Episode 17: Let’s talk about guests.. visitors.. people who are coming to your program for the first time. Maybe they are there for Easter, coming with a friend, or just moved to town and googled your church and showed up. It is so important that they will have a good experience when they visit.

Here’s a few tips that we keep in mind when it comes to guests. How can we create a better experience for someone as they get out of their car, until the service starts?

These are our tips, check ’em out and let us know what you think.

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This week on the show, I welcome back Church Communications strategist Adam McLaughlin and the Owner of Church Banners Kenten Waldrum. We’ll be finishing our conversation about their new book Huddle Up which is all about First Impressions at your church. We believe that the Worship Experience starts in the parking lot so everything you everything you do leading into the room on Sunday matters.

Adam and Kenten talk about the 5 key players you need to have on your First Impressions team.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/190

This week on the show, we welcome Church Communications strategist Adam McLaughlin and the Owner of Church Banners Kenten Waldrum. We’ll be talking about their new book Huddle Up which is all about First Impressions at your church. We believe that the Worship Experience starts in the parking lot so everything you do leading into the room on Sunday matters.

We’re talking with Adam and Kenten about the key players you need to have on your First Impressions team.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/189

Episode 16: We have all had that “uh-oh” moment. We are in need of a game and we don’t know what to do. Maybe just didn’t get to it in our planning, maybe we forgot to pick up the resources needed or maybe something came up, and you need a game -FAST!

Today we are going to give you 4 game ideas that you can pull off in no time. You wont need much more than a penny! These ideas are cheap, quick, easy but also a ton of fun!

So empty your pockets, find some spare change and check out these games!

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Carl Barnhill has served on staff an an international ministry that produced a daily television program to over 98 million homes worldwide and as a content creator on two large church staffs. He is the Creative Director and Owner of Twelve:Thirty Media, specializing in producing Worship and Custom Media content for churches and ministries all over the world.

This week, Carl spends this episode sharing from his own playbook 5 game-changing ideas for Video Content Producers.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/188

This week, we’re going to continue our discussion and talk about about choir practices, rehearsals, volunteers, how to keep things fresh, run-throughs and more as it relates to a traditional or blended worship experience. So if you are at a church where you help plan and lead a more traditional style service – this is the two part series for you.

All of our podcast episodes you can get good information from, but these are the episodes for traditional worship venues.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/187

Episode 15: If you are in ministry for any length of time, and if you are in student ministry for at least a week, YOU WILL MAKE MISTAKES. I like to think of it as “a part of the job.” Besides accepting this, there really are a few practical steps that you can take to ensure these moments are handled well and not wasted.

Join the conversations as Trevor and Stallion talk to us about what to do when we fail.

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This week, we welcome Dan and Melodie Griffin –  both of them have extensive experience in the area of worship – both traditional and contemporary, but have spent a large chunk of their ministry in traditional venues.

They have both served as Music Directors in churches across the Southeast – leading choirs, orchestras, production teams, volunteers and more.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/186

This week we talk welcome Bill Swaringim back one final time to talk about the peanut gallery. How to deal with experts in the pew. You know you got’em.

Bill is a veteran in church media and production. He serves as the Creative Arts Director at The Crossing and multi-site church in St. Louis. Bill has served in the local church through tech arts for the past 20 years. He has also been part of the leadership team of Church Technical Leaders.

For show notes, video interview and resources for your production team, visit twelvethirty.media/185

Episode 14: As youth pastors we spend our time pouring into students. We desire to see spiritual growth as well as maturity and life skills develop in them. A huge way we can train them is through actually letting them lead.

Imagine a ministry for students, led by other students. Every area may not be perfect, refined or all polished, but it will be effective. And it will be incredible to witness other students doing the work.

A by-product will be that you also alleviate your work load just a little bit and be able to focus on what really matters… discipling students!

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