Recap Sunday

How it works

Four steps, and you do one of them.

  1. Your recording reaches us

    Three ways, and you pick whichever already fits. A podcast feed is the easy win: most churches already have one, it carries just the sermon, and we can read it the moment an episode posts. A YouTube channel works. A synced folder from your soundboard works too. We set that up with you.

    Board audio transcribes far better than a phone in a room, and a sermon-only feed beats a 65 minute service stream: better pages, and an archive job costs less. If all you have is YouTube, start there; we will meet you where you are.

    A pastor mid-sentence at a pulpit, seen from the congregation.

  2. It gets transcribed

    Word for word, with timings kept. A 45 minute message is usually done inside a few minutes of the file landing. Every line is filed by the minute it was said, which is what makes the whole archive searchable later.

    A wall of identical unlabelled filing drawers with one pulled open and lit.

  3. It gets written up

    A recap that follows the preacher's actual line of thought. A title. A description. Every passage. Social copy. All of it from the recording, none of it invented.

    Somebody awake late at night, searching a church's sermon archive on a laptop by lamplight.

  4. It goes on your website

    Automatically, or after somebody on staff reads it. Your call, and you can change it any week.

    A sermon page from Tribe, a real Recap Sunday church: the message title, the series, listen, watch and study guide buttons, and the title slide with the church's own logo, all generated from the recording.

Off a real Sunday, not a mockup

Everything below is pulled live from the pages we run for Tribe in Jackson Hole. It is what their most recent messages generated, shown as it stands right now.

Title slides

Title slide: You're Not Being Very Sensitive, JesusTitle slide: You're Not Being Very Inclusive, Jesus

Share graphics, on every sermon page

Quote card from a real Tribe message
Quote card
Scripture card from a real Tribe message
Scripture card
Main points card from a real Tribe message
Main points card
Story, sized for Instagram from a real Tribe message
Story, sized for Instagram

Honest answers to the questions we get

Is a computer writing about scripture?

A computer is writing down what your preacher said, and then summarising it. Summarising means deciding what mattered most, so we will not pretend there is no judgement in it. What we do promise is the source: nothing comes from outside the recording. No other teaching, no commentary, and no passage your preacher did not use. Every page says the recording is the record, and you can require a person to approve every one before it goes live.

Our sound is a phone pointed at the stage.

Then start there, it still works. But if that phone can take a feed off the board instead of a room mic, the transcript gets dramatically better and it costs nothing. We will tell you exactly how.

Nobody here can edit our website.

That is the normal case, and it does not stop you. Your recaps get their own pages at your own address without anyone touching your existing site. If you later want them on your main site, that is one line to paste.

What happens to our old sermons?

If audio exists, they can be run through too. Ask us, because a large archive is worth planning rather than starting on a Sunday night.

Who owns the content?

You do. Transcripts, recaps, all of it. If you leave, you take it with you.

Ready when you are

Get set up See pricing