Are churches ready to embrace the AI Era? Should they?
FRANKLIN — Shiloh Baptist Church in Mount Juliet does not employ a graphic designer, social media manager, video producer or editor. What it does have, however, is a pastor who juggles these roles with the help of technology.
Stephen Young, the pastor, doesn’t have formal training in these specialties but has embraced artificial intelligence to expand his ministry capabilities.
“I asked a friend pastoring a small church by himself how he had such nice graphics on his church’s Facebook page,” Young said. “He uses AI to generate them. I started using Ideogram (ideogram.ai) to create graphics for church announcements and to promote events and upcoming sermon series. It doesn’t take a lot of effort or time to describe [to the AI] what you want and get a graphic.” [Read more…]


