FaithKit Radio · the signature feature

Your sermons,
on the air, on your homepage.

Upload Sunday's recording. FaithKit finds the natural breaks, evens out the volume, and puts your preaching on a station that plays right on the front page — from your church's own server. No streaming vendor. No app to install. Nobody watching who's listening.

Built into every FaithKit site · free & managedYour recordings · your server · your people
01 / 05 — In plain words
What it is

A little radio station that only plays your preaching.

Not a podcast feed on somebody else's platform. Not a YouTube embed with ads before the invitation. A player on your own front page, working through your own recordings, in order, all day.

"Someone opens your website at ten o'clock on a Tuesday night. They press play. They hear your pastor, in your building, preaching the message you preached two Sundays ago. Nothing between them and the Word but a play button." What the station is for
PLAYS

Your station's clips, in the order you set, with previous / play / next on the homepage player. It just keeps going.

FEEDS

Upload a single clip by hand, or upload one whole service recording and let the slicer do the cutting.

LIVES

In a plain folder of MP3s on your server, listed in one small file. Back it up, move it, keep it forever.

SWITCHES

On or off from the admin. Off means the player simply isn't there — no dead widget, no "coming soon."

02 / 05 — Under the hood, honestly
How the slicer works

Upload one recording. Get a station.

The part churches dread is editing: chopping a ninety-minute service into pieces and making the volume match. FaithKit does that part for you, the moment you upload.

Listen for the pauses

The slicer scans the recording for genuine quiet — the gap after a hymn, the breath before the text is read. Silence longer than a moment (−30 dB · 0.8 s) marks a natural cut point.

Cut at the breaks

The recording is split at those pauses, never mid-sentence. Fragments shorter than three seconds are dropped; a service becomes up to twelve clean parts.

Even out the volume

Each part is normalized to broadcast loudness (−16 LUFS) with true-peak limiting, so a quiet prayer and a loud invitation sit at the same level on the listener's phone.

Put it on the air

The parts are saved as ordinary MP3s and added to your station in order. Nothing to export, nothing to paste into a feed. It's on the homepage.

One plain requirement. The slicer needs ffmpeg and Python 3 on the host. Most shared hosts don't have them — so run the slicer on a laptop (it's in the package) and upload the finished clips through the admin. The homepage player works either way. What the free install needs →

HYMNSCRIPTURE + PRAYERSPECIALMESSAGEINVITATIONCLOSING
SoundNormalized levelCut point found at a natural pause
The warmly lit gold dial and ivory band-selector keys of an old wooden tube radio, seen up close.

The sermon goes out. The pew comes along.

Somebody in your church listened to preaching on a radio like this one long before there was a website. The station on your homepage is the same idea, kept: your pastor’s own voice, from your own domain, for the member who couldn’t make the drive.

03 / 05 — The people on the other end
Who it's for

The ones who couldn't be in the pew.

A church website is mostly visited by people who aren't in the building. The station is for them.

Shut-in

The member who can't come anymore.

She has your website bookmarked. She presses play after breakfast and hears her own pastor, not a stranger on the television. No app, no login, no account.

Visitor

The family deciding where to go Sunday.

Before they visit, they want to know what's preached here. Two minutes of a real message answers that better than any "About Us" page.

Missed Sunday

The dad who worked the weekend.

He didn't make it. Monday on the drive in, he opens the church site on his phone and picks up the message where the rest of the family left off.

04 / 05 — Straight talk
What it isn't

Plain about the limits, so nobody's surprised.

We'd rather you know exactly what you're getting than find out on a Sunday.

It isn't live streaming.

The station plays services you've already recorded. If your church wants a live feed of Sunday morning, that is a separate tool with its own costs — and FaithKit will happily sit beside it.

It isn't a podcast directory.

Your clips play on your website. FaithKit doesn't push them to Apple or Spotify. Because the files are plain MP3s on your server, you can do that yourself any time — but it's your choice, not a default.

It isn't magic with a bad recording.

The slicer finds pauses and evens out loudness. It can't fix a microphone that was off or a room that echoes. A modest recorder at the pulpit makes all the difference.

05 / 05 — Why it matters
You own the air

Your preaching shouldn't live on somebody else's platform.

Most church audio is uploaded to a service that can change its terms, put ads in front of it, quietly count every listener — or close. FaithKit keeps the sermons where the church is.

your-church-site/
├── config/
│   └── site-config.json      ← radio on/off, station name
├── data/
│   └── radio.json            ← the playlist, in your order
└── media/
    └── audio/
        ├── 2026-09-06-am-part01.mp3
        ├── 2026-09-06-am-part02.mp3
        ├── 2026-09-06-am-part03.mp3
        └── …                 ← plain MP3s. Yours.
  • Files, not accounts. A folder of MP3s and one small list. Copy it to a thumb drive and you have a backup of every message.
  • Zero telemetry. The player is FaithKit's own — no third-party script, no analytics beacon, no "listening data." Who listens is between them and the Lord.
  • No renewal to lose. There is no radio subscription that can lapse. Turn it on once; it works as long as the website does.
  • Same on both paths. Free DIY or done-for-you managed hosting — the station is identical, and the files are still yours either way.
Hear it, then have it

Press play on the sample church.

Cornerstone is a sample congregation running the real FaithKit, station included: two Scripture readings and six hymns on the air, cut by the real slicer. Listen, then join the early-access list or download it today.