Church technology resources: jobs, community, training, and tools
Table of Contents
- Where do you find church technology jobs?
- How do you get involved with FaithTech?
- Which communities help church tech staff and volunteers?
- Where can you learn church production and IT skills?
- How do you find faith-based apps and church tools?
- What should church leaders use when hiring tech staff?
- Frequently asked questions
- Open the job page that matches your Sunday seat
Somebody has to know why the lyrics slide froze during the second song, and in many churches that same person resets the office Wi-Fi on Tuesday and fixes the giving page on Thursday. The work builds a skill set nobody wrote down. Sooner or later bigger questions follow, about where to learn faster, who else does this work, and whether it could turn into a paid job.
Church technology resources for staff, volunteers, and job seekers fall into four groups: job boards like Christian Tech Jobs for church tech jobs, communities like FaithTech and the Church IT Network, training sites like Behind the Mixer, and directories like faith.tools for finding faith-based apps and church tools.
Key takeaways
| What you need | Where to start |
|---|---|
| A paid church tech job | Christian Tech Jobs, filtered to AV, IT, or web developer roles |
| Other Christians who build technology | FaithTech, with about 60 city communities and online chapters, plus Create build projects |
| Help with a church network or server problem | The Church IT Network's 24/7 Discord chat and national conference |
| Better Sunday sound and a trained team | Behind the Mixer's free checklists and podcast, or MxU for training a whole production team |
| A faith-based app or tool | faith.tools, a curated directory with a For Churches category |
| AI help or a new church website | AlignedAI's free Aligned Leader for pastors, and Ministry Designs for church websites |
Last updated October 2026
Where do you find church technology jobs?
Church technology jobs sit in two places, on church staffs and at companies that build the software churches run on. Christian Tech Jobs lists both. You can browse every open role or go straight to the category that matches your skills. Sound, video, lighting, and presentation roles collect on the Christian AV jobs page. Help desk, network, and systems roles sit under Christian information technology jobs, and church and ministry website work shows up under Christian web developer jobs.
AV skills are the hardest to staff on our board. Across every listing we've tracked, 55 asked for AV skills, against 6 job seekers on the board who list them, according to Christian Tech Jobs data (as of October 2026). Of the 30 AV-category roles we've tracked, the 13 that posted pay typically offered $50k to $65k, with a $60k median. Church budgets and local living costs move those numbers, and some small churches start the role as part-time. Our church AV technician career guide covers the duties and pay for these production seats.
Church tech jobs also include building the products churches use. Several of the most active employers in our listings make church or Bible software: YouVersion (54 listings), Planning Center (40), Tithe.ly (34), Subsplash (30), and Renewed Vision (24), the company behind ProPresenter.
How do you get involved with FaithTech?
FaithTech describes itself as a global tech community for Christ, and its local chapters give Christians in tech a place to meet in person and build projects together. Its city communities and online chapters number about 60, from Dallas, Nashville, and Seattle to London, Bengaluru, and São Paulo, with online chapters for the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, East Africa, and West Africa.
You don't need to write code to belong. FaithTech's cities page invites developers, designers, entrepreneurs, pastors, ministry leaders, and project managers, and its events run from casual meetups and Story Nights to hackathons. FaithTech's events page lists what's coming up in each city.
FaithTech Create is the build program. Volunteer teams form around problems submitted in a local city and work through the Create Cycle (lament, discern, build, steward), either over a few days at a hackathon or across Create8, an eight-week program. Past projects include the SHAREBIBLES app in Waterloo and a Vancouver project aimed at ending human trafficking. A church volunteer with production or IT skills can join a team as a builder or bring a problem their own ministry faces.
To start, find the nearest city on the FaithTech site and go to one meetup. If no city is close, the online chapters are the next option, and FaithTech accepts applications to launch new cities.
Which communities help church tech staff and volunteers?
Church IT staff have their own peer network. The Church IT Network began in 2006 as a series of events called the Church IT Roundtable and now counts more than 2,000 church staff and volunteers. Its 24/7 Discord chatroom is where church IT people ask questions and get to know peers at other churches, and it also holds a national conference. Regional events and recorded past sessions on YouTube fill the gaps between conferences.
The r/churchtech community on Reddit is where church tech staff and volunteers trade quick answers in public. Its threads include questions about church tech tools, using tech in a small church, and keeping media volunteers trained, so search it before you post a question of your own.
Where can you learn church production and IT skills?
Church sound volunteers can start with Behind the Mixer, run by Chris Huff, who has mixed church audio for more than 20 years and started the site in 2006. It offers free checklists for soundcheck and vocal mixing, in-depth articles, a weekly podcast, and a community forum.
For a tech director training a whole team, MxU is a platform built for church worship and production teams. It combines a library of more than 1,000 training videos, custom curricula with quizzes and progress tracking, team messaging and checklists, and live service tools that work with ProPresenter.
For church IT staff, the Church IT Network's YouTube channel holds recorded sessions from past conferences. Sessions from 2025 cover real church cybersecurity incidents, wireless network do's and don'ts, and Microsoft 365, so a new church IT hire can learn from peers who already run those systems.
How do you find faith-based apps and church tools?
Church tech staff often field app questions from pastors and ministry leaders, and the church technology resources in this section help you answer with something specific.
faith.tools for discovering Christian apps
faith.tools is a curated directory of Christian apps and digital resources, independently owned and run by Cameron Pak. Its categories include Bible apps, prayer, apps with AI, a For Churches section, and a My Career section, where Christian Tech Jobs is listed. Browsing is free, and each app is checked against 11 selection criteria, such as whether it is maintained, clear about its price, aligned with Christian doctrine, and properly licensing the Bible translations it uses. If you build software, those criteria double as a checklist for your own Christian app.
AlignedAI for AI tools built for churches
AlignedAI builds AI tools for churches. Its free product for pastors and church leaders, Aligned Leader, adapts to a church's doctrine and beliefs. It includes a ministry assistant and helps with sermon prep, research, devotionals, and Bible studies. The company also offers Aligned Church, a church management product.
If your pastor asks which AI tool the staff should use, test each candidate with a question your church answers distinctively and compare the answer with your statement of faith.
Ministry Designs for church websites
Ministry Designs designs and builds church websites. A church can use its website builder, with pre-designed themes the staff edits, or its website management service, where the Ministry Designs team rebuilds the site from existing content and handles daily content updates. Sites include sermon, event, and small group managers and online giving, and the company offers a free church graphics library it puts at about 80,000 graphics. For a church whose website depends on one part-time volunteer, the managed option takes routine updates off that person's plate.
What should church leaders use when hiring tech staff?
Hiring for a church tech seat starts with a clear posting. Name the systems the person will run, such as the sound console, presentation software, and church management system, so candidates can judge their fit before they apply. Post the pay range too. In the past year, 237 of the 441 jobs listed with us (54%) included a salary, so a posting with pay still stands out from the nearly half that leave it out. The AV figures above give you one benchmark for production roles.
To look at candidates directly, browse Christian tech talent profiles from job seekers who list their skills and the kind of work they want. The FaithTech and Church IT Network communities are also where you can ask peers at other churches how they structured the same role.
Frequently asked questions
How does technology affect Christianity?
Technology shapes how churches worship and serve. Sermons are amplified and streamed to people who can't attend, and gifts are processed online. It also raises questions of faithfulness, which is why faith.tools checks whether each app agrees with Christian doctrine and why church staff should test an AI tool against their statement of faith.
What is the best software for churches?
No single package is best for every church. Many church stacks combine church management software such as Planning Center or Rock RMS, presentation software such as ProPresenter, and an online giving tool. Choose by church size and by who will maintain the system, and use curated directories like faith.tools to compare faith-based options.
What does a church tech director do?
A church tech director runs the sound, video, lighting, presentation, and livestream systems for services and events. The job includes recruiting, training, and scheduling volunteers, maintaining equipment, and planning upgrades within a budget. At smaller churches, the same person often handles IT support and the church website as well.
What does God say about using technology?
The Bible doesn't mention modern technology, but it treats skilled making as a gift. Exodus 31 describes God filling Bezalel with skill and craftsmanship to build the tabernacle, and Colossians 3:23 tells believers to work heartily, as for the Lord. Christians can test any tool by asking whether using it serves God and loves people.
Open the job page that matches your Sunday seat
The skills you use on a Sunday morning already point to a job category. Running the soundboard, cameras, or slides lines up with the AV page, keeping the office network alive lines up with IT, and maintaining the church website lines up with web developer roles. Read three current postings on that page and list the tools they name that you haven't used yet. The church technology resources above can teach you each one, and your list becomes the plan for your next six months of learning.
Learn more about Christian jobs that intersect with technology at Christian Tech Jobs. Explore careers at faith-based organizations, hire Christian talent, and find work where your tech skills and your faith meet.