The Making Sunday Happen Podcast

On today’s episode of the show, we welcome our friend Tom Bump. Tom is the founder of Restoring Leaders.  He is also the author of the new book Valleys over Mountains - a book you should have in your personal library. Its a book about overcoming the valleys in ministry and how to get through the hard seasons.  And we always say if you haven’t gone through a tough season or bumps along th...

On today’s episode of the show, we welcome William Vanderbloemen.  William has been able to combine over 15 years of ministry experience as a Senior Pastor with the best practices of Executive Search to provide churches with a unique offering: a deep understanding of local church work with the very best knowledge and practices of professional executive search. Prior to his founding The Vander...

On today’s episode of the show, we welcome Nic McElveen. Nic is the Product Owner of Video and SFX at Soundstripe. We talked to Nic about how to create video and other media projects using stock video, music and sound effects. Nic has a background in ministry and is really able to speak to how to use stock elements and it can help you make Sunday Happen. SHOW NOTES

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022! We made it!! On this week’s episode of the show, we welcome a good friend, John Shelton. John served on staff with our host, Carl, at Newspring Church where they had a lot of fun together. They have both since moved on to new adventures. Carl started 12:30 Media in 2015 and John left to serve as a Chaplain and as a minister to pastors - a shepherd to shepherds.&nbs...

Welcome to the show. We hope you are having a very Merry Christmas. Another light episode this week - a family episode as we welcome a small group of team members from our 12:30 team. We’re going to chat about what we have seen in the Church this past year, some trends we think might continue into next year and more. This is just a few of the members of our incredible team at 12:30. We are buildin...

Welcome to the show.  Lighter episode this week as we head into Christmas. You might be catching this episode as you are driving to or from a visit with your family, so we hope you survived or hope you can make it out alive this week. Our host Carl was recently a guest on the Black Bar Podcast where he got to talk to Zach, Caleb and Nick from the Blackbar team all about Creating Media in a Cr...

In today’s episode of the show, we welcome a veteran in Worship Ministry. Dennis Worley from Brentwood Baptist will be joining us for a conversation. Dennis has been on staff at Brentwood nearly 30 years and has mentored dozens of young Worship Leaders. He is a powerhouse in the industry. You are in for a treat today. We’ll be talking through Worship Leading over the years and also hit heavily on...

On this episode of our podcast, we'll be sharing interviews that we conducted at the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s Onward Worship Leader Conference. We got to spend some time with Worship Leader and Songwriter Justin Tweito as well as Megan Holifield who is on staff at North Greenville University - she works in the Worship Ministry department at NGU and has a good pulse on where worship is,...

This episode of the show is brought to you by the Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Apologetics. And Lee Strobel is our guest today. Lee Strobel is an Athiest turned Christian. He is the former award winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune. He has written more than 40 books and sold over 14 million copies of those books. After investigating the evidence for Jesus for nearly two years, Lee...

We’re back in the studio this week after doing some shows on location at SALT21.  This week, we have a really awesome guest. Rob Mortensen will be joining us. Rob is the Production Pastor at Irvine South Campus of Saddleback Church. We talked with Dennis Choy from Saddleback a couple weeks ago, so we are getting the Saddleback treatment here on the podcast. Rob is a great guy. We talked with...

This is our second week of  podcast episodes from SALT Conference 2021. If you are in Church Media and Production, Worship, Communications - if you are staff or volunteer, this is a great conference to come to, its one we don’t miss each year. Luke McElroy and his great team run the show there and they are good friends of 12:30media. We as a team really love about coming to these conferences...

This week and next week and next we’ll be bringing you podcast episodes from SALT Conference 2021. If you are in Church Media and Production, Worship, Communications - if you are staff or volunteer, this is a great conference to come to, its one we don’t miss each year. Luke McElroy and his great team run the show there and they are good friends of 12:30media. We as a team really love about coming...

Today we welcome back our guest our guest Paul Cox. Paul was on the show on last week's episode and we talked about how to build your church website in a week. We talked through a lot of tips and tricks when it comes to your website. And we received great insight from Paul and we would encourage you to check it out if you missed it. This week, Paul is going to be talking to us about Tips for Local...

Today we welcome Paul Cox on the show. Paul is the owner of the Church Co. He is a great guy.  He was on staff at Hillsong for a number of years. You’ll hear that story here. He leads a team that helps churches create affordable websites. Paul zoomed in from Australia and will be on they show this week and next.  This week we’re going to talk all about church websites. How you can get on...

On today’s episode, we're talking with a member of the 12:30 team - he also is the owner of ChurchVoiceover.com -- Joe Symanski. Joe is a voiceover artist. He has worked for some amazing ministry and corporate clients like Gateway Church, Life Church, Newspring Church, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and others. Him and his team have voiced dozens of our video projects for churches and ministries.  We'll...

On today’s episode, we will be sharing two more interviews that we did while we were at Experience Conference in Orlando recently. We'll be talking with Worship Leader Jason Brooks - Jason shares about how to raise up leaders in your Worship Choir.  And also we chatted with Ableton Master, Will Doggett. Will takes on a deep dive into Ableton, and specifically how and why to use Multi-Tracks a...

On this episode, we will be sharing two interviews that we conducted while we were at Experience Conference in Orlando. Which is a great Worship Leader Conference where we had a great time seeing you guys and meeting new friends.  We had the chance to talk with Aaron Stewart. Aaron is the Co-Founder of Planning Center. Aaron shared about how Planning Center started, how to utilize Planning Ce...

Today we are wrapping up our three part series of Backstage Interviews from NRB 2021. We recorded these interviews at the 2021 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Grapevine, TX at the Gaylord Texan. If you’ve never attended NRB, we’d love to encourage you go sometime.  If you’re a Christian Communicator of any kind, this is a great place to come, to network, to be a part of. If you’...

Welcome friends, we are taking the next few weeks to share some episodes we recorded from the 2021 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Grapevine, TX at the Gaylord Texan. If you missed our NRB interviews last week, feel free to check those out at twelvethirty.media/315 And if you’ve never attended NRB, we’d love to encourage you come sometime.  If you’re a Christian Communicato...

This episode of the podcast comes to you from the 2021 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Grapevine, TX at the Gaylord Texan. If you’ve never been to NRB, we’d encourage you to check it out. If you’re a Christian Communicator of any kind, this is a great place to come, to network, to be a part of. If you’re a Pastor, Church Media Staff or Volunteer, if you have any broadcast ministry on...

On Today’s Show, it’s a family episode as we welcome Grant Murphy from our 12:30 Team. Grant is one of our Video Producers and has produced literally hundreds of videos for our Worship Media library and Custom clients. Today we’re going to be talking all about Talking Head and Testimony Videos. We’re going to walk through some very basic as well as advanced tips and tricks for shooting those types...

Nikki has a strong passion for the church. And specifically has a desire to see unification in the church through worship.  Her heart for people will encourage you today and come across through this conversation.  She will also be at SALT 2021 pre-conference workshops talking about all things worship. SHOW NOTES

On this episode we are talking lighting and LED walls today with Justin Firesheets and Adam Hobson. They serve in the production realm at the Church of the Highlands. Enjoy this conversation which will be both technical but easy to understand about how to set up and use LED walls in effective and creative ways. Seeing the wall almost as a canvas and set design tool, not just a playback screen for...

This month on the podcast we are playing some sessions from SALT 2020. We had an inspiring time hearing from Carey Nieuwhof and Gabe Lyons last week  This episode we are hearing from worship leader, singer and song writer,  Kierre Lindsay.  He will talk about developing a culture on a worship team. How to create a team, instruct them, and how to develop that team. Truthfully though,...

This week’s episode of the show is going to be very unique. We are going to share a main session from SALT 2020 with you today. We’ll welcome Carey Nieuwhof - founding pastor of Connexus Church, Author, Podcaster, Speaker and Gabe Lyons - Gabe is the founder of Q - which educates and mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society. He is the author of multiple books, served on the team...