Funeral
Planning
Guide

The Souls Church on-site funeral fee includes the following: • Facility set up and clean up • Technical support • Pre-recorded music • Use of easels • Coffee & bottled water • Digital image production // Please make a check out to Souls Church and give to care coordinator the day of the funeral.

Please make a check out to the pastor officiating the funeral and give to care coordinator the day of the funeral. Note: Many funeral home services will take care of distributing this check on your behalf the day of the service.

Funeral services at our church will require a production team member to be present to operate sound, media and camera. // Please make a check out to Souls Church and give to care coordinator the day of the funeral.

Families are welcome to purchase a memorial video to be projected on lobby screens during the visitation and during the service itself. Please provide a maximum of 50 photos or videos (in digital format) can be given to the video director at least 48 hours prior to funeral. This $150 fee is added to the Souls Church on-site funeral fee.

If live music is desired, families are welcome to provide their own soloist/accompanist. We also have various Souls Church musicians who may be available to assist with funerals. However, $100 for each soloist or musician is recommended. Please make a check out directly to each musician and give to care coordinator the day of the funeral.

Families are welcome to bring self-prepared or purchased ‘finger foods’ (i.e. cookies, bars, cheese/crackers) to serve guests following the funeral service. Please also bring paper products (plates and/or napkins). Souls Church volunteer servers are available to assist with serving refreshments. (For families who would like to offer a full meal for their guests, please contact a member of the Souls Church team.)

Families may receive several flower arrangements/plants as gifts. Please ask a family member or friend to help take these to your home after the service.

John 14:1-6 “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.” “No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”

Romans 8:38-39 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 4:7-8 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. And now the prize awaits me—the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on the day of his return. And the prize is not just for me but for all who eagerly look forward to his appearing.

John 11:23-26 Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.” “Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die.”

1 Peter 1:3-5 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by His great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So, we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

Note: The above information will need to be provided to the funeral home that will print the service program.