The pastor’s manuscript becomes slides between Thursday and Friday. Sermon slides are finished before Sunday morning, always.
How the manuscript arrives
Usually on Thursday, the pastor sends a Google Doc with the full manuscript. Anything highlighted in red should become a slide. Most of it is Scripture. The rest is quotes, lists, takeaways and images.
The highlighting isn’t always exact. A reference might be missing, or a passage might be paraphrased. Read for what he’s going for, and ask if you’re not sure.
Building the slides
- Download the Google Doc as a PDF and get it onto the ProPresenter Mac. Working remotely, we connect with the Screens app over Tailscale.
- Work through the red sections in order.
- Scripture: use ProPresenter’s Bible feature to pull the passage by reference. When he reads a whole passage, add it all at once. If he changes the wording, edit the slide to match what he’ll actually say.
- Quotes, lists and takeaways: build them in the current sermon series theme.
- Images and video: add them and test them.
- Leave out anything that isn’t highlighted.
Deadline
Done by Friday. Saturday is the backup. Sunday morning is for checking slides with the pastor, not building them.
On Sunday
The pastor checks his slides against what was built during the morning rehearsal window, before 9:45. Make any edits together with whoever’s running slides, so you both know where he’s going.