What's new

August 2026

Projection leaves the console's computer 🎬 The hall screen, the stage return and the tablet lectern now live on any machine on the network: a link, a QR code, nothing to install, and no account to type into a mini-PC left unattended behind the projector. That screen displays, it drives nothing. And what belongs to the stage - the text of a talk before it is spoken, the cues sent to the singers - is not merely hidden from the screen the congregation watches: it is never sent to it. Full guide

Projecting without the Internet 🔌 Many rooms have no connection, and the service does not wait. The console now keeps a local copy of your session: on Sunday morning, with no network, it opens on that copy and tells you plainly how old it is. Better still: when your screens are on the same network as the console - the church wifi, or a phone's hotspot - they link up directly with each other. The slide leaves with the click without crossing a continent, your mobile data is barely used, and an Internet outage mid-service does not interrupt them. The local badge tells you screen by screen, and only when it is true. A connection is still needed to open the screens; after that, it may drop. Full guide

The speaker's teleprompter The text of a talk scrolls on the stage return, at the speed you set, with a live offset you can correct on the fly. The congregation never sees it. Full guide

Prepare without sending Preparation mode finally separates what you touch from what goes to the room: look up a verse, reorder a song, insert a quotation - nothing moves in front of the congregation until you press Enter.

Finding your place in a song Keys 1 to 9 jump to the verse, 0 to the next chorus - it comes back three or four times, and always aiming at the first would make the key useless from the second repeat on. The section marker ("Chorus", "Verse 2") shows in the console, on the stage return, and in the hall if you want it.

Animated backgrounds and fonts Ten fonts in the catalogue, grouped by family, with a preview that changes before your eyes before you confirm. Plus a background library: gradients, your church's own images, or one of ten discreet animated backgrounds. Full guide

July 2026

Bible Challenges: the live Bible quiz game 🎉 Turn studying the Word into a game: the host projects a QR code in your church's colors, everyone joins from their phone without an account or app, and answers in real time - speed points, live ranking, final podium. The official question bank exists in 5 languages, and your church can create its own themes. This week's novelties: the question also shows on each participant's phone (playable remotely, from the back of the room or another country), latecomers can join a game already started, a reconnection gives players back their place and points, and the host can share the link or end the game at any moment. In Open mode, the contest can run all week. Full guide

William Branham's sermons are now available 📖 The sermon library arrives in the Preaching module: 1,222 sermons in full text (1947-1965), in original English and freely distributed SHP/VGR/Swiss translations. Full-text search through 394,000 paragraphs (without accent constraints), paragraph-by-paragraph reading §, and citations inserted into your sermons via the /prophet editor command - a single paragraph or an entire range (§62-65). Reserved for Message churches: enable it in Settings → Church. The language follows your church's, with the original English always accessible. Full guide

Try Sanctumel without an account 🎉 One click on "Try the demo" from the homepage and you explore the dashboard of a complete fictional church - members, finances, worship, sermons, events. No sign-up. Learn more

Emails that walk with you

• Welcome email with first steps as soon as your address is verified
• Reminders before your free trial ends (D-7, D-1, day D) - no more surprises
• Weekly summary of your church every Monday morning (new members, income, events)

New service status page /status now shows the real state of every component (API, database, payments, video, emails) with response times, continuously refreshed.

Admin console

• Full platform audit log (logins, sensitive actions)
• "Needs action" work queue: payments to validate, access requests, subscriptions to watch - at a glance

Updated pricing Standard moves to €29/month and Premium to €49/month (32/54 USD in Africa) - still everything included, and still the most accessible pricing on the market. Donation management (Sanctumel Pay) stays free.

Accessibility First WCAG 2.1 AA audit of public pages: stronger contrasts, visible keyboard focus everywhere, better touch targets on mobile.

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June 2026

Online store: sell church books and items (on-site pickup, variants), with accounting synchronised automatically.

Multi-image gallery per product and client-side cart on the public page.

Complete documentation: 84 step-by-step guides in 5 languages on docs.sanctumel.com, with full-text search.