FreePlay — Life.Church Curriculum TV Team

01 — Why We Do What We Do

The Church is the biggest organization in the world. If we work together, we can support each other from within — building the tools we need ourselves instead of outsourcing our mission to for-profit companies that don't share our values.

It's a stewardship problem, not a technology problem. The Church has the people and the resources. We just need to start acting like one body.

Let this breathe. This is the foundation everything else sits on.

02 — Who I Am

Children's Ministry Background

I came up through children's ministry. I've been in the rooms, run the classrooms, and dealt with the Sunday morning chaos firsthand. I know what it feels like when the tech doesn't work and you've got a room full of kids.

15 Years Solving One Problem

For the last 15 years I've been working on one question: What is the best way to get curriculum from the children's ministry office to the TVs in the classrooms? Every church I've worked with, every system I've tried, every frustration I've hit — it all led to building FreePlay.

Learned from Life.Church

Some of what I know, I learned from you all. Life.Church has been a leader in how the Church uses technology. That influence shaped how I think about solving problems for churches — build it well, give it away, trust God with the results.

I still think Safety Sam is how they teach the rules where I used to be the CM. That stuck with me — it's a great example of making something simple, memorable, and effective for kids. That kind of thinking is baked into everything we build.

Be genuine here. You're talking to the people who do this work every week across dozens of campuses.

03 — The Classroom Problem

After 20+ years of working with churches, one thing became crystal clear: it's not easy without the correct preparation and the correct technology if you're using media in the classroom — which you should be.

Most churches rely on volunteers who rotate in and out — they're not tech people, and they shouldn't have to be
Sunday morning is already chaotic. If the TV doesn't just work, it becomes one more source of stress instead of a ministry tool
Images and videos are the language of the classroom — but getting them loaded, organized, and playing smoothly has been an unsolved problem for most churches
Big churches can throw staff and budget at it. Small churches just go without. Neither outcome is acceptable

This is shared ground with Life.Church — they live this across every campus, every weekend.

04 — What FreePlay Is

FreePlay is the product of years of working with churches and understanding how images and videos actually work in the classroom. It's not a media player we bolted onto a church use case — it was built from the ground up for this exact problem.

Great for Any Size Church

FreePlay works for a church of 50 or a church of 50,000. Out of the box, it comes loaded with great biblical content that any church can use immediately — no curriculum budget required.

In the Classroom

Dead simple for volunteers — tap and go
The teacher in charge has full control of the content
No losing control of the classroom to fumble with tech
Content plays beautifully without any tech skills

On the Admin Side

Powerful admin tools that can be dialed in per classroom
Full control over what content appears on which screens
Set it up once and your volunteers just press play
A powerful player experience without giving up admin control

This is the pitch within the pitch — easy enough for volunteers, powerful enough for a multi-campus org like Life.Church.

05 — Built for Sunday Morning Reality

FreePlay downloads content ahead of time. No buffering. No failed streams. No "the WiFi is down" panic on Sunday morning. When that classroom TV turns on, everything is already there and ready to go.

Church WiFi is unreliable — everyone knows it, and FreePlay was designed around that reality
Content syncs during the week so Sunday morning is stress-free
Works even in buildings with poor or no internet connectivity
One less thing for your team to troubleshoot when it matters most

This is a huge pain point for multi-campus churches. Let them react to this one.

06 — Better Together

The Church doesn't need more vendors. It needs partners who share the mission. When churches like Life.Church invest in tools that serve the whole body, everybody wins — from the mega church to the church plant that can't afford a single software subscription.

Life.Church has already proven this model — you build things and give them away. That's exactly what we do
Together we can make sure every church, regardless of size or budget, has access to effective classroom tools
If Life.Church adopts FreePlay, your team helps mold and refine it — because it's open source, every improvement you make flows back to the Capital C Church
The influence Life.Church carries drives wider adoption — more churches using FreePlay means more churches saving thousands of dollars on tools they're currently overpaying for
That money goes back into kingdom work instead of software subscriptions — this is how we complete the loop of the largest organization in the world supporting itself from within

This is a conversation, not a pitch. Ask them what challenges they face getting content to screens across campuses.