WorshipStorm is on YouTube

The channel is open at @worshipstorm, and the first thing on it is a 30-second animated teaser — a storyboard of a Sunday morning, not a screen recording. The recordings come next.

Anyone deciding whether presentation software will survive a Sunday morning does the same thing first. They look for a video of it running — not a feature list, because the question was never what the software can do. It is what it looks like when a volunteer is doing it eleven minutes before the first song.

Until this week there was nowhere to look. There is now: youtube.com/@worshipstorm.

The first thing on it is drawn, not recorded

Thirty seconds. A darkened room with the screen up on the wall, Projector Plus opened in a browser, song slides going up, a cut to what a phone in the congregation shows, and the mark at the end over a line that is closer to a commitment than a tagline — Projector Plus, one walkthrough at a time.

It is an animated storyboard. Not a screen recording, and worth saying here rather than leaving someone to work it out thirty seconds in: nobody has watched the product actually run yet. What the teaser carries is the shape of a service — plan, screen, phone — and it is honest about being a drawing of one.

A teaser is proof the channel is real, and nothing else

That is genuinely the job it was made to do. A YouTube channel with nothing on it is not a channel, and the profile work around it — the name, the mark, the description — only means anything once there is something to arrive at.

What a teaser cannot do is answer the question that brought someone looking. It cannot show a volunteer finding the plan, or what happens when the church wifi does what church wifi does, or how long any of it takes with real hands on a real laptop. Those need recordings, and recordings are the work.

Three of them, in this order, because they are the three things people ask: running a whole service on the free tier with no subscription at all; starting a broadcast and seeing what a congregant’s phone shows; and coming over from Projector Classic with a subscription already in hand.

No dates on those. One walkthrough at a time is the promise the teaser makes, and it is deliberately not a schedule.

In the meantime, the written version exists

Everything the walkthroughs will cover is already written down, and the help tree is the part that gets corrected when something changes — which a video does not.

What’s free and what’s premium is the feature-by-feature line, and Following along on your phone is what the congregation’s half looks like — a QR code and a six-character code, opened in a browser, with nothing to install.

The channel is at @worshipstorm. Subscribing now mostly means you will be there when the first real one lands.