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2021 CONFERENCE

Pre-Conference Sessions

A new environment that gives you a lab to learn in and a playbook to follow. Walk away with hands-on experience, and a workbook of practical tools, tactics and techniques. Hands down the best learning environment at SALT 2021. Space is limited.

Included with all premium tickets.

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“The pre-conference at SALT Conference had a huge impact on me as a developing leader. Really changed how I am approaching my team.”

-JOHANN S.

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS (click to expand)

  • COMMUNICATIONS: REIMAGINING DIGITAL DISCIPLESHIP

    SPEAKER: MARTRELL HARRIS
    Communications

    Description: Over the last several years digital marketing in the faith-based community has become a priority for most churches. Unfortunately, it has also been one of the most challenging areas to navigate as technology, platforms, and rules continue to evolve. This exciting hybrid session  is one that will enlighten and equip digital communications teams for churches of all sizes.  You  can expect to hear an informative lecture and engage in a hands on guided workshop experience where you will build a unique social media strategy to begin targeting future disciples in your community and keep your congregations engaged. (laptop strongly recommended)

    Learning Objectives:

      • Basic overview of the 4 major social media platforms for churches
      • Building content unique for your congregation
      • How to build community through communication
      • Tools & Resources for any budget
  • AUDIO: AUDIO FOUNDATIONS

    SPEAKER: SAMANTHA POTTER
    Audio

    Description: Many of the issues we run into in houses of worship and many of the more advanced techniques used by seasoned professionals all stem from a great understanding of how sound and audio work. We cannot hope to master that which we have just begun to grasp. In this pre-conference, learn what you need to know to start leveling-up your audio game. From the basics of sound through mixing approaches, you’ll walk away prepared and ready to advance your church’s audio experience.

    Learning objectives:

      • Basic overview of sound
      • Learn how sound is converted into audio
      • How microphones and loudspeakers function
      • Key mixing tools, and development of a mixing approach for any console
  • FILM & STORY: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO TELLING STORIES ON VIDEO

    SPEAKER: GARY HORNSTIEN, CHRIS MUNCH, ADAM BUSH
    Filmmaking/Storytelling

    Description: We see the value of story, we all love to hear a great story, but how to TELL a great story can be rather tricky. Its a craft! In this workshop Adam, Gary and Chris will lean on their decades of experience to help you refine your critical storytelling skills. No more yawns on Sunday morning! Let’s tell captivating stories in your church that move people toward action. You in?

    Learning Objectives:

      • Interviewing best practices that will help people open up on camera
      • Where to look and who to talk to find the stories your church
      • Learn the hidden structure behind every great stories
      • How to get your visual storytelling to support your narrative…without requiring a huge budget.
      • Why audio is more important than you think.
  • WORSHIP: PREPARING FOR SPONTANEITY, FINDING YOUR PERMISSION, & YOUR VOICE AS A LEADER

    SPEAKER: NIKKI LERNER
    Worship

    Description: Worship leader identity theft is happening all over America! So many evangelical worship leaders sound like they are only from Australia or New York! Stop stealing other worship teams’ identities. Come to the worship lab with Worship Leader & Coach, Nikki Lerner – a hands on workshop designed to inspire and engage you in finding your creative permission again as a worship leader. Discover your own voice and sound and develop a framework for how to excavate the sound of YOUR local church.

    Learning objectives:

      • Discover a framework for spontaneous worship
      • Identify the trap of taking your cues from the music industry only.
      • Use your skills and practice your craft in real time
  • LIGHTING/VIDEO: HANDS ON! WITH LIGHTING AND VIDEO

    SPEAKER: ETHAN MARTIN & ALAN LOCKWOOD
    Lighting/Video

    Description: Video and lighting elements in worship go hand in hand. Come and hear from Ethan Martin, Lighting Director of Celebration Church Jacksonville and Alan Lockwood, Production Director of Woodside Bible Church as they discuss the key elements that should be considered in every Lighting and Video system design.

    Ethan and Alan will give us a look into the video and lighting production elements required to support a worship service for both Live and Broadcast. They’ll share how a video and lighting system work hand in hand to support each other and even how LED video walls can play an integral part in creating an engaging worship experience through the lens of the camera.

    Attendees will get hands on time with gear, including a variety of camera and lens setups, lighting fixtures and other practical resources to use for improving an existing lighting and video system or will gain knowledge in how to properly plan for the next one.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Why proper lighting is critical to any video system
    • How to effectively balance lighting to work with your cameras
    • What are the fundamentals of a good lighting system for live that makes video pop
    • What I should be looking for in a camera and lens setup
    • How to properly decide which lighting and video gear is right for me
    • How to balance an LED video wall to play nice with my lighting and video setup
    • Why color temp is critical
    • And SO much more…!
  • LEADERSHIP: FIRED UP! KINDLING & KEEPING THE SPARK IN CREATIVES

    SPEAKER: DR. ANDREW JOHNSTON
    Leadership

    Description: Great teams don’t just happen; they’re built and led in ways that fire up the participants and unleash their potential. In this practical workshop Dr. J prepares you to assess your team’s “flammability” and to provide the Oxygen, Fuel, or Heat your people need to burn brightly without burning up or burning out. If you’re a leader or simply want to bring out the best in others, this experience will encourage you and equip you to fire them up today!

    Based on Dr. J’s book Fired Up! Kindling and Keeping the Spark in Creative Teams (SALT Conferences, Orange Thread Media)

    Learning Objectives:

      • Consider/Assess team health and effectiveness using the model of the Fire Triangle (Oxygen, Fuel, Heat)
      • Explore strategies to free team members from the things that hold them back and hem them in. (Oxygen)
      • Explore strategies to keep people burning brightly without burning up or burning out. (Fuel)
      • Explore strategies to raise the bar and turn up the heat without leaving people feeling burned. (Heat)
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A new environment that gives you a lab to learn in and a playbook to follow. Walk away with hands-on experience, and a workbook of practical tools, tactics and techniques. Hands down the best learning environment at SALT 2021. Space is limited. Included with all premium tickets.


AUDIO

Take your mic, mixing and monitoring skills to the next level with this in-depth bootcamp in audio. We’ll have consoles for you to look over, a band to mic up and ways to hear the practical differences between various techniques.


FILMMAKING

Go behind the scenes of the key aspects of making a great film/video: lighting, lenses, color grading and more. Put on your director’s hat and setup lighting, choose the right lens/camera, and get that final edit/color just perfect with this interactive pre-conference lab.


VIDEO

This hands-on video pre-conference will let give you practice and insights on projection mapping, masking, automation, virtual production, LED and more. We’ll have a ton of tools set out, and a guide to walk you through every aspect of video. You’ll walk away with more than just knowledge, but experience too!


WORSHIP

Go step-by-step through the elements of being a great worship leader from recruitment to rehearsals, transitions to tempo, and everything in between. In the end, you’ll have a playbook ready to revitalize your worship ministry to impact your local community!


LEADERSHIP

Go beyond the lecture on leadership and actually walk through various scenarios, ideas, frameworks, and processes that shape a world-class team. You’ll leave with a workbook full of action items and ready-to-implement techniques that will help you lead well.


COMMUNICATIONS

Lets take your social media to the next level, in every way possible! Starting with the philosophy and techniques of each platform to the ways to automate, advertise and scale your platforms, we’ll help you walk out with tried and true framework to make the most of your social channels and reach your local community.

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Elevation Worship

Elevation Worship began as the musical arm of the Elevation Church, a multi-site church based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that was founded in 2006 by pastor Steven Furtick. The group was originally formed around the musical core of Chris Brown, Mack Brock, and Wade Joye, all of whom sang and played guitar, while Furtick contributed to their songwriting. While a shifting cast of instrumentalists worked with Elevation Worship, singers, Brown and Brock would become two of their on-stage focal points and a number of other vocalists were featured, including Jenna Barrientes, Jonsal Barrientes, London Gatch, Anna Sailors, and Jane Williams.

We The Kingdom

The multi-generational family band—consisting of brothers Ed Cash and Scott Cash, Ed’s daughter Franni, his son Martin and dear friend Andrew Bergthold—grew roots when the Cash brothers were just kids. Their dad played guitar, and their mom played piano, resulting in a home filled with music. Despite there being an eleven year age gap between them, as both Ed and Scott entered their teens and early 20s, they embarked on similar individual journeys as touring artists and had the opportunity to be deeply involved in the ministry of Young Life. However, when they each became fathers, the dream of being an artist was relegated to put on the back burner. Instead, behind the scenes, Ed went on to become an award-winning songwriter and producer, steering records for artists like Chris Tomlin, Crowder and Bethel Music and co-writing timeless songs like “How Great Is Our God,”“Amen (Because He Lives)” and “All My Hope,” among other hits. After stepping off of the road to spend more time with his growing family, Scott began working with Ed writing and producing, and the brothers have written many songs together including “Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)”. Though no longer pursuing careers as artists, both brothers continued to lead worship and remained involved in playing music at Young Life camps.

They never could have imagined how, years later, God would bring their artist dreams full circle in the form of a family band. “I think many producers are, in some way, closet artists,” Ed attests. Andrew, Franni and Martin were also aspiring musicians, passionate about sharing their gifts through songs and stories.

Tim Timmons

Worship Leader, singer and songwriter Tim Timmons is a man of faith whose principles were tested by hard luck and mortal challenges before he produced his first album of praise & worship music. Coming back from a dramatic cancer diagnosis, Timmons forged a career as an inspirational recording artist with albums like 2013’s Cast My Cares and 2015’s Awake Our Souls, later venturing into children’s music with 2017’s Who I Am.

Timmons was born in Irvine, California on February 9, 1976, and he developed an interest in music as a child, taking up the drums when he was seven years old, learning to play guitar and write songs when he was 11, and teaching himself to play piano. Timmons developed a knack for songwriting, and in his early twenties, he began turning professional, eventually co-writing with the likes of Mike Doheney of the group Tenth Avenue North, Michael Farren of Pocket Full of Rocks, Dove Award-nominated singer/songwriter Jason Walker, and LaRue frontman Phillip LaRue, while also serving as a worship leader at Mariners Church in Irvine. However, in 2001, Timmons began re-examining his life when he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Originally told he had only five years to live, Timmons devoted himself to his wife, his growing family, and his work as a worship leader. After he’d more than doubled his initial survival expectancy, Timmons felt a new calling to use his music as a tool to bring people to a greater understanding of what it truly means to follow Jesus. Declaring that “Following Jesus versus being a believer in Him is revolutionary,” Timmons put a new emphasis on music and songwriting, and in 2013, he landed a record deal with the Christian music label Reunion Records. Cast My Cares, Timmons’ first album of worship music, was produced by Paul Mabury, and was released in the summer of 2013 and reached number 13 on Billboard’s Christian chart. He followed up in 2015 with Awake Our Souls and toured in support of the release with MercyMe and Phil Wickham. Timmons’ next project was the 2017 children’s album, Who I Am, which he co-produced with Christian Hale and released independently. That same year, he offered his first holiday release with the five-song Mighty Christmas EP. Written during a church retreat, Timmons next offered up the anthemic single, “I Belong,” which featured an appearance from CCM legend, Amy Grant. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Andrew Stanley

Homeschooled preacher’s kids with finance degrees don’t usually quit their Budget Analyst jobs that provide health insurance to pursue stand-up comedy, but Andrew Stanley did, and he hasn’t looked back. He is now touring all over the country (as well as internationally) performing at clubs, festivals, fundraisers, churches, corporate events, bars with 4 people in them that “didn’t know there would be comedy tonight”…. Andrew possesses a unique perspective that pairs well with his dry delivery and observational nature. He was the winner of the 2017 Search for the South’s Funniest Accountant and in 2019, he was selected as a New Face of Comedy at Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. Andrew’s parents are still alive so he works clean.

Jeff Sandstrom

Jeff started his career in the studio as an independent music producer and engineer, and from 2007 to 2016, was the Front of House engineer for Chris Tomlin. Jeff circled the globe several times, both with Chris and with Passion Conferences.

He was a part of North Point Community Church in Atlanta since its beginning and has partnered with North Point, as well as other churches over the years, helping them train production excellence and engagement, both on the platform and off.

Jeff’s heart for helping churches excel led to the development of Sonnet House, a ministry designed to provide church production teams resources for technical training, creative communication, and spiritual connection to God and each other. Jeff has brought that calling to the founding of MxU, as they partner together to provide world-class resources to church teams so they can get better at what they do while getting better at who they are.

He is also bringing those skills to bear as he leads the commissioning and training of new systems for WAVE, an AVL integrator based in Charlotte, NC.

Jeff lives in Greenville, South Carolina with his beautiful wife Elizabeth (who is far superior to him in all respects), their even more superior daughter, Stella, and Lula the dog.

Jim Yakabuski

Jim Yakabuski is a live concert audio engineer who mixes FOH for Gwen Stefani, Peter Frampton, Matchbox 20, Van Halen and many more. Jim is also a co-founder and instructor at The MIX Institute, a live audio school focused on helping House of Worship audio engineers become better mixers of music. He is also a contributing writer for Church Sound Magazine and Live Sound International. He has been mixing live audio for 40 years.

Samantha Potter

Samantha Potter is an audio engineer and an editor for ProSoundWeb with a passion for writing and educating. Additionally, she serves as the “Install Empress” for Allen & Heath USA, helping to merge the live sound solutions we all love into the commercial and install space. Growing up as a musician, Samantha found her way to live sound by way of the studio, proving that bassists make the best sound engineers. The host of Church Sound Podcast and a co-director and lead instructor for Church Sound University, Samantha can often be found teaching, writing, and hosting discussions on various live-sound topics.

James Rudder

For the last 20 years, James has been working in multiple aspects of the audio industry. On arriving in the USA from Australia, James took up a house engineer position at Henson studios in LA while also embarking on world tours with multiple bands, most notably Hillsong United in the FOH position. He now resides in Nashville TN and while not on the road, mixes records from his home studio and consults for LAcoustics.

Kem Meyer

Kem is a brand therapist who has spent three decades working at the intersection of techs and creatives. Known for her ability to eliminate complexity and information overload, she helps people clear the organizational hurdles that sabotage effective work. Kem’s book, “Less Chaos. Less Noise” is a go-to communications resource for top churches and not-for-profits.

Brad Sitton

In 2007, Brad Sitton left his dream job as Director of Creative Media at Passion Conferences to start Blister Studios, an innovative motion graphic design studio creating video content for DC Shoes, Chick-Fil-A, Passion Conferences, Golden Corral, North American Mission Board, Youth Specialties, BigStuf, Orange Conference, North Point Community Church, just to name a few.

In recent years, Brad and his twin brother Brian started CrowdControlGames.com to craft games for any size crowd. Over the past several year’s they’ve had an opportunity to impact countless churches as well as create custom games for Chick-Fil-A, Walmart, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and more!

Brad currently lives in Atlanta with his smoke’n hot wife, 3 kids and is learning to sail. He is a two time winner of the RedBull Flugtag competition and surprisingly good at building sandcastles.

Patrick McEwen

Patrick McEwen has worked in church production and event production for over 15 years. He managed environments for Youth Ministries and Sunday Services across Metro Atlanta before becoming a full-time Production Manager. He founded McEwen.Co in 2018 and has helped design, implement, and manage systems for events across the nation.  He’s the lead Stage Manager for Catalyst Conference, Leadercast, and Q Conference. He has also been the Crew Lead and Stage Manager for SALT Conference for the past 2 years. He and his wife Jenn live in Atlanta, Georgia with their two daughters.

Timmy Wagoner

Timmy is the Lead Audio Engineer and Audio Specialist at Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, TN. As Long Hollow continues to launch satellite campuses, the need for skilled supervision in audio and visual areas continues to increase. Starting in 2011, Tim has provided this much-needed leadership and expertise to make our satellite campus worship experiences the best they can be. He also is a sought-after freelance audio engineer working with the CMT Awards, CMA Festival and countless CCM artists and tours as a consultant.

Jeremy Bagwell

Jeremy Bagwell is the Business Development Manager at Ross Video for the House of Worship industry. His passion for live production was fueled by a long history of work in and out of the local church. He loves creating well engineered systems that fuel people and churches to do what they do best. Formerly, Jeremy was the Live Video Director and Production Director for North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, GA. Before North Point, he serves for 4 years at 12stone Church as Production Director for two different campuses. Jeremy is a prolific video director and systems engineer and wants to help push the church into innovative technology with purpose.

Tyler Hirth

Tyler Hirth is the Production Manager at Long Hollow Baptist Church and oversees the entire production environment, equipment and teams at Long Hollow for all of their campuses and buildings. He has been at Long Hollow since 2007 and oversees the recruitment and training of production volunteers, designs and oversees A/V technical installations, and technical directs a majority of weekends services and events. Aside from his leadership at Long Hollow, he is also the technical director for The Huckabee Show on TBN, shot in Gallatin, TN. He and his Wife Andrea love being part of the Hendersonville, TN area and are proud to call Long Hollow home.

Johnny "Rocket" Robinson

Rocket, as he is known among friends, is the Central Production Manager for Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. Through his role, he serves on the creative team as part of programming and production. Through the use of audio, video and lighting, he strives to create engaging and distraction free moments where people can fully experience God’s presence. When he’s not at the church, he can be found spending time building something in his home woodworking shop, recreating Pinterest finds, or hanging out with his beautiful wife Molly in the great outdoors of Nashville, TN.

Christina Onstott

Christina is the Creative Arts Volunteer Coordinator for Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. She leads the music team auditions as well as orchestrates the Sunday scheduling for their worship volunteer teams. Christina is passionate about music, the local church, and how worship can engage a community! She desires to bring this passion to others through the music of Cross Point. She is also a recently new mother and finding it to be her greatest joy!

Chad Hall

Chad Hall is the Founder and President of United Production Services, Inc; the parent company to Take One Film, BOLD Distribution, BOLD Bags and Nashville Production Rentals. As a seasoned video production specialist and an expert camera shader, Chad Hall has had the opportunity to work on countless television broadcasts including the CMT Awards, Dove Awards, and countless sporting events. He also has credits as a chief engineer on the television series “four”. He and his wife are active members of the local church in Hendersonville, TN.

Mark MacDonald

Mark MacDonald is Church Brand Strategist for BeKnownForSomething.com, a national church communication and branding agency, coaching pastors and churches to become relevant in their community. He’s the bestselling author of “Be Known For Something” (beknownbook.com), has written 800+ magazine articles, and is the Exec Director of Center for Church Communication (Church Marketing Sucks, Courageous Storytellers). Over 30+ years, Mark has served as Pastor, Marketing VP, Creative Director, and Strategist; in one of Eastern Canada’s largest agencies, his own agency, for the 3000+ Florida Baptists, and most recently at one of the largest church consulting groups (Generis). He and Tammy, his wife of 30 years, have 2 grown sons in Calgary and Chicago. Follow him: @markmac1023

Gloria Umanah

Gloria Umana is the founder and executive director of the Ex-Nihilo Collective and an internationally known and sought after communicator and spoken word artist based out of Atlanta, Georgia! In 2016 Gloria turned down a dream opportunity of working with the Federal Bureau of Investigations and instead surrendered to the calling of God upon her life, which led to a life of purpose. Gloria has worked alongside and has spoken on various platforms such as, Liberty University Convocation, Life Way, Ravi Zacharias Ministries, Passion City Church, Fresh Life Church, and more.

While Gloria started as a spoken word artist only a little less than three years ago, her ministry has quickly evolved as she has been given opportunities to teach on a multitude of platforms all over the globe. Gloria Umanah is not JUST a spoken word artist or a communicator. She is a daughter, co-creating with The Creator, passionate about seeing a people walk into the calling of holiness — a generation who doesn’t see holiness as legalism, but as a standard and calling.

Jacob Boyles

Jacob Boyles is a prolific graphic designer who has worked with reputable brands including Bloomingdales, Chick-Fil-A, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and countless others. Currently, he is Elevation Worship Graphic Designer at Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC. He brings a fresh perspective to the graphic design space and is pushing the envelope for the global church through his creative eye and innovative approach.

Adrian Varner

Adrian Varner is the audio lead for SALT Conferences, having lead our main sessions audio team for the past 6 years! Through his leadership, he has pushed the envelope for the church through sonic atmosphere’s, while also leading and shepherding from the shadows. In his day job, Adrian is a system design engineer for Diversified Audio. He and his wife are based in Atlanta, GA and love serving the local church and helping equip them to reach their local communities with quality environments and engaging atmospheres.

Jason Morris

Jason Morris serves Westside as our Global Innovation Pastor, overseeing the church online, global church planting, and bringing new ideas and creativity to expand God’s Kingdom for Westside. Jason is experienced as a missionary to Paraguay, South America for almost 9 years where he helped churches grow healthy with new ideas. He received his B.A. in Missions and M.A. in Biblical Exposition from Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida.

He and his wife Maria have been married since 1993 and have 2 amazing kids: Isaac and Brianna. Jason loves new tech gadgets, sci-fi, yerba mate, and speaking spanish.

Josh Maichele

Josh serves as L-Acoustics’ primary frontline contact for House of Worship clients. From 2005 to 2016, he worked as a freelance audio engineer and production manager for Christ In Youth. In his career, Josh has been a FOH and monitor engineer, production manager, and tour manager for a wide variety of clients, including some of the nation’s largest churches and congregations. He mixed FOH for the first L-ISA Immersive system deployment at SALT 2019. Last year Josh also designed, commissioned and trained on the world’s first L-ISA install in a HOW environment.  Josh’s background and expertise allow him to provide the best care and dedicated solutions for churches everywhere.

Suzette Allen

Suzette Allen has been a portrait photographer for 35 years, and teaching Photography/Photoshop for 20 years. Her passion for creativity and people has served her well, as she encourages and inspires photographers to go after their visions and creativity! Suzette is also a Global Ambassador for Panasonic Lumix Cameras and Adobe Influencer. She is a Photographic Craftsman and Certified Professional Photographer, as well as an Approved Photographic Instructor with Professional Photographers of America. She has served her industry in education, as a school director (West Coast School of Photography) and also served on the Board of Directors of both West Coast School and California Photographic Workshops. Now as an instructor, she has had the immense honor of teaching at over a dozen of the Affiliated Photographic Schools across the country!

Dr Jerome Lubbe

Dr. Jerome is a functional neurologist and founder of Thrive Neuro Health in Atlanta, GA. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Chiropractic Neurology, a Fellow of the American Board of Brain Injury and Rehabilitation, a Fellow of the American Board of Childhood Development Disorders, and the former Executive Director & Atlanta Clinic Director for Cerebrum Health Centers. Above and beyond he is a disciple of Jesus Christ and believes that neuroplasticity with biblical teaching can teach us a lot about mental health, our purpose and connect the dots between many unanswered questions!

Dex Alexander

Dex Alexander is the founder and Creative Director of Legible Strategy and Creative, a branding and communications firm in Southern California. Legible ensures churches, non-profits and civic groups communicate with clarity so they can best serve the community they are so vital to. To date, they have helped dozens of organizations, large and small, engage and influence the world around them.

Kierre Lindsay

Kierre is a renowned worship leader, Kennedy Center performer, off-broadway cast member and passionate about seeing walls and barriers torn down that separate the body of Christ. He has toured with artists like Tasha Cobbs, Vashawn Mitchell and more. He joined United Pursuit and is part of the collective, Common Hymnal. He has served on staff at Daystar Church as the Next Generation Worship Director since 2013. Kierre is married to Marika Lindsay and together they are missionaries who travel domestically and internationally to serve and spread the message of Jesus Christ to all who will listen.

Adam Hobson

Bio coming soon.

Jacob Padgett

Jacob Padgett is the Set and Lighting Designer at Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He joined the creative team in their main Hendersonville campus to oversee the work of design and build future sets for Sunday services, maintain lighting equipment, consoles and volunteer training at the various campuses of Long Hollow and provide support of the visual lighting atmospheres for weekly services.

Brad Weston

Brad Weston is founder and president of Renewed Vision, makers of ProPresenter, ProVideoPlayer, and ProVideoServer. He has been a volunteer video director for North Point Community Church for 15 years and has worked with productions worldwide both in consulting, as well as in live production.

Nathan Williams

Nathan Williams serves as the Technical Director at Victory World Church in Atlanta, GA. Having been on staff for over 10 years, he has had a front-row seat as the church has grown to over 10,000 weekly attendees across multiple campuses, representing more than 110 nationalities, making it one of the largest multicultural congregations in the United States. He overseas sound, lighting, stage design and live video production as he leads a team of engineers and volunteers of over 300 every week. Nathan and his wife Ashley recently celebrated 10 years of marriage and are proud parents of four children.

Ezra Cohen

Ezra Cohen is a filmmaker and creative director specializing in creating unique visual environments in films, commercials, and live concert environments. He has created unique visual textures and experiences for commercial brands like Musicbed, Express, Adidas and Sony as well as music artists including Hillsong Young & Free, Justin Bieber, Tha Chainsmokers, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Hillsong United and more.  Recently, he’s been featured as a teacher and online course instructor by some of the most renown publications in the world, including Forbes and more. 

Joey Santos

Joey currently serves at Christ’s Church, Mason OH. He is the Online Pastor and also oversees Worship & Arts, Communications and Production teams. Growing up in Brazil as a preacher’s kid, he has a keen eye for multi-generational ministry, as well as the ability to see innovation and change as a society and culture shift. He’s an ordained minister and has been serving in various capacities in America since 2002. He regularly blogs and contributes to the conversation of online church at joeysantos.blog.

Alex Fuller

Alex Fuller is a seasoned lighting professional who is passionate about using the technical arts as an extension of worship. He started sweeping floors as a kid in a local production house, and completed his first coast to coast tour of the US by age 20. He has over 15 years experience as the lighting and scenic designer for several churches, touring events, and conferences including Bethel, Saddleback Church, Jesus Culture, Hillsong United and more. His experience in the Christian market affords him a unique understanding of the challenges that many production teams face. His goal is to partner with you as you define your vision, overcome obstacles, and create the environment that you desire.

Phil Bowdle

Phil Bowdle got his start in creative ministry back in 2004. Today, Bowdle is the author of “Rethink Communication: A Playbook to Clarify and Communicate Everything in Your Church” and works as the Creative Arts pastor at West Ridge Church in Northwest Atlanta. On a day-to-day basis, Bowdle leads teams who work in communication, media, worship, and production. He also speaks, blogs, and offers coaching about communication, leadership, and the creative church.

Will Doggett

Will Doggett is an Ableton Live Certified Trainer and the Founder of From Studio to Stage, an online resource dedicated to teaching people how to learn to perform with Ableton Live on stage. He’s passionate about making complex things simple and has been teaching others to use Ableton Live as a tool for Leading Worship since 2008. He has served the church in many roles as Worship Leader, Music Director, Creative Director, and Production Director.

Justin Firesheets

Justin Firesheets has been the Production Director at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Ala., since Feb. 2009 after having spent the previous six years working in the sports broadcasting industry. He is responsible for the management of the production systems, volunteer teams, and equipment at all 23 campuses of Highlands, which has grown to become one of the largest churches in the United States.

Stephen Brewster

Stephen Brewster has more than 15 years in professional creative environments including music marketing and management, artist development, creative team leading and art directing. Currently a leadership and creative coach in Nashville, Tennessee, Stephen previously led the creative team in dreaming, creating and executing experiences, communications, music and more for all areas of ministry at Freedom House Church in Charlotte,N.C.; Life Church in Orlando, Florida and Cross Point Church in Nashville. He loves to spend time with his wife, Jackie, and their four children.

Katie Allred

Katie Allred runs ChurchCommunications.com, where she has helped over 23,000 people who work in churches with their marketing and communication strategies. Katie is also an assistant professor of marketing and software development at the University of Mobile. Katie is also a Certified StoryBrand Guide and would love to help your church or business communicate more clearly

Kenny Jahng

Kenny Jahng is the founder and CEO of Big Click Syndicate, a strategic communications agency that works with nonprofit and Christian ministries. The Company’s clients includes American Bible Society, Princeton Theological Seminary, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, and The United Methodist Church. He also co-leads the Church Communications Facebook Group community with 22,000+ communicators. Kenny runs ChurchButler.com, a daily social media content service. He is also StoryBrand Certified. Connect with him at KennyJahng.com or follow his #DailyKJTV vlog on LinkedIn

Grant Norsworthy

Grant Norsworthy is not another singer who talks too much. He’s a speaker who sings songs.
An Aussie who was based in Nashville  from 2002 to 2018, Grant Norsworthy achieved considerable success as a professional musician including a Grammy® nomination, a Dove Award, extensive touring, recording and radio hits with bands like Paul Colman Trio and Sonicflood. Now conducting global ministry work from his Nelson, New Zealand home base, Grant uses his musicianship, freewheeling wit and uncommon candor to encourage audiences to deeper faith in Christ and good works. As the founder, content developer and principal instructor for More Than Music Mentor, he provides high quality online and onsite training for the heart and the art of worshiping musicians everywhere.

David Henry

At 13 years old, David began his journey in church production when he found out that he could skip the main church service to serve in the youth group AV booth. Fast forward a *few* years, and David has worked as a professional lighting designer and teacher in the church, corporate, and live music worlds. Today, David runs LearnStageLighting.com, teaching lighting to beginner and intermediate-level lighting enthusiasts, and is a volunteer tech director at a medium-sized church in Nashville, TN.

Shannon Scott

Shannon is a writer, speaker, and Associate Executive Pastor at Church of the City in Franklin, Tennessee. She has also been a pastor to women and children and sits on the Executive Leadership Team of the church. She’s been in ministry for over 25 years and has experience in many facets of church leadership, from leading high performing teams, to volunteer recruitment and engagement, service programming, communication, and production. A trusted voice on a wide range of topics, Shannon is grateful to spend time writing for ministry and leadership blogs, training leaders, and speaking at conferences and churches. Over her tenure of ministry, she’s had the honor to work with North Point Community Church, Passion Conferences, Rethink group and more. Shannon and her husband Jeffrey have been married since 1999 and have three teenage children, Maggie (18), Jack (15), and Ali (14) and two dogs, Nash and Loretta.

Nathan Lagrange

Nathan is a gifted speaker with 20 years experience in pastoral leadership including lead pastoring, urban church planting, international missions and worship/creative ministries. Demonstrating great aptitude in counseling, discipleship and spiritual formation with a concentration in the development of christian leaders. Prior to being a pastor, Nathan spent many years as a song-writer and signed artist to the Integrity Music label where he has credits for Don Moen, Glenn Packiam and more.  Most recently, Nathan and his wife Tricia have started fundraising for their newest call in ministry, Refreshing the Refreshers, a ministry seeking to serve those on the edge of burnout in ministry under as a partner of LifeImpact Ministries.

Gary Molander

Gary Molander is an Author, Pastor, Filmmaker and Artist who has served the church and the greater creative community for over a decade! Gary served as a pastor for seventeen years, and has a Masters Degree in Creative Arts. He is also the author of, Pursuing Christ. Creating Art., a powerful book on creativity and the church. He is also the co-owner of Floodgate Creative, and has worked with Pro Athletes Outreach, Credera Inc., and Chick Fil-A to help promote their stories and events, using video and film.

Gary has been a part of SALT Conferences since the first gathering in 2013, and regularly shepherds the creative leaders and technical teams that are a part of the SALT Community. He and his wife Angela live in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dr. Andrew Johnston

Known by most as “Dr J”, he holds degrees in Interpersonal Communication and Literature from Wheaton College; Counseling Psychology from Auburn University; Higher Education Leadership & Policy from the University of Tennessee; and has additional education in leadership & organizational change from Harvard University.

Most recently, Dr. J has been a consultant working with current and future leaders through his leadership coaching, being a faculty member of Vanderbilt University and as an author of his recent book, Fired Up: Kindling and Keeping The Spark in Creative Teams. 

Nikki Lerner

Nikki spent over 20 years leading and building a successful multicultural creative department of over 150 people in an organization of 4000+ through her ministry in Baltimore, MD. With a degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, she is a brilliant vocalist and worship leader with over 20 years of songwriting, worship and music experience. Currently, she serves as a coach and consultant to churches across the world helping them go from mono-cultural to multi-cultural with their organizations.

Brady Shearer

Brady Shearer is the CEO and Founder of Pro Church Tools. Brady’s work centers upon helping churches seize the 167 hours beyond their Sunday services and navigating their ministries through the single biggest communication shift we’ve seen in the last 500 years. Through his leadership at Pro Church Tools, they’ve launched countless incredible resources for the local church including Nucelus, RebelGive, StoryTape and more.

He regularly posts on the Pro Church Tool’s with Brady Shearer YouTube channel which has over 83,000 subscribers and currently resides in Ontario, Canada.

Samer Massad

Samer Massad is one of the dynamic communicators at Woodstock City Church in Woodstock, GA. Woodstock City Church is one of the campuses of North Point Community Church under the leadership and direction of Andy Stanley. Samer received his Masters in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary prior to moving to Georgia. He has had the opportunity to speak to leaders, students and audiences around the nation by being a top-hailed speaker at Orange Conference, Youth Specialties, North Point Church and more.

Luke McElroy

Luke McElroy is the founder and visionary of SALT Conferences. Author of four books including most recently released Creative Potential: Principles for Unleashing Your God-Given Calling, Luke was hailed as one of the “top innovators for worship” by Worship Leader Magazine. Luke’s leadership has helped create powerful live environments for thousands around the world.

He and his wife Tricia are proud to call Nashville, Tennessee home.

Joseph Sojourner

Joseph grew up in Akron, OH, and eventually made his way to Atlanta, GA as a hip-hop artist. There he connected with the team from North Point Community Church and Big Stuf Camps where he served as creative director, communicator and emcee of Catalyst Conference for many years. As the founder of Two Cents Creative, he and his team use art, media, film and interactive experiences to share story in a way that captivates audiences attention, while communicating in a compelling manner.

He has had the opportunity to shape moments and create content for Passion Conferences, Chick-Fil-A Leadership Seminars, NBC’s Your Move with Andy Stanley, Elevation Church, SALT Conferences, Big Stuf Camps and many more! Currently, Joseph is serving as a Shephard of creative filmmakers in Fayetteville, GA with Pinewood Studios.

Glenn Packiam

Glenn Packiam is the associate senior pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is also the author of 5 books including his most recent: Blessed Broken Given: How Your Story Becomes Sacred in the Hands of Jesus. Glenn earned a Doctorate in Theology and Ministry from Durham University in the UK and is an ordained priest with the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA).

Prior to becoming a pastor, Glenn was one of the founding leaders and songwriters of the Desperation Band. As a signed songwriter, he has had the honor of writing and co-writing over 65 worship songs, including several well-loved songs, like “Your Name” and “My Savior Lives.”  Glenn has been a SALT keynote speaker many times and currently lives with his wife, Holly, and their four children in the shadow of the mighty Rocky Mountains.

Andy Mineo

Andy Mineo is a New York City-based hip hop recording artist signed to Reach Records. His album, Uncomfortable, became the No. 1 independent record in the country and delivered a No. 3 and No.10 position on Billboard’s Hip Hop and Top 200 album charts, respectively. He has appeared on Sirius XM’s Sway In The Morning, MTV, and his colossal hit “You Can’t Stop Me” won an ESPN Whammy Award for MLB’s Top Walk Up Song.

Andy Mineo carries his music beyond through scripting, producing and directing many of his own music videos. He also is the founder of the podcast “work in progress” and most recently collaborated with rapper Wordsplayed for the release of their mixtape, Andy Mineo and Wordsplayed present Magic & Bird.