Console Keynote Theme for Pastors
Before I joined the church staff, I volunteered for years as a ProPresenter operator. In fact, before ProPresenter I used EasyWorship, ChurchView, and PowerPoint. Needless to say, I've been deep in the world of media/slide/lyric/etc design for the majority of my life.
I am no stranger to a complete custom design for an important sermon series. Often, those can be both engaging and effective. However, there are times when a project like that simply isn't tenable. Perhaps you aren't employed at megachurch with a design team (most of us aren't). Maybe you're a solo pastor who's fighting the clock on Saturday night to wrap up the next day's sermon. It happens to all of us.
For those times, I created a custom Keynote template that allows me to quickly create slides that are easy to read and effective for communication. They are not over designed. In creating them, I channeled decades old computer display design. There is a little bit of nostalgia involved for those of us from the 20th century.
Every slide looks like that. Same background, same font, same font size, same letter spacing, same alignment (top left). Because of that, slides are easy to create using copy and paste from your notes/manuscript.
Beyond that, I chose a monospaced font that should already be on your device (even your iPhone/iPad). You won't need to install any special fonts and you shouldn't get any "unavailable font" errors. The monospaced aspect also allows you to easily align content for those slides that may have lists, data, or need a certain parallelism.
Within the theme files, you'll find a template for the default layout (as seen in the screenshots). You'll use this for every text slide. It can show your title, scriptures, quotes, main points, headings, fill-in-the-blanks, data, etc. All of it. There's also a blank template for those who like to clear the screen between other slides. Lastly, there's a template for images.
As a bonus, the template files also include a couple of example slides including demonstrating some possibilities with Keynote's built-in "shapes" feature.
I'm making this theme available as a pay-what-you-want product. Yes, that can be $0.
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