Everything Worship
for Church Plants
Build your worship ministry from the ground up. Planning, Licensing, Worship, and Technology resources
to help you get started.
What does a new church plant need for worship?
A new church plant needs a plan for music licensing, worship songs, lyrics and presentation, musicians or backing tracks, rehearsal, and service technology. The right setup will depend on your team, budget, and worship style, but it doesn't need to be complicated.
CCLI Group has resources for church plants of any size, with any budget, that can help simplify your worship planning and services.
Browse the resources below to find what you need for your church plant.
Resources for Church Plants
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How to get the worship sound you want at your church plant
The Licenses You Need For Your Worship Services
JUST FOR CHURCH PLANTS
Save 20% on the tools you need to get started.
If you’re part of a church plant in its first two years since launch, fill out this form to receive special discounts from CCLI Group.
▶ 20% Off Multitracks on Loop Community
▶ 20% Off SongSelect Subscriptions
▶ 20% Off Sunday Keys Licenses
▶ 20% Off WorshipTools Subscriptions
Worship Ministry Checklist
Not sure where to start? Use this checklist to prepare the essential parts of your church plant's worship ministry before your first service. You can start simple and add tools as your team and congregation grow.
✅ Determine what music licenses your church needs.
Copyright matters, and it’s important to make sure your church plant is covered. CCLI’s licenses make it simple. They are tailored to the needs of churches and ministries, enabling the fair and legal use of creative works while saving valuable administrative time, effort, and expense.
✅ Set up how you are routing your audio.
Does your space have a sound system or do you need speakers? How will you route your tracks and click if you choose to use them?
✅ Decide whether you’ll use tracks or a click, and how you’ll run them.
Using tracks is a great way to enhance the sound of your band, fill in for missing musicians, and keep everyone together. Whether you have a full band, or are leading worship by yourself, Loop Community has tracks that will work for your church. You can also use the Prime MultiTrack App to run your tracks for free.
✅ Make sure you have all the gear you need.
Make sure that your musicians have the instruments and gear that they need. If you’re a church plant that has to set up every week, determine if you want a full drum kit or a more simple percussion setup. You can also elevate any keyboard you have with the Sunday Keys App. You’ll get thousands of sounds to help save you time and your band sound great.
✅ Choose planning software.
Having easy to use software to keep your services and teams organized is crucial. With the WorshipTools Planning App, it’s easy to invite team members, build out services, and keep your worship ministry organized.
✅ Choose presentation software.
Having volunteer-friendly presentation software is important for a church plant. WorshipTools Presenter is a sleek, simple presentation solution designed specifically for churches and ministries. Start making better presentations today.
✅ Get the song resources you need.
Don’t spend the best hours of your week creating chords or tracks. On Loop Community and SongSelect, you can get the chords, lyrics, and tracks for all of your songs.
✅ Get your team the resources they need to rehearse.
If your team is primarily volunteers, they need an easy way to practice their songs at home. Check out Rehearse, an online practice tool, available on SongSelect, WorshipTools, and Loop Community.
✅ Test your worship service setup.
Give yourself time to get comfortable with your technology and do a test run of everything with your team. Keep it simple, and take your time.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Most church plants need a CCLI Church Copyright License to legally reproduce song lyrics and create custom arrangements of covered songs for worship services. If your church plans to livestream worship services, you may also need a CCLI Streaming License. Explore our licenses to find the right coverage for your church.
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You can find details of each product and plan on the websites, but we recommend starting simple! Especially as a smaller church, you most likely do not need every worship resource we offer. For example, if you’re using tracks try the Prime App for free with the TrackSelect Lite Plan. Start small, and you can always upgrade further.
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Even if you don’t have any musicians or vocalists, we still offer resources to help your church. Check out SongSelect Lyric Videos or Lite Tracks from Loop Community as a great place to fill out the sound of a small worship team, or no worship team at all.
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The WorshipTools Presenter App is designed specifically for worship ministries, with your volunteers in mind. It helps you easily project your lyrics and more, and it’s free.
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Tracks (also called multitracks, stems, or loops) are backing tracks that have each instrument or vocal separated so that you can customize them. They can include separate tracks for acoustic guitar, piano, electric guitar, drums, bass, background vocals, and a Click track (metronome) & Cues track that guides you through the song.
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Yes, if you’re a part of a church plant in its first two years since launch, fill out this form to receive special discounts from CCLI Group.
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All of our brands create our products with the small church in mind. We want you to be able to have the best worship service that you can, but we also believe that shouldn’t take hours and hours of your week. If you’re starting a church plant, you have so much on your plate. Our goal is for the resources we offer to simplify your worship planning, enhance your worship services, and do so at an affordable price.
CCLI is part of a group of organizations that offer software, media, and licensing solutions for churches of all shapes and sizes. From source to stage, we provide song resources, tracks, sounds, and applications that will empower and equip your ministry every step of the way.
We’re here to help.
You don’t have to do it alone! Join our Facebook Group to connect with other worship leaders, or email our team at support@ccli.com if you need help getting started with any of our resources at your church.
