The Making Sunday Happen Podcast

Today on the podcast, we're diving in deep into church lighting with two experts on the subject.

Tom Stanziano is an experienced Lighting Designer in the entertainment industry. He specializes in theater, houses of worship, concerts, trade shows cruise ships and more.

He has an extensive knowledge of lighting for the Church and we'll be talking to Tom today about using color to enhance your lighting.

We'll also chat with Stephen Ellison. Stephen has a BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts. He has worked for rental and production shops in Philadelphia, New York, and Raleigh, NC.

For the last 20 years he has been designing lighting systems, with a heart for the house of worship market. He has taught at tradeshows both in the US and internationally. He works at The Light Source. We'll be asking Stephen about evaluating your lighting fixture output.

**We recorded both of these interviews in front of a live audience at Church Facilities Expo.

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Today on the podcast, we have David Leuschner from Digital Great Commission Ministries. This interview was recorded at the Church Facilities Conference and Expo a few months ago in front of a live audience so you're going to hear that and also we talk questions from the audience live.

We're talking about the differences in copyright and streaming licenses. What you can do and what you can't do. We're not lawyers, but hopefully we will give you some tips today on how to stay legal when it comes to your music and streaming.

If ever you're wondered, come and get some answers!

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This week, we welcome a very special guest back on the show, actress Roma Downey.

Roma played Monica the angel in the CBS series Touched by an Angel airing from 1994 to 2003. She produced the mini-series The Bible for the History Channel and also appeared as Mary, mother of Jesus. She has performed on stage on and off broadway.

She is the President of Lightworkers Media, the faith and family division of MGM. Roma is married to Mark Burnett - who you might know as the producer of such hits as Survivor, Shark Tank, The Apprentice and others.

The Bible mini-series which they produced was watched by over 100 million people in the United States alone. They also produced the remake of Ben Hur, the movie Son of God, Woodlawn, Resurrection, and others.

She is listed by Variety Magazine as one of the 100 most Powerful Women in Hollywood.

Her new book Be An Angel is a devotional book that you can use in your church or in your small groups.

It is a joy to have her back on.

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This week on the show, we welcome Michele Barnett. Michele oversees the Leadership Accelerator Training Program at the Multiply Group. Our friend Mac Lake was on the show a few months ago, and he runs the Mulitply Group - Michelle works with Mac as they help leaders be better leaders.

Today we’ll talk about how to motivate your team, how to lead disciple makers, how to value the personalities on your team, how to maximize the strengths of the people on your team and more.

Jam packed episode on leadership today.

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Welcome to the podcast. So, today, we’re diving deep into the world of Virtual Reality.

We’ve done a couple of episodes on VR over the last year. One with two pastors, Jason Poling and Gerald Faulkner and their experience learning and preaching in VR. Another with DJ Soto who is the pastor of arguably the largest and most influential church in the Virtual space - VR Church.

We got some good feedback on our episode with DJ. So today, we are talking with our friend Jeff Reed. He has written a new book called VR and the MetaVerse Church.

We’re going to define a lot of terms for you so if you’re a beginner still learning about church in the MetaVerse, we are going to try really hard not to lose you or go over your head, we’re going to keep things real simple so that you can learn about this world and also consider if its something for your church to consider.

Since interviewing Jeff, one of the major communities that we discussed that a lot of VR Churches meet within - AltSpace VR is completely shutting down. So you’ll hear us talking about AltSpace - they will be no more. Which means the other communities or worlds is where churches will move to. - You’ll hear us talk about VR Chat - that is where the mission field is. Then there are other words like RecRoom, Meta Horizons and BigScreen where churches will have to move to.

We are going to dive into a lot today with Jeff so hang in there. This might be an education for you learning about VR or you might be a veteran. Hopefully either way, you’ll learn a lot today and we’ll give you some things for your church to consider.

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Today on the show, we welcome Worship Leader John Marc Kohl. John is with the Worship Initiative and has a brand new album out called Still.

We’re going to be talking about how to break through Spiritual Depression. John Marc has an incredible story of coming out of a really dark season in his life and God’s faithfulness. We’ll also hit on the major struggles of Worship Leaders and the hurdles of songwriting.

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On the show today we welcome Mac Lake who is the founder of The Multiply Group. Mac and our host, Carl Barnhill, have known each other for a number of years. He is an incredible leader himself and is well known among pastors and church planters in helping leaders lead.

Through his E-Courses, books, workshops and consulting he has helped many become better leaders.

We'll first share a short 2 minute video of Mac answering the question: " Why am I developing Leaders?"

And then we'll jump right into our usual style interview.

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Today on the show, director Jon Erwin will be joining ua. His most recent project, Jesus Revolution hits theaters February 24th. Jon is a great guy. He is a filmmaker, and the CEO of Kingdom Story Company.

We'll be diving into talking about the movie and how you can use it at your church. How you can support it, and how you can build worship experiences around it.

They have provided all types of resources for you to use on Sundays to promote and incorporate the film into your teaching, into your flow.

The film follows the Jesus Movement in the 70s and the beginning of Calvary Chapel.

It has an incredible cast including Kelsey Grammar, Jonathan Roumie who you might know from the Chosen, Kimberly Williams Paisley and more. We'll talk to Jon about bridging the gap between Hollywood and the faith community, how you can use this film on a Sunday and more.

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We welcome on the show, Thad Austin and Katie Comeau from the Ormond Center at Duke Divinity School.

They have done an immense amount of research on how pastors and leaders are cared for, why folks are leaving the ministry, and what we can do to care for pastors and leaders.

We'll give some biblical background on caring for leaders, we'll examine why it matters that pastors are cared for, we'll look at what types of networks support pastors and more.

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Today on the show we have a great veteran of the Worship space - Dave Dolphin. Dave has been a Worship Leader for a long time at multiple churches. His popular Practical Worship YouTube channel has been a staple in the space for years.

We'll be talking with Dave about all kinds of topics - volunteers, struggles Worship Leaders face, excellence, rehearsals, mixing for the room vs mixing for the Livestream and more. We cover a lot of ground, so put your seatbelt on, our interview with Dave Dolphin, coming up right after this.

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