Part of Sharing Your Church is making sure that when people come to your church building that you are reaching them where they are. Many churches today use digital projectors to show announcements, lyrics to songs and sermon outlines. Most of these churches use Microsoft PowerPoint to display these items on the screen. There are a few big reasons why they do this.
#1. PowerPoint comes installed on most laptops and desktop computers as part of Microsoft Office
#2. Even if they do not have Microsoft Office they could still use the same idea through Open Office or Google Docs.
#3. Most business people have the know how to run Powerpoint already. Little to no learning curve is necessary.
#4. They can’t afford the more costly presentation programs which are geared to churches and worship.

Media Shout, Easy Worship, and Live Worship are all great programs. Unfortunately with prices tags around $200+, they would take a huge chunk out of most small to medium sized churches budgets. Here’s where EasiSlides comes in. EasiSlides comes to the rescue with a free (yes I said FREE) presentation software package. It has some of the same features that the bigger presentation packages have, but with no cost.
Here’s a list taken straight from their web site of features you can find in their latest version.

Dual-Lingual Lyrics
Project lyrics in two different languages at the same time, should you have such lyrics in your database, for multi-lingual services .

Multimedia Support
Play Audio File or Video Background and Live Feed from an attached Camcorder along with the lyrics. Alternatively you can use our slide backgrounds, gradients or your own images.

Praisebook Generator
Print your own Praise and Worship Books.

Three Monitors Output
Output for Operator, Congregation and Choir/Musicians .

Html Generator
Produce all the necessary files to publish the lyrics on your church website.

Notations
Add notations, such as guitar chords to the lyrics.

Auto Rotate
Let the slides rotate automatically using timers, in step with a media file.

Alerts
Run Alerts during a live praise session, for example Nursery Alerts.

Bible
Search, Integrate and Run bible verses from the bible database. Add and Remove your own Bible Translations and Versions.

Formatting
Format your text and position your lyrics

This is quite possibly one of the best presentation programs out there. It is extremely easy to use and did I mention it was free? I know that my church has definitely found it’s new presentation software. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.