Service Planning & Run of Show
Order of service, worship songs and day-of details for every service and event.
Build a minute-by-minute Run of Show, add the worship set straight from your bulletin, and print a clean church-branded copy for the team. Save your Sunday as a template and next week is mostly done.
Sunday Worship · Nov 22
Main Auditorium · 9:30 AM
Fictional example · Not a live church record
A Run of Show everyone can follow
Start and end times, who’s up, where they stand and what to say — with nested items for the moments inside each segment.
Songs entered once
Pull the worship set from your digital bulletin, or search Spotify and Apple Music to add songs.
Never start from scratch
Reuse templates, or copy a whole Run of Show from one event to another and just swap the names.
Every minute, every person, every cue.
Add each moment with its start and end time. Open Details to add who’s leading it, where it happens, the script and anything to remember. Multi-day events get a separate Run of Show for each day.
- Start and end times beside each item
- Who, Where, Script and Remember in one tap
- Drag to reorder, with sub-items under any segment
- A separate list for each day of a multi-day event
Run of Show · Item details
Sunday · Nov 22Who
Pastor Mike
Where
Center stage, handheld mic
Script
Welcome guests, point to the Connect card…
Remember
Mention Thanksgiving meal sign-ups
Baby dedication
Sub-item under Welcome · 3 families
The worship set, connected to your bulletin.
Import the songs already in this Sunday’s bulletin so nobody types them twice, and refresh if the set changes. Or search Spotify and Apple Music to add songs with their links.
- Import songs from an existing bulletin
- Refresh when the bulletin changes
- Spotify and Apple Music search
- Song titles and artists, with listening links
Worship Set
Imported from bulletinBuild My Life
Housefires
Goodness of God
Bethel Music
Way Maker
Sinach
A guest-friendly schedule, separate from the cues.
Give guests a simple Public Schedule — doors open, dinner, the main program — while the detailed Run of Show stays with your team. Copy the public schedule into the Run of Show to get a head start.
- Public Schedule shown in clean cards
- Detailed cues stay internal
- Copy to Run of Show in one click
Public Schedule
Shown to guestsDoors open & dinner
5:30 PM
Kids program begins
6:15 PM
Candlelight service
7:00 PM
Save Sunday once. Reuse it every week.
Save any Run of Show as a template for future services, or copy one straight from another event. Change the names and announcements, and you’re ready.
- Run of Show templates managed in Event Settings
- Copy FROM another event or TO another event
- Works for Sundays, holidays and special events
Reuse your plan
TemplatesSunday Morning
12 items · used 18 times
Christmas Eve
16 items · 2 days
Baptism Sunday
14 items
Print it simple or print it detailed.
Choose a compact one-page outline, or a detailed timetable with your church’s logo and colors, section bands and every note included.
- Simple outline that fits on one page
- Detailed timetable in your church branding
- Every note and detail included
- Print or save as a PDF
Simple
One page9:15Pre-service countdown
9:25Welcome & announcements
9:30Worship
9:50Message · Hope for the Weary
Detailed · Church branded
Everything else that makes the day run.
Event Settings keeps the pieces you reuse in one place, so each new event starts further along.
Saved vendors
Caterers, sound techs and florists you add to an event are saved for your church, ready to pick next time.
Task templates
Add a ready-made checklist to any new event — set-up, promotion, follow-up — without retyping it.
Volunteers & check-in
Schedule serve teams and check people in from the same event, so the plan and the people stay together.
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