The Making Sunday Happen Podcast

Today on the podcast, we’ll wrap our conversation with Brad Zimmerman. Brad is the Creative Director at Watermark Church in Grand Haven, Michigan. You also might know Brad as the ProPresenter Tutorial guy. He has done a lot of training videos for Renewed Vision and other things. We’ll dive in mid-conversation with Brad talking about more innovative ways to take your Livestream up a notch. If you m...

Today on the show, we welcome Brad Zimmerman. Brad is the Creative Director at Watermark Church in Grand Haven, Michigan. We’re going to be talking about some innovative ways to Master your Livestream or to take your Livestream to another level. We’re all now doing a Livestream or Online Church (if you’re not, you’re behind). If you are, its really time to look at how to enhance it if you haven’t....

Today on the show, we welcome Grant Norsworthy. Grant is a Worship Leader, musician, and Christian Music Artist currently living in New Zealand. Grant was a member of the Paul Colman Trio years ago and also served in the band Sonicflood. Today he is a Worship Leader that has a heart to serve and coach others. He travels the world speaking and coaching worship leaders, bands and musicians through M...

This week, we welcome our friends Brian Blackmore and Eric Bramlett to a bonus episode of the show. Brian is the head of Church Production Magazine which has fantastic articles and resources available to church tech and production folks. Eric is the Creative Arts Lead at Community Christian Church in Illinois and will be a speaker at the Capture Summit  August 3-4 in Raleigh, NC. This is a co...

Well we are continuing this week with the Making Sunday Happen podcast filmed on location from FILO 2021 Conference in Chicago. FILO (First In, Last Out) is a ministry for Church Tech Artists who serve the church. Our Twelve:Thirty Media team was blessed to attend and participate in the conference this year. During our time there we interviewed several folks from the conference and so we are conti...

This week on the Making Sunday Happen podcast we have some special interviews filmed on location from FILO 2021 in Chicago. FILO (First In, Last Out) is a great conference for Church Tech Artists who serve the church. Our Twelve:Thirty Media team was blessed to attend and participate in the conference this year. We even had the privilege of interviewing several folks from the conference and we wil...

This episode we are going to continue our chat with Michael Lukaszewski from Church Fuel on barriers to church growth that face pastors today. Michael brings some great insight on the topic and we are excited to see how it can encourage you as you seek to Make Sunday Happen. SHOW NOTES

On todays episode we welcome our friend Michael Lukasewski from Church Fuel to talk about some barriers to church growth that face pastors today. When we talk about Making Sunday Happen, and how we want to see growth at our church. Michael brings some great insight on the topic. We will have Michael on this week and next week to talk about Church Growth Barriers pastors face. SHOW NOTES

This week, more content from the Be Church Conference.  We are sharing an interview with two Senior Pastors in the Southeast - Allen Holmes, Lead Pastor at Definition Church - who will share some incredible stats about you - pastors and church staff members. The stats Allen shares are pretty alarming. And in the podcast today, you’ll hear from pastor Shannon O’Dell - Lead Pastor of Brand New...

In Episode 301 our host Carl Barnhill had the privilege of chatting with a few of the speakers of the Be Church Conference. We’re going to share those interviews with you this week and next week on the show. This week, we check out the interview with the Senior Pastor of Abba’s House in Chattanooga, TN - our friend Ronnie Phillips, Jr. Also in this episode, you’ll hear from the author of the Five...

Welcome to Making Sunday Happen. This is Episode 300 of our podcast. It has been an incredible journey over the last 5 years to bring this podcast to you all. And we are just getting started. This week, we welcome musician and Worship Leader Phil Joel. You might know Phil as the bassist for the Newsboys or as the Lead Singer for the band Zealand. Phil is a veteran in the Christian music industry....

In today’s episode of the show, you’re going to hear from the Top 3 Leaders of the Staff of the NRB. CEO Troy Miller, Communications Director Dan Darling, and Director of Convention and Expo Beth Wakefield. We talked with these guys about how NRB is leading the way in Equipping broadcasters in the areas of digital, radio, TV, podcasting and more - NRB is an incredible Advocacy group - protecting o...

This week on the podcast, we will wrap up our conversation with our friend Paul Wingfield. Paul is the Senior Pastor at White Flag Christian Church in St. Louis. We are jumping right back into part two of our conversation. SHOW NOTES

This week on the podcast, we welcome our friend Paul Wingfield. Paul is the Senior Pastor at White Flag Christian Church in St. Louis. Paul took a 3 month sabbatical last year during the craziness and came back fired up. He did a sermon series when he came back called You Deserve to Know, where he laid out where his church and their leadership stood on cultural issues of the day. Those sermons alo...

This week on the podcast, we welcome Justin Nava from Mr. Church Marketer. Justin has some fantastic ideas when it comes to Church Websites, Social Media, Church Apps, some tips for working with an Agency and more. SHOW NOTES

We are really excited about this week’s episode of our show as we welcome Joanna La Fleur. Joanna is an author, a blogger, a communications consultant, a tv host, she does it all. This week we are going to chat with Joanna about your church website from the eyes of a First Time Visitor. What are things that you need to make sure you focus on when it comes to visitors to your site. SHOW NOTES

If you missed last week’s episode of the show, we started a two part series with the Founder of FILO - Todd Elliott. You have full permission to stop this episode and go back and listen to PART ONE of this conversation with Todd to catch up. We started a great discussion all about Church Tech Arts. Todd and Carl have served at large churches in the United States, and both have come from small chur...

Today, we're talking with the founder of FILO, Todd Elliott. FILO stands for First In, Last Out and is an organization created for staff and volunteers in the tech and communications space. There are training renounces on their website and a Conference coming up in May of 2021. We’ll be chatting about Todd’s book I Love Jesus But I Hate Christmas - Tackling the Challenges of Being a Church Te...

This Week on the show we welcome our good friend Matt McMorris. Matt is a church planter and the Lead Pastor of Grace Valley Church in Wisconsin. We’re going to talk about how to lead church plants and smaller churches. We are going to do a case study of Grace Valley - which runs about 30 members or so on a Sunday and growing. We'll answer questions like How does a church of 30 do it? What are som...

This week on the show, we are talking with Nathan Spicer from CV Global on the topic of Hope through Digital Media. CV serves thousands of churches around the world with resources for pastors, church planters and leaders. We’ll talk about the shift in churches and how the churches they are serving are using digital media to reach people with the Gospel. We are excited for this interview with Natha...

This week on the show, we'll be talking with Alex Sawyer. Alex is a tech director at a church and also runs The Production Pastor dot com - a great resource for you to gain some knowledge on church media - audio, lighting, video and more.  Alex and I will be chatting today about Tips for Video Directors. So if you have IMAG - Image Magnification at your church - which is technical lingo for C...

This week on the show, we are talking with our friend Justin Kennedy. Justin is the Head of the Faith Division at Vimeo. We'll be talking to Justin about how to use Vimeo for your Livestream at your church and what they are learning as they help thousands of churches around the world navigate the time we’re in. SHOW NOTES

Family Episode this week as I welcome my buddy Daniel Stevanus, Stal as we call him. Stal handles all of our blog, podcast and social media here at our ministry. He also serves as a Student Pastor at a large methodist church in our community. I’ll be talking with Stal about how to Take a Sabbath when you work on Sundays. If we burn out, there is no way we can minister to those in our care - we’ve...

If you missed last week’s episode of the show, we started a chat with Jason Moore and Ros Picardo - authors of the book From Franchise to Local Dive - How to Multiply your Church.  The premise of the book is to not be a cookie cutter church - to really understand your community and create a fresh expression that can resonant with the community you’re trying to reach.  This week we’ll get...

Today on the show we welcome Jason Moore and Rosario Picardo - authors of the book From Franchise to Local Dive - How to Multiply your Church. They wrote this book and released it early last year and we were going to have them on but then the pandemic hit and we moved some things around. We did have Jason on and that was episode 243 if you want to take a dive in the archives. But we thought we wou...