What churches ask ChurchCreate to design: four months of data
Baptism is the most requested graphic, most work happens Monday to Thursday, and churches start Christmas in October. What the numbers say and what to do with them.
ChurchCreate opened to churches in July. Since then, more than 100 churches have used it to start projects for their screens and feeds. I went through every one of those projects to see what churches actually ask for, and when.
A few things surprised me. Baptism comes up more than any other word. Almost nobody starts a project on the weekend. And most churches don't want just one look.
Here's what the numbers say, and what I'd do with them if I were the one making the graphics at your church.
Most church graphics get made Monday through Thursday
86% of projects start between Monday and Thursday. Wednesday is the busiest day. Saturday and Sunday together account for 7%.
The hours tell the same story. About two thirds of projects start between 8am and 5pm Central time, and the two busiest hours are noon and 3pm. That's someone using a lunch break or the slow part of the afternoon, not someone up at midnight.
This one made me happy. The old picture of church graphics is the Saturday night scramble, and I've lived plenty of those. If the work can move to Tuesday afternoon, the weekend goes back to being the weekend.
What to do with it. Pick a weekday slot and protect it. Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon gives you time to fix anything before the Sunday announcements go out.
Sermon series are the biggest job
Close to half of all projects are sermon series. Events are next at just over a third. Slides and social posts make up the rest.
That lines up with what our Squad has seen designing for churches since 2017. The series graphic is the one that lives on the screens for six weeks, so it's the one churches want to get right. Events come in a steady stream behind it, and every one of them needs its own design.
What to do with it. Plan your series graphics a season ahead and leave the weekly slots for events. If you're working on your next series, our guide to designing a sermon series graphic covers the whole process.
Baptism is the most requested thing in church graphics
Baptism shows up in 8% of all project titles, more than any other word. It beats Sunday, Christmas, worship and night. Most of these are Baptism Sunday graphics, and they cluster in July and September.
It makes sense. Baptism Sunday is a celebration, families invite people to watch, and churches want the screens to match the moment. It also comes around more than once a year, which is why the same request keeps coming back.
What to do with it. Make one baptism design you love and keep it. Use it every time, with the date changed. People will start to recognize it, and you get a weekday back every time baptism comes around.
Churches start Christmas in October
Christmas and Advent projects started showing up in July. By October, about one in four new projects was for Christmas or Advent.
Christmas Eve is a Thursday this year, which pushes everything earlier. The churches starting now are the ones that will have their invites out with three Sundays to share them. If that's not you yet, there's still time, and our Christmas church graphics checklist has every date.
What to do with it. Get the Advent series graphic done by November 15 and the Christmas Eve invite by December 6.
Most churches want more than one look
When ChurchCreate asks which looks fit a project, churches pick two looks 60% of the time, not one. Bold was the most picked look. Textured, the rough and distressed one, was picked least.
The spread is the interesting part. No single look wins. Minimal, Refined and Type-driven all landed within a point of each other. About one in ten times, the answer was no preference at all.
What I take from that is that most churches don't have one style. They have a range they're comfortable in, and they move around inside it depending on what the graphic is for. A Baptism Sunday and a book study don't have to look like the same church made them, as long as both feel like your church.
What to do with it. Stop trying to make every graphic match. Pick two looks your church is comfortable with and let each project lean toward whichever one fits it.
What I'm watching next
Four months is a short window, and it covers summer and fall, so Easter and the new year aren't in it yet. I'll come back to these numbers after Christmas and again after Easter to see what changes.
If something here matches what you see at your church, or doesn't, I'd like to hear it. Email us at hello@churchcreate.com.
Questions people ask about church graphics
What graphics do churches make most often?
In ChurchCreate, sermon series graphics are the most common project at about 45%, followed by event graphics at about 36%. Service slides and social posts make up the rest. Baptism is the single most common word in project titles.
When do churches make their graphics?
Mostly on weekdays. 86% of ChurchCreate projects start Monday through Thursday, with Wednesday the busiest day. Only 7% start on a Saturday or Sunday.
When do churches start their Christmas graphics?
Many start in October. About one in four ChurchCreate projects started in October 2026 was for Christmas or Advent.
What design style do churches prefer?
There's no single favorite. Bold was picked most often, but Minimal, Refined and Type-driven were close behind, and most churches picked two looks rather than one.
Where does this data come from?
It comes from projects churches started in ChurchCreate between July and October 2026, with our own team's accounts left out. We looked only at totals, like project type, day of the week and the looks churches chose, never at any one church's work.