Church.tech makes it easy to transform your sermon into small group content in just minutes, allowing your church to engage deeply with the message throughout the week. This guide will walk you through the steps to upload your sermon and generate high-quality small group material using the powerful tools within our platform.

Why Use Sermons for Small Groups?

Most pastors know their congregations and communities extremely well, which is why sermons are uniquely designed to resonate with their audience. However, many churches struggle with creating additional resources, like small group curriculum, based on their sermons due to time constraints. Church.tech solves this problem by letting you quickly generate robust group content tied to your sermon, allowing you to extend the impact of your Sunday message into small groups.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Small Group Content

1. Upload Your Sermon

After you’ve preached, upload your sermon to the Church.tech platform. You can also use a practice sermon if you'd like to get a head start. Once uploaded, you’re just a few clicks away from creating content.

2. Create a Group Leader Guide

Once your sermon is uploaded:

Click on "Create Page."
Navigate to the Group Leader Guide template and Click "Create Page"
Give your group content a name and description. It’s a good idea to do this each week to keep your content organized.

Within minutes, a detailed Group Leader Guide will be generated from your sermon. This guide will include sermon recaps, discussion points, and additional content that will help facilitate meaningful group discussions.

3. Leverage Powerful Tools

Church.tech’s Pages feature offers much more than a simple text editor. With Pages, you can:

Copy the URL to share the page with your small group leaders.
Track engagement by viewing analytics, including who’s clicked the links and how many times the page has been viewed.

4. Customize Your Content

You can personalize your small group content to meet the needs of your church:

Add Announcements: Easily insert announcements or any other custom information.
Edit Sermon Summaries: Choose between quick summaries or standard summaries, and use AI tools to shorten or refine the text if needed.
Generate Icebreakers and Prayer Guides: With a single click, you can generate icebreakers or prayer guides that are directly tied to the sermon’s themes, making group discussions smoother and more engaging.
Use the Style Copilot feature to adjust images, adding effects like rounded corners or shadows to create a more polished look.

5. Incorporate Video and Artwork

You can also upload sermon videos and customize the look of your content:

Add or replace artwork to visually enhance the group content.
Add a video to the page from an embed link from Vimeo or YouTube so that viewers can rewatch the message.

6. Support for Multiple Languages

If your church serves multiple language groups, you can use Church.tech to create multilingual content:

Translate your group leader guide into another language (e.g., Spanish).
Each translation will generate a unique link and offer separate analytics so you can track how each language group is engaging with the content.

Note: While the text will be translated, video and images will not, so be sure to provide localized media if necessary.

7. Monitor Engagement with Analytics

Once your small group content is live, you can track engagement using built-in analytics.

See how many people have viewed the page, clicked links, and interacted with your small group resources, helping you measure the impact your sermon is having throughout the week.

With Church.tech, creating small group content from your sermons is easy and incredibly powerful. In just a few clicks, you’ll have a comprehensive group leader guide that extends the reach of your Sunday message and keeps your congregation engaged throughout the week.