What this actually changes

Four situations. If none of them are yours, this is probably not the thing you need, and we would rather you found that out here.

Somebody googles your church and finds Billy Graham.

This is real and we can show you. On a church we checked in Texas, searching their own name returns their homepage, then their channel, then a run of date-titled videos whose search snippets are filled with Billy Graham and Charles Stanley.

That is not a penalty. It is a vacuum. The descriptions are empty, so the only text near those videos is the list of other preachers YouTube suggests beside them, and that is what a search engine reads and shows.

Their preaching is competing for their own name against people who have never been to their town.

A family moves to your town and looks for a church.

They are not searching your name, because they do not know it. They are searching a question, or a passage, or a season they are in.

Nothing you have preached in fifteen years is written down anywhere a search engine can read it, so none of it comes up. The churches that do come up are not necessarily better churches. They are churches with text on a page.

Every message titled properly and written up is another honest door into your church that costs nothing to keep open.

A long-time member asks for the series from years ago.

You know it exists. You cannot tell them where it is, because finding it means scrolling a channel sorted by upload date past a decade of files called 8-4-24.

Named, indexed and gathered into a series, that request takes ten seconds instead of being quietly dropped.

Churches do not lose their preaching because they threw it away. They lose it because it was never labelled.

What is included

All of it, listed. Nothing on this page is coming later.

The audit comes first

We count what is actually in your archive
We check how much still has usable audio, which is often less than a church expects
We write five of the titles for real so you can see them
You get a fixed price, not a range
The fee is credited in full against the job if you go ahead
You keep the five titles either way

Then the work

Every message transcribed
A real title written from what was actually preached
A description with the passage, the theme and timestamps
A scripture index across the whole archive at once
A recap page on your website for every message, not just the new ones
Series and topics gathered across the years

Getting the titles into YouTube, your choice

The sheet: old title beside new title, somebody there pastes them in. Nobody outside the church touches the account. This is the default
Or we do it: you add us as an editor under YouTube's own channel permissions
That route never involves a password, you stay the owner, and you remove us in a couple of clicks from your own settings
We will never ask for it. If you want it, you tell us

The part churches do not expect

Some of your archive is probably already gone, and you will not know until somebody looks. On the first big archive we audited, a third of everything before 2018 had no audio left in the system the church had been paying to host it in. Seven hundred and fifty messages came back. Three hundred and seventy-five did not.

That is the strongest argument for doing this now rather than in two years, and it is also the reason the audit exists. Nobody can quote an archive they have not opened, and we would rather tell you what is missing than sell you a number that assumes it is all there.

This is a one-time job with its own price. It is not included in the monthly.

Years of preaching, titled “8-4-24”, invisible to everyone.