This week on the show, we start a two part series with Worship Leader Doug Hood. Doug has authored the book The Worship Unicorn.

His thinking is that too many churches are consumed with copying each other, specifically in the area of music and worship. Where is the uniqueness? Where is the individuality? How do you find your voice as a Worship Leader. That’s what we’re talking about this week and next.

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This week on the show, we’ll wrap our conversation with my friend Holly Tate from Vanderbloemen.

We will continue to talk about leading up, how to build processes and systems, how to adapt your team to the ever-changing landscape of communications and more.

Vanderbloemen is an amazing organization if you don’t know about it.

They help churches, ministries, schools and other non-profits with hiring, succession plans, compensation, culture, coaching and more. We have the privilege of producing the Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast with some of the best minds in the faith space – recent episodes include interviews with Beth Moore, Joe White, Dr. Michael Lyndsey, Pastor Tim Lucas and more. It’s all at vanderbloemen.com if you want to check them out.

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This week on the show, we are talking with Holly Tate from Vanderbloemen.

Vanderbloemen is an amazing organization if you don’t know about it.

They help churches, ministries, schools and other non-profits with hiring, succession plans, compensation, culture, coaching and more. We have the privilege of producing the Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast with some of the best minds in the faith space – recent episodes include interviews with Beth Moore, Joe White, Dr. Michael Lyndsey, Pastor Tim Lucas and more. It’s all at vanderbloemen.com if you want to check them out.

This week, Holly and Carl will be talking about how to build a Church Communications Team that scales up. They talk about leading up, how to build processes and systems, how to adapt your communications team to the ever-changing landscape and more. If your audience to your Worship Experiences doubled – would your systems be able to handle it? That’s a major question we will wrestle with on this week’s episode.

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Today on the show, we’re going continue our series on how to use Print Design to Create a Worshipful Atmosphere

We are talking about the printed handout pieces that you use in your Worship Experience.

– Should you even use handouts?

– What should they look like? What’s on them?

– Is less information better?

– How do bulletins and handouts help move people to their next step in my Worship Experience.

Last week, we talked to Lee Snow from Warm Springs Rd. Church of Christ in Columbus, GA. Lee pastors a church of under 100 people weekly, so I wanted to get his perspective on this.

This week, I’m talking with Will Gann, who is the Communications Director at Bayside Community Church in Bradenton, FL. Bayside is a multi-site church averaging over 10,000 people on a weekend, so I want you to see the contrast of how these two churches use print design in their Worship Experiences.

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Today on the show, we’re going to be talking about Print Design in your Worship Experience. The printed handout pieces that you use in your Worship Experience.

– Should you even use handouts?

– What should they look like? What’s on them?

– Is less information better?

– How do bulletins and handouts help move people to their next step in my Worship Experience.

Those questions and more will be answered this week and next week.

You’ll hear from two guys on this on this topic.

Lee Snow from Warm Springs Rd. Church of Christ in Columbus, GA – the pastor of a church of under 100 people on a Sunday.

And Will Gann, who is the Communications Director at Bayside Community Church, a multi-site church in Bradenton, FL.

We’ll hear from Lee this week and Will next week on the show.

We are excited for you to see the contrast and the overlap of what both these guys do to engage the congregations at their church.

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This week’s episode of the podcast is brought to you by the new MediaShout 7, and we are continuing our conversation with the legend Aaron West – who is the Director of Customer Experience at Mediashout – which means he is THE guy to talk to when it comes to the user experience of the software.

Aaron played a major role in the writing and coding of MediaShout 7 and is going to continue to walk through the new features of the software and how it will make your life easier. We also tackle the most popular users questions and he’s going to give some sneak peeks as to what is to come. We’ll wrap our interview with Aaron up today.

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This week’s episode of the podcast is brought to you by the new MediaShout 7, which we are pumped because today, we are going to be talking with our good friend Aaron West – who is a developer at MediaShout and played a major role in writing and coding this new version of MediaShout.

We’re talking about the new features like Sermon Builder, Presenter View, Starter Packs, Keyboard Shortcuts and more. If you use MediaShout, especially if you are considering making the jump from MediaShout 6 to 7 – this week and next week is right up your alley.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/221

This week, we welcome Chris Sharpe from Subsplash.

Chris is the Vice President of Business Development at the company and we are going to talk all about ways you can utilize your church app in your Worship Experiences.

Several years ago if was a stable to have a “Silence your Cell Phone” type Slide in your Announcement Loop. We are going to suggest that it might be okay for people to silence their phones to prevent distractions, but lean into people having a device in their pocket – utilize that to your advantage – use it to engage people in your journey.

Chris and Carl walk through several ways you can do that.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/220

This week, we welcome Troy Pollock from PushPay.

Troy is the Vice President of Community Innovation at PushPay.

We are talking with Troy about how your church can use your Worship Experience and the content you create for your Worship Experience to engage your community.

We are going to talk about how to be KNOWN and to be SEEN, how to RECEIVE and how to PARTICIPATE.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/219

We believe the Worship Experience is the journey you take your audience on from the parking lot to the parking lot on a Sunday.

You might be on your church’s First Impressions Team, Worship Team, Production Team, Teaching Team, or Communications Team. This is the podcast for you.

This week is no exception – as we are talking to the Lead Singer of the band Sanctus Real – my new friend Dustin Lolli will be joining me. Dustin was a Worship Leader at a church for years before joining the band Sanctus Real, where he continues to lead worship to thousands of people through their songs and concerts.

We are talking with Dustin about how to handle those moments in your ministry when you question your calling, when you feel like giving up, when you don’t know what God is doing.

There was a time recently when the band was struggling – struggling to know what was next. It was out of this place that the song “Confidence” came.

You don’t have to be a Worship Leader to connect with this episode. If you’ve ever been at a place where you have questioned your calling, you will resonant with what Dustin has to say.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/218