2021 CONFERENCE

SPEAKER: DEX ALEXANDER
Creative Process

There is a commonly held belief that “creativity” is a talent, gift, or superpower. But those of us who are constantly called upon to generate ideas know that it is more of a skill to be learned, a muscle to be trained, and a discipline to be studied. In this class, you’ll learn tactics to increase your creative capacity and confidence in your creative ability.

Learning Objectives:

• Deepen the “creative well” from which you can draw ideas
• Build a mental framework so you’re prepared for a wide variety of creative requests
• Understand creativity as problem solving first, producing second

SPEAKER: CHAD VEGAS
Video

This breakout is designed to help churches create more of an immersive experience for their congregation at home by making them feel that they are there with you. It includes learning how to use video production, and live stream technology for your church but at the same time focusing on why your team is truly there in the first place. Worship First, Capture Second.

Learning Objectives:

• A deeper understanding on why our worship through our craft (Directing, Producing, Camera) Matters.
• Team Dynamics and how to create an engaging and winning culture.
• Using camera movement to experience a first-person perspective.
• Using different types of shots that is not common in traditional broadcast environments.

SPEAKER: KENNY JAHNG
Online Church

Most churches find it challenging to adopt church online in ways to drive real engagement instead of publishing for vanity metrics’ sake. Digital ministry is hard since content consumption habits have changed drastically and you can’t just copy/paste analog content offline to online. In this workshop, you’ll discover the 4 shifts you need to grapple with so that you can create content with purpose to target, attract and engage your community online.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the 4 disruptions of decouplement happening with content consumption today
• Learn the 4 questions you need to satisfy for content that drives engagement
• Learn 7 ways to use content with purpose for digital ministry

SPEAKER: CHRIS LISLE
Lighting

Do not let the world of lighting intimidate you! In this class we will briefly discuss the evolution of lighting in the live environment, but more so will look at the various types of lighting instruments used and their typical applications. We will discuss picking the right lighting fixture for the job, ideal placements, and creative uses. Find out how lighting can help transform the entire live environment!

Learning Objectives:

• To understand the different types of lighting fixtures used in live events today.
• To learn the ideal and typical placements of lighting fixtures.
• An overview of basic lighting concepts including front light, back light, color temperature, color choice, and effect options.

SPEAKER: STEPHEN BREWSTER
Communications

Most Pastors are asking, “How do we get people back?” We are in a unique and every changing moment where understanding and maximizing marketing, advertising, and story telling well matters. It’s not enough to just “get it” we have to know what it means for the next season of ministry and how we will use these tools to increase the kingdom.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding marketing, advertising, and storytelling – they are not the same.
• Building a marketing plan
• What mediums matter in marketing
• The ability to shift your message from promotion to conversation

SPEAKER: HENRY SEELEY
Leadership

Leading any size church team can be a challenge and leadership has to be intentional about creating a healthy staff culture. Learn how you can create the right culture for your staff and ways that you can benefit from their insights, wisdom, experience and spiritual healthiness.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding church leadership roles
• How to cultivate and sustain a heathy staff culture in your church
• Develop strong leaders in your team

SPEAKER: JACOB CARR
Worship

Come see a live demonstration on how a song can be improved in a single coaching. Learn about the best practices when talking to the singers on your team, tips you can give them to achieve the best quality sound possible, and warmups that can help get everyone’s voices resonate and flexible. Leave with a greater understanding of how to take the quality of the vocals in your worship service to the next level.

Learning Objectives:

• Assess singers voice types and learn how to use them most effectively
• Find ways to simultaneously encourage and challenge your singers without making them self conscious
• Learn how different exercises change your voice, immediately and over time, and how you can implement these into your rehearsals
• Explore how to empower your team to find their own unique voice, and how to authentically connect to it in performance

SPEAKER: JEFF LYONS
Design & Film

Whether you know it or not you have a workflow process for each video you make. Maybe you’ve never had time to think about HOW you make videos because you’re too busy actually making the video. In this workshop you’ll learn why taking the time to examine, strategize, grow and refine your video workflow will lead to better videos, less stress and more capacity for your work and your life. Regardless of the tools you use or the size of your team, come hear how you can produce better work faster than ever before.

Learning Objectives:

• Why prioritizing process will lead to a healthier work/life balance
• How a definable and repeatable workflow can produce better videos
• Practical tips & tricks to save time and restore sanity
• File structure and naming convention best practices

SPEAKER: STEPHEN BREWSTER
Creative Process

The best creative cultures are led into creativity. Building a creative culture empowers ideas and the proper systems allow you to see those ideas come to life.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding what Cultivating Creativity means
• Create a customized processes for delivery
• Understand the power of expectations and questions

SPEAKER: ZACH KIMREY & TYLER HIRTH (BRAD ZIMMERMAN, MODERATOR)
Video

This is the biggest debate among church video crews: To use Cine cameras or ENG cameras for broadcast, IMAG, and/or streaming? In this class we’ll break down both of these type of technologies, as well as hear the pro’s and con’s of both from two experts in the field. This will be fun to eavesdrop on their debate, and insightful to learn from these experts in church video technology.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain insights on the pro’s and con’s of cinematic style video cameras
• Gain insights on the pro’s and con’s of ENG-style video cameras
• See two perspectives of this topic to help you make an informed decision as to which is best for your church community.

SPEAKER: JOEY SANTOS
Online Church

As we move to post-COVID season, online church is moving to a new phase, allowing churches to learn new ways to create, develop and keep the audience engaged. This workshop will provide the knowledge and tools you need to create the proper rhythm to make your online church sustainable for growth.

Learning Objectives:

• What’s is next for online church
• Building your internal infrastructure to make online relevant
• Moving from streaming to ministry

SPEAKER: PANEL
Lighting

Have you ever watched a live or video production and thought “wow… that lighting looks amazing… how do I get that in my worship space?” With this session we are going to get down to the core of what makes great lighting happen in YOUR environment. We are talking in depth about how to ensure you have a good foundation that makes your live experience pop and your video/broadcast experience come alive. We’ll be covering topics that explore creative, intentional and foundational design as well as the ins and outs of how lighting plays the most critical role of all technology at making your worship experience come alive.

SPEAKER: BEN STEWART
Communications

Is your website a marketing tool designed to reach new people, or is it a ministry tool that serves your congregation? Can your site be all things to all people — and should it? We’ll unpack how you can utilize your website to attract visitors without alienating your regular attenders and members. Plus, we’ll look at how different website pages fit into your overall church communication strategy so you can use your site as a ministry and marketing tool.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify how your church website can effectively contribute to your communication, outreach, and discipleship efforts
• Segment your website visitors into three distinct audiences
• Look at examples of churches using their website to serve each audience
• Consider how traffic sources affect your website structure
• Learn to create hub-style landing pages to streamline communication
• Discuss how COVID has changed the role your website plays in serving your community

SPEAKER: AYESHA DAVIS
Leadership

Hiring the right person for the right role is extremely important. Applicants have choices and you want to attract the right people to your position. This session will cover where to recruit, how to interview, when to hire and why to reject the right way!

Learning Objectives:

• Learn where to go to find the people you are looking for
• Determine your interview process and who needs to be involved
• How to properly prepare for an interview
• Decide the questions to ask during the interview
• Know when to hire and when to reject a candidate

SPEAKER: KIERRE LINDSAY
Worship

Collaborative writing is responsible for some of the biggest songs in music, all genres. While it is easier said than done – the art of collaborative writing not only gives a song more legs, it also builds each songwriter individually as a creative, collaborator, and person. In this session we will discuss the beauty and benefits of collaborative songwriting with other artists/songwriters as well as members of your local church music department.

Learning Objectives:

• Embrace the definition of “collaborate”.
• Do’s and don’ts while writing with others
• When should you start collaborative songwriting?
• How many writers is too many?

SPEAKER: SCOTT PARKER
Design & Film

Are you posting to your socials like it’s an announcement board? Maybe you’re running your accounts with no intentionality at all. Learn to tell the story of what God is doing in your community on social media in an authentic way. In this class, you’ll learn how to collaborate with a team to make compelling creative on social media. Also, you will learn the importance of storytelling, good design, how to build a team, and grow your community on all social platforms.

Learning Objectives:

• Why it’s important to have a social media presence for your church community.
• How to build a team that collaborates.
  
• Learn project management that keeps your social feed fresh and accurate.
  
• Understand your audience better and create content they want to see and interact with.
  
• Get your time back with tips and tricks that make your workflow smoother.

SPEAKER: JOEL MUDDAMALLE
Creative Process

When creatives think of their role it usually leads to responsibilities or areas of ownership. It may seem natural that the first place to start with is the technical details that fit the aspects of their day in and day out job. But what if the creatives responsibilities only take on true meaning and fulfillment in light of the creative’s role from a biblical and theological framework.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the three essential but often overlooked Biblical roles of the creative that will help you gain confidence in your own role.
• Overcome the feeling of confusion as it relates to roles and responsibility by connecting your work to Christ’s vision for creatives.
• Be equipped with Biblical principles and a theological framework that can be applied back in your local ministry context.

SPEAKER: DENNIS CHOY
Video

Do you really want to engage and recruit teens to help in your tech production team? Of course you do. They are the future and the now of church ministry. Come here insights from a youth pastor turned production director and how to engage teens in your Tech ministry.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand ways to engage Teens for your ministry
• Tips on recruiting and training Teens for Tech
• Practical discussion on developing them for the long term

SPEAKER: KENDRA LEGRAND
Online Church

Time is the most valuable resource someone can give but how do we steward someone’s time well when it’s hard to get them in the doors of the church, ask them to sign up for one more “thing” or navigate the ever-so-present Zoom fatigue? Is it possible to create community online?

Learning Objectives:

• Overcome being overwhelmed with the “how-to” by developing a strategy for creating community with the technology already in front of you.
• Compel people who are wondering, “what’s in it for me?” by creating a vision that empowers leaders and equips participants.
• Stop overcomplicating Online Bible Study for yourself and your participants with simple steps to help you find your focus.

SPEAKER: GRIFFIN MCCRAVY
Lighting

In an ever changing environment we will look at how we can balance lighting for both live environment impact as well as camera applications. We will look at tips when it comes to placement, front light, color, intensity levels and more as we work to ensure a high-impact, low distraction environment for church events.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to properly light talent from the front, sides, and back
• Learn what the camera sees in terms of lighting and how we can work to ensure the best possible image
• How to create a high impact service that still looks great on camera

SPEAKER: KATIE ALLRED
Friday – 1:30pm

Have you heard about online community? Still confused on what that means? We’ll discuss what online community is, how you can use it for discipleship, and how you can use online communities to reach new people in your community.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and/or create your church’s online communities—Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, GroupMe, iMessage, etc.
• Create a plan for how you want to engage with these communities. Engage in conversations with your church community. Encourage dialogue by asking questions about their own personal experiences with faith, religion, spirituality, etc., and share more about yourself as well.
• Identify and/or create online communities for people in your community around specific interests or the community itself.
• Create a plan for how you want to engage with these communities. Encourage dialogue by asking questions about their interests, and share more about yourself as well.

SPEAKER: CHRISTINE KREISHER
Friday – 1:30pm

We all need and want more volunteers but what if the secret to getting more volunteers has less to do with strategy and more to do with your mindset?

Join me for this breakout to discover the proven science behind the success of recruiting volunteers.

Learning Objectives:

• Uncover neuroscientific discoveries to understand the link between mindsets and achievement
• Learn four simple strategies for creating an irresistible volunteer culture
• Develop a solid plan to re-engage and grow your volunteer base

SPEAKER: CECILY HENNIGAN
Worship

Making time to create and echo the heart of your house through the songs you write for your people to sing. In this class, you will learn some key tools for writing songs that prophecy into the further of your home, reflect the message your house carries and all the ways you can collaborate in and outside of your house to cultivate the songs you want your people to sing over themselves. I will take you through the structures of writing within your church, from worship team all the way to bringing outside writers in to help strengthen your art. As well as how to write from the heart of your house and not just for hype.

Learning Objectives:

• Daily tools to help you stay inspired to write from the moments inside your house
• Tips for productive writing / collaborative writing
• Tips on growing your team in writing through basic acts of creativity and worship (retreats, workshops, tram writing nights, etc.)
• How to connect with outside writers to come in and teach and equip beginners on writing
• How to write prophetically over your house

SPEAKER: PANEL
Design & Film

The perpetual sense of being on call for a mind blowing solution can be daunting and exhausting – so how do people do it full time? Hosted by Merea Price, Co-founder of church and non-profit consulting firm legible, this conversation on creative inspiration and process includes Ryan Stanley of visual storytelling studio Alway Abounding and Dex Alexander, Founder of Black Roses, a brand strategy and management firm in Southern California, and Leighton Ching, Lead Graphic Designer at Passion City Church. Hear how they tackle project after project, how they stay inspired and informed, and what it takes to always have the next best idea.

Learning Objectives:

• How to maintain design inspiration day after day.
  
• How to launch from failures to your next success.
  
• How to inspire others to maintain energy, focus, and creativity week in and week out.