Production
Flawless Execution: Mastering Church Production
Enhance your church’s worship experience with expert guidance from our Production track. Learn practical techniques for audio, video, and lighting management to create distraction-free services that engage your congregation. Discover tips for seamless event execution, troubleshooting technical issues, and optimizing your church’s production setup. This track is designed to help you improve sound quality, visual presentation, and lighting design to create meaningful worship experiences.
Broadcast & Systems Leadership
Develop the skills needed to oversee production systems, workflows, and teams so services run smoothly from rehearsal through final amen.
Front-of-House Excellence
Serve the room with clarity and consistency by learning how to mix audio and lighting that supports worship rather than competing with it.
Technology That Serves Worship
Learn how intentional production choices remove distractions and create space for people to fully engage with what God is doing in the room.
Masterclasses
The Work Before The Weekend
Willow Hodge
Great services don't happen by accident. They are built through intentional systems, clear communication, and the hard work that happens long before the countdown clock starts. In this workshop, we'll explore practical processes that help teams create seamless experiences across rooms, campuses, and online platforms. From rehearsals and checklists to simplifying workflows and empowering volunteers, you'll learn how to do the heavy lifting during the week so your team can serve with confidence on Sunday.
Whether your church is single-site, multisite, online, or somewhere in between, this session will provide principles that can be adapted to any context.
Key Takeaways
Learn how to build repeatable systems that reduce stress and increase consistency.
Discover ways to simplify workflows and set volunteers up for success.
Understand the value of rehearsals, checklists, and preparation before Sunday arrives.
Develop a broader vision for serving not just the room, but every person experiencing the service across campuses and online.
Lighting for Two Audiences
Bryan Bailey
Do you struggle with creating lighting designs that look great in the room AND on video? Many times, we create a lighting look that translates well on camera, but looks really odd in the room. Or, our in-room experience feels great, but the camera doesn’t see it the same way. In this session, we will talk about how to design for both audiences without needlessly compromising the creative integrity of either environment.
Key Takeaways
Better understand how to use color temperature and intensity to improve video
Learn how to use color and shadows to craft beautiful scenes
Determine how lighting should integrate with your church’s cultural goals
Creative Church Lighting: Visually Setting the Table for Christ Encounters
Bryan Bailey
We often approach lighting design with ideas of fixture placement, color palettes, and well-crafted effects. However, in this session, we are going to look more broadly and deeply at how our design affects not only how the room feels but also how well people can connect with the Holy Spirit. We will spend time learning how to walk the fine line between visual enhancements and emotional manipulation.
Key Takeaways
An understanding of how to create distraction-free environments
Concepts of supporting church culture through lighting design
How to use color, texture, and movement to enhance moments
Creating story arcs with lighting and content
Console Design to Set Your Engineers Up for Success
Sam Naifeh
Is consistency the enemy of creativity? It doesn't have to be. We'll explore the decisions behind building a console file that scales. We'll look under the hood at workflow, routing, group processing, gain staging, and other mixing techniques through the lens of consistency, flexibility, and maintainability. The goal isn't to build the same mix everywhere, but to build a scalable system that enables every engineer on your team, regardless of experience level, to deliver a compelling one.
Key Takeaways
Examine a console file that is intuitive, scalable, and easy to hand off, without sacrificing individual creativity.
Dissect workflows that support front of house, monitors, broadcast, and other deliverables from a single console.
Explore routing, group processing, gain staging, and advanced mixing techniques with greater consistency while maintaining simplicity for volunteers and professionals of all skill levels.
Create systems that enable every engineer on your team to succeed.
Beyond SDI: How to Deploy NDI Successfully and Prepare for ST2110
Will Chapman
This workshop will help church AVL leaders understand how the video-over-IP protocol NDI works, why it has a reputation for being “unreliable,” and how to deploy it successfully in real-world ministry environments. Through practical examples and lessons learned at Cottonwood Creek Church, attendees will discover how video over IP can reduce costs, increase flexibility, and prepare their teams for the future of broadcast technology. The session will also introduce SMPTE ST 2110 and explain why understanding NDI today is an important step toward the next generation of professional IP video workflows.
Key Takeaways
Identify the reasons why NDI fails and learn how to properly set up a network for NDI success.
Learn how to reduce cabling costs, simplify workflows, and build more adaptable production systems using NDI and modern network infrastructure.
Gain a practical understanding of how NDI prepares technical teams for the growing shift toward SMPTE ST2110 and the next generation of professional IP video workflows.