The price of Ministry Depot media depends on how the imagery is going to be used. For Worship and Christian Education purposes, basic licensing rights are $5.99.  The rights are royalty free so you can use it as many times as you wish at the owner’s location.

If you want to use the images on a website, or any recorded means, the price increases and is reflected in the Image Use drop down window in the detail page of each photo.  After you select the usage of the image, you must click the “calculate license price.”   If you add this image to your shopping cart, without clicking the price, you will receive an error later when trying to check out.

If you want to see how much additional licensing rights cost, you must click the “calculate license price” EACH time you change the drop down Image Use.

If you want to use our images for a purpose not covered in the Image Use, please email us at:  info@ministrydepot.com

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After you make your digital imagery purchase on the PayPal site, your download links will be at the Ministry Depot site in your account page. 

If you return to the Home page, click on Log In.  If too much time hasn’t passed while on the PayPal site,  you likely are still logged in to MD and you’ll immediately see your account page.  If not, simply log in again with your user name and password.  Your download link is the blue ball with green arrow under the Action column.   This link expires in 48 hours.

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Ministry Depot’s  images are compressed and sent in a zip folder to travel faster over the internet.  It is likely you already have a “file archiver or zip software” on your computer to open this folder. 

When you begin downloading, click open, then you will need to extract, save to desktop or another folder so you can find the image. If you receive an error message, you likely don’t have a “file archiver” or “zipper” that can open the folder.

There are many archive formats and for our purposes, you need one that unpacks a “zip” format.  See the following Zip software that consistently receives high ratings.

The following suggestions are based on the most popular File Compression downloads from www.cnet.com.   Note the user reviews.

WinRAR:  $   download.cnet.com
WinZip:   $  download.cnet.com
7-Zip : Free    download.cnet.com 
IZArc:  Free  download.cnet.com

To avoid malicious ware, only download software from the creators of the software or their recommended download site. Do NOT follow install links from ads or unfamiliar sites (great way to catch spyware, adware, viruses, etc.)

For downloads we recommend : www.download.cnet.com

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1.  Has the digital imagery been created to communicate a specific worship theme or scriptural truth?

3. If someone cannot hear the verbal message or read the text, will they understand the theme or sermon truth by the visual design?

4. Is the multimedia appropriate for your congregation, for traditional, blended or contemporary settings?

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Not too long ago, I received an email from a Methodist church member who was asking for help in persuading his congregation to move towards "multimedia worship."

He went on to say, “ we are convinced that digital worship is what we need in order to revitalize our church, but we have met a strong opposition from members that feel we are going to ruin their traditional church.”

This church member portrays a bird’s eye view of what is happening in the wider church. Often there are several camps in every church with different ideas on what the church needs to do to solve it’s problems. I would caution anyone if he or she is convinced that multimedia in worship is the solution for increasing membership and revitalizing the church.

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Before your church purchases presentation software, consider these factors.

1. What do independent reviews say about the advantages, disadvantages?

2. How often do they provide software updates, is there a cost?

3. How easy or difficult is the software to learn? Get feedback from several other churches who have a volunteer or staff situation similar to yours.

4. Are there any compatibility issues with other software that you may be using?

5. What type of training is provided or technical support?  What is the cost?

6. What is your budget?

7.  Major software choices include: Easy Worship, Media Shout, Power Point and Song Show Plus.

8. Visit www.ministrydepot.com for multimedia to use with your software.

4.  Where should the projector and screen be located? Front or rear  projection? Projector distance from the screen will effect the type of lense.

5.  Is more than one screen or monitor needed?

6.  Where will the projector be used? One room or several? Portable or permanently installed?

7.  What type of screen: glass bead, fabric, LCD or plasma monitors?

8.  What is your budget?

9.  What features, terminals do you need for usability going forward?

10.  See Fowler on the left side bar to request a free planning kit.

Visit www.ministrydepot.com for multimedia to use with your projector.

1. Thou shall not use bright neon colored text unless the image is neon.

2. Thou shall not use nature imagery for every theme.

3. Thou shall not use psychedelic light images unless the theme is the Sixties.

4. Thou shall not jam as much text onto one slide as possible.

5. Thou shall not use text that is difficult to read.

6. Thou shall not use a video clip only because its entertaining or funny.

7. Thou shall not use the same design with different colors, Sunday after Sunday.

8. Thou shall not use an image unless it reinforces the spiritual truth or theme.

9. Thou shall not use the large screen as a huge bulletin, to place lots of text.

10. Thou shall not distract worship with meaningless multimedia.

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1.  Thou shall use attractive, well  designed imagery.

2.  Thou shall use video clips that strongly illustrate the theme or spiritual truth.

3.  Thou shall uplift and inspire with appropriate imagery.

4.  Thou shall give staff and volunteers adequate time to pray, plan and prepare worship.

5.  Thou shall choose a scriptural truth and theme.

6.  Thou shall do a few things well rather than a lot of things poorly.

7.  Thou shall trust the Spirit to work thru inspired advance planning.

8.  Thou shall train volunteers adequately and provide support.

9.  Thou shall remember that the WOW is God’s grace thru Jesus Christ and not the biggest and best of technology.

10. Thou shall recognize the importance of team work.

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