Episodes

From the outside looking in, it seems like Church on the Move has unlimited funds to do whatever they want. In this conversation with Andrew Stone, we look at how to work with limited resources.

If you've been to the FILO Conference, you know Todd's guest Dave Hunter as the MC of FILO and the leader of Green Room Improv, who performed at FILO in 2016. Dave and Todd talk about all kinds of things, some interesting and some not so interesting, but mainly about storytelling through the medium of video. Dave shares some of the values he follows as he tries to tell the most effective story possible.

On this episode, Todd sits down with Sara Emmerson, the Creative Pastor at Soul City Church in Chicago, to talk about pretty much everything. Soul City Church just finished a new 800 seat auditorium, so Sara and Todd talked about the challenges and excitement that comes from leading a team into that new space, collaborating with senior pastors and creating a culture where there is freedom to fail. It's a good one!

On this episode, we get to talk to the MxU guys! Jeff Sandstrom, Lee Fields, and Andrew Stone talk about how MxU came about and we look ahead to all the ways they are investing in the local church technical arts community through MxU Live, MxU Coaching, and MxU Live.

Production in the local church lives in the tension between developing people & excellence. Our ministries run on the expertise and dedication of volunteers. Creating services with excellence requires a level of consistency that can make leveraging volunteers difficult. Is there a way to develop new people without having to sacrifice quality? In this episode of the FILO Podcast, Todd sits down with Jeff Boriss, the Creative Arts Champion at Community Christian Church, to talk about how he balanc...

Balancing work with the rest of your life can sometimes feel impossible. In this episode, Todd sits down with Matt and Aubrey Wentz. Matt works on the systems team at Willow Creek and Aubrey is the executive producer for the Willow Creek Crystal Lake Campus (you also might know her as the co-host from the FILO Conferences). Needless to say, they live busy lives, so we talked about strategies that they have developed to get the most out of their work lives as well as their home lives with 2 small...

If lighting is done well, it helps to enhance a service. If it isn't, then chances are it is distracting people from worshiping. Todd talks with Alex Fuller the lighting designer from Bethel Church on how they go about programming lighting so it’s not distracting and invites people into an experience with God rather than just being a show.

FILO 2018 main session speaker Chris Brown, along with Dennis Choy, have a conversation about how senior pastors and technical directors can well work together. Kaleb Wilcox and Aubrey Wentz guest host the FILO Podcast that was recorded in front of a live audience at FILO 2018.

The FILO Podcast went live this week! We took some time at FILO2018 to talk to people about their experience at the conference. Guest hosts Aubrey Wentz and Kaleb Wilcox talk with FILO attendees on the Amplio Lounge stage about their favorite things.

Nate Parker, Technical Producer for the FILO2018 main sessions joins Todd to talk about FILO prep why he loves serving the FILO community.

Todd talks with Rusty Anderson from Passion City Church about live video and making sure that it is not distracting but instead invites people into an experience with God, rather than a show.

Kaleb Wilcox, the executive producer for the weekend service at Willow Creek's North Shore campus talks with Todd about their relatively new building project and the challenges that went along with it.

Easter is coming up pretty quick. For most of us, it is the event that tends to sneak up on you if you aren't careful! In this episode, Todd talks with Chris Thomas, the Technical Arts Director at Cherry Hills Church about how they have been preparing for Easter this year. There are some great leadership lessons in this one! (and some random thoughts on Easter candy)

Dennis Choy is responsible for many production teams across many venues and several campuses at North Coast Church. Todd and Dennis have a great conversation about what success looks like when you've got people of different abilities scattered all over the place. With so many opportunities for things to go wrong, they talk about doing the best with what you have.

Andrew Starke, the audio director at North Point Community Church, talks with Todd about the journey many of us take to becoming a fully developed tech person. We hear Andrew's own story and his learnings about being defined by more than just the task you are doing for church. We all need to realize that we are more than our last service and that we are more than just a great mix or an amazingly edited video.

Todd talks with Stef Cassetto, the weekend producer at Saddleback Church, about the reality of working through competing values to accomplish a weekend service. What's best for the creative team, isn't always best for the production team, and vice versa. Now add what the pastor needs...and then there's the question of what's best for our church.

As technical artists in the local church, we all have to figure out the relationship with our team and the team on the stage...the band. Todd talks with Delwin Eiland, a worship leader at Willow Creek, about ways to develop this relationship so that our services can be the best possible.

Where did FILO come from? Listen. You'll find out.