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

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Baptize The World: Washington, DC. 2026
✦ OriginalAUG 2026

Baptize The World: Washington, DC. 2026

LIVE EVENT

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.

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✦ OriginalFEB 2026

All American Half Time Show 2026 Superbowl halftime show

TELEVISION

Back 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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The Power of Moments: Short Essay
✦ OriginalFEB 2026

The Power of Moments: Short Essay

LIVE EVENT

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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Forrest Frank Jesus Generation Docu-film Project
✦ OriginalAUG 2026

Forrest Frank Jesus Generation Docu-film Project

DOCUMENTARY

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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Rededicate 250: July 4th Celebration at the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles
✦ OriginalJUL 2026

Rededicate 250: July 4th Celebration at the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles

Production

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.

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✦ OriginalMAR 2025

What Story Is Your Life Telling?

Leadership

Most 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.

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✦ OriginalFEB 2025

Production Done Right Is Invisible

Production

The 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.

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↗ Church Production MagazineJAN 2025

The Role of the Live Director in Worship

Production

Every camera cut is a theological decision about what deserves attention. The Live Director who understands this carries the seat differently.

On Church Production Magazine
✦ OriginalDEC 2024

Heart Over Skill

Faith & Calling

Conviction will always outperform technique. The camera operator who worships through their lens captures something a technician never will.

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↗ LinkedInNOV 2024

Why Your Volunteer Camera Team Needs a Development Pathway

Training

Most 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 LinkedIn
✦ OriginalOCT 2024

Resources Follow Vision

Leadership

You don't wait for the budget to build the vision. You build the vision so clearly that the budget follows. That sequence matters.

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↗ LinkedInSEP 2024

Building a Broadcast Department That Outlasts You

Production

The question every broadcast director needs to answer honestly: if you left tomorrow, would the department keep running, or would it stop?

On LinkedIn
✦ OriginalAUG 2024

Worshipers First, Operators Second

Faith & Calling

That 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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