week instead of a blank canvas. The designs are already sized for common platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and print bulletins. Church-specific templates mean you are not adapting generic business graphics to ministry use. A volunteer with basic Canva skills can produce something presentable in under an hour. The monthly cost is predictable and easy to justify in a tight budget conversation. For churches in early growth phases or with very limited staff bandwidth, templates can absolutely be the right answer for this season. No shame in that. The Honest Trade-offs Template libraries come with real limitations that are worth naming plainly. Brand Consistency Gets Complicated Most template libraries offer customizable colors and fonts, but the underlying shapes, layouts, and design logic belong to the template library, not your church. When you use the same library as hundreds of other churches, your visual identity starts to blur. Visitors who attend multiple churches, or who follow several on social media, may notice a sameness that undercuts the sense of a distinct community. Over time, your Sunday announcements, your sermon series art, and your event flyers can end up feeling like they belong to three different organizations if each piece comes from a different template set. Sermon Series Art Is Where Templates Show Their Age Generic templates can handle announcements and event promotions reasonably well. Sermon series art is a different challenge. A well-designed series graphic needs to carry the theological weight and emotional tone of the teaching for four to eight weeks. It becomes the visual anchor for your bulletin, your screens, your social posts, and sometimes your mailers. A template that was designed to work for any church in any city often cannot do that specific job for your specific series. If your team is spending significant time hacking templates to fit a series concept, or if the final result feels generic even after hours of editing, that is a meaningful signal. You can see the difference custom work makes by looking at how purpose-built sermon series graphics function compared to adapted templates. Multi-Campus Churches Face a Scaling Problem If your church has added a second or third location, template tools often create more coordination headaches than they solve. Each campus may end up customizing templates independently, which produces visual drift over time. Maintaining a unified brand across locations requires design systems and shared assets that go beyond what most template libraries are built to deliver. This is one area where a custom design relationship becomes genuinely more efficient, not just more polished. Signals That Your Church Has Outgrown Templates Use this checklist honestly. If you check three or more of these boxes, it is worth evaluating your options. Your communications volunteer is spending more than five hours per week adapting templates. Your sermon series graphics feel interchangeable with what other churches are posting. You have received feedback that your church's brand feels inconsistent across print and digital. You are managing more than one campus and struggling to keep visuals unified. You are producing video content and need graphics that extend into sermon reels and short-form video. Your church is in a season of growth and the visual identity needs to match where you are headed, not where you started. Staff or volunteers are burning out on production tasks instead of focusing on ministry. A Practical Decision Framework Before switching anything, spend fifteen minutes answering these questions with your team. What is the actual weekly time cost of our current design process, including revisions and back-and-forth? Are we happy with how our church looks visually to a first-time visitor encountering us online? Is our current approach sustainable for the next twelve months without burning someone out? What would we do with the recovered time if design production were handled for us? If the answers reveal a real problem, the next question is not just templates versus custom, it is also about what kind of custom support fits your team. Some churches hire a part-time designer. Others work with a freelancer. Some find that a flat-rate subscription model gives them the volume and consistency they need without the overhead of a hire. PixelPainters was built specifically for this situation. Unlimited design requests, a team of designers who have worked inside church and ministry environments, and a flat monthly rate that makes budget conversations straightforward. Plans start at $490 per month, and the typical turnaround is two to three business days. You can book a free consultation to talk through whether the model fits your church's size and pace before making any commitment. Templates are a good tool. They are just not the only tool, and they are not the right tool forever. Knowing the difference is the job, and now you have a clearer picture of how to make that call. --- ### How Much Should a Church Spend on Design? A Budget Guide https://pixelpainters.com/resources/how-much-should-a-church-spend-on-design-budget-guide Figuring out a fair design budget for your church does not have to be guesswork. This practical guide walks through realistic numbers, common traps, and smart ways to stretch every dollar. If you have ever stared at a blank line in your ministry budget labeled "graphics and communications," you are not alone. Design feels hard to quantify. It is not a utility bill or a salary. But the materials your church puts in front of people, whether a Sunday bulletin, a sermon series banner, or an Instagram graphic, shape how newcomers perceive you and how your congregation engages. Getting the budget right matters. Why Design Budgets Are Hard for Churches Most churches land in one of two places. Either they spend almost nothing and rely on a volunteer with Canva, or they hire a local agency for a big project and have nothing left for the rest of the year. Both approaches leave gaps. The real challenge is that design for a church is not a one-time purchase. It is ongoing. Sermon series change every few weeks. Events need flyers and digital assets. Social media requires a steady stream of content. Treating design like a one-off expense almost always leads to inconsistency and staff burnout. A Realistic Look at What Churches Actually Spend Costs vary widely depending on church size, how active your programming is, and who does the work. Here is a general range to help you calibrate: DIY tools (Canva Pro, Adobe Express): $120 to $600 per year. Low cost, but it pulls staff or volunteer time away from other ministry work. Quality is inconsistent without a trained eye. Freelance designers: $50 to $150 per hour, or $300 to $1,500 per project. Good for occasional needs, but hard to budget for ongoing work. Turnaround times vary, and finding someone who understands church culture takes effort. Local design agencies: $1,500 to $5,000 or more per project. Can be excellent for brand work or a major campaign, but not sustainable for weekly needs. Unlimited design subscriptions: Flat monthly fees typically range from $400 to $1,000 per month depending on the scope of services. Predictable cost, consistent output, no per-project surprises. How to Right-Size Your Budget Start With Your Design Needs, Not a Number Before you set a dollar amount, list what your church actually needs each month. A typical mid-size church might need sermon series graphics, social media posts, event flyers, bulletin covers, and occasional video thumbnails. Count those touchpoints. If you are producing 20 or more design assets per month, a per-project or hourly model gets expensive fast. Factor In Staff Time as a Real Cost If your communications director or pastor is spending five hours a week building graphics in Canva, that time has a cost even if no invoice changes hands. Five hours a week is roughly 20 hours a month. At a modest $25 per hour equivalent, that is $500 of staff capacity going toward design work that could go toward discipleship, pastoral care, or communications strategy. Time is a budget item too. Match Your Model to Your Volume Here is a simple way to think about it. If you need fewer than five assets per month, DIY tools or an occasional freelancer probably works. If you need 10 to 20 assets per month consistently, a freelancer retainer or subscription service is worth exploring. If you need 20 or more assets per month across multiple formats, an unlimited subscription model is almost always the more cost-effective choice. Services like PixelPainters' flat-rate plans are built specifically for that volume, with church communicators in mind. A Practical Budget Planning Checklist Use this before your next budget cycle to build a design line item you can actually defend: List every recurring design need for a typical month (social posts, sermon graphics, bulletins, event materials, etc.). Count how many individual assets that adds up to per month. Estimate how many staff or volunteer hours currently go toward producing those assets. Get one quote from a freelancer and one from a subscription service so you have real numbers to compare. Add 15 to 20 percent buffer for seasonal surges (Christmas, Easter, fall kickoff). Decide whether quality consistency or cost minimization is the higher priority for your church right now. Both are valid. Just be honest about the tradeoff. Where Churches Often Overspend and Underspend Churches tend to overspend on one-time brand projects without budgeting for the ongoing work that follows. A beautiful new logo means nothing if your weekly social posts still look cobbled together. On the flip side, churches often underspend on video assets, which consistently outperform static graphics on every major platform. If your church is not yet producing short-form video content, it is worth looking into what that could look like. You can see examples of what that work involves at sermon reels and shorts or browse recent church design work to get a feel for what consistent output looks like in practice. The Bottom Line There is no single right number for every church. A congregation of 150 has different needs than one of 800. But the goal is the same: professional, consistent design that serves your mission without burning out your team or blowing your budget. If your current approach is costing you more in staff time and inconsistency than it is saving in dollars, it may be time to reconsider the model. PixelPainters was built for exactly this situation, offering unlimited design requests with a flat monthly rate, Christian designers who have worked in ministry, and a track record of over 7,600 completed church projects. If you are not sure where to start, a free consultation is a low-pressure way to see whether it fits your church's needs and budget. --- ### 10 Sermon Series Ideas with Strong Visual Potential https://pixelpainters.com/resources/sermon-series-ideas-strong-visual-potential A strong sermon series starts with a strong visual concept. Here are ten series ideas that give your design team a clear direction and give your congregation something worth sharing. Great sermon series graphics do more than look nice. They help people remember the series, share it online, and invite friends before they ever walk through the door. The challenge is choosing a series concept that translates well visually, not just theologically. Below are ten series ideas that pair a clear spiritual theme with a strong visual direction. Each one gives your designer, your volunteer, or your team something concrete to work with. The 10 Series Ideas 1. Unshakeable Focused on faith through trials, this series lends itself to imagery of cracked stone, stormy skies with a steady horizon, or a single flame in wind. Bold, high-contrast type works well here. 2. Reset A fresh-start series for January or post-summer. Think clean white space, a blinking cursor, or a sunrise breaking through. Simple and modern, which makes it easy to reproduce across social, bulletin, and screen. 3. Roots An identity-in-Christ series built around deep root systems, ancient wood textures, or soil and light. Warm earth tones and layered textures give this concept a rich, grounded feel. 4. The Table Community, communion, and hospitality. Overhead shots of a long table, bread and wine, or hands passing food carry warmth and immediacy. This concept photographs beautifully and adapts well to social media crops. 5. Known A series on being fully known and loved by God. Soft portraiture, light through fog, or quiet interior spaces communicate intimacy without being cliche. Works especially well for small groups or a women's series. 6. Armor Up The armor of God from Ephesians 6. This is one of the easier series to concept visually because the metaphors are already in the text: shield, sword, breastplate. You can go literal or abstract depending on your congregation's style. 7. Overflow Abundance, generosity, or the Holy Spirit. Water imagery, running cups, open hands, or cascading light all work. This one also pairs well with a stewardship season without feeling like a pledge drive. 8. In the Wilderness A series on doubt, waiting, or spiritual dry seasons. Desert landscapes, lone figures on a path, or sparse negative space communicate the theme immediately. Honest and visually striking. 9. Signal Hearing from God in a noisy world. Radio waves, static textures, a single clear light in interference, or a lone figure looking upward all work. This concept also connects naturally to a media-driven culture. 10. Steady Perseverance and long obedience. Lighthouse imagery, mountain trails, worn shoes on a path. This series works well as an anchor for mid-year when energy tends to dip. The visual concept is immediately relatable. What Makes a Series Visually Strong Before you hand off a brief to anyone, ask these three questions about your series concept. Is the central image clear in one word or phrase? If you cannot describe the visual direction in a sentence, your designer will struggle too. Can it scale? A good series graphic needs to work on a 16x9 stage screen, a 1x1 Instagram post, a printed bulletin insert, and a church website header. Plan for all of them from the start. Does the tone match your congregation? A gritty, dark visual works in some contexts and feels off in others. Know your room before you pick your palette. If you want to see what strong execution looks like across different church styles and series types, the work we have done for churches gives a practical sense of how these concepts land in real projects. A Simple Brief Checklist Before You Request Graphics Use this before sending a request to any designer, whether in-house, freelance, or through a subscription service. Series title and subtitle (if any) Number of weeks and start date Key Scripture reference One-sentence description of the series theme Visual direction or reference images (even rough ones help) Colors or fonts already in use at your church Sizes and formats needed (stage screen, social, print) Deadline for first draft The more specific your brief, the faster you get usable work back. This is true whether your team is one volunteer with Canva or a professional designer. Clarity saves revisions. Getting the Graphics Done Without Adding to Your Plate For many church communications directors, the bottleneck is not ideas. It is execution. You have a concept you love, a launch date approaching, and not enough hours or hands. If your team is stretched thin and you need consistent, on-brand graphics without managing a freelancer or hiring full-time, it is worth looking at what a flat-rate design subscription covers. Our sermon series graphics service is built specifically for this, with typical turnaround of two to three business days and unlimited revisions so you are not locked into a first draft. Good visuals are not about having a big budget. They are about having a clear concept and a reliable process. Pick one of the series ideas above, fill out the checklist, and get something in front of your congregation that is worth sharing. If you want help with the design side, schedule a free consultation and we can talk through what your church actually needs. --- ### When Should Your Church Start Christmas Graphics? Earlier Than You Think https://pixelpainters.com/resources/when-should-churches-start-christmas-graphics Three separate churches sent us Christmas design requests in August, and they are the ones who will look put together in December. Here is the lead-time math, plus two more patterns from a 127-request week worth stealing. This article comes from episode 1 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. This week our team took in 127 new design requests from 53 churches and shipped 128 projects. Sermon series art, motion bumpers, kids ministry branding, a pile of fall event pieces, and a surprising amount of print: tablecloths, banners, invite cards, giving envelopes, even a calendar magnet. Out of all of it, three patterns stood out that any church media team can learn from. When should a church start designing for Christmas? The short answer: August or September. On a Saturday in late August, a kids ministry director sent us her Christmas request, and she was not early by accident. She was early because that is what it takes. She was not alone either. We received three separate Christmas or Advent requests in the same week, including a full Advent series and Christmas sermon art with the title already locked. Here is the math that makes August the right answer. Christmas design is not one graphic. It is a screen slide, social posts, an invite card your people can physically hand to a neighbor, kids check-in signage, and often a banner. If invite cards need to be printed and in hands by the end of November, design needs to be finished in October, which means the request needs to go in around now. Working backward from the moment, not forward from the panic, is the whole trick. What if we do not have our sermon titles yet? You do not need them. Put the request in with placeholder titles and the pieces you do know: the date of your biggest Christmas moment, the formats you will need, and the feel you are going for. A placeholder beats a panic every time. Why launch signage should be designed as one package A church launching a new gathering this fall sent us their entire launch package in one request: welcome banner, connection cards, event invites, kids area signs, bathroom signs, tablecloths, and volunteer name tags with lanyards. That is the move. When everything is designed together, everything matches: same colors, same type, same feel from the sidewalk to the sign-in table. A first time guest cannot tell you why a room feels trustworthy, but they can feel it, and half of that feeling is that nothing looks like it came from six different people in six different years. If you have a launch or a big Sunday coming, list every printed and on-screen thing a guest will see and request it as one family, not fourteen orphans. Ministry sub-brands: give students something to belong to In one week we saw a brand kit request for a midweek program, new logos for a high school ministry and a middle school ministry, and a kids weekend event with its own mark. Youth pastors have figured out that a name and a logo give students something to belong to, something that fits on a hoodie. The guardrail: a sub-brand should feel like the child of your main brand, not a stranger. Keep one element constant, usually the color family or the typeface, and let the rest play. The test is simple. If your student ministry logo could plausibly belong to a different church down the street, pull it back into the family. Your Christmas design checklist Pick the date of your biggest Christmas moment. List every asset: screens, social, invite cards, kids signage, banner. Work backward through print time, proof time, and design time. Submit the request now with TBD titles where needed. Plan invite cards to be in hands by late November. Frequently asked questions How long does church Christmas design take? Plan on two to four weeks of design and revision time for a full Christmas package, plus two to three weeks for printing and shipping physical pieces. That is why October is the real deadline for finished design. What belongs in a church Christmas design package? At minimum: a title graphic for screens, social media versions, a printable invite card, and kids check-in signage. Larger churches often add a banner, sermon series art for each week of Advent, and motion graphics for pre-service loops. How do churches keep sub-ministry logos consistent? Anchor every sub-brand to one shared element of the house brand, usually the color palette or primary typeface, and document it in a simple one-page brand sheet. If your team is drowning in design requests and you want a crew in your corner, PixelPainters plans start with your first two weeks free, and you can hear what we are seeing each week on Church Design Weekly. No pressure though, steal the checklist either way. --- ### The Campus Launch Signage Checklist Most Churches Discover Too Late https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-campus-launch-signage-checklist One church needed nine printed pieces just to open a new room for the first time. Here is the surface-by-surface launch checklist, why batching fall requests changes the output, and the case for printed discipleship booklets. This article comes from episode 2 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. In a single week our team received 127 design requests from 53 churches and delivered 128 projects. Inside that queue were three patterns worth passing along: a campus launch done right, a fall prep approach that quietly upgrades design quality, and a church putting real weight behind printed discipleship content. What signage does a church campus launch actually need? One church launching a new physical campus sent a request list that tells the whole story: welcome sign, connection card, kids signs, table banner, nametag table graphic, tablecloth, a rush banner, rush kids and bathroom signs, and cocktail table stretch covers. That is nine pieces just to open a room for the first time. Here is what churches consistently underestimate about a launch: the physical touchpoints are the first impression before anyone hears a word from the stage. If the room looks put together, people feel like someone thought about them. If it looks thrown together, they feel like guests who showed up on the wrong day. The surface-by-surface method Before designing anything, walk the guest journey from the parking lot to the seat and list every surface a person will look at or touch. Every one. Then design for that list, not just for the announcement slide. Most teams find five things they forgot. Exterior: street signage, entry banner, directional arrows. Entry: welcome sign, greeter table, name tags and lanyards. Connection: connection cards, table cloth, table banner. Kids: check-in signage, room signs, hallway directionals. Facilities: bathroom signs, overflow and exit signage. Screens: pre-service loop, announcement slides, worship backgrounds. Why should churches batch seasonal design requests? Another church in full fall prep mode sent a set of requests as one group: fall event card, college invite card, welcome banner, volunteer lanyard tags, tablecloth, and connection cards, all tied to the same campus and the same moment. When you batch requests around a single event or season, the design stays consistent because one designer holds all of it at once. You avoid the thing where your banner and your event card look like they came from two different churches because they were made two weeks apart by two different people. The takeaway: when fall, Christmas, or any big ministry moment is coming, pull your requests together into one brief instead of dripping them in one at a time. Even a note that says these all go together changes the output. Printed discipleship content still works One church sent a three-part discipleship booklet series in a single week, each part its own title inside a larger growth pathway. That is a real commitment to putting something substantial in someone's hands rather than leaving it in a document nobody prints, picks up, or keeps. A designed booklet, even a simple one, communicates that the content is worth your time. That is the whole message before anyone reads a word. Good design does not make bad content better, but it does make good content believable. Frequently asked questions How far in advance should a church design campus launch signage? Six to eight weeks before opening day. Large-format printing like banners and tablecloths often takes two to three weeks including proofs and shipping, and rush printing costs significantly more. What is the most commonly forgotten launch signage? Bathroom and directional signs. Teams design the welcome moment and forget the wayfinding, which is exactly where a first time guest feels lost. Should our church print discipleship booklets or keep them digital? Both have a place, but a printed booklet gets kept, passed along, and finished at a far higher rate than a PDF link. If the content matters to your discipleship pathway, print communicates that it matters. If your team could use a design crew that sees hundreds of church projects a week, PixelPainters plans start with your first two weeks free, and each week we share what we are seeing on Church Design Weekly. Steal the checklist either way. --- ### Fall Church Design: Print Deadlines, Signage, and Brand Consistency https://pixelpainters.com/resources/fall-church-design-planning-print-deadlines Late August is crunch time for church communications teams. Here's what a week of real church design requests reveals about planning print, signage, and brand coordination well. This article comes from episode 3 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. Late August has a way of arriving all at once for church communications teams. Fall programming kicks off, the school year appears on the horizon, and suddenly the design queue fills up with sermon series graphics, event collateral, signage, and print materials, all at the same time. A recent week of real requests across dozens of churches made that pattern very clear, and Josh Starr noticed three things in the data worth paying attention to. What are churches actually designing in late August? In a single week ending August 31st, churches submitted 119 design requests spanning everything from student ministry handbooks to a ten-foot-by-eight-foot calendar banner. The completed project count that week was 149, meaning the team was finishing more than it was taking in. The breakdown covered sermon series branding, physical signage, social content, event collateral, postcards, mailers, banners, flags, A-frame signs, and even church merchandise like t-shirts. That list is not random. It is a snapshot of what a church communications team is actually responsible for in a single season. And the patterns inside it carry some practical lessons. Why your fall print materials have two deadlines, not one One church submitted four student and kids ministry handbooks in the same week, covering preschool, elementary, middle school, and high school. That kind of batch job is common in late August, and it usually signals one thing: a deadline that snuck up on someone. Josh points out that print materials carry two deadlines. The first is your internal one, the date you want designs approved. The second is the print shop's deadline, the date files need to be submitted for the pieces to arrive on time. Those two dates are not the same, and the gap between them can be a week or more depending on quantity, shipping, and the printer's current backlog. If you hand a designer a handbook on August 28th that needs to be in students' hands on September 7th, you are already in a difficult spot. The fix is straightforward: map your fall calendar backwards from the date the physical item needs to exist, not from the date of your first service or event. Physical signage is still doing real work for your church It is easy to treat print as an afterthought in a season dominated by social media and digital screens. But the volume of physical pieces that came through in this single week, banners, flags, A-frames, postcards, a massive calendar banner, merchandise, suggests that church teams know better. Josh puts it simply: the screen gets the scroll, but the sign gets the stop. Someone walking into your building for the first time is not looking at their phone. They are looking at your lobby, your parking lot, your walls. A well-designed banner tells them where to go. It also signals that your church is organized and pays attention to details. That first impression is doing quiet but important work, and it deserves the same creative investment as your social graphics. How to manage brand consistency when you are running many design types at once One church in this same week submitted somewhere between eight and nine requests, covering sermon series branding, signage, social content, and event collateral all at the same time. Josh notes that this kind of breadth is actually a sign of a healthy communications strategy. But it only works if someone is holding the thread. When output is flowing across that many categories simultaneously, the risk is that your social post and your lobby banner end up feeling like they came from two different churches. Colors drift. The series title gets spelled differently in different places. Fonts shift. The solution is having one person or one shared document that serves as the source of truth for your brand in that season: exact colors, exact fonts, the series name spelled precisely right, every time. A quick fall design planning checklist List every print piece your church needs before the fall season begins, handbooks, banners, postcards, signage, all of it. Find the print shop deadline for each item, not just your internal approval date. Work backwards from that print deadline to set your design start date. Create a single brand reference document for your fall series: colors, fonts, series title, key dates. Share that document with every person or team touching design in that season. Audit your physical spaces, lobby, parking lot, hallways, and plan signage for each area a visitor might encounter. Batch related print requests together when possible so your designer can keep visual consistency across pieces. If your team is stretched thin heading into fall, a free consultation can help you figure out where design support would make the biggest difference this season. Frequently asked questions How far in advance should I send fall church design requests to meet print deadlines? For most standard print pieces like banners, postcards, and programs, plan to have final approved designs to your print shop at least seven to ten business days before you need the items in hand. That means your design process needs to start two to three weeks before that, earlier if revisions are likely or if your team has a slow approval process. The safest approach is to identify the date each item physically needs to exist and count backwards from there, building in time for design, review, revisions, print production, and shipping. How do I keep church branding consistent across so many different design types at once? The most reliable method is a simple brand reference document that your whole team uses for the season. It does not need to be complicated. It should include your exact brand colors with hex or Pantone codes, your approved fonts, the correct spelling and formatting of any series or campaign titles, and any logo usage notes. When everyone on your team and every designer you work with pulls from the same document, the visual drift that happens across social graphics, printed banners, and event materials is much less likely. Is it worth investing in physical church signage when most people find us online first? Yes, and the two actually serve different moments in a person's journey with your church. Your digital presence handles discovery, but physical signage handles arrival. Someone who found you online and showed up for the first time is now standing in your parking lot or walking into your lobby, and what they see in those first few minutes shapes their impression of your church before a single word is spoken. Clear, well-designed physical signage communicates that your church is welcoming, organized, and attentive to the details that matter to guests. If your team is heading into fall with more on the design list than hours in the week, PixelPainters offers unlimited design requests and revisions for churches at a flat monthly rate, with Christian designers who have worked on church staff. You can get started here, with your first two weeks free. --- ### Church Event Promotion: A 6-Week Graphics Timeline https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-event-promotion-6-week-graphics-timeline Promoting a church event well requires more than a last-minute flyer. This practical 6-week graphics timeline helps church communicators plan ahead, stay organized, and get the most out of every design asset they create. Most church events deserve more promotion than they get. Not because your team lacks creativity, but because the timeline collapses. Someone remembers the fall festival three weeks out, the volunteer designer is unavailable, and suddenly you are posting a rushed graphic the morning of the event. Sound familiar? A simple, repeatable graphics timeline changes that. Below is a practical 6-week framework you can adapt for almost any church event, from Easter services to VBS to a women's retreat. The goal is to spread the workload, give your designers enough lead time, and make sure your congregation actually sees the event before it happens. Why 6 Weeks? Six weeks gives you enough runway to build awareness gradually without burning out your audience. It also gives your design team, whether that is a volunteer, a staff member, or an outside resource, realistic turnaround time on each asset. Rushing design almost always means cutting corners on quality, consistency, or both. The 6-Week Graphics Timeline Use this as a starting point and adjust based on your event size, your team capacity, and your audience's habits. Week 6 - Concept and Brief Finalize event details: date, time, location, audience, and key message. Choose a visual theme or style direction. List every graphic you will need (see checklist below). Submit your design brief to whoever is handling graphics. Week 5 - Primary Graphics Receive and approve your hero graphic, the main image that anchors everything else. Get your event announcement slide for the Sunday morning loop. Create a save-the-date social post to begin building awareness. Week 4 - Digital Promotion Push Launch your social media campaign with a series of posts, not just one. Update your website event page with approved graphics. Send an email graphic or banner to your list. Post your first story or reel to reach people who miss static posts. Week 3 - Print Materials Finalize and send any print pieces to the vendor: postcards, bulletin inserts, posters, or banners. Note that most print vendors need 5-7 business days minimum, so do not let this slip. Distribute physical materials to key spots in your building. Week 2 - Engagement and Reminders Post reminder graphics on social media with a clear call to action. Use countdown graphics or story stickers to build momentum. Send a second email to anyone who has not registered or responded. Brief your volunteers or hosts with any printed guides or name badges if needed. Week 1 - Final Push Post a last-chance reminder graphic 2-3 days before the event. Prepare any day-of graphics: welcome slides, directional signage, or a simple program cover. Have a photographer plan ready so you can capture content for future promotion. Your Event Graphics Checklist Not every event needs every item on this list, but having the full picture helps you decide what to prioritize. Hero graphic (versatile, used across channels) Sunday announcement slide (16:9 format) Social media posts (square and vertical versions) Instagram or Facebook story graphic Email header graphic Website banner or event page graphic Printed postcard or flyer Bulletin insert Lobby poster or banner Day-of welcome slide Post-event recap graphic (for social, showing gratitude and highlights) If this list feels overwhelming, remember that a strong hero graphic can be resized and adapted for most of these uses. One well-designed image goes a long way when formatted correctly for each channel. Where Churches Get Stuck The most common breakdown happens at week five or six, before anything is even designed. Teams skip the brief, skip the asset list, and jump straight to asking for a graphic with no clear direction. The result is multiple revision rounds, delays, and a design that does not quite land. If your church runs several events each year, it is worth creating a simple one-page brief template you reuse every time. Include event name, date, target audience, tone (celebratory, solemn, family-friendly), any required text, and brand colors. Handing that document to a designer cuts revision rounds significantly. For churches that need consistent, high-quality graphics without the cost of a full-time designer, a subscription service can be a practical option. PixelPainters' plans are built for exactly this kind of ongoing church work, with designers who understand the pace and priorities of ministry life. Turnaround is typically 2-3 business days, which fits neatly into a 6-week planning window. After the Event Do not let your graphics work stop when the event ends. A simple thank-you graphic posted to social media, a recap image, or a short highlight reel extends the reach of your event and builds anticipation for the next one. If you want ideas on how to get more from your event content, video content repurposing is one of the most underused tools in church communications. Start Planning Earlier Than Feels Necessary The single most important shift you can make in your event promotion is to start earlier than feels necessary. Six weeks sounds like a long time until you are in the middle of it juggling sermons, volunteers, and three other projects. Build the timeline into your church calendar at the start of each year, and your events will look and feel more intentional, because they will be. If you want to see how other churches have approached their event graphics and communications, the PixelPainters portfolio is a good place to start. And if you are not sure which plan fits your church's size and budget, a free consultation is available to help you figure that out without any pressure. --- ### What Churches Are Designing Right Now (And What It Tells Us) https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-design-q4-planning-fall-ministry-graphics A look at 151 church design projects completed in one week reveals clear patterns about safety slides, Q4 planning, and how ministry teams are rethinking their design process heading into fall. This article comes from episode 4 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. One week, 54 churches, 114 incoming requests, and 151 completed projects. When you look at what church communications teams are actually sending to a design queue in early September, a few patterns become hard to ignore. Josh Starr walked through this week's numbers and pulled out three observations that are worth sitting with, whether you have a design team or you are managing everything yourself. What are churches actually designing in September? The project mix this week covered a wide range of ministry needs. The bulk of requests came through on the graphics side, with a smaller share going toward motion graphics, video editing, sermon reels, and website updates. But the content of those requests told a more specific story. The single clearest trend in the queue was Q4 planning. Fall festivals, Halloween outreach events, women's conferences, winter retreats, an Advent series, and at least one Christmas campaign were all landing in the same week. Churches are not waiting until October to think about the holidays. The ones that tend to handle the season well are already building their visual assets in September, before the urgency kicks in. As Josh put it, if it feels too early to be designing for Christmas, you are probably right on time. Should churches put design effort into safety and emergency slides? One detail from this week stood out in a different way. A single church submitted three safety-related slides in the same batch: active shooter procedures, tornado procedures, and fire evacuation instructions, all formatted as presentation slides for their screens. This is not the kind of request that shows up every week, but it makes complete sense when you think about it. If something goes wrong in a service and you need your congregation to read a slide and act immediately, a cluttered layout or hard-to-read font is a real problem. Those slides need clear visual hierarchy, high contrast, and readable type at distance. They deserve the same design attention as your sermon series graphics, not because they need to look impressive, but because they need to work. Treating safety materials as first-rate design work is a small shift in thinking with practical stakes behind it. How one church ran a full design department through a subscription The third observation from this week was about volume. One church had somewhere around ten or eleven requests in the queue in a single week, spanning name badges, event calendars, devotionals, young adult ministry graphics, and a care team graphic. That is a wide range of surface area for one ministry to be covering. What makes this worth noting is not the number itself but what it represents. That church is not scraping together design help from volunteers or relying on Canva templates to get through the week. They are operating with a consistent, on-call design resource and using it across every part of their ministry. That kind of consistency in visual communication is hard to build when your process is fragile. If you are curious what that kind of setup looks like for your church, a free consultation is a good place to start. A practical checklist for fall design planning Based on what churches are doing well this season, here is a straightforward way to think about your Q4 design workload before it gets away from you. List every event or series between now and January 1, including anything that feels too far out to worry about. Identify which events need the most visual assets, such as series graphics, social content, print materials, and slides. Prioritize your Christmas and Advent materials first, since those timelines compress faster than they look. Review your safety and emergency slides. If they have not been updated or designed with clarity in mind, add them to the queue now. Audit your current design process. If requests are piling up with no clear path to completion, that is information worth acting on before the holiday season hits. Frequently asked questions When should a church start designing Christmas and Advent graphics? September is not too early. Churches that are in good shape heading into the holiday season typically begin building their visual assets six to ten weeks before Advent starts, which puts the starting line in mid-September for most. Waiting until it feels urgent usually means you are already behind, especially if your process depends on a slow back-and-forth with a freelancer or a volunteer with limited availability. Do churches really need professionally designed safety and emergency slides? They do, and the reason is practical rather than aesthetic. Emergency slides have one job: communicate clearly and quickly under stress. That means high contrast, large readable type, and a clean visual hierarchy that tells someone exactly what to do without requiring them to parse the layout. A slide that looks like an afterthought can genuinely slow down a congregation's response in a moment that matters. Safety materials belong in the same design workflow as everything else on your screens. How can a small church communications team keep up with design requests all year? The churches that manage high design volume without burning out their staff tend to have a consistent, on-demand resource rather than a project-by-project process. That might mean a flat-rate subscription service, a reliable freelancer with church context, or a well-organized volunteer team with clear systems. The key is that the process should be built to handle the actual volume your ministry produces, not an idealized lighter version of it. PixelPainters was built specifically for this: unlimited requests and revisions, flat monthly pricing, and designers who understand how churches actually operate. You can see examples of the work at our work if you want a sense of what that looks like in practice. --- ### VBS Promotion Graphics: The Complete Checklist https://pixelpainters.com/resources/vbs-promotion-graphics-complete-checklist A practical, step-by-step guide to every graphic your church needs to promote Vacation Bible School, from save-the-dates to post-event follow-up. Plan ahead and stop scrambling the week before registration opens. Vacation Bible School is one of the highest-visibility events most churches run all year. Parents are making decisions about where to send their kids, volunteers are deciding whether to sign up, and your community is watching. Good promotion graphics do not need to be flashy or expensive, but they do need to be consistent, clear, and ready on time. This checklist walks you through every asset you will likely need, organized by when to create it. Start With a Simple Brand Anchor Before you design a single graphic, decide on three things: your VBS theme (if you are using a licensed curriculum, the theme is already chosen for you), your two or three primary colors, and the event dates and location. Every graphic flows from these. If your curriculum comes with a style guide or logo, use it consistently. If you are building a custom theme, keep it simple. A clean logo, two fonts, and two or three colors are enough to look polished across dozens of assets. If your team is stretched thin and you are not sure where to start with a visual identity, browsing examples of past church design work can help you see what a cohesive VBS promotion campaign actually looks like in practice. The Complete VBS Graphics Checklist Use this list to track what you need and when to have it ready. Times are counted backward from your VBS start date. 8 to 10 Weeks Out: Awareness Save-the-date graphic (social square and story formats) Church bulletin insert or announcement slide Email header image for initial announcement Outdoor banner or yard sign design (send to print early) 5 to 7 Weeks Out: Registration Push Registration-open social graphics (square, story, and horizontal for Facebook cover) Volunteer recruitment graphic with a clear call to action Website or landing page header image Printed flyer for community distribution (schools, libraries, daycares) Email header for registration announcement 2 to 4 Weeks Out: Countdown and Reminders Countdown graphics (one or two versions, such as "2 weeks away" and "1 week away") Volunteer reminder graphic Sponsor or donor recognition graphic if applicable Parent information graphic (what to bring, drop-off times, etc.) During VBS: Engagement Daily recap or "day one" social post template Photo frame or overlay for parent-shared photos Thank-you volunteer graphic (post mid-week) After VBS: Follow-Up Thank-you graphic for families and volunteers Highlight reel or photo collage post Connection card or next-steps graphic for new families Practical Tips for Each Phase Reuse and Resize, Do Not Reinvent Design your core promotional graphic once, then resize it for every placement. A well-designed square graphic can be adapted into a story (add padding or a background), a bulletin slide (adjust to 16x9), and an email header. This approach cuts your design time significantly and keeps everything looking unified. Prioritize Legibility Over Decoration VBS themes are often colorful and busy by nature. Make sure your event name, dates, and registration information are still easy to read at a glance. Test your graphics by shrinking them to thumbnail size on your phone. If the key details are still clear, you are in good shape. Plan for Print Lead Times Banners, yard signs, and flyers need to go to a printer two to three weeks before you want to use them. That means your design files need to be finalized at least a week before that. Build this into your timeline, not as an afterthought. Outdoor signage is still one of the most effective ways to reach families who do not attend your church yet. Keep a Shared Folder for All Final Files Save every final graphic in one organized folder, labeled by asset type and size. When you need to quickly pull a graphic for a last-minute announcement, you will thank yourself for the five minutes you spent organizing earlier. When Your Team Does Not Have the Bandwidth Many church communications teams are one or two people, sometimes volunteers. Producing thirty or more graphics over a six-week window is a real workload. If your team is already managing weekly sermon graphics, social posts, and bulletins, adding a full VBS campaign on top can lead to burnout or shortcuts that hurt the final result. A service like PixelPainters is built specifically for this situation, with a flat monthly rate, fast turnaround, and designers who understand church culture and ministry calendars. Start Early and Stay Consistent The churches that run the smoothest VBS promotions are not necessarily the ones with the biggest budgets. They are the ones that planned their graphics calendar in advance, kept their visual style consistent, and did not try to do everything in the final two weeks. Use this checklist as your starting point, adapt it to your church's size and capacity, and give yourself permission to ask for help when you need it. If you would like to talk through your VBS promotion plan and see whether a design subscription makes sense for your team, schedule a free consultation and we can walk through your timeline together. --- ### Church Design in Fall: Planning Lessons from a Busy September Week https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-design-planning-tips-fall-season When 44 churches submitted design requests in a single week, three clear patterns emerged. Here is what church communicators can learn about safety slides, rush requests, and batching recurring content. This article comes from episode 5 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. Mid-September is one of the most demanding stretches of the year for church communications teams. Fall programming launches, events stack up, and the design queue tells the truth about how well the summer planning season actually went. This past week, the PixelPainters team received 94 new design requests from 44 churches and delivered 138 completed projects, working through a backlog alongside new submissions. Three patterns from that week carry lessons worth holding onto well past September. Does your church have emergency preparedness slides, and do they actually work? One church submitted three emergency preparedness slides in a single batch: active shooter, tornado, and fire evacuation. All three at once. Josh notes that this kind of submission stands out not because it is unusual creatively, but because it represents something churches routinely defer. Safety communication is still communication, and it deserves the same design care as a sermon series graphic or a baptism announcement. A slide that is hard to read under stress, visually cluttered, or printed in a small font is not a neutral problem. It is a real one. If your church does not have those slides yet, or if what you have is plain white text from several years ago, the right time to address it was before you needed them. The right next time is now. Block an hour, pull together the content your safety team or pastoral leadership has approved, and get those slides built and tested on your actual screens before the fall season is fully underway. Why do so many church design requests feel urgent in September? This week saw multiple rush requests flagged as urgent, and they came from churches with no connection to each other. That detail matters. When unrelated teams all hit the same pressure point in the same week, it is not a coincidence or a people problem. It is a calendar pattern. As Josh puts it, September lies to you. Almost everything that feels like it arrived suddenly in September was actually on the calendar in July. The work was plannable, but the planning window closed without anyone walking through it. The habit worth building is a simple 60-day look-ahead, reviewed once a month. Fifteen minutes with a calendar and your church's program schedule will surface the projects that are quietly becoming urgent before they announce themselves as emergencies. Planned work is less expensive than rushed work, even when the price tag looks identical. It costs less stress, less goodwill with your creative team, and tends to produce better results because designers have context and room to think. Batching recurring content saves time and improves quality The third pattern from the week was a church that submitted three separate baptism videos in a single sitting, each one scheduled for a different Sunday across the month. Josh noted this as a meaningful shift in how that team is approaching recurring content. Most churches already know their baptism Sundays months in advance. The same is true for communion Sundays, giving campaigns, and seasonal sermon series. Briefing all of that content at once, rather than one piece at a time, gives your design team the context to build consistency across the set. It also keeps you out of the Thursday scramble before a Sunday that has been on the calendar since August. If you want a practical starting point, consider running through this checklist at the beginning of each planning season: Pull your church calendar for the next 60 days and identify every Sunday that has a special element: baptism, giving emphasis, guest Sunday, sermon series launch, or major event. Check whether your emergency preparedness slides exist, are current, and display correctly on your screens. List every recurring content type your church produces, such as baptism videos, announcement graphics, or event flyers, and identify which ones you can batch brief all at once. Flag any project on the calendar that will require more than three business days of design work, and move the start date earlier than feels necessary. Schedule one monthly 15-minute calendar review with whoever owns the design queue, so rush requests become the exception rather than the default. If you are curious how other churches have built these habits into their communications workflow, the case studies on our site show a range of approaches that have worked in real ministry contexts. Frequently asked questions What should church emergency preparedness slides include? At minimum, your emergency slides should cover the most likely scenarios for your facility, typically fire evacuation, severe weather, and a medical emergency protocol. Each slide should include clear, readable instructions, exit or shelter locations relevant to your specific building, and a designated point of contact or action step. Use high-contrast colors and large enough type to be readable from the back of your worship space. Have your safety team or pastoral leadership review and approve the content before it goes to a designer, so the design work can move quickly once the copy is locked. How far in advance should a church plan its design requests? A 60-day horizon is a reasonable and sustainable target for most church communications teams. That window gives enough lead time to handle sermon series graphics, event promotions, and recurring content like baptism or giving campaigns without defaulting to rush mode. Anything requiring video editing or motion graphics benefits from even more runway. The goal is not to have every detail finalized two months out, but to identify what is coming so you can open the design brief before the deadline is close enough to cause stress. How do I get my church to stop submitting last-minute design requests? The most effective shift is structural rather than cultural. When your team has a shared calendar with design deadlines marked clearly, and a monthly review habit that surfaces upcoming needs, last-minute requests tend to decrease on their own because the information exists before the urgency sets in. It also helps to communicate lead time expectations clearly, ideally in writing, so that ministry leaders understand what a realistic timeline looks like before they submit a request. Over time, predictable workflows tend to replace reactive ones, not because people change their instincts, but because the system makes planning easier than scrambling. If your church is heading into a heavy season and your current design process is not keeping up, getting started with an unlimited design subscription can take the volume pressure off your team so you can focus on planning rather than production. --- ### Print vs Digital for Churches: Where Graphics Matter Most https://pixelpainters.com/resources/print-vs-digital-church-graphics-where-they-matter-most Not every graphic needs to live online, and not every message deserves a printed flyer. Here is a practical guide to help church communicators spend their design budget where it counts most. If you are the person responsible for church communications, you already know the tension. The pastor wants a bulletin insert, the worship team wants Instagram graphics, and someone in the lobby is asking about a new banner. You have limited time, limited budget, and probably a Canva account that is getting a serious workout. The real question is not whether to use print or digital graphics. It is knowing which format actually moves people to show up, engage, and stay connected. Print Graphics Still Matter for Churches Rumors of print's death have been greatly exaggerated, at least inside church walls. Physical materials work well in specific situations, and knowing those situations saves you from wasting money on things nobody reads. When print is worth the investment Weekly bulletins and programs: Congregants still reference these during the service for announcements, sermon notes, and giving information. A well-designed bulletin builds trust and professionalism. Lobby banners and signage: First-time guests navigate your building using physical cues. Clear, on-brand signage reduces friction before someone even sits down. Seasonal mailers and postcards: Easter and Christmas are moments when direct mail can genuinely reach unchurched neighbors. A postcard someone picks up off their kitchen counter has a longer shelf life than a Facebook post they scroll past. Connection cards and giving envelopes: These small-format pieces are handled repeatedly. Quality design and paper stock communicate that your church takes hospitality seriously. Where churches overspend on print Large-format posters inside the auditorium rarely get read. Stacks of flyers for midweek events often sit untouched. Before you send something to print, ask honestly: will someone pick this up, or is it visual clutter? If it is clutter, redirect that budget to digital. Digital Graphics Reach People Before They Walk In Your website, social media, and email list are the first impressions most visitors will have of your church. This is where consistent, high-quality graphics do the most strategic work. The highest-impact digital touchpoints Sermon series artwork: A cohesive set of graphics for a sermon series builds anticipation and gives your congregation something shareable. See how churches approach this with sermon series graphics designed for ministry teams. Social media posts and stories: Consistent branding across Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube signals that your church is active and trustworthy. This matters especially to younger visitors who research a church online before visiting in person. Short-form video graphics: Sermon clips and reels are among the most effective ways to reach people outside your congregation. Titles, lower thirds, and thumbnail art all affect whether someone watches or keeps scrolling. If your team is exploring this format, sermon reels and shorts can help you get started without a production team. Event promotion graphics: Digital graphics for email campaigns and social promotion have no printing cost and can be updated right up until the event date, making them far more flexible than print. Where churches underinvest in digital Many churches spend hours on a printed bulletin no visitor will see, while their website sits with blurry stock photos and their Instagram has not been updated in three weeks. If you have to choose, prioritize the channels where people outside your building can find you. A Simple Framework for Deciding When a new design request comes in, run it through these three questions before committing resources. Who is the audience? If it is primarily current members, print may make sense. If it is potential visitors or the community at large, digital almost always has better reach. What action do you want them to take? Physical items work well for things people need to hold, like a connection card or an event ticket. Digital works better for driving clicks, shares, and registrations. What is the shelf life? Print has a fixed date after which it is waste. Digital can be updated, repurposed, or simply turned off. Practical Checklist: Quarterly Graphics Audit Set aside 30 minutes once a quarter to review your current design workload against this list. Are your lobby banners and signage still current and on-brand? Does your website homepage reflect the current sermon series or season? Are your social profiles posting at least 3 times per week with consistent visual branding? Do you have a plan for Easter or Christmas mailers at least 8 weeks out? Are you capturing and promoting sermon clips or short-form video content? Are there printed materials still in rotation that are outdated or underused? This audit will usually surface one or two areas where you are either overspending on print no one is using or neglecting a digital channel that could genuinely grow your reach. Getting the Most from Your Design Resources For many churches in the 100 to 1,000 attendance range, the bottleneck is not creativity. It is capacity. Volunteers burn out, staff wear too many hats, and design projects pile up. If your team is stretched, it may be worth exploring what a dedicated design partner could do for both your print and digital needs. Book a free consultation to see whether an ongoing design relationship could simplify your workflow and free your team to focus on ministry. Whether you handle design in-house or work with a service like PixelPainters, the principle is the same. Put your best graphics where the most people will see them, match the format to the audience, and stop spending time and money on materials that are not doing real work for your church. --- ### Church Design Planning: Christmas, Trunk or Treat, and What the Queue Taught Us https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-design-planning-christmas-seasonal-events A look at what 46 churches designed in one week, and three practical lessons about timing, seasonal patterns, and scope that every church communicator needs to hear. This article comes from episode 6 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. One hundred and nine new design requests. Forty-six churches. One hundred and fifty-five completed projects delivered. That was a single week in the design queue, and the pattern hiding inside those numbers is worth paying attention to if you lead communications or ministry at a church. Josh Starr, founder of PixelPainters, has been tracking the weekly request data closely, and three things stood out from this particular week in mid-September. Christmas graphics were already flooding in. Trunk or Treat requests came in from three completely separate churches in the same week. And one church submitted a request to put their logo on a vehicle. Together, those three things tell a story about how churches plan, where they get caught off guard, and how a little foresight can save a lot of scrambling. Is it too early to start designing Christmas graphics for church? Probably not. In fact, if you have not started yet, you may already be running behind. In the third week of September, a significant portion of the design queue was already Christmas: Christmas Eve graphics, advent sermon series artwork, Christmas party and Christmas tea invitations, advent study materials, Christmas digital assets, and even a Christmas break announcement graphic. These were not requests from churches that plan unusually far ahead. According to Josh, these were the churches that are simply on time. Here is why the timeline works the way it does. Advent series artwork needs to be approved before it can go to print. Printed materials need to be ordered before they can be distributed. Distribution needs to happen before people make their holiday plans. Each of those steps takes time, and they stack on top of each other. By the time most church teams start thinking about Christmas design in late October or early November, several of those windows have already closed. If you have not mapped out your holiday design needs yet, even a rough list is a good starting point. What series are you running? What events need promotional materials? What do you need printed versus digital? Getting that list down now puts you in a much better position than waiting until the calendar forces your hand. Why do seasonal church events like Trunk or Treat always feel like a design rush? Because everyone is planning at the last minute together. Three separate churches submitted Trunk or Treat graphics in the same week, with no coordination between them. That kind of simultaneous demand is not a coincidence. Seasonal events like fall festivals, Easter egg hunts, and back-to-school campaigns hit the entire church world at the same time. Which means every church is asking for the same kinds of graphics in the same short window, right when designers are already busy. Josh describes it simply: the wave is predictable. You can either get your request in before it builds, or you can ride it in alongside everyone else and hope for the best. If you know a seasonal event is on your calendar, the single most useful thing you can do is submit your design request early, before the crunch. Three things to do differently starting this week The week's data points to three concrete habits worth building into how your team approaches design requests. Start your Christmas design requests now. Audit your holiday calendar, list every graphic you will need for advent and Christmas, and get those requests submitted. Even a rough brief is better than a blank page in November. Identify your next seasonal event and submit early. Look at the next six to eight weeks on your church calendar. If there is a community event, a fall festival, or a holiday promotion coming, get your request in before the rest of the church world does the same thing at once. Give your designer context on scope. When a request involves something permanent or large-format, say so clearly. A social post that looks a little off can be updated the same day. A vehicle wrap is on the road for years. Tell your designer where the piece lives, how large it will be, and how long it will be in use. That one sentence can prevent multiple rounds of unnecessary revisions. That third point came from one of the more unusual requests in the week's queue: a church submitting a vehicle graphic. Josh noted that it stood out precisely because it sits in a different category from a bulletin insert or an announcement slide. Permanent, large-scale work has higher stakes, and designers need that information upfront to serve you well. If you work with an in-house volunteer or an outside team, the habit is the same: lead with context. If your team is ready to get ahead of the holiday season with professional design support, a free consultation is a good place to start. Frequently asked questions When should a church start designing Christmas and advent graphics? Most church communications teams should begin submitting Christmas and advent design requests by early-to-mid September at the latest. Printed materials, series artwork, and promotional graphics each require approval, production, and distribution time that compounds quickly. Churches that wait until October or November often find themselves rushed or unable to get printed pieces in time for the first Sunday of advent. How do I submit a good design request for something large-format or permanent, like a vehicle wrap or outdoor sign? The most important thing is to include context your designer would not otherwise know. Specify where the piece will live, the approximate size or dimensions if you know them, how long it will be displayed or in use, and whether it will be produced by a specific vendor who has file requirements. A brief note about permanence signals to your designer that this piece deserves a different level of care than a single-use social graphic, and it prevents back-and-forth that slows down delivery. How can our church stay ahead of seasonal design deadlines instead of always rushing? The most practical approach is to build a simple design calendar at the start of each quarter, listing every event, series, and campaign that will need graphics. Seasonal events like fall festivals, trunk-or-treat nights, and Easter outreach tend to land at the same time for churches everywhere, which means designers and print vendors are busy right when you need them most. Submitting requests two to four weeks before you actually need a finished piece gives you a buffer for revisions and production, and keeps your team out of the last-minute wave. PixelPainters works exclusively with churches and ministries, and the team behind the queue sees these patterns every single week. If your church wants a design partner who understands the rhythms of the church calendar, you can get started with two weeks free. --- ### Fall Ministry Launch: Graphics Every Church Needs https://pixelpainters.com/resources/fall-ministry-launch-graphics-every-church-needs Fall is one of the busiest seasons for church communications. Here is a practical guide to the graphics you need, when to start, and how to keep your team from burning out before October. Fall is the most active ministry season on the church calendar. New sermon series, fall kickoff weekends, small group sign-ups, volunteer recruitment, community events, and holiday programming all converge in a matter of weeks. If you wait until August to think about graphics, you will spend September playing catch-up. This guide is for the communications director, pastor, or ministry leader who is juggling all of it, often with a small team or a handful of volunteers. Here is what you actually need, in roughly the order you need it. Start With Your Sermon Series Your fall sermon series is the anchor for almost everything else. The series title, key scripture, and visual style will ripple across bulletins, social media, slides, screens, and printed materials for weeks. Getting this right early saves a lot of rework later. For each sermon series, plan to produce: A primary series graphic in horizontal and square formats Weekly title slides for each message Social media posts for announcement and countdown A bulletin or program insert Lobby or welcome screen versions If your church runs multiple series back to back through the fall, map them all out now. Knowing what is coming in October makes your September much calmer. You can browse examples of how other churches have approached this on our church sermon series graphics page. Fall Kickoff Weekend Graphics Many churches treat the first Sunday of September as a relaunch moment. Whether you call it Fall Kickoff, Back to Church Sunday, or something else entirely, this weekend often needs its own visual identity separate from your sermon series. Think through these touchpoints: Event banner or outdoor signage Social media announcement graphics (square, story, and event cover sizes) Email header graphic Volunteer and usher name tag design if you are refreshing those Kids and student ministry promotional materials Ministry and Program Sign-Up Graphics Fall is when small groups launch, ministry teams recruit new volunteers, and programs like financial classes or marriage studies kick off. Each of these needs at least a basic promotional graphic so it does not look like an afterthought. A simple system that works: create a consistent template style so all your fall ministry graphics feel cohesive even if they promote very different programs. This saves design time and makes your communications look intentional rather than piecemeal. Social Media Through the Season Between September and November, your social channels will need a steady stream of content: sermon quotes, event reminders, volunteer spotlights, scripture graphics, and holiday service announcements. This is where many church communicators feel the most overwhelmed, because the need is ongoing and there is never a clean stopping point. If your team is stretched thin here, it is worth exploring whether a design subscription could help you keep up without burning through your volunteer capacity. See how consistent social graphics can work for a church your size. A Practical Fall Graphics Timeline Use this as a starting point and adjust it for your church's specific calendar. 8 weeks out (mid-July): Finalize fall sermon series titles and scripture. Brief your designer or design service. 6 weeks out (late July): Primary series graphics and kickoff weekend assets should be in progress or complete. 4 weeks out (mid-August): Social media announcement graphics ready. Begin promoting kickoff weekend and fall small groups. 2 weeks out (late August): All print materials finalized and sent to printer. Email headers and digital signage ready to go. Kickoff weekend: Deploy lobby graphics, social posts, and any event-day materials. Ongoing through fall: Weekly sermon title slides, social content, and ministry promotional graphics as needed. A Note on Realistic Capacity Churches of 100 to 1,000 people rarely have a full-time designer on staff. Most communication directors are doing this work alongside several other responsibilities, or leaning on volunteers who have limited hours and varying skill levels. There is no shame in that. The goal is not a perfect design department; it is clear, consistent communication that serves your congregation well. If you want to see what other churches have done with a similar workload and budget, take a look at our portfolio of completed church projects. It gives a realistic picture of what is possible week to week. Getting Ready for the Season Fall ministry is too important to leave the graphics until the last minute. Map out your series, identify your highest-priority materials, and get your design process in place before August arrives. Whether you are working with an internal volunteer, a freelancer, or a service like PixelPainters, which offers unlimited church design requests starting at $490 per month with a typical 2 to 3 business day turnaround, the key is having a reliable system so your communications team can focus on ministry, not scrambling for files. --- ### Church Design Lessons from One Very Busy September Week https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-design-planning-tips-christmas-branding Christmas graphics in September, three ministry sub-brands at once, and a full set of physical print work. Here is what one week in the church design queue reveals about how to plan better. This article comes from episode 7 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. One week. Forty-nine churches. One hundred and thirty-six new design requests. That is a real snapshot of what church communications teams are actually working on right now, and the patterns that surface are worth paying attention to. Josh, who works closely with church media teams every week, noticed three trends that carry practical lessons for anyone managing church creative. Is September too early to start Christmas church graphics? The short answer is no. In fact, if you have not started yet, you may already be behind. Christmas was the dominant theme in this week's request queue, and we are talking about a week that landed in late September. Churches submitted Christmas sermon series graphics, Advent assets, Christmas party promotions, a Christmas play, a Christmas tea, and a Christmas open house for kids. That is not a handful of requests. That is a coordinated seasonal push already underway. The churches sending those briefs are not overreacting. They are giving themselves enough runway to iterate, refine, and build out a full promotional calendar before the season actually arrives. Churches that wait until November to think about Christmas creative end up rushing, and rushed creative rarely lands the way you want it to. Josh puts it simply: start earlier than feels necessary. That is almost always the right instinct with seasonal work, and Christmas is the biggest seasonal moment most churches plan for all year. What does good sub-branding look like for church ministries? One church this week submitted sub-branding requests for three different ministries in a single batch: Sunday school, men's ministry, and women's ministry. That is a significant creative lift. Getting distinct visual identities for three audiences delivered well, in the same week, requires more than good designers. It requires good briefs. According to Josh, the difference between a batch like that going smoothly and going sideways almost always comes down to clarity on the front end. When a church knows exactly what each ministry stands for, who it serves, and how it should feel different from the others, designers can move with confidence. When those details are fuzzy, no amount of skill closes the gap. The real deliverable in a sub-branding project is not the logo or the color palette. It is the clarity your team brings before the designer ever opens a file. If you cannot describe the personality and audience of a ministry in a few sentences, that is the work to do first. How to brief physical print work for church events The third notable pattern this week was a church that submitted five physical print pieces together: fabric displays, barricade signs, and a pop-up table, all clearly tied to a single event or location. Josh flagged it because of the physical scale involved, and because print work carries constraints that digital design does not. Dimensions are not flexible once something goes to a printer. Bleed margins exist for a reason. Production timelines eat into your planning window in ways that a quick social media graphic does not. A beautiful design built to the wrong dimensions is not a design that can be used. When you batch physical print requests, lead with specs. Not the concept, not the vibe, the actual measurements and file requirements. Your designer will thank you, and your event will thank you. A quick planning checklist for church design projects Whether you are heading into a seasonal push, a branding refresh, or a big event, these steps will save you time and frustration. Lock in your Christmas series concept and visual direction by early October at the latest. Build your seasonal promotional calendar before briefing any individual piece. For sub-branding work, write a one-paragraph description of each ministry's audience and personality before you open a request. Identify how each sub-brand should feel similar to your main brand and how it should feel distinct. For any physical print project, gather all vendor specs, including final dimensions, bleed requirements, and file format, before submitting your brief. Factor production and shipping timelines into your event planning calendar, not just design turnaround. Batch related requests together when possible so designers can see the full picture and maintain visual consistency. Frequently asked questions When should our church start designing Christmas graphics? Most church communications teams benefit from starting Christmas design work in September or early October. That timeline gives you space to develop a series look, build out promotional pieces across multiple formats, gather feedback from your pastor or leadership team, and still have finished assets ready well before the Advent season begins. Waiting until November compresses every stage of that process and tends to produce creative that feels rushed or incomplete. How do we create separate visual identities for different church ministries without making everything feel disconnected? The key is defining shared anchors before you introduce differences. Each ministry sub-brand should draw from your church's main brand in some visible way, whether through a shared typeface, a consistent use of your primary color, or a structural element in the logo system. From that shared foundation, you layer in the personality, colors, or marks that make each ministry feel like its own thing. The more clearly you can describe who each ministry serves and what it should feel like, the more confidently a designer can build something that is distinct but still part the same family. If you want to see how other churches have approached this, our work portfolio includes examples of multi-ministry branding projects. What information should I include when submitting a print design request to my designer? Always lead with the practical specs: final dimensions, bleed and safe zone requirements, resolution needs, and the file format your printer or vendor requires. Include the name of the vendor or print service if you have one, because different printers have different templates and preferences. After the specs, describe the purpose of the piece, where it will be displayed or distributed, and who will be looking at it. Giving your designer both the technical constraints and the human context up front means fewer revision rounds and a much lower risk of arriving at your event with something that cannot be used. If you are not sure where to start, a free consultation can help you set up a workflow that catches these details before they become problems. Church design teams are juggling more than most people realize, and the difference between a stressful season and a smooth one usually comes down to how early and how clearly you plan. PixelPainters exists to take the execution load off your plate so your team can focus on that upstream thinking. Your first two weeks are free if you want to give it a try at pixelpainters.com/get-started. --- ### How Much Does Church Graphic Design Cost in 2026? https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-graphic-design-cost-2026 From free templates to full-time hires, church graphic design costs vary wildly in 2026. Here is a clear breakdown of every option so you can find the right fit for your ministry's budget and workload. If you have ever tried to budget for church graphic design, you know the frustration. Prices range from almost nothing to tens of thousands of dollars per year, and it is genuinely hard to know what is fair. This guide lays out every realistic option for 2026, with honest numbers, so you can make a decision that actually fits your church. The Real Cost of Each Design Option Template Libraries: $9 to $19 per Month Tools like Canva, Adobe Express, and Church Motion Graphics give your team access to pre-built templates. Canva Pro runs about $13 per month. Church-specific template libraries typically land between $9 and $19 per month. This works well if you have a volunteer or staff member who enjoys design and has a few hours each week to spend on it. The tradeoff is consistency. Templates are starting points, not finished products, and without a trained eye, your social posts, bulletins, and series graphics can end up looking disconnected. Best for: Churches under 150 people with light, predictable design needs and a capable volunteer. Freelance Designers: $25 to $75 per Hour Hiring a freelancer through Upwork, Fiverr, or a personal referral gives you more custom work than templates. Rates in 2026 generally run $25 to $75 per hour depending on experience and location. A single sermon series package might take 8 to 15 hours, putting the cost somewhere between $200 and $1,100 per series. Freelancers can be a great fit for one-off projects. The challenges show up over time: availability varies, every new project requires a fresh briefing, and there is no guarantee of brand consistency from one freelancer to the next. Managing multiple freelancers also adds work to an already stretched communications team. Best for: Churches with occasional project needs and someone on staff who can manage the relationship well. Subscription Design Services: $490 to $797 and Up per Month Unlimited design subscription services have grown significantly in the church space. These services let you submit ongoing requests for a flat monthly fee, which makes budgeting predictable and removes the per-project anxiety. PixelPainters offers two plans built specifically for churches and ministries. The Unlimited Graphics plan is $490 per month and covers unlimited design requests and revisions with a typical turnaround of 2 to 3 business days. The PRO plan at $590 per month adds video production and multi-campus support. Every project is handled by Christian designers who have worked directly with church staff, which matters when someone needs to understand the difference between a stewardship campaign and a sermon series on rest. Church Media Squad is another option in this category, starting at $797 per month. Their service focuses heavily on video and motion content alongside static graphics. If video is your primary need, they are worth evaluating. If your priority is volume of graphics with fast turnaround, the price difference is worth comparing carefully. Best for: Churches of 200 to 1,000 people with consistent, ongoing design needs across multiple communication channels. You can browse examples of church design work to get a sense of what this kind of service actually produces. In-House Designer: $50,000 or More per Year Hiring a full-time graphic designer is the right call for some churches, especially larger ones with a heavy production schedule. But the true cost goes beyond salary. When you add benefits, payroll taxes, software licenses, stock asset subscriptions, and equipment, a $50,000 salary position often costs $65,000 to $75,000 annually or more. You also take on the risk of turnover. When a designer leaves, you are back to zero while you recruit and onboard a replacement, which can take months. Best for: Churches of 1,000 or more with a high design volume, a dedicated communications department, and the HR infrastructure to support a full-time creative hire. How to Choose the Right Option for Your Church Before you decide, work through this short checklist honestly. How many design requests does your team make per month? Count bulletins, social posts, sermon graphics, event flyers, and anything else. If the number is above 10 to 15, templates and freelancers will slow you down. Do you have someone with design skill on staff or as a reliable volunteer? If yes, templates may be enough. If no, you need a service or a hire. How consistent does your visual brand need to be? A church planting in year one has different standards than an established multi-site church. What is your actual monthly budget? Be specific. Subscriptions are only a good deal if you use them consistently. Do you need video, motion graphics, or just static design? This alone can determine which tier or service makes sense. If you are building out sermon series graphics every few weeks, a flat-rate service is almost always more cost-effective than hourly freelance work. The Honest Bottom Line There is no universally right answer here. A church of 120 people with a talented volunteer and a Canva subscription can produce solid communications. A church of 600 people running three services, two campuses, and an active social presence will burn that volunteer out and end up with inconsistent visuals. Match the solution to your actual workload, not to what you wish your workload was. If your church is in that middle range where DIY is not cutting it but a full-time hire is not yet realistic, PixelPainters was built specifically for that gap. You can book a free consultation to talk through your volume and see whether a subscription makes sense for where your ministry is right now. --- ### Church Design Planning: Christmas, Sermon Series, and Rush Orders https://pixelpainters.com/resources/church-design-planning-christmas-sermon-series Josh Starr breaks down what 47 churches designed this week and what their requests reveal about smarter creative planning for Christmas and beyond. This article comes from episode 8 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. One week in a design queue can tell you a lot about where churches are mentally. This week, 113 new requests came in from 47 churches, and 115 projects were delivered, meaning the team kept pace with demand. The mix of what came in, from Christmas Eve graphics to batch sermon series submissions to last-minute rush orders, points to a few patterns worth paying attention to if you oversee creative at your church. Is it too early to start designing for Christmas? Multiple churches submitted Christmas projects this week, including Christmas Eve graphics, Advent series branding, Advent bumpers, and banners for Christmas services. The calendar date when those requests came in: the second week of October. That might feel early. Josh points out that it actually isn't. Your congregation will walk into a grocery store this week and see Christmas displays. The churches that have their creative assets ready before November arrives are the ones who get to be intentional with their communication instead of reactive. The ones who wait until late November are squeezing their designers, approving work too fast, and often settling for something that doesn't quite represent the service they've worked so hard to plan. If you haven't opened a Christmas project yet, the practical move is to start this week, not after your next staff meeting. Even a rough brief with your series title and a few directional notes gives your designer something to work with and puts you ahead of the curve. Why batching your sermon series graphics is smarter than a weekly workflow One church this week submitted six or seven installments of the same ongoing series all at once rather than trickling them in one per week. Josh noted this as a standout pattern, and it's one other churches should consider copying. When you plan and design a sermon series as a whole unit, a few good things happen. Visual consistency is easier to maintain across the entire run. Gaps in the schedule surface early, before they become a Thursday crisis. And the creative decisions you make for week one actually inform weeks two through six, instead of each week feeling like a fresh start. The weekly-drip workflow feels manageable until it isn't. Batching takes more planning upfront but removes a recurring source of stress for everyone on your communications team. What rush orders are really telling you Two requests this week came in flagged as urgent, with capitalized labels and asterisks in the title. Both were from the same church, and both were for the same series that was already sitting in the queue through those back-to-back batch submissions. Josh's read on this: a rush order is usually a planning problem wearing a deadline costume. The request itself may be urgent, but the urgency was created upstream, in a calendar that didn't account for design time, an approval process that ran long, or a series that got planned too close to its launch date. The fix isn't faster turnaround. The fix is a creative calendar that stretches further than two weeks out. When your design requests are submitted well ahead of when you need them, most of those emergencies simply don't happen. A simple checklist for better church design planning Start your Christmas and Advent design requests now, before November, so you have time for revisions and approvals. When you plan a sermon series, submit all the graphics in one batch rather than week by week. Build your creative calendar at least four to six weeks out so design time is built in, not bolted on. Before marking anything as a rush, trace back to where the delay started and address that in your next planning cycle. Review your upcoming series and event schedule monthly so nothing sneaks up on your design team. If you want support putting these habits into practice, a free consultation is a good place to start talking through what your church's design calendar could look like. Frequently asked questions When should our church start designing Christmas graphics? Ideally, your church should begin designing Christmas and Advent graphics in September or early October at the latest. By the time November arrives, many churches are already scrambling, approval cycles are compressed, and the quality of the final work suffers. Starting early gives your team time to get the creative direction right, run it through proper approvals, and have assets ready before the season demands your attention elsewhere. How do we stop having so many last-minute design requests at our church? The most reliable way to reduce rush requests is to build a creative calendar that extends at least four to six weeks ahead of any event or series launch. Most urgent requests aren't truly unpredictable. They result from series being planned too late, approvals taking longer than expected, or design time simply not being factored into the production schedule. When you plan further out, the calendar absorbs those delays without everything becoming an emergency. Should we submit all our sermon series graphics at once or one at a time? Submitting all your sermon series graphics together in one batch is generally the better approach. It gives your designer a full picture of the series arc, makes visual consistency much easier to maintain, and surfaces any scheduling gaps before they become a problem. Submitting week by week can work, but it creates a recurring deadline pressure and often leads to inconsistencies in style or tone across the series run. PixelPainters works with churches and ministries on exactly this kind of ongoing creative work, from sermon series and Advent graphics to social content and event materials. If your team is heading into a busy season and wants reliable design support, you can get started here. Your first two weeks are free. --- ### Advent Church Design: Plan Early, Design in Batches https://pixelpainters.com/resources/advent-church-design-planning-tips Churches are already submitting Advent and Christmas graphics in mid-October. Here is what that timing tells us about how to plan your holiday design work without the December panic. This article comes from episode 9 of Church Design Weekly, our short weekly podcast on what churches are actually designing. Listen to the episode here. The third week of October is not when most church communicators expect to be thinking about Advent. But the design requests tell a different story. This past week, Josh walked through 109 new requests from 43 churches, and a noticeable share of them included words like "Advent," "Christmas Eve," and "holiday closure slides." The calendar is already moving, and the churches getting ahead of it are doing three things worth copying. When should churches start designing for Advent and Christmas? The honest answer, based on what actually lands in design queues, is earlier than you think. When churches are submitting Advent work in the third week of October, they are not being unusually organized. They are simply on time. Churches that wait until mid-November to think about Christmas graphics are not early planners anymore. They are competing with every other church that finally panicked at the same moment, and the results show. Josh puts it plainly: getting your creative direction locked and your requests submitted before the holiday rush is not a luxury for big-budget communications teams. It is just good timing. The stress of December does not come from December. It comes from decisions that did not happen in October. If your Advent series theme, your color palette, and your key dates are not decided yet, that is the place to start. The design work cannot move until the creative foundation is set. Why designing one format at a time wastes more time than it saves One pattern that stood out this week was a church that submitted four coordinated pieces for the same event, all sized differently: a widescreen banner, a square social card, and a smaller printed card. On the surface it looks like more work. In practice, it is the opposite. When you brief a designer once with all the formats you need, the designer builds the concept once and adapts it across sizes. When you submit a widescreen slide this week and remember the square post two weeks later, the designer essentially has to rebuild context from scratch. You brief twice, wait twice, and revise twice. The multi-format approach that showed up in the queue this week is not extra work. It is smart work done once. Every time you plan a new design, it helps to run through a short mental checklist of where it needs to live before you ever submit the request. How to batch your church design requests instead of chasing them week by week The most instructive example from this week was a church that submitted all four weeks of their Advent sermon series graphics in a single batch. Not one week at a time as the calendar crept forward, but the whole series, mapped out and submitted together. Josh described this as thinking like a project manager instead of a weekly firefighter. The difference is real. When you submit a full series at once, the designer can build visual consistency across all four pieces because they are holding the whole picture at the same time. When you submit week by week, you are hoping that consistency carries forward across multiple separate conversations. Batching also protects you from the mid-series crunch. If week three lands during a particularly busy stretch of ministry life, and you have already submitted it, the work still gets done on schedule. A practical checklist for planning your Advent design work Confirm your Advent series title, theme, and key Scripture before briefing any design work. List every date that needs a distinct graphic: each Sunday, Christmas Eve, any special services, and any closures or announcements. For each piece, write out every format it needs to exist in: slides, social posts, printed cards, lobby signage, and anything else your church uses. Group related pieces together and submit them as a single batch rather than separate requests across separate weeks. Build in at least one round of revision time before you actually need the files, so last-minute changes do not become last-minute emergencies. Set a personal deadline to have everything submitted at least three weeks before your first Advent Sunday. If you are not sure where to start, a free consultation can help you map out your holiday design calendar before the queue gets crowded. Closing thought The churches that are not stressed in December made quiet decisions in October. They locked their creative direction early, designed for every format at once, and batched their series as a single project instead of a rolling weekly scramble. None of that requires a large team or a big budget. It requires a plan made a few weeks before it feels urgent. PixelPainters exists to absorb exactly that kind of batch, with Christian designers who have worked on church staff and understand what these seasons actually feel like from the inside. But the planning principles are worth stealing regardless of how you get your design work done. Frequently asked questions How far in advance should I submit Advent and Christmas design requests? Most church communications teams that avoid December stress submit their Advent design work in mid-to-late October, well before the series begins. A good rule of thumb is to have all requests submitted at least three weeks before your first Advent Sunday. This gives your designer time to build the work, leaves room for revisions, and means you are not competing with the wave of urgent holiday requests that hits every design queue in November. Should I submit each week of a sermon series as a separate design request or all at once? Submitting a full series as a single batch almost always produces better results than submitting week by week. When a designer holds the entire series at once, they can build visual consistency across all the pieces intentionally rather than hoping it carries forward across separate requests. Batching also protects your schedule, because if a busy week comes along mid-series, the work is already in progress rather than waiting on a brief you have not written yet. What graphic formats should my church plan for when designing a new sermon series? At minimum, most churches need a widescreen slide for the worship screen, a square or portrait version for social media, and some form of printed or digital card for bulletins or event pages. Depending on your church, you may also need lobby signage, email headers, or story-sized graphics for Instagram and Facebook. The most efficient approach is to decide on all the formats you need before you submit your first request, so the designer can plan for the full system from the start rather than retrofitting new sizes after the fact. --- ## Case Studies ### How Grace Fellowship Church Went From Design Chaos to Stunning Visuals With Pixel Painters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/grace-fellowship-church-pixel-painters-unlimited-graphics Church: Grace Fellowship Church Challenge: Before discovering Pixel Painters, Grace Fellowship Church struggled with inconsistent and unprofessional communications. Flyers were being produced in Word, social media lacked a cohesive visual identity, and the church had no reliable design infrastructure to rely on. The situation came to a breaking point when the volunteer designer who had been carrying the load burned out. Without a dedicated creative resource, the church was left without a sustainable way to communicate its events, ministries, and sermon series to its congregation and community. Solution: Grace Fellowship Church turned to Pixel Painters for ongoing graphic design support, and the impact was immediate. Sermon series graphics were being delivered in just two days, giving the church the professional visuals it needed to represent its ministry with excellence. With Pixel Painters handling design, Grace Fellowship finally had a consistent, high-quality creative presence across its communications. Pastor David no longer had to worry about burning out volunteers or settling for makeshift materials made in Word. Results: Since partnering with Pixel Painters, Grace Fellowship Church has seen real, tangible growth in event attendance. Pastor David attributes this directly to the fact that people can now clearly see what is happening at the church through compelling, professional visuals. The transformation has been so significant that Pastor David now recommends Pixel Painters to every pastor he knows, reflecting the deep trust and satisfaction Grace Fellowship has found in this creative partnership. "When we found Pixel Painters everything changed. The sermon series graphics come back in two days and they look incredible. Our attendance at events has actually grown because people finally see what is happening.", Pastor David, Grace Fellowship Church --- ### From Vision to Booklet: How Pixel Painters Helped Tehachapi Vineyard Church Welcome Their Next Generation of Servants https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/tehachapi-vineyard-church-youth-serve-team-onboarding-bookle Church: Tehachapi Vineyard Church Challenge: For any church with an active youth ministry, equipping young people to serve well begins long before they ever show up for their first shift. A thoughtfully designed onboarding booklet sets the tone, communicates values, and gives new team members something they can hold onto and refer back to. But creating that kind of resource takes real design skill, dedicated time, and clear communication between the ministry team and whoever is doing the creative work. For many churches, that process can feel slow and frustrating. Staff and volunteers are already stretched thin, and going back and forth with a freelancer or trying to produce something polished in-house often leads to delays, miscommunication, or a final product that does not quite reflect the heart of the ministry. Tehachapi Vineyard Church needed a better way to bring their Youth Serve Team onboarding experience to life in print. Solution: Tehachapi Vineyard Church turned to Pixel Painters and their Unlimited Graphics PRO subscription to get the project moving. With a dedicated team ready to take on the work, the church could focus on the ministry itself while Pixel Painters handled the creative execution. The onboarding booklet for the Youth Serve Team required a design that was clear, engaging, and appropriate for a younger audience while still carrying the warmth and professionalism the church wanted to represent. What stood out throughout the project was the quality of communication from the Pixel Painters team. Rather than leaving the church guessing about timelines or waiting days for updates, the process felt collaborative and responsive. That kind of partnership matters deeply to ministry teams who are counting on outside help to deliver something that reflects their vision accurately and on time. Results: The finished Youth Serve Team onboarding booklet gave Tehachapi Vineyard Church exactly what they needed to welcome new young volunteers with clarity and confidence. The project came together quickly, was executed with care, and left the ministry team genuinely impressed with the entire experience. Shawny Patrick summed it up simply and sincerely: the work was fast, the quality was high, and the communication throughout was exceptional. That combination of speed, craft, and responsiveness is what Pixel Painters aims to bring to every church and ministry they serve, and Tehachapi Vineyard Church experienced all three in one project. "So fast! So well done! Such great communication - AMAZING COMPLETION", Shawny Patrick, Tehachapi Vineyard Church --- ### How Soma City Brought God's Big Story to Life with Pixel Painters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/soma-city-gods-big-story Church: Soma City Challenge: Teaching the grand narrative of Scripture is one of the most important things a church can do, and it deserves visuals that match the weight of the message. For many churches, communicating a sweeping, cohesive concept like God's Big Story requires design that is both theologically thoughtful and visually compelling. Without the right creative support, ministry teams often find themselves settling for generic templates or spending hours trying to produce something that still falls short of the vision. Soma City faced exactly this kind of creative challenge. They needed print-ready, frameable graphics that could anchor their teaching series and help their congregation engage with the story of Scripture in a meaningful, lasting way. Like so many churches operating with limited in-house design resources, they needed a reliable creative partner who could turn their vision into something they would be proud to put on the wall. Solution: Soma City turned to Pixel Painters and their Unlimited Graphics PRO subscription to bring the God's Big Story project to life. With an unlimited graphics plan, their team could submit their creative vision and trust that experienced designers would handle the execution, without worrying about hourly rates, per-project fees, or design bottlenecks slowing down their ministry momentum. Pixel Painters worked with Soma City to deliver graphics that were ready to print and frame, purpose-built for use in a teaching environment. The subscription model meant the church had the creative bandwidth to pursue a project of this scope with confidence, knowing they had professional design support standing behind every deliverable. Results: The response from Soma City speaks for itself. Joel Pollitz expressed immediate enthusiasm for the finished work, describing it as solid and expressing excitement to print, frame, and teach from the graphics. That kind of reaction reflects what happens when a ministry team receives design that truly serves their calling rather than just filling a slot on a slide deck. For Soma City, the God's Big Story graphics became something worth displaying and building a teaching series around. For churches exploring how to invest in their visual communication, this project is a clear example of what becomes possible with the right creative partner in their corner. "sold... let's go! solid work! Can't wait to print and frame these and teach from them.", Joel Pollitz, Soma City --- ### From Vision to Print: How Pixel Painters Helped Coram Deo Church Bring a Legacy Campaign to Life https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/coram-deo-church-legacy-planting-the-future-together Church: Coram Deo Church Challenge: For many churches, communicating a vision as meaningful as a church planting initiative requires more than words. It requires design that honors the weight of the moment, invites people into the story, and reflects the heart of the ministry. Creating a polished, print-ready document for a campaign like Legacy: Planting the Future Together demands careful attention to layout, typography, and messaging, all of which can stretch the capacity of a busy church team. Most churches do not have a dedicated in-house graphic designer, which means projects like double-sided campaign documents often fall to staff members or volunteers who are already wearing many hats. Without a reliable creative partner, these important pieces can stall, get rushed, or fall short of the vision the leadership had in mind. Solution: Coram Deo Church turned to Pixel Painters and their Unlimited Graphics PRO subscription to bring the Legacy: Planting the Future Together document to life. With unlimited revision requests and a dedicated design team ready to respond, the church was able to move through the creative process at their own pace, without sacrificing quality or feeling pressured to settle on something too quickly. The project became a true collaboration between the church and their Pixel Painters designer. Through an iterative back-and-forth process, the team worked through the details of a double-sided document that needed to communicate a compelling, forward-looking vision. That kind of ongoing creative dialogue is exactly what the Unlimited Graphics PRO service is built for, giving churches the freedom to refine until the final piece truly reflects their mission. Results: The end result was a finished piece that Coram Deo Church felt genuinely good about. As Lyndsey Rickabaugh shared in her review, the process was enjoyable even though it took time, which speaks to the patience and responsiveness of the Pixel Painters team throughout the project. Her five-star review captures what a healthy church-designer relationship can look like: collaborative, encouraging, and ultimately satisfying. For churches embarking on significant ministry initiatives, having a creative partner who stays engaged through the long haul can make all the difference. "This was fun! Thanks Claire! This was a back-and-forth project that took a long time. I am satisfied with the end result! Thanks!", Lyndsey Rickabaugh, Coram Deo Church --- ### From Vision to Reality: How Pixel Painters Helped Community Fellowship Church Bring Their Men's Fall Retreat to Life https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/community-fellowship-church-mens-fall-retreat-2026 Church: Community Fellowship Church Challenge: Planning a men's retreat takes enormous energy, and creating compelling promotional graphics often falls to volunteers or staff members who are already stretched thin. For many churches, the challenge is not just finding someone with design skills but finding someone who can take a rough, unpolished idea and transform it into something that truly captures the heart of the event. Community Fellowship Church faced exactly this kind of moment as they prepared for their Men's Fall Retreat 2026. Churches frequently struggle to communicate the feel and purpose of an event through visuals alone. A retreat like this carries weight, brotherhood, spiritual renewal, and a call to something deeper. Translating those core ideas into a single graphic requires both creative skill and a willingness to listen closely to what a ministry team is trying to say. Without a reliable design partner, that process can stall before it ever gets started. Solution: Community Fellowship Church brought their early ideas to Pixel Painters through the Unlimited Graphics PRO subscription, and the team got to work turning those initial concepts into a finished design. Rather than simply executing a brief, Pixel Painters engaged with the vision behind the retreat, asking the right questions and working collaboratively to shape the direction of the graphic from the ground up. That kind of partnership is especially valuable when a ministry team has a clear feeling about what they want but needs help finding the right visual language to express it. Throughout the process, Pixel Painters remained highly responsive, keeping communication open and making it easy for the church to give feedback and see the design take shape. For busy ministry teams, that responsiveness is not a small thing. It means fewer delays, less back and forth, and more confidence that the final product will actually reflect the heart of the event. Results: The result was a graphic that grew naturally from the church's own ideas, refined and elevated through the collaborative process with Pixel Painters. Community Fellowship Church walked away with promotional artwork that was ready to represent their Men's Fall Retreat 2026 with clarity and purpose. Caleb Comeaux summed up the experience simply and well: the team helped develop the vision from some core ideas all the way to the final graphic, and they did it while staying responsive every step of the way. For any church looking for a design partner that listens, engages, and delivers, that kind of experience is exactly what Pixel Painters is built to provide. "Helped develop the vision of the graphic from some core ideas to the final graphic. Very responsive.", Caleb Comeaux, Community Fellowship Church --- ### How Blue Ridge Bible Church Made Their Fall Ministry Kick-off Sunday Shine with Pixel Painters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/blue-ridge-bible-church-fall-ministry-kick-off-sunday Church: Blue Ridge Bible Church Challenge: Every fall, churches face one of their busiest and most visible moments of the year: the Ministry Kick-off Sunday. This single event sets the tone for an entire season of programming, outreach, and community engagement. Creating graphics that feel fresh, unified, and energizing across bulletins, social media, signage, and announcements is a tall order, especially for church staff who are already stretched thin managing logistics, volunteers, and pastoral care. For many congregations, the design challenge goes beyond just making things look nice. Typography, color choices, and visual hierarchy all work together to communicate urgency, warmth, and excitement to both longtime members and first-time guests. Without a skilled designer who understands how those elements interact, fall kick-off materials can feel flat or inconsistent, undermining the momentum a church is trying to build heading into a new season. Solution: Blue Ridge Bible Church turned to Pixel Painters and their Unlimited Graphics subscription to handle the creative work for their Fall Ministry Kick-off Sunday. Rather than scrambling to piece together designs from templates or hiring a freelancer on short notice, the church had access to on-demand professional design support dedicated to serving ministries just like theirs. Pixel Painters brought focused creative attention to the project, delivering graphics that balanced visual energy with clarity. The team worked with the church's needs to ensure that color palettes were bold and inviting, and that typography was clean and easy to read at a glance, whether on a screen or in print. That kind of thoughtful craft matters deeply when a church wants every touchpoint of a major Sunday to feel polished and purposeful. Results: The finished graphics clearly made an impression. Geni Hall responded with an enthusiastic five-star review, praising Pixel Painters for their "incredible talent for colors and word spacing." That specific combination, color and typography, reflects exactly the kind of detail that elevates church design from functional to genuinely memorable. For Blue Ridge Bible Church, their Fall Ministry Kick-off Sunday had visuals that matched the excitement of the occasion. With Pixel Painters handling the creative side, the church team could focus on what they do best: welcoming their community and launching a season of meaningful ministry. "Incredible talent for colors and word spacing! WOW! LOVE Pixel!", Geni Hall, Blue Ridge Bible Church --- ### How Vantage Point Church Refreshed Their Kids Ministry with Pixel Painters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/vantage-point-church-kids-revamp-26 Church: Vantage Point Church Challenge: For churches running an active kids ministry, design is rarely a one-and-done task. From event flyers and series artwork to signage, social media posts, and parent communications, the creative needs multiply quickly and often arrive with tight turnarounds. Ministry teams are passionate about serving families well, but most do not have a dedicated in-house designer to keep up with the volume. For Vantage Point Church, the Kids Revamp 26 project represented an exciting opportunity to refresh and energize their children's ministry brand. Projects like this involve multiple rounds of creative work across a variety of materials, and they require a design partner who genuinely understands the vision, not just someone who can execute a brief. Finding that kind of responsive, detail-oriented collaboration is a real challenge for churches working with limited resources and fast-moving ministry calendars. Solution: Vantage Point Church turned to Pixel Painters and the Unlimited Graphics subscription to power their Kids Revamp 26 initiative. With unlimited graphic design requests included in their plan, the team could submit the creative work they needed without worrying about per-project costs or scope limitations. That freedom allowed them to focus on the vision rather than the budget. Central to the experience was the attentive, communicative support they received throughout the project. Their Pixel Painters designer took the time to truly listen to what the Vantage Point team was looking for, bringing strong attention to detail to every deliverable and turning work around quickly so the ministry could keep moving forward. That kind of responsive partnership made it possible for the church to bring their kids ministry refresh to life with confidence and care. Results: The Kids Revamp 26 project came together with the quality and timeliness that Vantage Point Church needed. The team felt genuinely heard throughout the process, and the final creative work reflected both their vision and the care that went into executing it. Rather than feeling like a transactional handoff, the collaboration felt like working alongside someone who was personally invested in the ministry's success. Mariah Piefer summed up the experience simply and enthusiastically, giving the partnership a glowing 12 out of 10. Her review speaks to what churches everywhere are looking for in a design partner: someone who listens well, works carefully, and delivers without unnecessary delays. Pixel Painters provided exactly that for Vantage Point Church. "Jen is always such a huge help and truly listens to what we're looking for, has great attention to detail and works in a timely manner to get what we need done quickly, with care! 12/10!", Mariah Piefer, Vantage Point Church --- ### How Eastgate Church Brought a Parable Series to Life with Pixel Painters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/eastgate-church-kingdom-come-parables Church: Eastgate Church Challenge: For churches preparing a sermon series, the design work carries real weight. A series like KINGDOM COME: How Jesus Revealed It in Parables requires visuals that feel both theologically grounded and visually compelling, capturing the richness of Jesus's storytelling without feeling generic or rushed. That is a tall order for any ministry team. Most church staff are juggling communications, volunteer coordination, and pastoral responsibilities all at once. Finding time to brief a designer thoroughly, wait through rounds of revisions, and still meet a Sunday deadline is one of the most common frustrations ministry communicators face. Getting a designer to truly hear and apply specific creative direction can feel even harder. Solution: Eastgate Church brought their KINGDOM COME series to Pixel Painters through the Unlimited Graphics PRO subscription, submitting their creative notes and direction for the project. Rather than a back-and-forth process that stretched across days, their dedicated designer engaged closely with the brief from the start. Pixel Painters is built around the idea that churches should not have to repeat themselves or fight to be understood. The designer assigned to Eastgate Church took the team's notes seriously, treating their input as the creative foundation rather than a starting point to be reinterpreted. The result was design work that reflected exactly what the ministry had in mind for this parable-focused series. Results: Stephen Combs summed up the experience simply and clearly: 'She took our notes and was able to apply all of them perfectly!' That kind of response says a great deal. It means the design process did not become another item on an already full ministry plate. It means the creative vision Eastgate Church had for KINGDOM COME was honored and executed with care. For a series rooted in the parables of Jesus, where every visual choice helps set the tone for how a congregation encounters Scripture, that alignment between intent and outcome is exactly what a church needs. Pixel Painters gave Eastgate Church the confidence that their notes would be heard and their series would look the way they imagined it. "She took our notes and was able to apply all of them perfectly!", Stephen Combs, Eastgate Church --- ### Celebrating a Decade of Faith: How Pixel Painters Helped Living Water Foursquare Mark a Milestone https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/living-water-foursquare-10th-birthday-celebration Church: Living Water Foursquare Challenge: Milestone celebrations like a church's 10th anniversary carry deep meaning for a congregation. For Living Water Foursquare in Yelm, this birthday was a moment to honor ten years of community, growth, and ministry together. That kind of occasion deserves design work that feels special, polished, and true to the church's identity, not something thrown together at the last minute. For many churches, pulling off great event graphics is a real struggle. Volunteer-run communications teams are often stretched thin, and the pressure to produce birthday banners, social media posts, event flyers, and promotional materials all at once can quickly become overwhelming. Without a reliable creative partner, important moments like a 10th anniversary can end up undersold by design that does not quite do the occasion justice. Solution: Living Water Foursquare turned to Pixel Painters and their Unlimited Graphics PRO subscription to handle the design work for the church's 10th birthday celebration. With unlimited requests and a dedicated creative team behind them, the church was able to submit their vision and trust that it would come back looking exactly the way a decade-long milestone deserves to look. Pixel Painters' model is built for the rhythm of ministry life, where deadlines are real and the calendar waits for no one. The team was able to move quickly on the birthday project, delivering polished, celebration-worthy graphics without the usual back-and-forth delays that can slow a volunteer communications team down at the worst possible time. Results: The experience left a clear impression on the Living Water Foursquare team. Bob Horn's enthusiastic five-star review points to two things that matter most when a church is counting on outside creative support: quality and speed. The praise for the designer by name reflects the kind of personal, attentive service that makes a real difference when a congregation is trying to celebrate something meaningful. For a church marking ten years of ministry in Yelm, having a creative partner who could deliver beautiful work quickly meant the team could focus on what mattered most, welcoming their community and celebrating together. That is exactly what Pixel Painters is built to do. "Claire does SUCH an amazing job! And the turnarounds are quick!", Bob Horn, Living Water Foursquare --- ### How Southbrook Church Made Students Feel Seen from Day One with PixelPainters https://pixelpainters.com/case-studies/south-brook-church-student-welcome-bag Church: Southbrook Church Challenge: First impressions matter deeply in student ministry. When a young person walks through the doors of a church for the first time, every detail of their welcome experience sends a message about whether they belong. A thoughtfully designed welcome bag with polished, intentional graphics can make a teenager feel genuinely seen and valued, while a hastily assembled or visually inconsistent piece can quietly communicate the opposite. For many churches, creating professional print materials for student ministry is a persistent challenge. Ministry staff are passionate and gifted, but graphic design is often not in their wheelhouse, and hiring a freelance designer for every project can be costly and slow. Southbrook Church needed a design for a card to include in their Student Welcome Bag, and they needed it to reflect the warmth and excellence of their student ministry without the friction of a lengthy, complicated creative process. Solution: Southbrook Church turned to PixelPainters and their Unlimited Graphics subscription to bring this welcome card to life. The Unlimited Graphics service is built for exactly this kind of ongoing ministry need, giving churches access to professional graphic design without per-project fees or long turnaround times. The team at PixelPainters worked closely with the church to create a card that would resonate with students and represent the ministry well. The collaborative relationship between Southbrook Church and PixelPainters made the process smooth and enjoyable. Rather than navigating the uncertainty of working with an unfamiliar designer, the church was able to communicate their vision and trust that the creative team would deliver something that truly fit. That kind of reliable, relationship-driven design partnership is at the heart of what PixelPainters offers to churches and ministries. Results: The finished welcome card landed exactly where it needed to. The Student Ministry Director loved the design, a strong sign that it captured the right tone and energy for the students it was meant to welcome. When the people leading a ministry are genuinely excited about a piece, that enthusiasm carries into how it is used and presented. For Karen Tarantino and the team at Southbrook Church, this project was one more confirmation of a creative partnership they have come to rely on. Her review reflects not just satisfaction with a single design, but an ongoing trust in PixelPainters to show up with quality and care every time. That kind of lasting relationship is what PixelPainters is built to create. "The Student Ministry Director says this card is awesome. He loves it. And I always love your designs and enjoy working with you. Thanks.", Karen Tarantino, Southbrook Church ---