Workshop Track
Production
Flawless Execution: Mastering Church Production
Enhance your church’s worship experience with expert guidance from our Production track. Learn practical techniques for audio, video, and lighting management to create distraction-free services that engage your congregation. Discover tips for seamless event execution, troubleshooting technical issues, and optimizing your church’s production setup. This track is designed to help you improve sound quality, visual presentation, and lighting design to create meaningful worship experiences.
Audio, Video & Lighting Best Practices
Learn from experts how to optimize your church’s sound, visuals, and lighting for impactful worship services.
Seamless Event Execution
Gain strategies to run services smoothly, troubleshoot issues, and maintain a distraction-free environment.
Enhancing Congregational Engagement
Use production techniques to create immersive worship experiences that deepen engagement.
WORKSHOPS
Stewardship with Production
Andy Rushing
This engaging workshop explores the principles of stewardship within church production, emphasizing responsible management of both finances and team relationships. You will gain practical insights into budgeting, resource allocation, and empowering team members to foster a healthy, thriving production environment.
Key Takeaways:
– You will gain practical skills in budgeting, allocating resources wisely, and making financially responsible production decisions.
– You will learn techniques for effectively managing, supporting, and empowering production teams, ensuring their growth and well-being.
– You will gain understanding of how to blend financial accountability with relational care to create a sustainable and thriving production culture.
– You will be equipped with tools for confidently navigating production challenges by aligning resources, finances, and team strengths with the church’s mission and vision.
With over 18 years of experience in lighting, stage design, and production, Andy Rushing has built a distinguished career shaping compelling visual experiences. After touring as a lighting and stage designer for 10 years, Andy Rushing transitioned to a leadership role at The Belonging Church, where he has been a dedicated team member for 8 years. For the past 5 years, he has excelled as the Production Director, overseeing innovative production strategies and fostering creative excellence. Known for their expertise in live event production and meticulous attention to detail, Andy Rushing continues to influence and elevate the standards of stagecraft and production management.
5 Systems Broadcast Teams and Film Crews Should Be Sharing
Mitchell Neth
Details Coming Soon.
Mitchell is the leader of Broadcast Solutions at Life.Church, casting vision and bringing solutions from camera to screen for two multicam broadcast locations, and all 45 Life.Church multisite locations across 12 states. Working previously in the world of live sports and entertainment, Mitchell has experience supporting broadcast systems that embrace growing trends that connect viewers to experiences, such as UHD system architecture, HDR/Live-Graded camera systems, hybrid cinematic camera systems for live, IP video transmission and production, and virtual production. He is passionate about evangelism and discipleship, and their practical crossover with production ministry in the local Church. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, loves pickleball, loves leading his middle school small group, and is a tea enthusiast.
Creating Dynamic Lighting Designs
Spencer Ansell
In this class, you will discover the importance of different song maps and how they can impact your program. We will talk about how dynamic lighting doesn’t just matter in a song, but also throughout your set. Finally, we will discuss the difference between a high moment and a big moment and realizing that sometimes being simple means more.
Key Takeaways:
1. Discovering song maps
2. Keeping your set dynamic as well as your songs
3. The difference between a high moment and a big moment
I am the Lighting lead at Community Bible Church (CBC). I started there in November 2023 coming from Liberty University has an LD and LED wall technician/operator.
I began my journey in production at church in 2014 helping out with audio and video. In 2016 when I discovered the small amount of lighting that my church had and I soon became the lighting guy there. In 2018 I became a student worker on the Event Production team at Liberty, where I continued to grow my production knowledge and learned a lot about the industry. In 2020 I became full-time at Liberty, where I started to hone my skills in lighting and soon after LED wall operations. I continue to grow my skills by freelancing and training up our volunteers.
Church Lighting for the Cinematic Broadcast
Ryan Longson
Creating a great broadcast look takes intentional lighting choices that serve the camera first. In this breakout, you’ll explore how to achieve consistent, cinematic results by balancing light levels, shaping key and fill, and designing through the lens. We’ll also talk on how cinematic tools and live color workflows can simplify your process and elevate the final image.
Key Takeaways:
1. Learn how to light with the camera in mind, ensuring your stage translates clearly and professionally on screen.
2. Discover how lighting levels and color choices can dramatically improve your broadcast quality.
3. Gain practical strategies for shaping light that reduce the need for traditional camera shading tools.
Ryan Longson currently serves as the Lighting Director at Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. Prior to this role, he was part of the show creation team at Cirque du Soleil and has worked in a variety of lighting roles for churches and live events across the country.
Directing with Purpose, Not Panic
Sam Roberts
For the leaders who feel the weight of creating powerful moments on screen. For the directors who want to move beyond switching cameras and start shaping an experience that connects with people. For the teams who long for clarity, calm, and vision in the control room… this workshop is for you. Together we’ll explore how live video directing is less about buttons and gear, and more about leadership, communication, and telling a story that moves hearts.
Key Takeaways:
1. Learn how to direct with purpose by focusing on story, not just shots.
2. Discover leadership practices that build trust and clarity within your video team.
3. Gain strategies for staying calm and leading with confidence when the pressure is high.
Sam Roberts is a creative consultant and video director who thrives in high-pressure, live environments. Starting his career in television, he worked on shows like the CMA Awards and Good Morning America, learning to think fast, lead teams, and tell stories that connect. For the past decade, he’s brought that same energy and expertise to corporate and faith-based events, helping teams create unforgettable experiences—both virtual and in-person. Sam combines technical know-how with a passion for guiding people, empowering leaders to craft moments that truly matter.
Contextual EQ and Spatial Awareness
Jeremy VanValkenburg
This transformative session reveals how genuine worship while mixing creates sonic environments where authentic encounters with God flourish, moving beyond mere technical proficiency to make every EQ adjustment and fader movement an act of worship itself. You’ll master the art of adaptive mixing—learning how to serve both the physical space and the spiritual moment, from understanding how a packed sanctuary transforms your acoustic landscape to managing reflections and bass response as your room comes alive with worshippers. Through the lens of servant leadership, you’ll discover how to mix not to showcase your skills, but to create invisible support that elevates others and serves your church’s vision, knowing when to enhance a spontaneous worship breakthrough or step back to let the Spirit lead. With additional insights covering three more essential aspects of worship mixing, you’ll leave equipped to create sonic spaces where your congregation feels the difference in every note, every transition, and every sacred pause you craft for them.
Key Takeaways:
– Worship Through Mixing – Approach every EQ and fader move as an act of worship.
– Adapt to the Moment – Adjust to room acoustics and respond to live dynamics in real time.
– Lead by Serving – Mix in a way that elevates others and supports your church’s vision.
– Create Sacred Space – Shape sound that fosters genuine encounters with God.
Jeremy Van Valkenburg is dedicated to using dynamic, gospel-centered, and Spirit-filled live experiences to guide individuals in finding and following Jesus. As an innovator striving for excellence, Jeremy fosters healthy relationships with family, friends, and colleagues. With Christ at the center of everything he does, he serves as a resource to both the Church and the world, playing a vital role in carrying out the Great Commission.
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