View Service Companion

Quick start

1. Open the public Service Companion link from your church directly. You do not need to sign in.
2. Choose a Service item to move to another part of the service.
3. In Slides, choose Previous or Next to move through that item's slides.
4. When Lyrics is available, choose it to read one song section at a time. Use Previous and Next to move between sections.
5. Look below the current slide for Notes for this slide when the church has included notes for it.

The same Service item, Previous, and Next controls work on a phone and on a desktop. You browse at your own pace. To stay with the slide that is on screen during the service, see Follow live in Service Companion.

Deep dive

Browse service items and slides

Use Service item to choose a presentation or another item in the service. The item opens at its first slide. In Slides, use Previous and Next to move through its slides.

These controls work the same way on a phone and on a desktop. Slides keep their original layout rather than changing into a separate mobile layout.

Read song lyrics

When a service item provides lyrics, choose Lyrics. The page shows one section at a time in the song's arranged order. Choose Previous or Next to move between sections. If the arrangement repeats a section, that repeated section appears again in its arranged position.

Choose Slides to return to the item's slides.

When Lyrics is not available

A service item has no Lyrics control when:

• the church left lyrics off for the public companion;
• the presentation was not composed from a library song; or
• the song has no usable lyric arrangement.

The item's slides still appear even when Lyrics is unavailable.

Notes for the current slide

Notes for this slide appears below the current slide only when the church included notes for that slide. Moving with Previous or Next updates the slide and shows only the notes included for the newly current slide.

Browsing and Follow live

Service Companion is a public page that you open directly, without signing in. Browsing does not advance when the presentation operator changes slides.

While the service is running, Follow live appears beside the service title. Turn it on to watch the current slide. Turn it off, or wait until the service ends, to return to the place you were browsing. See Follow live in Service Companion.