You were never supposed to carry this much alone. ImpactSeed takes everything that happens after Sunday off your desk, and does it with the sermon you already preached.
One link. We do the whole week's work on it and send you the live page. No card, no call, and you keep the page either way. Nothing to learn. Nothing to install. You upload to YouTube on Sunday exactly like you already do.Somewhere in this country tonight there is a pastor still awake at eleven on a Saturday, making a graphic, when he should be resting before he preaches.
That is not a man who lacks skill. That is a man doing the work of six people, and every one of those six jobs piles up around the edges of a week that was already full.
The volunteer stays late finishing a graphic nobody asked her for. The secretary loves this church and is quietly running on empty. The media team watches the whole service through a glass window and has not actually worshipped in a year.
You are not failing. You are carrying a media team that does not exist.
You preached Sunday morning. Monday you were finished. Tuesday you sent the video to whoever cuts the clips. Wednesday she asked which part you wanted. Thursday you answered. Friday it went up, and by Friday the word you carried all week is the fifth most interesting thing on that person's screen.
The woman who wept in the third row is gone and you have no way to reach her. That is the back door, and it has been standing open since the day you opened the front one.
And the man two streets over, lying awake at three in the morning with his marriage in pieces, types his ache into his phone and finds a stranger in another country. Not you. Never you. Even though God put you three streets away, for him.
The harvest is ripe. The search bar is full. And every week the going stops at your front door.
The gap is not there because you are disorganised. It is there because every step waits for a person, and every person is waiting for another person. The editor waits for you. You wait for Wednesday. The website person has never once spoken to the clips person.
Five days of waiting, and not one of them is anybody's fault.
You cannot out-discipline waiting. You can only take it out.
One thing, and it runs on the sermon you already preached. You upload to your YouTube on Sunday. That is the only thing you keep doing.
By Monday morning, six things have happened and you did none of them.
Your sermon is a page on an address that is yours, written so a person searching that exact ache can land on it.
Your YouTube listing carries a title people actually type, a full description, chapters and captions.
About ten short clips are cut from the message, captioned, and put up on your YouTube. Facebook and Instagram too, once you connect them.
A one page discussion guide goes to your cell leaders, built from the same sermon, so the groups meeting in homes on a Wednesday are talking about what you preached on Sunday instead of hunting for something to use.
Every first-time visitor who registered gets a welcome on WhatsApp, then eight more warm touches over six weeks. That is the first-time visitor follow-up you have been meaning to set up since the day you planted, and your welcome team marks who came with one tap on a phone.
And every sermon you have ever preached sits backed up somewhere a stolen laptop can never reach.
Then next Sunday it happens again, and you did nothing.
This is the part you should push us hardest on, so let me answer it before you ask.
Handing your content to a machine sounds like outsourcing the one thing that is supposed to come straight from your heart. If that is what this was, you should not buy it, and I would not have built it.
Every sentence ImpactSeed publishes comes out of the sermon you preached, transcribed, word for word. It does not compose. It carries. It cannot invent a doctrine, a claim or a promise you never made, because it has nothing to work from except your mouth.
We do not write your sermon. We do not answer your people as if we were you. You get the inbox, and the pastoral voice stays yours.
| The person | What they would do | What they cost |
|---|---|---|
| Social media manager | Post across your channels five days a week | R3,000 to R8,000 a month |
| Video editor | About forty clips a month from your sermons | R270 to R720 a clip |
| Graphic designer | Thumbnails, cards, covers | R150 to R475 an hour |
| SEO specialist | Build pages that can actually be found | R3,500 to R10,000 a month |
| Web developer | Keep the site up and publish every new page | R1,500 to R5,000 a month |
| Admin, ten hours a week | First-time visitor follow-up, every week, without fail | R104 to R152 an hour |
| All six, together | About R28,500 a month | |
Six people who have never met each other, and you in the middle managing all of them on a Monday.
Money is the smaller half of what this costs you. Add up an ordinary week in your church.
| Who | Doing what | Hours a week |
|---|---|---|
| You | Choosing clips, answering which part, checking it before it goes out | 1 to 2 |
| Whoever does your content | Editing, captioning, posting | 6 to 10 |
| Whoever does your graphics | Thumbnails, quote cards, covers | 2 to 3 |
| Whoever does the guest follow-up | Messages, the list, who came back | 3 to 5 |
| All of you together | The meetings it takes to keep those four lined up | 1 to 2 |
| Every week | 13 to 22 hours | |
Call it fifteen. That is about 800 hours a year, which is a hundred working days, gone into getting Sunday onto the internet.
You did not go into ministry to spend a hundred days a year on thumbnails.
Before the number, here is what it is being measured against.
Hiring the six people yourself: about R28,500 a month.
Ten hours a week of admin alone, and that is one of the six: about R4,500 a month.
The hours it takes off you: about 800 a year.
R6,500 once to set you up. Or R72,000 for the year, which is two months free and the setup is still payable.
That is R240 a day for the work of six people, one invoice instead of six, and about 800 hours a year back in your week.
Included: up to eight different sermons a month. Three services on a Sunday preaching the same message is one sermon, not three.
See it on your preaching before you pay us anything.You are going to look for proof, and you should. Here is all of it, including the part that does not flatter us.
One church runs this today, and it is mine. Fountain of Grace International in Pretoria North. Over a hundred sermons have gone through this engine and every one of them has a page, a rewritten YouTube listing, clips and a permanent backup. That is the honest size of it. We are not going to show you a wall of logos we do not have.
You do not have to take my word for any of it. Send one sermon. You will be looking at your preaching, on a live page, inside seven days, before a rand has moved.
What we will not claim. We will not promise you a position on Google, because that depends on your city, your competition and how long you have been at it, and anybody who promises it is selling you something else. We will not make you go viral. We will never sell you a screenshot of hearts. Likes save nobody.
A marketing company looks at a church and sees a client. We are part of the same body.
The man behind this preaches every Sunday and pastors a real congregation in Pretoria North. He has sat in your exact chair at eleven on a Saturday with the message unfinished. He lost everything to a stolen laptop and built this back from nothing, which is exactly why every sermon you ever preach gets backed up whether you asked for it or not.
And half of every profit goes back to the church. Our money, not yours. What you pay is an ordinary purchase and not a donation. You are simply buying from a company that puts ministry first.
Send us one sermon. Within seven days you get a live page, built from your preaching, that you can open and read.
If it is not there, you pay nothing and you owe us nothing.
Two conditions, said plainly. The video must be public and reachable, and the preaching must be audible. If your file will not work we tell you before we start, not after.
No. You upload to YouTube on Sunday the way you already do. Someone taps one button to say who came. You reply to a real person when they need you. That is the whole list.
No, and we do not touch the one you have. Your sermons live at their own address, something like sermons.yourchurch.co.za, and your Plan Your Visit page sits on it. If you already have a church website, ours runs alongside it and you link the two. If you have no website at all, this becomes the one you send people to, and we will put a simple front page on it. What we are not doing is rebuilding your whole church site with your beliefs, your staff and your giving page. That is a different job and we would tell you so rather than half do it.
You will have. There are tools that cut clips out of a sermon and they cost less than this does, because cutting clips is one of the six jobs on that list. None of them writes the page, none of them fixes the YouTube listing so a stranger can find it, and not one of them gives you first-time visitor follow-up. Six weeks of it, automatically, which is the only thing on this whole list that actually closes the back door. Buy a clip tool if clips are all you need. If it is the guest who came once and never came back that keeps you awake, a clip cannot help you.
Be honest about what you already spend. If you pay somebody to post, or to edit clips, or to chase up visitors, this replaces them and costs less than the pieces. If you pay nobody anything, do not buy yet. Send the free sermon and let it earn the conversation.
It cannot sound like anyone else. It is your sermon, transcribed.
You stop. Month to month, and you keep every page we built.
Because a pastor built this for the church and not to get rich off the body of Christ.
Then run the free check instead. It takes a minute and tells you whether your sermons can be found at all right now.
You already did the hard part. You studied, you prayed, you stood up on Sunday and gave it everything you had.
The only thing left is whether the going stops at your front door on Sunday afternoon, or keeps going all week while you rest.
One link. Seven days. No card, no call, and the page is yours either way.
We do the whole week's work on it and send you the live page. Free, and you keep it either way.
No card. No call. We use your details only to build your page and get back to you. We follow POPIA, see our Privacy Policy, and we never sell your data.