Leadership
Lead with Confidence: Strategies for Church Creatives
Empower your team and improve collaboration with our Leadership track. Learn effective strategies for guiding creative teams in a church environment, fostering communication, and building a positive team culture. Gain insights on conflict resolution, aligning creative vision with your church’s mission, and inspiring your team to excel. Whether you’re a seasoned leader or stepping into a new role, this track provides actionable tools to help you lead with confidence and clarity.
Masterclasses
The Creative Team Your Church ACTUALLY Needs
Phil Bowdle
Many creatives in the church are working hard, carrying pressure, and quietly wondering if it's making a difference. Behind the graphics, videos, services, campaigns, and constant stream of requests is a deeper question: does what I do really matter? Phil's work with churches and creative teams of all sizes have surfaced the same traps that keep teams stuck, and the same purpose that helps them move forward.
This session helps your team step back, realign, and rediscover what's truly worth fighting for... not just as a talk, but as a practical reset your whole team can put into action.
Key Takeaways
Identify the traps keeping creative teams stuck, and how to step out of them
Reconnect with the purpose that first called you into creative ministry
Recover the perspective your team needs to carry the weight well
Leave with a practical reset your team can start using immediately
Navigating Church Tech Leadership: 10 Mistakes We Should Never Make
Dennis Choy
Church production may not be the most important ministry in the church, but it might be the hardest. Every weekend, tech leaders are expected to deliver excellence, solve impossible problems, lead volunteers, manage expectations, and somehow stay spiritually healthy in the process. Drawing from over 30 years of ministry experience, Dennis Choy shares practical lessons, painful mistakes, and hard-earned wisdom to help church tech leaders avoid common traps, build healthier teams, and remember why God called them to this work in the first place.
Key Takeaways
Learn that the greatest mistake tech leaders make may be investing more in equipment than people.
Discover how great tech leaders don’t just run gear—they lead people.
Hear ways to protect your calling.
More Than A Role: Building Production Teams Where People Belong
Willow Hodge
Every church wants excellent production, but excellence doesn't happen by accident. It happens when people are given a place to belong, a safe environment to grow, and the tools they need to succeed. Whether you're welcoming brand-new volunteers or developing seasoned team members, this workshop will explore how to create intentional training processes while cultivating a culture where people of all ages and skill levels feel seen, valued, and empowered. Learn how to build more than just technically capable teams and build a ministry where people can grow spiritually, socially, and in excellence as they pursue a shared mission together.
Key Takeaways
Learn practical strategies for onboarding and training new production volunteers.
Discover how to create environments where people feel safe to learn, make mistakes, and grow.
Develop processes that help volunteers progress in both skill and confidence.
Build teams where people of all ages and experience levels feel seen, valued, and connected to the mission
How to Avoid Burnout: Setting Boundaries to Stay Healthy
Dennis Choy
Burnout isn’t what happens when you hate ministry. It’s what can happen when you love it so much that you slowly give away pieces of yourself you were never supposed to sacrifice. Come learn from Dennis Choy a veteran of over 30years in ministry the warning signs, practical guardrails, and biblical habits that can help you stay healthy, stay called, and stay in ministry for the long haul.
Key Takeaways
Hear how many of the qualities that make great ministry leaders—can also become the very things that lead to burnout if left unchecked
Learn how Ministry longevity is built through intentional habits, not good intentions.
Learn how to keep church sacred, and lead from a place of health rather than exhaustion.
Becoming a Bridge: Forging Trust Across Ministry Teams
Alexis Leon
Every ministry team has its own priorities, pressures, and way of seeing the world. The problem isn't that those perspectives are wrong. The problem is that we often expect everyone else to think and operate the way we do. When that happens, communication gets messy, frustration grows, and teams start pulling in different directions.
Key Takeaways
Practical collaboration methods between worship, production, creative, and pastoral teams
Tools for navigating tension and strengthening communication
Building relational equity that strengthens cross-team partnerships
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Effective Team Leadership & Communication
Develop skills to lead a creative team with vision, clarity, and purpose.
Conflict Resolution & Team Dynamics
Learn how to navigate challenges and build a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Aligning Creativity with Church Mission
Ensure your creative projects and initiatives reflect and enhance your church’s vision.