Planning is vital to the success of any production. Without a plan, your video likely won’t succeed in conveying your message to your congregation — if it gets produced at all. In the right hands, a camera is an incredibly effective storytelling tool — so it’s...
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Broadcast Your House of Worship Service Anywhere
You can broadcast your house of worship service virtually anywhere with the appropriate technology and permissions. Here's how: Online Streaming Platforms: Use online streaming platforms such as YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch, or Vimeo to broadcast your services to a...
How to Keep Fresh Ears, Fresh Eyes, and Fresh Hearts, Week After Week
One of the first pastors I worked with used to say, “serving in church is a grind, and it's not for everybody”. As we recover from the post-Easter-hangover, I thought it would be a good idea to reflect on the grind and discuss how we can protect ourselves from two of...
Generational Issues Within Your Lighting Tech Team
Breaking down generational issues within your house of worship lighting tech team can be a complex task, but it's definitely achievable with the right approach. Addressing generational issues within a lighting tech team involves understanding and respecting the...
Getting Started with Church Project Management
Looking for ways to help things run smoothly in your ministry? Project management may help
Lighting Maintenance & Training
Training your house of worship lighting tech team on preventive lighting maintenance is crucial to ensure the proper functioning and longevity of your lighting equipment. Here's a comprehensive guide you can use to train your team: Introduction to Preventive...
Burnout Self-Care for the Church Communicator (Easter & Beyond)
At Easter, or during any overwhelming church season, a church communicator (or Pastor) needs to be mindful of burnout self-care. Here are some self-care strategies so you can protect yourself from burnout: Prepare with Adequate Expectations: Church communicators often...
Embracing the Shepherd’s Mantle: The Spiritual Call for Church Security
In our faith communities, discussions often skirt around the grittier realities that thread through our society. We don’t like to talk about domestic violence, child sexual abuse, drug addiction, or financial fraud, but those and other crimes are happening in our...
Creating Your Budget for 2024
While the idea of budgeting and advance planning may not be the most exciting thing on a church tech’s to-do list, it can definitely be one of the most impactful. Not all churches’ fiscal year aligns with the calendar year, but for those that do, this is the ideal...
Easter Service Planning Tips
These 4 tips may relieve some frustration for both the creatives and the production-minded people on your team
Hold on to First-time Guests (7 Retention Tips)
Welcoming first-time guests to your church, and encouraging them to return, involves thoughtful planning and intentional actions. Here are seven practical steps to help ensure that first-time guests become long-term members of your church community: 1. Warm and...
Taking Care Of Business With Worship Tech
Avoiding unnecessary bumps in the road through careful planning, maintenance and teamwork can increase consistency between services.
Tools and Methods for Managing Your Church’s Social Media
Managing your church's social media properly will help connect with your congregation and community. There are many social media tools to help you with this monumental task. This isn’t an exhaustive list but it will help you get started (search for more “social media...
Using Videos to Enhance Church Communications
Creating a video or website video full of faith-centered content is vital to any church. People often head to church websites to glean from the information provided. They want to learn, and they want to grow. What if you could give the people what they want by...
9 Activities Your Church Should Inspect
An inspection process helps ensure policies and procedures are followed, and when it’s not, variances in practice are reported to management for correction.
LDI 2023 Event Recap
Worship Facility was on site at LDI 2023 at Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas Nevada Dec 3-5, 2023 to visit our vendors and check out the new products in the world of lighting, video, and rigging. LDI (Live Design International) is an ultimate convergence point...
How to Recruit New Tech Team Volunteers
This month's tech question comes from Lori P. from Goldsboro, NC, who asks, " Do you have advice on recruiting new tech team members?" I do, and I know how difficult it can be for ministry leaders to find new volunteers. It’s a necessary part of every tech director’s...
Expert Insights: Eric Williams, COO Brown Missionary Baptist
I recently sat down for a discussion with Eric Williams, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) from Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Mississippi. He offered his perspective on best practices for safety and security in houses of worship. Tell us about Brown Missionary...
Producing the Newsboys
It's hard not to have heard of the Newsboys, The Newsboys are a Christian rock band founded in 1985 in Queensland, Australia, by Peter Furler and George Perdikis. Now based in Nashville, Tennessee, the band has released 17 studio albums, six of which have been...
Worship Facility Podcast: Service Planning – Creating Incredible Services 52 Times a Year
Over each of the 52 weeks in a year the production, worship and creative teams can start relying on past successes instead of crafting dynamic new ones. Executive Pastor Ben Stapley presents a number of approaches to develop dynamic church services. Takeaways Include:...
Getting and Keeping Volunteers for Christmas
7 tips to help you find and retain volunteers year round