12 tech gifts to give to your parish this Christmas
Discover 12 tech gifts to give to your parish this Christmas! From live streaming to microphones to task management - we've got ideas for you!
Everyone’s making their lists and checking them twice! Gifts for family, friends, coworkers, teachers… but this year, don’t forget one very important recipient: your parish.
Yes, your parish deserves a little Christmas love, too. After all, it’s where you worship, where your community gathers, and where dozens of ministries (and hundreds of emails) come to life every week. And let’s be honest, a few strategic tech upgrades could make parish life smoother, holier, and a whole lot happier in the new year.
So while you’re wrapping gifts for the people you love, think of how you’ll bless your entire parish family. Here are 12 tech gifts every Catholic parish needs this Christmas—tools that will help your staff communicate better, evangelize smarter, and stress less.
Give your parish the gift of clear audio, because the Gospel deserves better than tin-can acoustics. Whether it’s recording testimony videos, livestream snippets, or your pastor a short message for social media, an external iPhone mic instantly upgrades every moment.
Let there be light! A simple light kit makes volunteers look less like they’re filming in a catacomb and more like real, radiant humans. Having one of these bad boys on hand will make it easy to create content that will shine bright like a Bethlehem star.
Bulletin boards are great… until they start to look like archaeological dig sites. Upgrading to digital signage—even something as simple as a vertical TV screen—keeps parish updates fresh, beautiful, relevant, and impossible to miss. Whether you start small or shop around for a more robust setup, it’s a gift that says: “Welcome to the 21st century, parish family.”
Podcast ministry? Spiritual reflections? High-quality voiceovers? A solid podcast mic is the gift of professional-level storytelling, perfect for parishes ready to evangelize through people’s earbuds.
Every parish has a well-meaning volunteer whose videos… wobble a bit. Consider this your gentle Christmas-season upgrade. A gimbal keeps iPhone footage steady for video coverage of events, processions, and interviews. Set your social media content apart with simple tools like these to catch parishioners’ attention and earn engagement!
Picture this: The parish bulletin… but beautiful. Canva Pro makes even the busiest parish staff member a design superhero. Graphics for events, sacraments, social media, signage—all polished, on-brand, and infinitely easier than struggling with Microsoft Publisher (be free!). (Check out their nonprofit rates!)
The gift that won’t cost you a dime! Meet your parish’s new research assistant. Need catechetical clarity? Want to have a legitimate source review your OCIA content quickly? Trying to look up a Church document without scrolling through 12 PDFs? Magisterium AI puts trustworthy Church sources at your fingertips.
From First Communion photos, to parish mission nights, to capturing the simple Sunday experience at your parish, a camera opens up endless opportunities for capturing the life of your parish. Investing in a high quality camera (and/or inviting a volunteer who has one to cover your parish events) is one way to capture and share the beauty of your parish community. Think of it as the gift that keeps evangelizing.
Because every parish staff says “We should really get organized next year.” Asana is project management that actually keeps everyone on the same page. This is your team’s tool to track progress on everything—events, sacramental prep, communications, and facility projects—all in one digital home.
The Cadillac of projection software. If your parish uses screens for Mass, worship nights, or retreats—or if you want to lean into Laudato Si and save a few trees in the new year—ProPresenter makes everything seamless, beautiful, and volunteer-proof. (Well… almost.)
If your parish livestreams—or dreams of livestreaming without heart palpitations—Resi is the gift of pure, unshakable peace. It’s the gold standard of rock-solid streaming: no buffering, no surprise crashes, no “Father, the livestream froze right when you got to the good part.”
With Resi, your parish broadcasts become as dependable as Sunday Mass itself. It’s the ultimate tech blessing for digital discipleship. Plus Resi Studio AI is now your go-to spot to generate clips, transcripts, and content enrichments quickly and easily to share content in the digital space.
Finally, give your parish staff the gift they’ve been praying for: an all-in-one system that actually works, saving your team headaches, misunderstandings, and busywork. ParishStaq pulls everything—ChMS, online giving, event registration, volunteer management, communications—into one seamless, beautiful ecosystem.
It’s not just software; it’s sanity. It’s smoother workflows, clearer communication, happier teams, and ministries that run like a well-oiled (and well-evangelized) machine. Truly the Christmas miracle your parish office has been waiting for.
You can also think of Pushpay’s new AI solutions as the standout stocking stuffer for your parish! Now, you can connect and take action on the moments that matter most and let Pushpay’s AI do the searching, sifting, and finding that can quickly eat up your day.
