The Making Sunday Happen Podcast

Today, we welcome Drake De-Long Farmer from Gateway Alliance Church in Canada. Drake is a great guy and we’re going to be chatting about side hustles – hobbies or jobs outside of your ministry position, millennials – which is a big buzz topic in church culture right?. We’ll also talk to Drake about building a great team. thechurchmediapodcast.com/119

Alright, this week Carl’s going to share with you 5 Ways to Develop Young Leaders on your team. We’ve gotten some great feedback from you guys that you want to hear more from me and how he’s led volunteer teams in the past. We’ve listened, and we’ll have more interviews coming your way – but this week, Carl will be sharing with you some things he’s learned along the way and...

This week, we welcome Sly King from The Worship Center in Birmingham. Sly is the Marketing and Social Media Consultant and Online Campus Coordinator for the church. He leads a volunteer team that’s sole job is to create and maintain an amazing online worship experience. Sly is going to share all about how they create their online campus. thechurchmediapodcast.com/117

On this week’s show, we’re going to dive right into part two of Carl’s interview with Justin Firesheets from Church of the Highlands. They discuss how tech guys can be more intentional about the ministry side of their position and more. thechurchmediapodcast.com/116

Justin Firesheets from Church of the Highlands joins us this week on the show. Justin shares the passion that pastoring your people should be your first priority when it comes to your team. He discusses some ways you can prevent being a one-man show at your church and raise up leaders that will help you accomplish more ministry. thechurchmediapodcast.com/115

On this week’s show Carl welcomes back Kenny Jahng from Church Butler. They’re going to be talking more about Church Communications and how you can leverage your social media platforms to bring attention to your Worship Experiences. thechurchmediapodcast.com/114

Carl and Kenny Jahng talk about communications and how you can leverage your social media platforms to bring attention to your Worship Experiences. They also discuss social media engagement, building your email list, your email subject line, predictions for social media platforms and more. thechurchmediapodcast.com/113

There are times when volunteers leave your ministry for good reasons. There are times where volunteers need to be moved to another ministry or asked not to serve on your team. That happens. But as far as it depends on us as leaders, we need to make every effort possible to keep and retain the volunteers we have. In this episode, Carl gives some reminders for all of us that if we take action on, we...

This episode will be completely focused on helping you build and create a solid, thriving, excellent Volunteer Team. Carl will be sharing excerpts from his e-book The Ultimate Production Team Handbook which is packed with tons of training guides, checklists, scheduling tools, org charts and more. All to help you build an incredible volunteer culture at your church. And he’ll be giving you a coupon...

This week is part two of Carl’s exclusive interview with author, speaker, professor David Olshine. David is a Professor of Youth Ministry, Family and Culture at Columbia International University in Columbia, SC. If you missed last week episode where we began our discussion on Soul Care, go back and listen to it – all show notes and archive episodes are at thechurchmediapodcast.com .

This week Carl welcomes David Olshine – he is a Professor of Youth Ministry, Family and Culture at Columbia International University in Columbia, SC. He gives some real practical ways you can take care of yourself so you don’t fry to a crisp. thechurchmediapodcast.com/109

Dan is the founder of churchhacks.com  among other companies that help churches across the country. Today on the show Dan and Carl will be continuing our discussion on Facebook Live and broadcasting your service. thechurchmediapodcast.com/108

Welcome back Daniel Irmler to the show. Dan is the founder of churchhacks.com among other companies that help churches across the country. His company hosts hundreds of church websites and his insight is very practical for your web presence at your church. Today on the show Dan and Carl will be diving into Facebook Live and broadcasting your service. thechurchmediapodcast.com/107

Carl welcomes back Jonathan Drake. They talk about shooting B-Roll at your church. Jonathan is a member of our production team. He and several other videographers shoot all of our Video Announcements for churches across the country. He is a fantastic shooter, editor, designer, and producer. thechurchmediapodcast.com/106

Welcome back Jonathan Drake for this week’s church media podcast. He is an incredible shooter, editor, designer, and producer. He leads a team that shoots all of our Video Announcements and through his own production company JDrake Productions has produced an incredible list video and graphic design projects.  Jonathan and Carl are going to continue their discussion on how to shoot your own...

This week we welcome a member of our production team on the show. Jonathan Drake shoots all of our Video Announcements and through his own production company JDrake Productions has produced an incredible list video and graphic design projects. An incredible shooter, editor, designer, producer – Jonathan and Carl are going to give you 5 tips for shooting your own video announcements at your c...

This week we welcome back Katie Allred. Katie is the Web Content Manager at Brentwood Baptist Church. She handles all social media and web content for the church and heads up the Church Communications Facebook Group. And speaking of that group – if you are in communications in any way at your church – social media, web, promotions, project management – this is a great group for y...

On the show today, Carl is talking with Church Communications guru Katie Allred. Katie is the Web Content Manager at Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood, TN. She’ll be here this week and next week as they discuss ways you can improve your communications, web, and social media. churchmediapodcast.com/102

This week Carl is talking with two incredible church media guys who have tried their hand at directing and producing feature films. Dallas Jenkins is on staff at Harvest Bible Church in Chicago. You may have seen one of his films – Midnight Clear starring Stephen Baldwin, What If with Kevin Sorbo, the short film The Ride or his latest project The Resurrection of Gavin Stone. Also, later in t...

It has been 100 episodes. Amazing! We are going to take a big trip down memory lane this week, so hang tight! There are some very special guests later in the show as well – Carl welcomes Kevin and Sam Sorbo to the podcast for the first time. Carl served with them at a conference in Orlando earlier this year. They’ll talk about their take on faith in Hollywood, “Faith-based” films, politics a...

Welcome David Leuschner back for part two of Carl’s interview with him on how to lead hundreds of volunteers. He currently leads a team of over 500 volunteers every week. David knows his stuff, he is not one you’ll hear from that claims to know about ministry and never served on a church staff – he has years of experience with the good and the bad and knows what it takes to grow a huge...

David Leuschner from Gateway Church in TX helps churches realize their true potential of fulfilling the Digital Great Commission through the use of Technology. His website is audiovideolighting.com – be sure to check that out. David has been leading volunteer teams for years. He currently leads a team of over 500 volunteers every week. A massive task and today he’s going to share how t...

Welcome back Daniel Irmler to the show. Dan runs churchhacks.com . His company hosts hundreds of church websites and his insight is very practical for your web presence at your church. Dan and Carl will be continuing their discussion about how to take your website to the next level. twelvethirtymedia.com/097

This week and next week’s episode we welcome Daniel Irmler to the show. Dan runs churchhacks.com  and is no stranger to ministry. Dan and Carl Barnhill will be talking about how to take your website to the next level.  twelvethirtymedia.com/096

This week on the show, Carl Barnhill is going to talk about how to create an exciting volunteer atmosphere. He’ll walk you through 5 things that he has implemented with the teams he has served, and it’s made a massive difference in the culture. twelvethirtymedia.com/095