How to Create a Church PODCAST on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play

Podcasting is one of the most effective ways to extend the reach of your church by creating the opportunity for potential New Visitors to experience your church service before attending your church.

While many churches do record and podcast their full services, most edit the recording down to the sermon only giving potential New Visitors content to check out and regular attenders content to focus on during the week.

Some churches even use their podcast sermon content as small group preparation for their ministry leaders. The leaders can simply access the podcast and create discussion questions based on the sermons.

In addition to a sermon podcast you could also have other different podcasted content as well such as leader and volunteer development podcasts, ministry specific podcasts such as for your youth ministry, or even use a podcast to directly deliver upcoming event information or church updates to your congregation and or leaders.

You could also create a behind the scenes or church information video podcast featuring church leaders giving “inside” information to those connected to the feed.

If setup correctly, the benefit to a podcast is that the content can come directly to their mobile device through iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher and can also be accessed on your church website.

While those additional podcast ideas could be effective and may be something you want to do, they do take a lot of time and preparation to implement. That is why most churches focus on the basic sermon audio podcast.

This section is designed to walk you through a step by step process for learning how to create a church podcast on iTunes and other site as well as ideas and steps for maintaining your church podcast.

The content is up to you so this process will work for you whether you are creating a sermon podcast, leaders podcast, small groups content podcast or whatever you want to do.

>> The step by step posts are in the sidebar on desktop or below on mobile so you can get started right now.

Finding Your Church offers a paid option to Create a Podcast FOR your Church.

We realize that learning how to create a podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play for your church may not be something you have time for, so we want to make ourselves available to help if that fits your situation.

If you purchase the option below we will handle the podcast creation process FOR you as long as you have a WordPress website. If you do NOT have a WordPress website, we can help create that for you too.

If you DO want to create your church podcast yourself however then continue on with the steps in the sidebar on desktop or below on mobile.