Hearken

For church media teams

The verse is on the screen before the page is turned.

The pastor says “turn with me to Ephesians two, verse eight”. Hearken hears it, finds it, and offers it. Your operator presses one key, and the congregation is reading it. No typing, no hunting, no dead air.

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Transcript

Ephesians 2:8KJV · 96%in the outline

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

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Ephesians 2:8 KJV

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

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The pastor says it. The operator types it. The screen shows it.

Every Sunday, in every church, someone at a laptop races the pulpit. They lose by a few seconds each time, and the room feels it. Hearken removes the race.

How it works

Four seconds, three of them the pastor’s.

  1. 01

    It listens

    A feed from the sound desk carries the pulpit microphone into the laptop. Nothing else in the room is heard.

  2. 02

    It reads the reference

    Spoken numbers, abbreviations, “chapter eleven of John”. The parser is rules, not guesswork, so it behaves the same every week.

  3. 03

    Your operator approves

    A card appears with the verse already loaded. Enter puts it up, Escape dismisses it. Nothing reaches the wall unapproved unless you allow it.

  4. 04

    The congregation reads

    Long passages page a few verses at a time. The pastor can say “next verse” and the page turns with nobody at the desk touching anything.

What it does

Built for a Sunday, not a demo.

The card is up before the page is turned.

A feed from the sound desk carries the pulpit microphone into the laptop. The reference is read by rules, not guesswork, so it behaves the same every Sunday. The card arrives with the verse already loaded; Enter puts it up.

  • Spoken numbers, abbreviations, “chapter eleven of John”, “down to verse nineteen”
  • A bare “verse nineteen” resolves against the chapter already on screen
  • A verse recited without its reference is recognised from its words
  • “Next verse” and “go back” from the pulpit turn the page
The Hearken desk with a passage on the projector and the Screen menu open

Backgrounds

Fourteen ways to light the wall. Or bring your own.

These are not pictures of the backgrounds. They are the backgrounds, drawn by the same code the projector runs, so they stay sharp on any screen and never need a file.

  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Midnight
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Slate
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Royal
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Paper
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Ember
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Aurora
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Dawn
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Bokeh
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Light rays
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Cross
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Mesh
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Linen
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Regal
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Sky
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Drift
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Embers
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Ripple
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Dust
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Nebula
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Waves
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Rain
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Stars
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Curtains
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Pulse
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Glass
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Smoke
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Harvest
  • Psalm 46:10 KJVBe still, and know that I am God.
    Sunrise

Measured, not promised

Six whole sermons, every reference checked by hand.

Before a single screen was built, the hard part was proved on real recordings: five and three quarter hours of preaching and 176 spoken references, each one listened to and labelled. Your building, microphone and preacher will differ, so the app keeps a log every Sunday and writes you a review on Monday.

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Between passages

The wall is never blank.

When nothing is projected the screen rests on the background you chose, your logo, and a line of your own: the assembly’s name, a welcome, the theme of the series. Or a picture of your own building.

The projector between passages, showing a church's name over the Aurora background

The slow lane

The line the preacher just landed, offered as a card.

With your permission, the last few minutes of the sermon go to Claude with the outline as context, and the sentences worth putting on a screen come back. They sit beside the scripture cards and reach nobody until you approve them. Off until you turn it on, because it leaves the building.

The Hearken desk with a passage paged on the projector

Monday

Every Sunday makes the next one better.

The desk keeps a log of everything it heard and did. On Monday it writes a review: what it caught, what it missed and the words it actually heard, how long the operator took, and the archive for the pastor’s office with every scripture and the minute it appeared.

Hearken's settings sheet, folded into seven headings

Pricing

One price per church, not per seat.

A media team changes every week and nobody should be counting heads on a Sunday, so invite whoever runs the desk. Prices are quoted in the money your church actually holds.

Paid through Stripe

Assembly

Most churches

One media desk, everything that puts scripture on the wall.

$29a month

  • Live scripture from the pulpit microphone
  • Three translations, offline, on the machine
  • The library: songs, notices, readings, pictures and slides
  • Browser output, the phone remote, and the singers' monitor
  • Live translation and the Monday review
  • two machines, three halls, and 25 on the team
  • 20 of the church's own backgrounds, shared between machines

Cathedral

Several campuses, a bigger team, and room to grow into.

$79a month

  • Everything in Assembly
  • ten machines, 25 halls, and 500 on the team
  • 100 of the church's own backgrounds, shared between machines
  • Room for every campus under one bill
  • Priority support on a Sunday morning

Every plan includes the speech engine's own charge, which is about $1 an hour of preaching. Cancel from your dashboard.

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