Easter Sunday at my home church included a sunrise service on the beach. Vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, a pastor’s mic, and a TV screen for ProPresenter lyrics — that was the brief. Everything had to be portable, battery-powered, sand-tolerant, and set up by a small volunteer crew who didn’t have time to troubleshoot anything fancy. … Read more
Most church leaders I talk to assume that if their livestream looks bad, they need better cameras. That’s almost never the right answer. We just wrapped a full AVL upgrade for CrossPoint Church in Gulfport, Mississippi, and their story is a textbook example of what’s actually going on when a church’s video quality slips. Their … Read more
Almost every pastor I talk to about AI lands in one of two camps. Either they assume it’s a threat to ministry — theologically, vocationally, or both — or they’ve quietly adopted it for their own work and feel a little weird about it. I just sat down with one of the pastors at Vineyard … Read more
Most pastors I know won’t touch AI for sermon prep. The fear is obvious. What if the AI ends up doing the preaching? What if study disappears? What if your voice gets replaced by a language model? I sat down with Josh Shaw, lead pastor of Vineyard Church in Los Angeles, and he said something … Read more
Every few years a piece of gear shows up at NAB that you can tell is going to rearrange things. The Fairlight Live Panel 10 is that piece of gear. Blackmagic Design has been quietly building Fairlight into DaVinci Resolve for years — it’s the audio post-production side of their ecosystem. What they just announced … Read more
It might be the most dreaded conversation in worship ministry. You know the one. A team member isn’t cutting it anymore — whether it’s a character issue, a skill gap, or a culture mismatch — and you have to do something about it. But this isn’t a corporate layoff. These are volunteers. Friends. People who … Read more
Inside Compassion Christian Church’s Production System: A Full Tech Tour A 2,067-seat room. Seven campuses. RED cinema cameras on a live broadcast. A 50-foot LED wall. And a team that’s built systems so dialed in that most of Sunday morning runs itself. That’s what Jake found when he pulled up to Compassion Christian Church in … Read more
When a church moves into a new building, there’s a rare window to get everything right. No inherited problems. No duct-taped workarounds. Just a clean slate and the chance to build a system that actually makes sense. That’s exactly what happened at Cornerstone Church in Nederland, Texas. Sean recently wrapped up a project with this … Read more
Every growing church hits the same wall. The worship space is getting busier. The tech team is overwhelmed. And somebody on the board says, “We need to upgrade our sound system.” Maybe. But probably not yet. I just wrapped an onsite consultation at Bethesda Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan — a growing church that moved … Read more
It’s 2025 and we just found a 576p video switcher. Not in a museum. Not on eBay. In the tech booth of a church five minutes from our warehouse. Sitting right next to a stack of VGA cables, a DVD recorder, and a dual 31-band EQ that hadn’t been touched since the Obama administration. Graceway … Read more
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