The ChurchGear Podcast
By Toby Walters [Church Tech Advocate]
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Are you a church tech director? If so, this podcast exists to serve you specifically. Each week we pull the tech director out of the booth and place them onto the stage to share their most outlandish stories and hidden wisdom from the tech trenches. Hosted by Toby Walters and Blake Hodges.
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Executive Pastor & Tech Series: Getting Approvals [Southeast Church Pt3]
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Executive Pastor & Tech Series: Budget [Covenant Church Pt2]
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Executive Pastor & Tech Series: Trust [Crossroads Church Pt1]
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Live-streaming Expert! [Josh Nassar]
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Prioritizing The Right Parts [Lakepointe Church's Blaine Johnston]
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Avoiding Church Lighting Mistakes [Drew Middlebrooks]
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Calm Always [Vive Church's Danielle Iselin]
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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BK BEARD [Lakewood Church]
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Across the Pond Production [UK's Matt Sales]
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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The Touring Life with Nick DeLaCruz
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Integration's Importance & Volunteer Training [Mark Carlberg]
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Is Your PA Out of Tune? [Bethel Church's Chris Greely]
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Pastor. Integrator. Tech. [Ark Church's Chris Allgood]
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Hillsong Church's Reid Wall on Australian Churches
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Scuba Production & Multi Site Scaling [MOSAIC Pro Events's Brad McCraw]
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Integration Insights & Tech Horror Story [Terry Rhodes]
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May 26, 2025 |
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Super Bowl Production: Broadcasting [Brandon Broussard]
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May 19, 2025 |
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AI's Impact on Church Production [Gloo's Brad Hill]
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May 12, 2025 |
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Production For a 150 Year Old Church [Craig Rowley]
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May 05, 2025 |
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Immersive Audio: Help or Hype? [Caleb Loeppky]
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Find A Leader You Can Follow [MxU's Spencer De Young]
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Keep it Simple [ChurchFront's Jake Gosselin]
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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7 Wildest Moments in CG History [5 Yr Anniversary Celebration]
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Healthy, Responsible Teams [Elevation’s Jared Olson]
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Honoring Volunteers & the Sabbath [Ryan Wenzel CCV]
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Community Builds Production [Grove Church’s Christina Pendleton]
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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DiGiCo Download: Coming Gear & Best Soft Skills [Ryan Shelton]
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Is Live Streaming Essential for Church Services in 2025? [Tyler Kerpsack]
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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From Willow Creek to CCV: A Church Production Veteran’s Insights
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Don't Do Church Production Alone [FILO's Todd Elliott]
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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From Mixing to Marriage: A Church Production Love Story [Fellowship Church]
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Central Church's Production Approach [Ryan Fuller]
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Maximizing Gear, Not Budgets [Red Rocks Church's Chase Donald]
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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What Conferences Should You Consider in 2025? [Jerod Togger]
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Elevating Without Imitating [Elevation Church's Shep]
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Navigating Career Transitions in Church Production [Slingshot Group]
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Will AI Change Church Production? [Kenny Jahng]
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Church Techs Confess [2024 Recap, Reactions & Winners]
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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45 Years of Production Wisdom [Sweetwater's Kent Morris]
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Good & Bad Reasons to Change Jobs [Dennis Choy]
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Being the Church Post Hurricane Helene [Biltmore Church's Tyler Flores]
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Lee Fields on Church Hurt
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Preparing for Christmas [Mannahouse Church's Peter Zatsepin]
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Becoming a System Integrator on the Fly [Dream City Church's Eric Mooney]
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Battle Royale: Audio Consoles [Jeff Sandstrom & Drew Hester]
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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3 Months to Live Changes Your Mix [Armando Fullwood]
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Running FOH for Miranda Lambert [Todd Wines]
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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FOH For All the Legends [Doug Kimball]
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Unconventional Service Times [Christ's Church of the Valley's Blair Drake]
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Volume Complaints & Touring Stories [Newsboys's John O' Neal]
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Getting Volunteers Started Well [Willow Hodge of Hope Fellowship Church]
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Prioritizing Life Over Production [Dan McLaughlin]
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Excellence without Excess [The Church of Eleven 22's Andrew Hoffstatter]
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Best Takeaways [Pastors & Production Series Pt.6]
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Whit George & Johnathan Basquez of Church on the Move [Pastors & Production Series Pt.5]
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Henry Seeley & Andy Rushing Of Belonging Co [Pastor & Production Relationship Series Pt.4]
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Jack Graham & Bryan Bailey of Prestonwood [Pastor & Production Relationship Series Pt.3]
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Matt Chandler & Wes Ashworth of Village Church [Pastor & Production Relationship Series Pt.2]
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Darren Whitehead & Sarah Bible [Pastor & Production Relationship Series Pt.1]
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Church Production at Elevation [Andy Bentley]
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Weighing the Decision to Leave Ministry [Yoshi Haddad of Houston's First Baptist]
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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From Youth Minister to Production Director [Journey Church's Kyle Bowman]
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Mixing Red Rocks Church [Jesse O'Brien]
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Volunteer Recruiting & Training [1st Baptist Orlando's Bobby Falconnier]
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Production Promotions & EAW Line Arrays [Long Hollow's Tim Wagoner]
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Mixing for Hillsong & Live Album Recordings [James Hurley]
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Balancing Work & Drinks on Consoles [Summit Church's Conor Hale]
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Lighting Life Church [Live at FILO with Caleb Darago]
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May 27, 2024 |
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Stewarding Gear & Community [Live at FILO with Matt Kotthoff]
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May 20, 2024 |
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FILO After Party [Amplio Studios 2024]
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May 13, 2024 |
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Lighting that Welcomes Guests [Highlands's Griffin McCravy]
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May 06, 2024 |
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Speaking Pastorease [Cottonwood Creek's Will Chapman]
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Fall Out Boy’s FOH Engineer [Chad Olech]
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Harvest Crusades & Church Tech Confessional's Debut [Chris Eguizabal]
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Matching Budget to Vision [Northside Christian Church's Chris McDonald]
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Current State of Church Production [FILO's Todd Elliott]
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Teamwork Fuels Production [Southeast Christian Church’s Brad Bramer]
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Lighting for the Moment [Scotty McCreery's LD Alexander Lehman]
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Developing Your Church's System, Not Yours. [Houseright’s Luke Hesher]
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Production Phases & Dante's Inferno [Shaun Miller of Rolling Hills]
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Big Events, Bigger Impact [Jeff Sandstrom of MxU]
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Building Production Teams [Gateway Church's Brandon Conn]
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Touring Tips, Bad Rooms & Coffee Trivia [Gene Kim]
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Life Church's Warren Davis on Leading Church Production Teams
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Respect Unifies Worship & Production [Kari Jobe’s PM, Brenton Miles]
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Soapboxes & Hot Takes [Worship Sound Guy’s Johnny Ragin]
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Chris Tomlin, Passion, & Jay Desai vs Bus [Stephen Bailey]
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Leading a Legacy [Church on the Move’s Johnathan Basquez]
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Vetting An Integrator [Clint Aull]
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Wild Stories & Heart Felt Moments [2023 Wrap Up]
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Christmas Disaster Stories [Church Techs Call In]
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Before Camera & Action - Lights![Tony Fransen]
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Building The Vegas Sphere [LAWO's Tony Staires ]
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Prioritizing God, Family & Production Correctly [Crossroads Church’s Patrick Buescher]
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Live-Streaming at Bethel Church [Jesse Maitland]
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Video’s Impact on your Church [Ross Video’s Jeremy Bagwell]
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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From Transformation Church to Cross Point [Jeremy Van Valkenburg]
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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How Lighting Impacts your Church’s Experience [DC Pro Founder Daniel Connell]
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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How to Improve your Church’s Video Today [Drake Kelch]
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Should Churches Use In-Ears? [64 Audio's Eddie Cruz]
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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When do you get a new PA? [d&b’s Zach Brady]
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Community's Importance, Touring Life and Rock Lititz [Tone Stephens]
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Church Tech Pay Wrap up: Top Takeaways [Pay Series Pt.7 with Brian Dishon]
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Event Overload, Flex Days, & Calling [Pay Series Pt.6 with Slingshot's Caleb Loeppky]
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Competing Job Offers & Big Raise Year [Pay Series Pt.5 with Slingshot's Caleb Loeppky]
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Scott Ragsdale on Why TD’s Leave Church [Pay Series Pt.4]
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Exec Pastor's Ideal Church Tech Traits [Pay Series with Matt Wright PT.3]
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Salary TD Ranges, Benefits and Raise Tips [Pay Series with Tim Foot Pt2]
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Starting TD Salaries & Trends [Pay Series with Tim Foot Pt1]
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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MxU’s Jeff & Jay on Bad Rooms & Burgers
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Building Flatirons Production Team [Flatirons & Bayside's Tyler Kaneshiro]
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Toby Reveals All [ChurchGear’s History]
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Producing in the Largest Church in America [Lakewood w/ Matt Walden]
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Production is Creative [Willow Creek's Rebekah Wiedenfeld]
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Thomas Rhett’s LD & Pernelli Winner [Alec Takahashi]
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Church of the Highland’s Justin Firesheets on Leadership & Growth
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Pioneering and Perfecting Mixing at North Point [Freelancer David Stagl]
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Vision First, Gear Second [Nick Kofahl of Summit Integration]
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Shrimp Prank, Soundscape and Waves Plugin Hot Take [Daniel Ellis]
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Improving your Lighting via Relationships [Cherry Hill’s Chris Thomas]
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May 29, 2023 |
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Picking an LED Wall for your church [Davis Kornegay at FILO]
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May 22, 2023 |
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FILO Recap: Toby Stories, Blake Failures and A Big Betrayal
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May 15, 2023 |
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Hard Conversations with Yourself [Stephen Brewster]
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May 08, 2023 |
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Hard Conversations with your Worship Pastor [Chris McClarney & Josh Fisher]
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May 01, 2023 |
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Hard Conversations with your Spouse [Todd & Bissy Elliott]
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Mixing for Hillsong United & Mick Jagger Moments [James Rudder]
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Putting your Health First [Chad Vegas of Transformation Church]
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Can any room be fixed? [Luke Vogel of Venueflex]
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Mixing for Everyone Everywhere [Living Legend Harold Rubens]
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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From Drumming for Jesus Culture to FOH at Church of The City [Josh Fisher]
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Experiencing Klang, Innovating DiGiCo & Touring with Tomlin [Kyle McMahon]
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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How Red Rocks Raised the Bar, not the Budget [Mark Wray]
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Moving Churches, Building Leaders, & Dysfunctional Cultures [Slingshot Group's Tim Foot]
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Flying Drummer Boys & Constantly Improving your Skills [Prestonwood Baptist Church's Mike Smith]
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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From Volunteer to Global Production Director at Bayside Community Church [Chad Moore]
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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MicRental's Stephen Arruda on the Cost of Indecision & Mic'ing the NFL
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Routines and Tools to Build Volunteer Teams [Biltmore Church’s Ryan Robb]
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Building a Healthy Volunteer Culture [Jonathan Malm]
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Setting up Live Streaming, Surviving Sunday & Meeting Paul McCartney [Casas Church’s Tyler Moss]
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Finding Volunteers, Building Community & Boundary Setting with David Horning [Alaska Tech]
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Calling: Knowing Yours and Leading Volunteers to Theirs [East Lake Church’s Andy Call]
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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The Crew’s Wildest Stories from 2022 [End of Year Celebration]
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Finding the Next Generation of Church Techs [Christ in Youth's Kevin Behnke]
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Battling Assumptions and Setting Expectations with Jerod Togger [Tech Consultant]
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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North Point's Technical Director on Longevity in Tech [Brendon Petty]
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Gateway Church's Lighting Designer [Tim Logsdon]
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Jay Desai on Passion Church, De-escalating Conflicts and MxU
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Bayside Church to Audio Gun for Hire [Aaron Padilla]
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Mariners Church's Production Systems Manager [Evan Woertz]
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Video Directing for Passion Conference, Chris Tomlin and MxU [Rusty Anderson]
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Bayside’s Creative Director and Cargo Drop Founder [Dan Jarrett]
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Worship Leader Wife and Father in Law Pastor [Jeff Watkins]
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Helping Churches Upgrade their Production Gear [Drew Hester]
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Adam Taylor, Confessions & Relationships over Gear [Central Church in Vegas]
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Zach Kimrey on burnout and hard conversations [Elevation Church & Skylark Integration]
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Touring Life vs. Church Life & Hacking a bad room [Gene Kim]
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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WorshipLeaderProbs, Brian Tabor! [Isolation in Church Life]
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Sweet Pete! [Production Director at Sun Grove Church]
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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David Mendoza on being a young TD at a Megachurch [Mount Paran]
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Jeff Sandstrom [MxU Co-Founder]
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Scott Ragsdale mixing for Oprah, Beyonce, Joe Bonamassa, and Willow Creek [The Crossing Church]
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Cory Edwards on Elevation, Touring, and Eating Raw Liver [Studio Mixer]
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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From Lifelong Church Tech to Family Mentor [Wally Grant, Uganda]
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Leaving your Church so Well You Can Return [Prestonwood Baptist’s Bryan Bailey]
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Alex Fuller on Saying No Strategically [LD at Zion City Church]
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Dennis Choy on Building Church Tech Teams [Saddleback Church]
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Stephen Brewster on Creativity and Producing Elevation Worships records [Live @ FILO]
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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College for Church Techs with Ryan Loche [The Belonging Co]
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Church of the Highlands LD, Griffin McCravy [Live @ FILO]
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Kempers, Amps and Saving Historic Sounds [Tone Junkie’s HW]
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Jake Gosselin on Common Problems and Less Being More [ChurchFront]
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Garth Brooks’s Keyboard Player on Playing the Background [Blair Masters]
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May 30, 2022 |
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Mixing FOH for Crowder, Sunday Services and Murder Attempts by Speakers [Quinton Kelley]
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May 23, 2022 |
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Lee Fields on Hard Conversations, Learning New Gear and Cowboy Boots [MxU]
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May 16, 2022 |
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Broadcasting Well with King Williams (Broadcast Engineer for the Grand Ole Opry)
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May 09, 2022 |
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FILO's Todd Elliott on Valuing your Time and Trying New Things
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Maximizing Production Budgets with Alexa Ross [Fellowship Church Grapevine]
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Ministry Burnout, Hard Conversations & Powering Through [Christ Community’s Caleb Loeppky]
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Knowing When to Stay or Leave Ministry [Amplio’s Dillan Howell]
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Mixing under Pregnancy & Presidential Pressure (Bayside’s David Roediger)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Seeing the Light with Robby Kurtz
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Fixing your Gear Mid Show with Brian Boggs
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Quitting college to mix Michael W. Smith's Sessions [Rob Burrell]
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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FOH Engineer and Allen & Heath Install Empress [What can Samantha Potter not do?]
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Mixing for Joe Pesci with Ryan Sutton
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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A Lifetime of Church Tech with Brian Cigainero
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Lighting Keith Urban’s shows with Nathan Alves
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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The Church Tech Director’s Podcast [Who we are]
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Feb 16, 2022 |