Technology Accelerates Ministry for IT Director, David Drinnon
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Pastor and Director of IT and Web for Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, David Drinnon. David is also a on the leadership team with Church IT Round...
View ArticleCreating a “Volunteer-Friendly” Church Production System
In 2007 as a media team volunteer is when I realized the importance and fully understood the difference between having a “volunteer-friendly” and “volunteer-complicated” church production system. With...
View ArticleProPresenter 5 Worship Software for Windows Launches
Good news for all you worship leaders and techs out there – ProPresenter 5 for Windows worship software launched and is now available for purchase. ProPresenter 5 for Mac launched back in mid-February...
View ArticleHow To Make the Sermon Sing: 6 Presentation Essentials
Do you get the privilege of building out your Pastor’s message each week into lower thirds for display on the big screens? If you do, then congratulations! That’s awesome! It’s a really important job...
View Article8 Essential Volunteer Commitments to Empower Your Tech Ministry
If you are a leader of a tech-ministry, especially a volunteer-based one, you know and understand amongst many things, the importance of commitment. Commitment is everything. With it, your...
View Article2 Reasons You Should Continually Ask, “What’s Next?” in Tech Ministry
Two of my favorite scripture verses that I read daily when I am at work are; Jeremiah 33:3, which says, “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not...
View ArticleSelect the Right Presentation Software in 4 Easy Steps
Presentation software is an essential in today’s church. Making the choice to get presentation software for your church is an easy one. But selecting the right product that meets your churches needs is...
View Article10 Basic Do’s And Don’ts With Church Presentations
Churches have fully integrated with technology within the church services with the sound equipment, projectors or televisions, and computers. Of course, this has created a culture around how to use...
View Article3 Best Practices for Growing Your Podcast on a Budget
In a perfect world, we’d all have large media teams working for our church. They would continually come up with great ideas for our website, videos, audio and be able to throw everything together in a...
View ArticleRegister for Gurus 13 Worship Tech Conference
Are you a worship tech, media tech, or worship leader who handles it all? The folks at Willow Creek Community Church in Illinois are putting on this free (yes, I said free) church tech conference that...
View Article10 Things Worship Leaders and Audio Techs Can do to Support One Another
Worship teams and audio techs exist in order to help lead our congregations to worship and love God. We all have the same goal, to provide excellence in leading worship. So why do Audio Techs and...
View ArticleLive Stream Your Church Services for Almost Nothing
A couple of months ago I started live-streaming on my site five days a week. Like many smaller churches, my budget for all this was pretty much nothing. I’ve since talked to a couple of churches that...
View Article4 Advantages of Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras in Church Video
While the cost of technology decreases, the quality of technology increases. Because of this, there are lots of fun new toys that have hit the market. Whether your church is debating an IMAG (Image...
View ArticleKeep Your A/V Equipment Striaight with NOMIXUPS
If you’ve ever led worship, you know the feeling of relying on a sound technician to keep everything running smoothly and sounding good. Sound equipment can be confusing, to say the least. We recently...
View ArticleAudio Training 101
Churches today are often caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to relying on technology. Often churches grow to the point where a sound system is necessary but the funds to hire...
View ArticleCreating a “Volunteer-Friendly” Church Production System
In 2007 as a media team volunteer is when I realized the importance and fully understood the difference between having a “volunteer-friendly” and “volunteer-complicated” church production system. With...
View ArticleChurch Live Streaming Basics
Live streaming is one of those areas where people want to do it, but don’t quite know where to begin. It wasn’t all that long ago that I was in the same boat, but now that I stream live church tech...
View ArticleWorship Is . . .
The Bible tells us to “Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy.” (Psalm 100:2) Any worship leader can tell you that this can be a challenge given the myriad of variables...
View ArticleThe Typecast Church: Old-School, Tech-Junkie, or Digital Church?
When it comes to technology in the Church, my experience tells me that there are primarily three types of churches. The line between these can be very blurry. 1) The Old-School Church – that outright...
View Article3 Solutions for Faith-based Communicators
Being on the leading edge of the adoption of transformative technologies is really nothing new for the faith community. Throughout history, the faith community has always adopted and leveraged new...
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