You never have enough time, money or resources to do everything that is needed. Church Media Drop was created to help churches share what they have created. Together we can resource churches around the world with quality media to share the most important message, the good news of Jesus Christ.
What was the last text-only Facebook or Twitter post you remember reading? If the answer is that you can’t remember, it’s understandable.
A wide variety of free Christian clip art featuring pictures of Jesus, angels, Bibles, Bible characters, Christmas, Easter, religious clip art, preachers, prayer. FreeVector.com is a place to download free vectors, icons, wallpapers and brand logos. It is a creative source for design news, inspiration, graphic resources and interviews. Christian Images for your ministry. Thousands of Churches used ChristArt images to illustrate their message. Anointed Imagery.
The easiest way to make sure that your message gets lost in the noise is to just use a boring block of text.
Luckily, there are hundreds of thousands of church graphics available online, free for the taking.
I asked my amazing church communications friends for their advice on where to find the best free church graphics online, and the response was overwhelming.
Free church graphics
I’ve included church-specific resources, but also general resources that have a searchable database with a good amount of photos in categories like nature and people and church and stuff. You get it, you’re creative!
There is a mix of both photo databases—which are libraries of high-quality digital photographs that anyone can edit and use—and collections of preassembled graphics and other visual assets from large churches with generous graphic design teams.
There are polished graphics with text included that you can plug right into your bulletins, slideshows, and social media campaigns, and raw elements such as images, fonts, and backgrounds that allow experienced designers to color outside the lines a little.
Just browse through and try out any that strike your fancy. Remember, they’re all free!
Church-specific resources
1. Church Media Drop
Church Media Drop offers a huge array of multimedia, including logos, audio and video files, and even creative games with instructions and printouts. They also offer free, downloadable sermon series for youth groups or adult education.
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2. CMG Create
CMG (Church Motion Graphics) Create offers colorful still photos and title slides, and—for professional graphic designers—individual layers so you can put together your own creative church graphics to use in videos, social media campaigns, or whatever you can dream up. You can search by color or keyword, and browse trending or random images. They also offer premium content, including their motion packs, for $10/month.
3. CreationSwap
CreationSwap features a clean, pretty interface that provides access to an expansive library of church-inspired videos, images, graphics, and presentations.
4. Freely Photos
Freely Photos is a church-specific database of Christian stock photos. They also offer holiday-specific media, and you can search by category or keyword. There is a mix of Creative Commons photos—meaning that they are free to use by the public in the interest of the greater artistic good—pulled from the web, along with original creations.
5. Life.Church Open
After signing up with a free account (which Life.Church says is to ensure that their resources are used non-commercially) you get access to a library of more than 35,000 resources, including graphics, videos, and even apps. The Life.Church Open Network also includes training and discussion groups.
6. NLC Creative
New Life Church, based out of Arkansas, has a substantial, talented creative team, and they decided to share much of their work online for free. You can scroll through their themed graphics packages and download them in zipped files.
7. Pixel Preacher Freebies
Pixel Preacher is a paid graphic design service for churches, but their Freebies section includes a bunch of cool looping motion graphics, video countdowns, and overlays. You can also search their growing collection by category.
8. RiseUp Resources
RiseUp was created by an Alabama church planter and graphic designer for small, growing churches without their own graphic designer. They offer sermon graphic packs, design templates for bulletins and flyers, video countdowns, and announcement slides.
9. Saltful
Not to be confused with an online purveyor of artisan salts, of both the sea and rock varieties, Saltful is a large image database curated just for churches and ministries, created by Christian communications agency Word Revolution. Saltful doesn’t have a search function, but because all of their images are church related, they’re great for browsing.
10. Seeds
Seeds is Church on the Move’s depository of free graphics. Like other large churches, Church on the Move decided to share their resources with everyone. They offer themed series of images, music files, and even motion graphics.
General resources
11. Canva
Canva is a multipurpose graphic design website. They have easy-to-use templates that allow you to create brochures, cards, posters, and flyers as well as newsletters, announcements, infographics, and presentations. Pull in photos from the other resources in this collection, and you can design your own original creations.
12. FindA.Photo
Finda.Photo is a streamlined database full of more than 10,000 stock photos, videos, and templates. It also has a search by color feature. It pulls from different free resources around the web, and you can search by keyword or browse different collections, like aerials or wild animals.
13. Freepik
Freepik has a database of more than 280,000 Creative Commons licensed photos, but what sets it apart is the selection of vector illustrations, icons, and Photoshop designs. Freepik assets do require attribution, unless you pay $9.99/month for a premium account.
14. Free Nature Stock
All of the photos on Free Nature Stock are of natural wonders, making them ideal for church graphics. Free Nature Stock is—as the name suggests—a depository of nature images taken by photographer Adrian Pelletier. He adds one new photo everyday, and you can use them any way you want.
15. Gratisography
If you want to ensure that your images won’t be mistaken for boring stock photography, check out Gratisography, where you can find everything from dogs wearing glasses to someone riding a skateboard in bowling shoes. Animation videos for free download. New pictures are added every week by photographer Ryan McGuire, and you can search them by keyword or browse through categories like “Urban” and “Whimsical.”
16. Pexels
Go to the Pexels home page and then scroll down, and down, and down. You’ll see the most popular photos from the last month, and you can keep going and going. I tried to get to the bottom but was unsuccessful. Of course they’re all free and all yours to use however you want. You can search by keyword, category, and color, and even upload your own photos. Try searching Nature or Prayer for some good church-related images.
17. PixaBay
If you’ve ever done anything with images online, you’ve probably heard of PixaBay. The streamlined database includes more than a million photographs, illustrations, and even short videos. All of them are absolutely free of copyright and cost, and can be searched by category or keyword. They even have a Religion category.
18. StockSnap.io
StockSnap, a free service from online graphic design tool Snappa, adds hundreds of new high-res, copyright-free images to its already enormous photo database every week. You can browse trending photos, popular searches, and pull your favorites directly into Snappa to create your own branded graphics.
19. Unsplash
Unsplash is one of the most well-known and expansive photo resources on the net. You can search by keyword, click the “new” tab to make sure you’re using something fresh, and—for the shutterbug at your church—even submit your own photos!
20. VisualHunt
VisualHunt has more than 350 million Creative Commons photos that can be searched by category, keyword, and even color tone. Check out categories like Beach, Sky, or Tree for some church-friendly backgrounds.
Do you have more resources for free church graphics?
Do you have any favorite resources for free church graphics that didn’t make this list? Well, you can help everyone out by sharing them in the comments below!
And now that you have all of these visual resources, it’s time to take them and let your creativity flow. Used in conjunction with church management software, you can use these resources to boost your website design and other communications. Check out our guides on church bulletin design,awesome church videos, and church social media for inspiration.
Nicolette Paglioni contributed to this article.
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Being in ministry, creative free Christian resources are something we are always keeping our eyes open for. And being from Louisiana, we have decided to call these findings - 'lagniappe.'
Webster's dictionary defines 'lagniappe' as: a small gift presented by a store owner to a customer with the customer's purchase or an extra or unexpected gift or benefit. Doesn't that just sound like a bit of GRACE?!
Working on this website has been so much fun! Along the way I am finding little bonuses and wanted to create a page to share these free Christian resources with you.
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Bible Online Sites
One of our favorite free online Bible resources is the BLUE LETTER BIBLE. Here are four benefits to their design given on their site:
- BIBLE-CENTERED: We view the Bible as central to our study resources. We intentionally designed the website to include study tools that are linked directly to Bible passages.
- POWERFUL STUDY TOOLS: Dig deep into the Word using commentaries, encyclopedias, maps/images and much more. One of our most used tools is the Lexicon search, which gives users immediate access to the original Hebrew and Greek words.
- QUICK AND EASY SEARCH FUNCTION: In one spot, you can search Scripture by word, verse or multiple verses.
- PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE: Use some features more than others? Create a customized homepage and sidebar to include exactly what study tools you want.
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Wordsearch Bible Study Software
Try this FREE downloadable Bible study library! There have been times that I needed to work on a Bible study, but was unable to connect to the Internet. This program will allow you to have several Bible versions, commentaries & dictionaries, as well as, several free classic Christian books such as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Complete Works of Josephus, and Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. All these Christian resources can be right at your fingertips anytime, anywhere!
YouVersion Bible APP
Probably one of my most used Apps on my phone, as well as my favorite, is YouVersion. I love having multiple Bible versions at my fingertips, daily Bible verses, and a multitude of Bible devotion plans..all Free and 'almost' always with me!
Ipad Bible Story App for Kids
Zondervan offers their first story pack of The Beginner's Bible App for Ipad free ! This includes 6 stories, coloring pages, puzzles, and game, is included in your app download, completely FREE!
Today's Christian Music free app allows you to have free Christian music streaming on your devices wherever you go! We don't have a Christian radio station where I live; so I was really excited to add this app to my phone! I also open up their online player on my computer - the link for it is below under 'Free Christian Music.'
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Free video/audio Bible studies
Search the largest library of audio sermons with over 156,000 FREE MP3 sermons which can be streamed online for immediate listening or optionally downloaded to your computer or portable MP3 player for listening at a later time.
Free christian music
It's easy to stream free music on our computers now through Pandora, YouTube and other sites, but what if you don't know of any Christian artists or songs to even begin a search?
Today's Christian Music offers live streaming Christian music 24/7 and also checkout their free downloads to take with you!
Free Christian resources for Pastors & teachers
Free sermons & outlines:
For pastors some of the best free Christian resources include -
Sermon Central which offers over 150,000 free sermons from which to draw inspiration. These include both sermons and sermon outlines with many in Spanish.
Lifeway Publishers also offers an index to free sermon outlines from various pastors which are arranged according to the Books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
Free movie clips with discussion guides:
Are you needing sermon illustrations or Bible study illustrations? How about using movie clips? Here is a site that provides free movie clips that inspire and illustrate. They are organized so that you can search by movie title or Bible theme.
WingClips gives the following reasons for using their movie clips to 'spice up' your Bible study lessons:
'Simply, to better communicate with your audience. For better or worse, movies form a lasting impression on our hearts and minds. Studies suggest that three days after an event, people retain only 10% of what they heard from an oral presentation, 35% from a visual presentation, and an overwhelming 65% from combination of a visual and oral presentation. Incorporating inspirational WingClips™ in your service will dramatically connect the themes of your message to the hearts and minds of your audience.'
Free inspirational stories:
These inspiring Christian stories are ideal for short devotional talks, and as Bible lesson or sermon illustrations.
More free Christian stories.
Free Christian Videos:
Most of us know of YouTube - especially if you have teenagers around the house! Well, now there is Godtube - a Christian version which offers multiple ways for creative use whether it be to emphasize a Bible lesson using visual technology or to include a visual illustration in a sermon powerpoint. They also have Christian drama videos, Christian music videos for worship, and more. Check it out!
Children's ministry/church resources
Free Children's Sermons
Whether you are a pastor needing a quick sermon for kids or you are in need of a short devotion for children, we have found several great free Christian resources for children's sermons including hands-on object lessons!
Free Children's Bible Lessons
Children's Ministry Deals has made 100 of their most popular free children's ministry resources available in one quick location! These free Christian resources include Bible lessons, coloring pages, printable games, books of the Bible flash cards & more!
As Christians, giving 'lagniappe' grace should be an action seen in our everyday lives as we strive to go over and beyond for the cause of Christ. Let's never stop short of being overly kind or giving or loving - always going the 'little extra' for Christ.
Jesus certainly gave us more than a 'little extra.' He gave us what we didn't deserve - 'GRACE - God's Riches At Christ's Expense.'
We'd like to bring you a new little 'lagniappe' every now and then. It may be an outstanding Christian website or free Christian software we've found, a Christian book recommendation, a special testimony or story, or just some good clean fun with Bible trivia, clean jokes, & Christian cartoons. All will be free Christian resources which can add to the variety in your world of Bible study and ministry.
We want to equip you as much as we can in finding joy and excitement in your Bible study time and as you share God's Word.
Also, if you know of any valuable Christian resources you use and believe they would be useful to others, please let us know!
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