The Making Sunday Happen Podcast

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...

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 intervie...

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 D...

This week on the show we are wrapping up Carl’s Visual Bootcamp Workshop from SALT18 We are walking through every aspect of screen content in a Worship Experience – Your Announcement Loop, countdowns, worship slides, performance songs, message and series content and more. For the full workshop PDF to follow along, you can visit 1230.media/visualbootcamp  and get the entire workshop plu...

This week on the show we are wrapping up Carl’s Visual Bootcamp Workshop from SALT18. We are walking through every aspect of screen content in a Worship Experience -Your Announcement Loop, countdowns, worship slides, performance songs, message and series content and more. For the full workshop PDF to follow along, you can visit 1230.media/visualbootcamp and get the entire workshop plus some...

This week on the show we are jumping right back into Carl’s Visual Bootcamp Workshop from SALT18. We are walking through every aspect of screen content in a Worship Experience – Your Announcement Loop, countdowns, worship slides, performance songs, message and series content and more. For the full workshop PDF to follow along, you can visit 1230.media/visualbootcamp  and get the entire...

In this episode of our podcast, we are going to be showing you Carl’s full, unedited Visual Bootcamp workshop from SALT18. In this workshop we will walk through how to enhance your screen visuals for your Worship Experience. So if you think about your Worship Experience and everything that goes on your screens: Announcements, Countdown, Worship Slides, Sermon Bumper Message Content Performan...

Every service planning process needs a proven method of distilling creative big picture ideas into manageable tasks and timelines. We don’t want to stifle creativity but we also don’t want chaos. This week, we finish the second half of Shannon Scott’s SALT18 Workshop on “Service Planning Made Simple.” Shannon also joins Carl by video to wrap up the talk and share some additional material on how yo...

Every service planning process needs a proven method of distilling creative big picture ideas into manageable tasks and timelines. We don’t want to stifle creativity but we also don’t want chaos. Our guest today will show us the Creative Board process – the same process many of the engineers from Disney World and other organizations have implemented to increase clarity, creativity and commun...

This week our guest is the Lead Vocalist for the band Big Daddy Weave – Mike Weaver is in the house! We are talking with Mike about how to do ministry when you are in the middle of a storm. The band has been through some incredible hard times lately, with deaths in their family to major health issues, and other things, they have been hit extremely hard the last few years. Can you relate? Are...

Some say it’s the lens, some say it’s the chip, but most will agree that it’s the right lighting that makes video look so good! In this episode, we’ll learn from touring expert and lighting designer for The Belonging Co on what it takes to get a great image on camera with lighting. From basic principles to in-depth techniques, everyone will learn something about exceptional lighting environments....

Some say it’s the lens, some say it’s the chip, but most will agree that it’s the right lighting that makes video look so good! In this episode, we’ll learn from touring expert and lighting designer for The Belonging Co on what it takes to get a great image on camera with lighting. From basic principles to in-depth techniques, everyone will learn something about exceptional lighting environments....

This week on the show, we conclude Christine Kriesher’s workshop from SALT18 on how to build and sustain a Thriving Volunteer Ministry. Through Christine’s workshop, you’ll learn how to recruit volunteers in a way that almost always guarantees a “yes”, you’re learn new ways to appreciate your volunteers, you’ll identify the keys to a great volunteer culture, you’ll learn how to get your volunteers...

This week on the show, we are going to be showing you another full, unedited workshop from SALT18, Christine Kreisher’s talk on how to build and sustain a Thriving Volunteer Ministry. This week and next week, through Christine’s workshop, you’ll learn how to recruit volunteers in a way that almost always guarantees a “yes,” you’ll learn new ways to appreciate your volunteers, you’ll identify the k...

Over the past two decades, the church has sought to incorporate technology into its worship services in ways that mimic modern society; professional audio consoles, stage lighting, projection screens, and theatrical sets are now customary. Because how people experience sacred space forms their views about it, what technical artists do in practice also shapes the congregation’s beliefs about God. T...

Over the past two decades, the church has sought to incorporate technology into its worship services in ways that mimic modern society; professional audio consoles, stage lighting, projection screens, and theatrical sets are now customary. Because how people experience sacred space forms their views about it, what technical artists do in practice also shapes the congregation’s beliefs about God. T...

What if every weekend, you had a road map to help get more out of your service programming? North Point Community Church has designed “the funnel” programming method to make sure that every element works to drive home the main message. You are about to learn all about that process from their Director of Experience – Mitchell McGhee. In this episode, we share Part Two of Mitchell’s Mitchell’s...

What if every weekend, you had a road map to help get more out of your service programming? North Point Community Church has designed “the funnel” programming method to make sure that every element works to drive home the main message. You are about to learn all about that process from their Director of Experience – Mitchell McGhee. In this episode, we share Mitchell’s full unedited workshop...

This week we welcome Rob Thomas from Igniter Media . We’ll be talking a little with Rob and also sharing his entire talk from the SALT18 conference about Laughing on Sunday . Attention spans are shorter than ever and audiences do not tolerate boredom like they use to. In fact, it’s showing up in church attendance stats. In this episode, we share the full, unedited workshop “ Laug...

First off this week, we are making a pretty big change with our podcast starting this week if you haven’t noticed already. We are renaming the podcast to “ Making Sunday Happen. ” Let us give you some reasons why: When we started the podcast several years ago, we were directly targeting Church Media and Production folks, but as our ministry has grown and as our podcast audience has grown, the show...

We cannot believe it has been 200 episodes of our show. Amazing! We are going to take a big trip down memory lane this week, so hang tight! We also have a very special guest later in the show – we welcome Steven Curtis Chapman to the show. Steven was on the SCC Solo Tour earlier this year and we talked about the tour, his incredible career and some tips for worship leaders. We first take a l...

So, a few years ago, we started doing some custom media work for Seeds Family Worship – a great ministry that produces word for word scripture songs and resources for family worship. Through those guys, and some other connections we have really become a go to for Kids Ministry content. Just several years later, we’ve produced over 200 lyric videos, hundreds of promotional graphics and other...

So, a few years ago, we started doing some custom media work for Seeds Family Worship – a great ministry that produces word for word scripture songs and resources for family worship. Through those guys, and some other connections we have really become a go to for Kids Ministry content. Just several years later, we’ve produced over 200 lyric videos, hundreds of promotional graphics and other...

This week, we welcome the guys behind the giving app Tithe.ly – Dean Sweetman and Frank Barry. I’ll be talking with these guys today about Event Registration and Service Planning Solutions. So, we know that a Worship Experience doesn’t just happen on Sundays. You have big, huge events as well – you’re doing conferences, camps, men’s and women’s retreats and more. You need a solution fo...

his week on the show, we conclude our chat with Phil Bowdle. Phil and Carl chat about the changes in communication we’ve had in the church the last few years. We finish walking through Phil’s new book Rethink Communication . Phil is the Creative Arts Pastor at West Ridge Church in Atlanta. He is passionate about creating high impact experiences that lead people to Jesus Christ. He ministers to chu...