David Leuschner talks to Stephanie Lippi, Manager of Church Facilities Expo, to learn what makes CFX 2024 different and better than ever, such as more sessions and hands-on training. Then David discusses church volunteers with Justin Firesheets of Church of the...
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Worship Facility Podcast: What Does it Mean to Shoot Your Service in Cinematic Style?
David Leuschner of Digital Great Commission Ministries talks to Skylark's Jeremy Bagwell about how shooting your streaming worship service in cinematic style can affect the quality of content. Points include: How does this relate to IMAG? Do you need different gear?...
Worship Facility Podcast: Setting Up Your Volunteers for Success Part 2
In the conclusion of this two-part episode, David Leuschner of Digital Great Commissions Ministries talks to Matt Larson and Ryan Shelton of DiGiCo about how to help your tech team volunteers succeed, leading to the success of your worship service. Takeaways include:...
Worship Facility Podcast: Setting Up Your Volunteers for Success Part 1
In the first part of this two-part episode, David Leuschner of Digital Great Commissions Ministries talks to Matt Larson and Ryan Shelton of DiGiCo about how to help your tech team volunteers succeed, leading to the success of your worship service. Takeaways include:...
Six Tips For Managing Church Facilities
Keeping church buildings and campuses neat, orderly and maintained is one way to show excellence in the church. Planning, scheduling and coordinating routine tasks simplifies the process and gets others involved in helping to maintain the church campus.
Church Security Under the Lens: Unpacking the Paramilitary Activity Act of 2024
In the realm of church safety and security, a new legislative proposal, dubbed H.R. 6981 the "Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act of 2024" has stirred both concern and confusion. This bill has sparked a flurry of headlines, YouTube analyses, and social media...
Getting and Keeping Volunteers for Christmas
7 tips to help you find and retain volunteers year round
So, You Have AV Volunteers. How Do You Keep Them?
It’s not enough to just get volunteers; you have to nurture them to help them feel safe and connected
Defining Your Tech Team
Welcome back everyone, this month’s email question comes from Mark C. in Arizona, who asks, ” I recently became the leader of my tech team and I want to know how to make everyone more involved and more proactive”. Well Mark is not alone, this is a question I...
6 Skills Every Team Leader Should Master
Influencing a group of people to work together, in harmony is what leadership is all about.
Grow Your Volunteer Teams from the Ground Up
Growth is slow and quiet. It happens in tiny, often imperceptible ways. Sudden moments of success often come with years of faithful work out in the field. Even the harvest of a single season begins with planting and patiently cultivating for growth. As you invest in...
Clinic Keeps Techs Healthy On the Road and at Home
Members of church production teams are uniquely interesting individuals. While they all have a calling to use their audio, video, lighting, and musical expertise to serve God at one or more local churches, many are also working professionally at local theater and...
Worship Facility Podcast: Effective Training for Audio Volunteers
Tommy Lozure, Music Production Department Chair at Visible Music College, discusses how to train volunteers so that they feel comfortable behind a console or running audio from a tablet during worship services and other events. An essential component to effective...
Keeping Church Volunteer Morale High (5 Tips)
It can be challenging to manage the morale of church volunteers. There are many reasons why volunteers may experience low morale; from burnout, to stress, to interpersonal conflicts. However, a church's success often relies on volunteer engagement, and it's impossible...
4 Reasons Church Volunteers Need Job Descriptions
Whether your church has paid staff or your volunteers make everything happen, clarity is essential for everyone on your team. When everyone has a clear understanding of their jobs and responsibilities, ministry runs smoother. Let this be true for church...
15 Ways To Improve Your Worship Photography
I polled over thirty growing multisite churches to see how they allocate their service time. On average, they dedicate a third to worship. If a large portion of the service is dedicated to worship, we should learn how to capture worship well through photography. ...
Four Steps to Keep Your Children Safe This Holiday Season
With the holiday season fast approaching it’s that time of the year when we fill our ministries with volunteers to support our kids programs. At this busy time, there can be a tendency to relax the volunteer onboarding processes or in some cases remove it, but this is...
How to Confront Someone When They are Simply Not Working Out
I passionately believe that volunteers are and should always be a key part of any church/ministry media team. Because of that, how we work with them is a critical part of our leadership. In this post I want to look at how we address a situation where the volunteer...
You Can’t Have Good Tech Without the Training
If you’ve ever worked with AVL technology, you understand there’s always a need to stay current on how to use the equipment.
Creating a Welcoming Environment for Guests with Special Needs
In a previous article, we discussed how to create a welcoming environment for regular attendees with special needs to get involved in ministry opportunities at your church. Now, let’s discuss how you can create a welcoming environment for first-time guests with...
Five Reasons You Need Volunteers on Your Media Team
By Graeme Spencer We all know churches and ministries need volunteers to survive—and that is particularly true for media departments. But we also know that working with volunteers can be a challenge—particularly when things are busy. It's tempting to try to not use...