Churchfront Podcast

About This Week's Guest Tyler Kerpsack is a front of house engineer who has been mixing since 2006, from church rooms to arena tours. He co-founded the creative agency Actify, consults and trains church production teams with Blackbox, shares weekly mixing tips with tens of thousands of engineers online, and is an Emmy nominee. Jake sits down with Tyler in the Churchfront studio to talk about where...

About This Week's Guest Chris Kuti has spent 20 years leading creative teams, from worship and production teams to songwriting and communications teams, in settings from living rooms to arenas and from church plants to multisite churches. In this keynote from Churchfront Conference 2025, Chris tells the story of a rehearsal that sounded perfect and felt empty, and what it taught him about leading...

"Go get us three quotes" sounds like a responsible first step when a church is planning a sound, lighting or video upgrade. In this episode, Jake Gosselin and Luke Jackson explain why it so often sends a project sideways before it starts, and who really needs to be in the room. They talk through why a church AV system is a specialized construction project and not a commodity, why the companies you...

At the closing session of Churchfront Conference 2025, the Churchfront team sat down on stage at Rock Harbor Church and read real comments from our YouTube channel. Do churches care more about lights than the gospel? Why does it have to be so loud? Why is all this necessary? Sean Bennett moderates, and Jake Gosselin, Matt Woltjer, Luke Jackson, Spencer Trefzger and Adam Beranek answer with their p...

About This Week's Guest Chris Kuti has spent 20 years leading creative teams, from worship and production teams to songwriting and communications teams, in settings from living rooms to arenas and from church plants to multisite churches. In this keynote from Churchfront Conference 2025, Chris tells the story of a rehearsal that sounded perfect and felt empty, and what it taught him about leading...

"Go get us three quotes" sounds like a responsible first step when a church is planning a sound, lighting or video upgrade. In this episode, Jake Gosselin and Luke Jackson explain why it so often sends a project sideways before it starts, and who really needs to be in the room. They talk through why a church AV system is a specialized construction project and not a commodity, why the companies you...

At the closing session of Churchfront Conference 2025, the Churchfront team sat down on stage at Rock Harbor Church and read real comments from our YouTube channel. Do churches care more about lights than the gospel? Why does it have to be so loud? Why is all this necessary? Sean Bennett moderates, and Jake Gosselin, Matt Woltjer, Luke Jackson, Spencer Trefzger and Adam Beranek answer with their p...

Work with us on your next AV project: https://churchfront.com/ AI tools for church ministry, from the team that uses them every day. Churchfront is an AV integration company, and in 2026 we became an AI company too. Jake Gosselin and Luke Jackson walk through how Claude now runs our email, calendar, files and projects, and what the same tools could do for a worship and production team. You will he...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok In this episode, Sean Bennett and Luke Jackson unpack one of the most common sources of conflict in church worship: confusing personal preference, ministry philosophy, and biblical theology. When those categories collapse into one...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok About This Week's Guest Colby Griner serves at Compassion Christian Church in Savannah, Georgia, where he oversees broadcast video at the main campus and supports production across multiple campuses. His background includes leadin...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok A great sound system, lighting rig, or LED wall can still fall short if nobody knows how to operate, maintain, and adapt it after installation. In this episode, Jake and Luke unpack one of the biggest things church leaders miss in...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok About This Week's Guest Danielle Iselin serves at VIVE Church in Mountain View, California, helping lead production across a global church with 15 campuses. Her background in church production started at a young age, and her leade...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok In this episode, Jake Gosselin and Luke Jackson talk through one of the most common ways churches waste money on AV: starting with a budget number before defining the actual ministry needs, space requirements, and system design. T...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok About This Week's Guest Stephen "Shep" Sheppard is a church production and broadcast leader with experience serving at Elevation Church, launching church campuses, supporting multi-site production teams, and helping churches impro...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok About This Week's Guest This episode features Frank and Wade from Pro Church Lights, teaching from the Churchfront Conference in Melbourne Beach, Florida. They help churches build practical, volunteer-friendly lighting systems tha...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok In this episode, Jake Gosselin and Luke Jackson unpack why Churchfront does not start AVL projects by handing churches a quick bid or quote. They explain the difference between an estimate, bid, quote, proposal, and RFP, and why a...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok About This Week's Guest Nathan Finocchio is a speaker, teacher, and longtime worship leader who brings a sharp, theological perspective to conversations about worship, church leadership, and the role of the Holy Spirit in the gath...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok Why Is Church AV So Expensive? In this episode, Jake Gosselin and Luke Jackson break down why professional church AVL projects cost more than many churches expect. They explain the hidden work behind a reliable system, including e...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok About Reggi Beasley Reggi Beasley is a worship leader and ministry builder who helps churches build healthy, thriving worship teams. In this Churchfront Conference keynote, he brings a pastoral word of encouragement for worship, p...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok Former Elevation Broadcast Engineer on Building a Healthier Church Production Team About This Week's Guest: Stephen "Shep" Sheppard is a church production leader, content creator, and freelance broadcast/production specialist who...

Work with us on your next AV project Get training for production leaders and volunteers Join us at the Churchfront Live Conference   Follow us! Instagram Facebook TikTok The Biggest AV Mistake Churches Make During Construction Projects In this episode, Jake and Sean explain why church AV should not be treated like gear you add at the end of a construction project. AV is a specialty construction tr...

Apply to Join Churchfront Premium Apply to Join Churchfront Pro Free Worship and Production Toolkit Shop Our Online Courses Join us at the Churchfront Conference Follow Churchfront on Instagram or TikTok: @churchfront Follow on Twitter: @realchurchfront Gear we use to make videos at Churchfront Musicbed SyncID: MB01VWQ69XRQNSN Spirit, Skills, and Systems: The Formula Behind a Thriving Worship Mini...

Apply to Join Churchfront Premium Apply to Join Churchfront Pro Free Worship and Production Toolkit Shop Our Online Courses Join us at the Churchfront Conference Follow Churchfront on Instagram or TikTok: @churchfront Follow on Twitter: @realchurchfront Gear we use to make videos at Churchfront Musicbed SyncID: MB01VWQ69XRQNSN Guest background: Ryan Visconti is the Lead Pastor of Generation Church...

Apply to Join Churchfront Premium Apply to Join Churchfront Pro Free Worship and Production Toolkit Shop Our Online Courses Join us at the Churchfront Conference Follow Churchfront on Instagram or TikTok: @churchfront Follow on Twitter: @realchurchfront Gear we use to make videos at Churchfront Musicbed SyncID: MB01VWQ69XRQNSN Churchfront Conference Workshop — Lee Fields | Building Volunteer Mixin...

Apply to Join Churchfront Premium Apply to Join Churchfront Pro Free Worship and Production Toolkit Shop Our Online Courses Join us at the Churchfront Conference Follow Churchfront on Instagram or TikTok: @churchfront Follow on Twitter: @realchurchfront Gear we use to make videos at Churchfront Musicbed SyncID: MB01VWQ69XRQNSN Guest background: Josh Kelsey is the Lead Pastor of Vineyard Church in...