You will need the Full Write Sermons permission to add a sermon. Editing the lists of speakers and series also needs Sermons Settings.
There are two ways to start a new sermon:
Click Sermon in the New drop-down menu at the top of any page.
Open the sermon listing from the left-hand navigation menu and click Add New at the top.
Either way, a window opens where you enter the details for the sermon.
Sermon fields
General
Title - the name of the sermon.
Date - the date the sermon was given. This is the date your congregation sees on the sermon.
Summary - a short summary of what the sermon is about. It appears on social media shares and in many places where the sermon is listed.
Speaker - the person who gave the teaching. You can edit the list of speakers using the menu to the right of the drop-down, which needs the Sermons Settings permission.
More fields:
Series - the teaching series the sermon is part of, if any. You can edit the list of series using the menu to the right of the drop-down, which needs the Sermons Settings permission.
Tags - used to recommend related sermons.
Visibility
Is Public? - whether to show the sermon publicly online.
Publish Date - the date and time the sermon becomes visible online. This date is for scheduling only and is not shown to your congregation.
Tip: The Date and Publish Date don't have to match. For example, if your church releases sermons online on Thursdays, set the Publish Date to that Thursday and the Date to the day the sermon was preached.
Notes
Notes and Outline - notes and a sermon outline for viewers to use while watching the sermon. Underline a word or words to replace them with a blank for the viewer to fill in.
Bible Verses
Add one or more Bible verses that are central to the message. Each verse is posted as a link to bible.com (YouVersion). Click + to add a row, and - at the end of a verse to remove it.
Transcript
Type an audio transcript for the sermon here. When you are finished, click Save at the bottom of the window.
Sermon files and storage
Audio and video you upload to a sermon, and documents on a sermon's Files tab, count toward your account's media storage.
Warning: Before Version 8, documents on a sermon's Files tab did not count toward storage. They now do on every account, including churches with one campus and one organization. If your account holds sermon documents, its storage use went up when Version 8 was released, and an account close to its limit can find uploads refused until it upgrades or deletes files.
The storage bar
When you upload to a sermon, a storage bar shows how much room is left. In the wording below, the parts in brackets are filled in for you.
One organization - the bar reads [current] GB of [max] GB.
Two or more organizations - the bar is one bar for the sermon you are uploading to, never a list by organization. It reads [used] GB used · [left] GB left, with one line under it naming what holds the upload back.
With two or more organizations, the line under the bar is one of these:
[Organization] is limited to [limit] GB. - an organization's own storage limit is holding the upload back.
Shared with your other organizations ([pool] GB in total). - the subscription total is holding the upload back.
[Organization] is limited to [limit] GB, but the subscription has [left] GB left. - the organization has a limit with more room than the subscription has.
When an upload is refused
Refused by an organization's limit - [Organization] has [left] left under its [limit] GB storage limit, and this file is [size]. Raise or remove its limit under Account Settings > Organizations. When several organizations are short, the message names the one with the least room.
Refused by the subscription - Your subscription has [left] of media storage left, and this file is [size]. Upgrade your subscription to add more.
A file on a sermon shared by several organizations counts toward each organization's limit and once toward the subscription, so the tightest limit decides. For example, a sermon shared by one organization with 50 MB left under its limit and another with 2 GB left refuses a 200 MB file.