Notes from the chair. Production craft, volunteer development, and the leadership that holds a broadcast department together.

Baptize the World gathered at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Pentecost Sunday with no baptismal tank in the room. The water was in Brazil, in Tajikistan, in 49 countries and all 50 states, and the job of everyone in D.C. was to carry it somewhere else. What that night says about production ministry is the same thing Acts 2 has been saying since the beginning.
Read articleBack in February, I ran camera on Turning Point USA's All-American Halftime Show. Kid Rock headlined, with Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. It shot out of a private venue in Atlanta and streamed live on Super Bowl Sunday, going out on YouTube and Rumble plus TBN, Daily Wire+, OAN and The National Desk.
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My experience in House of Worship has taught me something different. Structure is the vehicle for spontaneity. You cannot have momentum without structure. But structure, properly understood, does not suppress the unplanned — it creates space for it.
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Such a privilege to work with the team on this project. Some of my favorite people who are all passionate about the work, the message, and most importantly, the impact.
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The air on the National Mall was already hot by 6:30am. Not at a podium. Not in the crowd. Behind a lens, watching, and participating in, one of the most historically significant public gatherings in recent American memory through a viewfinder.
Read articleMost of us never stop long enough to ask what story our life is actually telling. We're inside the edit, frame by frame, cut by cut, and we never pull back to see the whole timeline.
Read articleThe highest form of our craft is a Sunday where nobody thought about the sound, the lights, or the camera work because all of it simply served the moment.
Read articleEvery camera cut is a theological decision about what deserves attention. The Live Director who understands this carries the seat differently.
On Church Production MagazineConviction will always outperform technique. The camera operator who worships through their lens captures something a technician never will.
Read articleMost camera operators learn by doing. They're handed a camera, given minimal instruction, and gradually figure it out. That's not a training program. That's a survival exercise.
On LinkedInYou don't wait for the budget to build the vision. You build the vision so clearly that the budget follows. That sequence matters.
Read articleThe question every broadcast director needs to answer honestly: if you left tomorrow, would the department keep running, or would it stop?
On LinkedInThat sequence matters. When it gets reversed, something changes in the quality of what they capture, and an experienced director can feel it in the feed.
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