Free for Churches

A nice collection of crafts projects, recipes, and activity ideas for children's ministry. Currently under some reconstruction, hopefully lesson ideas will also be featured.

a modest collection of graphics, particularly suited for worship backgrounds

a rival to Microsoft Office - a complete office software suite including:

• WRITER word processor
  
• CALC spreadsheet
  
• IMPRESS presentations software
  
• BASE database software (with SQL)
  
• DRAW

You may feel like you've hit the jackpot when you visit this site! Serif Software has long given away old versions of its software, in hopes that when you need more current software you will be aware of the quality they offer. This site includes programs for:

• Desktop Publishing
  
• Graphic Design
  
• Image and Photo Editing
  
• 3D Animation
  
• Web Publishing

Pixia is a photo and image program which has been wildly popular for several years in Japan. It has been available for a little while in English, and has a growing user base.

"GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring."

Gimp is often referred to as "the free PhotoShop".

a nice collection with a variety of music

Freebies from the premier ministry company in youth ministry. These are product samples from material they're trying to sell you, but they're still no-strings-attached free!

A collection of free youth ministry material from Doug Field's "Simply Youth Ministry" site. Some are samples from items for sale, but many stand on their own.

"almost 200mb of free abstract digital photos and backgounds ready for you to download...The materials contained here are free to use, but you must credit / link to this site if you use them in any commercial application"