Shepherd’s Stream is a completely free platform that has been designed for those seeking a church, church leadership and congregants. Shepherd's Stream is a full featured Christian alternative to secular platforms.
Church Seekers: For those seeking a church for the first time or looking for a new church, traveling or moving to a new place, let Shepherd's Stream Church Geo-Locator with our advanced geo-coded mapping system coupled with our very comprehensive church profiles guide you to your new church home. To help keep your search organized, easy and convenient, use our list feature. Create as many lists as you want, add notes, and choose your privacy settings.
Church Congregants: Congregants stay up to date by following your church. Receive notifications when new sermons, photos or videos are uploaded. View live stream Lord’s Day services and attend virtual meetings. Receive daily edification with Verse of the Day and Read Through the Bible reading plans delivered right to your email first thing in the morning.
Church Leadership: One of the core missions of Shepherd's Stream is to support church leadership in their mission of shepherding the Flock of God. A churches online presence is a powerful tool in reaching the current generation with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Church leadership can claim and update their free church profile, live stream unlimited Lord's Day services, host unlimited MP3 and MP4 sermons and gain access to our multi-vendor marketplace.
The Church Profile on Shepherd's Stream is a full-featured comprehensive church listing with 12 tabs that offer a wealth of information. The following sections can be updated:
- Summary: The summery is available on the full directory pages and search results.
- Full Description: Give new visitors looking for a church a full description.
- Welcome: Lord's Day Service Times, Main Phone, Website and a welcome statement.
- From the Pulpit: Under the Welcome tab a link to the sermons preached from the church pulpit is available.
- From the Marketplace: Under the Welcome tab a link to the products listed by church leadership is available.
- Location: Full geo-coded address with map with driving directions on how to get to your church.
- Leadership: Enter as many Church leaders as you need. Use your Gravatar email address to display your picture.
- Ministries: Churches can list their different types of ministries.
- Doctrine: Let visitors to your listing know what your church doctrine is and what you teach.
- History: Let visitors know the history of your church or denomination.
- Live Stream: Church leadership can live stream their Lord's Day services from their church profile.
- Announcements: Keep your church up to date with our announcements feature.
- Rich Media: Upload MP3 music and MP4 Videos to your church listing under the Photos,Videos and Audio tabs.
- Documents: Churches can make available documents for viewing and downloading.
Sermon Stream is a simple sermon live-stream and audio hosting solution that offers unlimited live streaming & sermon hosting.
- Sermon Live Stream: Church leadership can live stream their Lord's Day services from their church profile, convert and upload the finished stream all in one easy seamless process.
- Sermon Hosting: Upload unlimited MP3 & MP4 sermons.
- Sermon Manager: Upload, manage and transcribe your sermons with our sermon manager.
- Series Manager: Manage your series with the Series Manager.
The Marketplace on Shepherd's Stream gives Church leadership, Christian authors and musicians, access to our multi-vendor, e-commerce marketplace.
- Vendor Dashboard: Manage your vendor profile, add and edit products, gain insight in to your customers and orders, manage discounts and shipping options all with our Vendor Dashboard.
- Stripe Connect: Shepherd's Stream is proud to partner with Stripe as Stripe sets the industry standard in payment processing. All Stripe Connect vendor onboarding is completed on Stripes servers for a secure and seamless onboarding experience. Your free Stripe Express account is controlled directly by you with the powerful Stripe Dashboard, directly accessible from the members area on Shepherd's Stream.
Note: All Vendors subject to approval.
Meeting Manager offers church leadership the ability to meet virtually with your leadership team, congragants and visitors to your profile. Quickly schedule and join unlimited virtual meetings with our integrated calendar and scheduling features.
Bible Stream offers daily edification with Verse of the Day and Read Through The Bible reading plans delivered right to your email first thing in the morning.