Niv Bible For Easyworship 2009 Free Download
Emillen Metivier
Just a few tips before we start going over some possible ways you can design your scripture slides. Under Edit > Options, you can adjust whether you have verse numbers or the reference appear. You can also decide where you want the reference to be shown and other details that you can personalize for your house of worship.
Then move your scripture text down to fill in the lower third. This may take more adjusting as your text might not all fit on one slide. Be patient and work with it to make sure that everyone can still read the text.
Casey Stephan has been a church administrator and communicator for 15 years both in Tulsa, OK and South St. Paul, MN. Currently, she works as the Media Store Manager at EasyWorship (easyworship.com) where she enjoys connecting churches with the right worship media.
We're considering switching rom EasyWorship to OpenLP. I need to convince the decision makers that OpenLP is a stable product. I need to answer basic question such as : How long has it been a product? How many churches use OpenLP? How stable is the program in Windows? I need to know for sure that we will have a seamless transition from EasyWorship to OpenLP. Please advise. Thank you!
I've tried a lot of software packages, quela, easyworship, freeworship etc.. Even dabbling with SongPro (which I don't like, way too overcomplicated) and for many years used Zionworx. but Open LP stands out. Easy to setup.. (took me about 20 mins to learn how to use it), importing all my existing songs was straightforward, the ability to display images without resorting to PPT (which uses up way too much system resources). the availability of the NIV Bible ..... and for some strange reason that other software packages seem to lack. The ability to load a different song, without it going live straightaway. A big bonus in our Worship services..
@lpgrimm You might find that OpenLP can import songs from EasyWorship very smoothly and without any manual intervention. We migrated from something called SundayPlus (never heard of it anywhere except in our church) several years ago and the import wasn't as smooth as I'd hoped. I think OpenLP did provide a conversion tool but a lot of the songs ended up with weird characters in them, the verses weren't split correctly and none of the author fields were populated. I suspect this was due to the source format or the way they had been entered originally rather than a shortcoming of OpenLP. My solution took a few hours split over several days but was manageable.
We've just completed the move from EasyWorship to OpenLP. Today (February 25th) was the first Sunday where I didn't have an EW schedule available 'just in case.' The initial reason for leaving EW is their new policy of an annual subscription to keep up to date. However, having made the move over the last month and a half I find OpenLP veery easy to use and it does everything I've asked of it. Only those 'in the know' realised anything had change as the onscreen presentation uses themes that are identical to those I'd created in EW. It did take quite some time to create theme templates but well worth the effort.
We are looking at making the change across to OpenLP from Easyworship. We have been using EasyWorship 6 for just over a year and are keen to be able to control our slides from mobile devices. The $500 price tag for version 7 got me thinking of alternatives especially given a number of niggles we have with the software.
From my quick test I am impressed with OpenLP, especially the way the bible verses are split over slides and the SongSelect integration is much better than EasyWorship. The only downside I can see at the moment is that the custom slides are not as flexible/easy to edit as the EasyWorship equivalent (that is almost like PowerPoint). We currently use this for some graphical slides to announce things like coffee in the evening service. I know it is possible to still do this by creating a theme to use with a custom slide (or create an image) but it's just not as smooth ;-)
A new feature that I think would get round this problem is to have a menu item called "Edit" when you right click on a file (.png .svg .pptx .jpg etc) in the Service Manager (and maybe also in the library lists?). OpenLP could then open the default program to edit the image or presentation on your platform. This way if for example you have your notices saved as a group of .svg files and you notice a typo before the service, the operator could easily edit that slide by right-clicking on it and Inkscape popping up. My python is a little rusty so may take me a while to put it in myself however I think it should be easy to do and work on all platforms.
The other big plus (for me) is the opensource nature of OpenLP. If I get time it will be great to develop a plugin (if not already done and I have missed it?) to create a booklet pdf (or other format e.g. rtf) of a service (Including all the words to songs, readings and maybe PowerPoint slides). This would help automate the task we currently have been doing by hand in large print for some older members of our congregation who can't read the screens.
@johnd One of our users actually uses the stage view for accessibility in his church: -hidden-gem-of-openlp/
Not that a PDF export wouldn't be a great addition to OpenLP, just highlighting another workaround that some people have used :-)
We will be using the stage view for the stage, so probably not going to be an option. Having a quick look at the source I think I will be able to easily hack the "Print Service" to add a checkbox to include the words for songs and readings. I can then maybe add an "export to pdf booklet" if I get time.
I also experimented putting this mornings service in OpenLP. I think I can do everything essential to make it a viable alternative to EasyWorship. The one major issue I had was adding songs from CCLI. Currently, our worship leaders when picking songs email the office the song name and CCLI song number e.g.
O Praise The Name - #7037787A lot of Christian songs have similar names and some classics are reworked (also crediting the original author). We just find it the easiest way of stopping confusion (our leaders tend to pick songs from their music folder which is typically printed from SongSelect and has the song number on it anyway). With this in mind, it would be helpful if OpenLP could search for the song number both in the local database and when importing new songs from CCLI.
I think both of these suggestions will be easy to add and I will add them both as separate feature requests to track (or shot down if would only be me using them). My one question is... With the imminent release of version 3 I am assuming that I should put them into that branch (it will probably be a month before I have the time anyway - but the CCLI song number search would stop us from switching to OpenLP so will prioritise that).
I was wondering if someone can help.
We are looking to switch from EW to OLP however the biggest reason we want to switch is because with EW people setup their own profiles at home, this often means the database of songs they are drawing from are incorrectly formatted or they don't even have the latest songs on their home database!
Does OLP run a 'cloud' type function in terms of storing songs in a central library. Meaning that people can log in at home and put there presentation together for Sunday knowing they are using up to date songs?
Any help would be appreciated.
Jim
Can anybody give inputs on pros & cons on these two from their latest update model?
I know EasyWorship is way cheaper than the Proclaim's subscription based, have been around for awhile which means better reliability.
I'm not that familiar with Easy Worship. It's been a very long time since I tested it. I can say that the biggest strength of Logos is the ability to create a presentation on one computer and have it just show up on the church computer once you open the app and then open the new presentation from the Open menu.
As for the actual tool, building a presentation can be time consuming. It takes a lot of clicks to add things, make them look the way you want due to a lack of decent templates and no user created templates.
Finally, my biggest complaint is that I can't import all my sermon pictures and then add scripture or video files between them. You simply can't do that which is why it takes a much longer time to create presentations with Logos than with other worship software I've used which does allow for this.
My second biggest complaint is that it takes way too many clicks to add things. In other software they integrate a file browser and I can drag and drop. Sometimes our choir presents concerts and I get a bunch of images that go along with the themes of the songs and I do a kind of karaoke where I just grab an image based on whats being sung or said and throw it up on screen. I won't be able to do this with Proclaim, which means the next concert will require me to grab the Windows PC, hook it up to the projectors (not a simple thing) and run the old software again.
I'm hoping the DVD and Youtube things will get fixed. I doubt they will ever fix the problem with too many clicks and the problem with not being able to put bible verses or videos between images in slide shows. It's as if the designers never build sermon presentations that don't just include bible verses. If they do, they don't have the authority or ability to change it because I'm quite certain that they would after using it for any length of time.
Finally, if you plan to buy get in quick. I think the pricing is about to double. They call it an end to the introductory rates, but that's just marketing speak. It will double regardless of what you call it if you don't get in soon and commit to a long term commitment.
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