The Monochrome

Everything you need to know before you walk through the doors at SALT 2026. Katelyn, Joe Angel, and the team break down your first day from the moment you leave home to the moment the opening session begins - registration times by ticket type, what to do with your luggage, why you should arrive early, the VIP lounge, the merch drop, art installations, book signings, and why the opener on Wednesday night is something you do not want to miss. If you have a ticket, this episode is required listening.

SALT 2026 Conference - Dallas, TX | October 14-16

• https://salt2026.com

SALT Conference App

• https://saltcommunity.com/event-app

Shift Worship (conference partner)

• https://www.shiftworship.com

SALT Community Membership

• https://saltcommunity.com

Most church lighting operators run the same handful of looks every Sunday - usually off one or two faders, hoping nobody notices. In this episode, David Henry - lighting educator with over 60,000 YouTube subscribers - walks through two of the most underused features inside the Obsidian Onyx system: Dylos pixel mapping and the cue blender. Pixel mapping lets you drive video content and patterns across your entire rig as one controllable surface. The cue blender stacks multiple cues onto a single fader so pan, tilt, color, and intensity all move exactly where you want them during a live service. Volunteer-friendly, immediately applicable, and the kind of training that makes Sunday mornings look like you have twice the rig you actually do.

🔗 Show Notes

David Henry - Lighting Educator & YouTuber

• https://www.youtube.com/@LearnStageLighting

Obsidian Control Systems - Onyx Platform

• https://www.obsidiancontrol.com

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Three weeks out from SALT 2026 and a key crew member just dropped out. Luke, Katelyn, and founding team member Joe Angel sit down to talk about what really happens behind the scenes of a conference - the moments that shake you and remind you that none of this was yours to control anyway. They also unpack the heart behind this year's theme, How Great Thou Art, why art itself is getting a seat at the keynote table this year, and what Cass Langton's moment at SALT 2025 sparked that changed how the team thinks about the main stage entirely. If you're coming to Dallas - this is your why.

SALT 2026 Conference - Dallas, TX | October 14-16

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• https://www.shiftworship.com

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Most team conflict isn't a people problem - it's a clarity problem. In this episode, Madi Weubben - Promotions Director at Brentwood Baptist - shares the practical protections every leader should build into the front end of a project to prevent unclear expectations from becoming team blowups. From her love, like, and hate task audit to setting revision caps before a project ever starts, this is the kind of leadership training that saves relationships, time, and a lot of painful debriefs.

🔗 Show Notes

Madi Weubben - Promotions Director, Brentwood Baptist

• https://www.brentwoodbaptist.com

Asana - Project Management Tool (referenced)

• https://www.asana.com

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Dwan Hill grew up between two worlds - Birkenstocks and FUBU, a rock blues tour with Jonny Lang and a gospel stage with CeCe Winans. For years he felt like the one thing that wasn't like the others. In this episode, pulled from the SALT Conference main stage, the 3x Grammy winner, 2x Dove Award recipient, and founder of The Choir Room in Nashville shares how God used every mismatched piece of his story to craft something only he could build - and why the choir might be the most underestimated discipleship tool in the local church. This one starts as a keynote and turns into a worship moment. You'll want to sing along, not just listen.

🔗 Show Notes

Dwan Hill - Singer, Songwriter, Speaker

• https://www.dwanhill.com/

The Choir Room - Nashville, TN

• https://www.choirisback.com/

CeCe Winans

• https://www.cecewinans.com

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Most volunteers know how to push faders. Very few get taught how to actually route and process a channel - and that gap is the difference between a mix that works and a mix that moves people. In this bonus episode, Jeremy Van Valkenberg - formerly of Transformation Church, now leading production at Crosspoint Church in Nashville - walks through the Yamaha DM7 channel strip from top to bottom. Dynamics, EQ, plug-ins, patching, AB sources, analog and digital gain. Church-specific, ad-free, and applicable this Sunday.

🔗 Show Notes

Crosspoint Church Nashville

• https://www.crosspointnashville.com

Transformation Church

• https://www.transformationchurch.tc

Yamaha DM7 Console

• https://usa.yamaha.com/products/proaudio/mixers/dm7

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Most church websites are built backwards. They look great but send visitors in circles - no clear location, confusing navigation, and zero strategy for moving someone from curious to connected. In this episode, Luke and Katelyn pull from one of SALT's conference workshops on UX, UI, and web strategy built specifically for churches.

From building a site map and wireframe before you ever touch design, to defining the on-ramps that turn a first-time website visitor into a first-time Sunday visitor - this episode gives you a framework you can actually use this week, whether you're rebuilding your site from scratch or just trying to make what you have work harder.

🔗 Show Notes

Zach Nelson

• https://www.saltless.co

Sarra Herring

• https://sarraherring.com/

Figma - Free Wireframing & Design Tool

• https://www.figma.com

Adobe XD - Design & Prototyping

• https://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html

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If you opened last week's calendar right now, would it reflect what you say matters most? In this bonus episode, Phil Bowdle - creative arts pastor and ministry coach - walks through six diagnostic questions designed to expose what's actually happening in your week before you try to fix any of it. From what's stealing your time to whether you're protecting Sabbath the way you say you believe in it, these questions are simple to ask and hard to answer honestly. Phil's premise: you can't change what you haven't named.

🔗 Show Notes

Phil Bowdle - Creative Arts Pastor & Ministry Coach

• https://www.philbowdle.com

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Rick Rekedal spent decades at DreamWorks Animation helping build some of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history - How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda, Trolls. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on one of the most talked-about masterclasses from the SALT Conference: Rick's Story Adoption Engine.

His thesis: churches aren't losing people because of bad programs or poor production. They're losing them because they haven't understood how people actually adopt a story and make it their own. From Curious George to Kung Fu Panda to the gospel itself, Rick walks through his Story Adoption Engine and why the difference between church people attending and church people belonging to comes down to one thing: whether the story you're telling feels like them.

🔗 Show Notes

Rick Rekedal - Former DreamWorks Animation Executive

• https://www.rickrekedal.com/

How to Train Your Dragon - DreamWorks

• https://www.dreamworks.com

Magnolia - Chip & Joanna Gaines

• https://magnolia.com

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Chad Vegas - former film director at Transformation Church, now with Sony - breaks down the exact framework he used to train camera operators at Bethel, Transformation, and beyond. In this bonus episode pulled from the SALT Community course library, Chad walks through his Chad Sandbox: seven rules that turn a volunteer with a camera into a cinematic storyteller. From matching your camera movement to worship tempo, to the three-shots-one-take approach that makes four cameras feel like eight - this is practical, immediately applicable training your team can use this Sunday.

🔗 Show Notes

Transformation Church

• https://www.transformationchurch.tc

Bethel Church Redding

• https://www.bethel.com

Planning Center

• https://www.planningcenter.com

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