Church History Collection
Gather your congregation’s history into one archive
Members, families, and clergy hold decades of photos — services, missions, the building through the years. A Collection brings them together, with the year and the names.
Start a Church Collection$229/year — a 12-month collaborative workspace from EventPix.photo. $179/year for verified nonprofits and schools.
Generations of photos, spread across the congregation
A church’s history is held by its members — baptisms, weddings, mission trips, the sanctuary before the renovation. It scatters across families and fades with each passing year. A Collection gathers it in one place, records who and when, and gives your congregation an archive to celebrate an anniversary or hand to the next generation.
Organize by decade, clergy, and ministry
A folder structure for a congregation’s history — decades, clergy, the building, events, and ministries — ready to fill together.
The whole congregation can contribute
Share one link at coffee hour or in the bulletin. Members add photos and names from their phones; your team curates.
Ready for the anniversary
Publish a gallery or run a slideshow for a milestone service, and keep the full archive to download.
How a Collection works
Share one link
Anyone with the link adds photos from their phone or computer — no app, no account to create. Their uploads land in one place for your team to sort.
Add the stories
Every photo can carry the year, the names, and a short description. Contributors add what they remember; your curators fill in the rest.
Organize as a team
Sort photos into folders, tag them, approve what belongs, and hand roles to the people helping. Your whole team works in the same Collection for the project.
Publish and download
Show the folders you choose as a gallery or a slideshow, and download the whole archive with a spreadsheet of every detail. What you download is yours to keep.
The workspace is where your team collaborates for the year. The archive you download — every photo at original quality, plus a spreadsheet of the details — is yours to keep.
Common questions
Most of our photos are old prints. Can we still add them?
Yes. Snap a photo of the print with your phone — lay it flat in good light — or upload a scan. It goes in with the same year, names, and description as any other photo. Many contributors photograph a whole album page, then add the details afterward.
What happens when our leadership changes?
Ownership can be handed to the next person, so the archive outlasts any one volunteer or clergy term. One person owns the Collection and invites curators to help; when they move on, transfer ownership and the work continues uninterrupted.
How is this different from a shared drive or group album?
A shared drive holds files. A Collection holds the context too — the year, the names, the story behind each photo — and lets a team sort, tag, and approve together. You end up with an organized archive, not a folder of mystery photos.
Do contributors need an account?
No. You share a link, they add photos and details from any phone or computer, and their uploads arrive for your team to review. The owner and curators sign in to organize; contributors just use the link.
How long do we have access — and does it renew?
A Collection is a 12-month collaborative workspace: you can upload, organize, publish, and export the whole time. Renew to keep the workspace going year after year — your archive carries forward, it doesn’t reset. If you decide not to renew, there’s a grace window after the term where the owner and curators can still download everything before the workspace closes.