Somewhere across the building, a classroom is still showing last week's content. Someone has to go reset it. At The Church of Eleven22 in Jacksonville, Florida, that used to be the reality every single week.
With three Sunday services at 7:22 AM, 9:22 AM, and 11:22 AM — plus Thursday evening programming — their Kids Ministry team was managing dozens of classrooms across six campuses. Physically resetting every room between services wasn't just tedious. It wasn't scalable.
So they built a system inside Playlister that runs itself.
The Setup
Every classroom at Eleven22 runs on an Apple TV locked down through their MDM system. Their Kids Ministry team manages the entire operation from a single Playlister account, pushing content to every screen across every campus from wherever they happen to be.
The scheduling piece is where it gets interesting.
Rather than managing each service as a one-off event, Eleven22 built their schedule around three playlist layers:
Curriculum playlists for each service, timed to start precisely when each service begins. When 7:22 hits, the right content is already playing in the right room.
A logo playlist that acts as a holding screen between services, showing the Eleven22Kids branding while rooms transition. No awkward blank screens. No leftover slides from the last hour.
Recurring schedules that tie everything together so the system knows exactly what to show and when — without anyone touching a remote.
What It Looks Like on Sunday Morning
Inside the Scheduling Manager, Eleven22 has mapped out every classroom for every service time. Sunday content begins loading across all their Apple TVs during the week. By the time the doors open, every screen in every room is already showing the right content for the right service. No one is running between classrooms to make it happen.
When a service ends, the logo playlist kicks in automatically. When the next service begins, the curriculum picks back up right where it should. Campus staff don't need to log in, navigate a dashboard, or touch anything. They walk in, turn on the TV, and the content is there.
This same logic carries into their Thursday evening programming. Rather than treating it as a separate setup, it lives in the same Scheduling Manager as the weekend, with its own set of triggers that fire without any manual intervention.
When the Internet Went Down
Here's a story that shows why this setup matters beyond convenience.
During a recent Sunday service at one of their campuses, the internet went down. At most churches, that would mean blank screens, panicked volunteers, and a scramble to figure out a backup plan.
At Eleven22, nobody even noticed. Playlister caches content directly on the Apple TV, so when the connection dropped, every screen kept running like nothing happened. The curriculum played. The transitions fired. The schedule held.
"I used Playlister because I didn't trust we were all going to lose internet," said Sam, Eleven22's Kids Minister. "Then we all lost internet, and I was the only one that had slides up."
The Bigger Picture
What Eleven22 has built isn't just a scheduling workaround. It's a model for how a growing, multi-campus church can scale its Kids Ministry media without scaling the effort required to manage it.
Every new campus they launch gets the same infrastructure: an Apple TV, the Playlister app, and a schedule that runs itself. The team that manages six campuses today could manage sixteen tomorrow without adding headcount or complexity.
For their team, the shift wasn't just about saving time. It was about peace of mind. They know that when they push content, it will be on every screen — at every campus — exactly when it needs to be.
Your Turn
If your team is still running between rooms between services, or rebuilding your schedule from scratch every week, you don't have to keep doing that.
We'd love to show you how churches like Eleven22 have set it up. Book a walkthrough and we'll get your screens running themselves.