- Starting price
- $797/month after trial
- Free tier
- No
- Platforms
- Web · ClickUp · Email · Managed service
- Developer
- Church Media Company, LLC
- Launched
- 2017
- Updated
- Aug 9, 2026
The verdict
Church Media Squad is closer to an outsourced creative department than a design subscription app. A dedicated human team can learn a church’s style and produce custom graphics, video, social, branding, and website work at a scope no template library matches. The economics work when the queue replaces significant staff or freelance capacity. Run the 14-day-or-three-project trial with real briefs, measure approved throughput rather than submitted requests, and negotiate ownership, confidentiality, AI use, hosting exit, and current All-In price before committing.
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Church Media Squad was founded in 2017 by Michael Tuszynski after church staff experience exposed a recurring problem: ministry teams need continual design and video work, but requests are too varied for one volunteer and too frequent for a traditional one-project-at-a-time agency relationship. The company now describes a remote team of more than 70 ministry-experienced creatives across multiple countries, more than 2,500 churches served, and over 160,000 projects. Its model is a monthly creative subscription: the church submits briefs through ClickUp, communicates in writing with the assigned team, reviews concepts, requests revisions, and receives custom deliverables and source files.
The core plans are straightforward at first glance. Unlimited Graphics costs $797 per month. Unlimited Graphics + Video costs $1,697 per month and covers edited videos under 15 minutes. The All-In page currently shows $2,497 per month for graphics, video, branding, social media, web design and support, strategy, and a dedicated account manager. Annual payment on the first two plans is advertised as ten months for a year of service: $7,970 and $16,970. A free trial ends after 14 days or three projects, whichever comes first, and the first payment is then processed. The company also publishes higher non-church Pro-package pricing, so buyers must ensure they are viewing the church plan rather than a neighboring table.
“Unlimited” describes submissions, revisions, and users, not infinite simultaneous production. The site qualifies the promise as subject to guardrails for the normal needs of an average church. Current product material describes up to seven active projects for Graphics and Graphics + Video; terms allow up to 15 active projects across service types for All-In. Complexity and revision cycles determine completed throughput. A church can keep a long queue, but assigning fifty Easter assets on Friday will not produce fifty approved files by Sunday. The planning calendar and briefing discipline are part of the product.
We reviewed the current pricing, trial, FAQ, terms, privacy, refund, service descriptions, and planning information. We did not enter the trial, submit a project, inspect a private ClickUp space, interview a customer, test response time, or obtain a sample contract amendment. Vendor claims about first-concept approval, team size, churches served, awards, and project counts are presented as claims rather than independently audited facts. The review evaluates published scope, commercial structure, governance, and likely fit.
✓ The good
- Human creative work - designers and editors interpret a brief, apply judgment, and revise rather than returning raw automated output
- Church-context experience - the team understands sermon series, Easter, youth, children, worship, events, testimonies, and ministry calendars
- Custom rather than templated - assets are made for the member’s message and visual identity instead of selected from a common library
- Unlimited users and submissions - ministry leaders can participate without per-seat charges while maintaining a continuing queue
- Source files included - published plans promise editable project assets, reducing dependence on flattened exports
- Wide service range - graphics, short video, branding, social, WordPress, strategy, copy, and web support can sit under one relationship
- Low-risk evaluation - the trial allows 14 days or three projects before the first subscription payment
- Cancellation flexibility - plans are presented without a long contract, with pausing and self-service cancellation paths
✗ Watch out
- High monthly floor - $797 is beyond many small-church media budgets before video, social, web, or brand work is added
- Unlimited has guardrails - active-project limits, complexity, briefing, feedback, and turnaround determine actual throughput
- Pricing pages conflict - the live All-In card shows $2,497 while an official LLM index has listed $2,997
- Provider-favorable ownership terms - the agreement calls creations Church Media Squad intellectual property and needs careful license clarification
- Broad submitted-content license - member media may be used, adapted, sublicensed, and displayed for service and promotional purposes subject to stated controls
- Data is not automatically purged - the privacy policy says records remain after cancellation unless deletion is requested
- Third-party workflow exposure - ClickUp, Fillout, Stripe, Intercom, Airtable, Pipedrive, Meta, Dropbox, and other vendors may process materials
- Written project communication only - phone or video is not the ordinary revision channel, which may frustrate teams that think visually in live review
Best for
- Growing churches with a weekly queue that exceeds volunteer or staff design capacity
- Multi-role communications leaders who need dependable graphics and optional video editing
- Churches comparing an outsourced department with hiring one or more full-time specialists
- Teams able to plan several weeks ahead and write complete creative briefs
- Organizations willing to negotiate rights, confidentiality, AI preferences, and exit procedures
Avoid if
- Your monthly creative need is only a few simple slides or social posts
- Your budget cannot sustain at least $797 every active month
- You expect unlimited simultaneous projects or guaranteed next-day delivery at the base rate
- Your denomination or institution requires work-for-hire ownership, local-only processing, or a specific security addendum that is not negotiated
- Your staff cannot supply timely briefs, brand assets, approvals, and consolidated revision notes
What Church Media Squad is
Church Media Squad is a people-and-process service delivered through software, not software that produces media by itself. A membership buys access to an ongoing pool of specialists, a project dashboard, creative direction, queue management, revisions, and defined service categories. The church supplies goals, source material, brand constraints, deadlines, and approvals. The provider supplies creative labor and production capacity.
That distinction changes evaluation. A feature checklist matters less than the quality of interpretation, first concept, revision responsiveness, file organization, brand memory, and predictable weekly throughput. Two churches on the same plan can receive very different value if one submits a clear annual calendar with consolidated feedback and the other sends fragmented emergency requests from many staff members. Operational maturity multiplies or destroys the subscription’s economics.
Why churches use Church Media Squad: a continuing human department without adding payroll roles
A capable communications department may need graphic design, motion editing, social strategy, copy, web implementation, brand direction, project management, and pastoral context. One hire rarely covers all of that, while coordinating several freelancers creates a second job. Church Media Squad packages a bench of specialists and a queue into one vendor relationship, allowing the church’s internal leader to focus on brief, priority, voice, and approval.
The model is strongest when compared with total employment or agency capacity, not a $15 template subscription. At $797, the graphics plan can be economical if it consistently replaces dozens of skilled hours. At $1,697 or $2,497, leadership should calculate approved assets, internal hours saved, campaign outcomes, and avoided hiring costs. “We submitted a lot” is not a return metric; “we published on time with fewer staff hours and stronger consistency” is.
Graphics and video queue: unlimited requests, finite attention
Graphics can include sermon series systems, slides, print pieces, social assets, children’s and youth materials, event promotion, and other custom needs. The video tier adds projects under 15 minutes such as bumpers, recaps, testimony edits, announcement videos, and short social clips. Source files and unlimited users are included. Requests and feedback live in ClickUp, creating a written record and shared prioritization.
The active-project cap is the useful number. Seven projects can be in production on the main plans, while completed or paused work allows another request to move forward. A “project” can vary enormously, so churches should ask how a sermon package, multiple aspect ratios, long raw footage, captions, language versions, and revisions are counted. Trial throughput should become a written planning assumption, not an extrapolated promise.
All-In social, web, and branding: greater leverage and greater exit risk
All-In adds a dedicated account manager, brand development, WordPress design, sitemap and copy support, SEO practices, unlimited pages, Planning Center integration, sermon archives, groups, events, staff permissions, multicampus structures, hosting support, and a recurring sermon-based social package. The published social cadence includes two weekly sermon reels, a carousel, Facebook text, Sunday recap and invite posts, captions, scheduling, approval, and monthly analytics.
Bundling can eliminate vendor fragmentation, but it concentrates institutional memory and infrastructure. Before launch, document domain ownership, administrator credentials, plugin licenses, backups, source repository, analytics accounts, accessibility responsibility, SEO deliverables, content export, hosting transition, and what “own your website” means after cancellation. The terms’ $150 hosting-only option and deletion timeline make an exit plan necessary, not pessimistic.
Rights, privacy, and AI: ask before sending real ministry material
The privacy policy names contact, organization, billing, technical, and project data and identifies Stripe, Intercom, ClickUp, Fillout, Airtable, Pipedrive, and Meta among vendors. Data is stored through U.S.-based services and is not automatically purged after cancellation; deletion or deactivation is available by request. Church projects can contain member names, faces, testimonies, children, health situations, and unpublished stories, so ordinary marketing files can become sensitive data.
Terms say submitted content remains the member’s but grants a broad, transferable and sublicensable service and promotional license. They describe Squad creations as provider intellectual property, state member media is replaced with stock before resale unless permission is obtained, and allow an opt-out from design resale. AI may supplement creative and operational work with human review; members may prospectively request no AI use. Put ownership, portfolio use, confidentiality, child media, deletion, third-party model exposure, and AI opt-out in writing.
Pricing
Free trial
14 days or 3 projects
The trial ends at the earlier of 14 days or three completed/submitted trial projects, after which the first payment processes. Account setup may take one business day. Use representative work, not throwaway tests.
Unlimited Graphics
$797/month
Custom graphics, unlimited submissions, revisions and users, source-file access, no long contract, and a dedicated creative director. Current service material describes up to seven active projects. Annual billing is $7,970.
Unlimited Graphics + Video
$1,697/month
Adds edited video projects under 15 minutes, including bumpers, clips, testimonies, recaps, and promos. It retains the graphics queue and active-project guardrails. Annual billing is advertised at $16,970.
All-In
$2,497/month shown
Bundles graphics, short video, brand work, sermon-based social, custom WordPress web work and support, strategy, and a dedicated account manager. An official machine-readable page has shown $2,997, so obtain a signed quote.
Managed hosting after exit
$150/month standard
All-In members who cancel can move a Squad-hosted site to Managed Hosting Only. Without an active hosting plan, terms say hosting can suspend after 30 days and the site can be permanently deleted after 90 days.
Start with the trial, which is 14 days or three projects, whichever arrives first. Since the first payment follows automatically, record the conversion date and cancellation procedure before submitting the first brief. Choose three representative requests: one recurring package, one difficult brand interpretation, and one revision-heavy item.
Graphics costs $797 monthly or $7,970 yearly. Graphics + Video is $1,697 monthly or $16,970 yearly. Paying annually effectively receives two months without additional subscription cost, but a church should not prepay until it has observed normal—not trial-priority—throughput.
The live All-In pricing card showed $2,497 monthly at review time, while an official LLM index showed $2,997. The discrepancy needs a current written proposal specifying every service, active-project allowance, onboarding, web build, hosting, social cadence, annual term, and renewal rate.
A first-payment refund is available within 30 days if the member completes a Customer Success call. The detailed terms also mention a 10% processing fee for otherwise agreed refunds, while the shorter refund page says the first payment is refunded in full. Ask which wording controls and keep the answer.
Cancellation leaves access active through the paid cycle. Requests should reach Customer Success at least two business days before renewal when assisted cancellation is needed. Membership can pause for up to three months; All-In pauses move to hosting-only and are limited by the published rules.
Where Church Media Squad falls behind
Contract clarity. Price contradictions, broad content licenses, provider ownership of creations, resale opt-outs, processing-fee language, and hosting deletion should be consolidated into a plain client rights schedule before a church sends a deposit.
Measurable capacity. “Unlimited” dominates marketing even though active slots and task complexity govern delivery. Publishing median turnaround by project class, revision count, and service level would let buyers forecast honestly.
Security detail. The privacy policy names useful processors but not encryption standards, access roles, breach-notification timing, backup retention, regional controls, independent audits, or a downloadable data-processing agreement.
Accessibility and compliance ownership. Web, captions, social text, photo consent, music licensing, privacy notices, cookie controls, and child safeguarding all require an accountable party. The service pages should show what is included, reviewed, or left to the member.
Small-church entry. Even $797 is a major commitment. A defined low-volume plan or project bank could serve churches that need human custom work but cannot sustain an ongoing full queue.
Church Media Squad vs. an employee vs. freelancers vs. template libraries
Church Media Squad offers broader specialties and simpler scaling than one communications hire. An employee offers daily availability, deeper local relationships, physical production presence, confidential institutional knowledge, and direct accountability. Compare the subscription with salary, benefits, management, equipment, and the additional contractors a single hire would still need.
Freelancers can be less expensive when volume is sporadic and can provide a consistent named creative with clear work-for-hire terms. They can also disappear, book out, or lack adjacent skills. The Squad’s bench and project system provide continuity, while a trusted freelancer may offer more direct collaboration and ownership flexibility.
Canva, Church Motion Graphics, SundaySocial, and similar libraries cost dramatically less and deliver immediate self-service assets. They work when staff can edit and when uniqueness is secondary. Church Media Squad earns its premium when original interpretation, ongoing revisions, video editing, brand consistency, and staff time are the actual bottlenecks.
Church Canvas and general AI tools produce concepts rapidly for a fraction of the cost. They also shift prompting, proofreading, rights decisions, selection, and finishing back to church staff. Church Media Squad may use AI as a supplement but promises human oversight; members can request a prospective no-AI workflow.
The bottom line
Church Media Squad can be an excellent operational answer to a problem that software alone does not solve. Weekly church communication is not one image: it is a sermon system, screens, event collateral, social ratios, video cuts, captions, print, web updates, brand decisions, approvals, and last-minute changes. A continuing team of ministry-aware designers, editors, strategists, and web staff can give internal leaders back substantial time. The plans are correspondingly serious purchases: $797 for graphics, $1,697 for graphics and short video, and a live All-In price shown at $2,497 per month. “Unlimited” means a continuing queue within normal-use and active-project guardrails, not infinite instant output. The right evaluation is a realistic trial and a 90-day capacity model. Track brief-to-first-concept time, revisions, approved deliverables, internal hours, missed deadlines, and brand consistency. Before payment, negotiate or clarify creation ownership and license, portfolio and resale use, member-media confidentiality, AI opt-out, child and testimony handling, deletion after cancellation, vendor access, All-In hosting transition, and the actual quoted price. Keep domains, analytics, accounts, raw footage, source files, and approved masters under church-controlled storage. If a church already spends comparable money on fragmented freelancers or exhausted staff, the service can consolidate capacity well. If it needs four slides a month, a template library will be far more sensible. This is a strong outsourced department—not a magic unlimited button.
Alternatives to Church Media Squad
Church CanvasA far cheaper AI-first church graphics workspace for supervised in-house creation, without a human outsourced department.
Church Motion GraphicsA large ready-made worship and church-media library with predictable annual pricing and staff-led customization.CanvaA mature self-service editor, templates, brand kits, stock, video, and collaboration at a small fraction of managed-service cost.99designsProject-based designer marketplace useful for defined identities and campaigns when an ongoing queue is unnecessary.Local freelancer or employeeThe direct-relationship option for local context, confidential work, physical production, and negotiable work-for-hire ownership.Frequently asked questions
How much does Church Media Squad cost?
Current church pricing shows Unlimited Graphics at $797 per month, Graphics + Video at $1,697, and All-In at $2,497. Annual graphics and video plans are priced at ten monthly payments. Obtain a current quote because an official machine-readable page has shown a different All-In price.
Is Church Media Squad really unlimited?
Requests, revisions, and users are marketed as unlimited, subject to normal-use guardrails. Production is finite. Current material describes up to seven active projects on graphics and video plans and up to 15 across All-In service types. Complexity and feedback determine completion speed.
What is included in the free trial?
The trial runs for 14 days or three projects, whichever comes first. The first subscription payment is scheduled after the trial. Account setup can take one business day, so submit representative briefs promptly and record the conversion date.
Who owns the finished designs?
The terms say members retain original submitted content but describe creations as Church Media Squad intellectual property and include broad licenses. Because source files are included but ownership and use are different issues, ask for a written license or work-for-hire amendment that fits your church.
Does Church Media Squad use AI?
Its terms allow AI as a supplemental tool in design, video, writing, and internal workflows, with human review. Members may request that AI not be used prospectively. Put the request in writing before uploading sensitive or rights-restricted material.
Can I cancel or pause?
Yes. Self-service or assisted cancellation is available, with service continuing through the paid period. Pausing is allowed for up to three months under published limits. All-In customers must address managed hosting so a Squad-hosted website is not suspended or deleted.
Does the company delete my data after cancellation?
Not automatically, according to the April 2025 privacy policy. It retains information while membership is active and does not currently purge it after cancellation, but honors deletion or deactivation requests. Request deletion and confirmation as part of offboarding.
Sources & further reading
More Worship Websites
Church Motion GraphicsOne of the deepest ready-made visual libraries for worship screens, announcements, social media, and now children’s ministry—excellent annual value for active teams, with a strict one-location license and dated privacy language to study.
Hymnary.orgThe largest hymn database on the open web, cross-referenced across thousands of hymnals - and it costs nothing to use.
ChristiconsA small, unusually coherent set of hand-drawn Christian interface icons in SVG, JSX, React, and Vue formats—excellent for finishing a ministry product, provided you read the custom license before treating it as open source.
Church Visuals by Ministry DesignsAn enormous no-cost church media catalog with unusually complete sermon bundles and editable Canva and PSD files—one of the best free starting points available, though “no restrictions” marketing is broader than the formal Ministry Designs terms.
FreeShowA GPL-3.0 desktop presenter from a 501(c)(3) that ships a stable release most months and charges nothing for any of it. The capability gap with ProPresenter is now narrow; the gap that matters is support - there is no contract to buy, at any price.
Church Online PlatformLife.Church’s genuinely free hosted layer for turning a video stream into a scheduled, interactive ministry experience—remarkably capable at any price, but the church still owns video delivery, moderation, safeguarding, and user-data compliance.