What a year it has been! We had by far the biggest, most intensive Christmas season we’ve ever had at Twelve:Thirty Media. We are so thankful and grateful to work with so many amazing churches and ministries. We wanted to share with you just a handful of our custom projects... read more
We are so thankful and grateful to work with such awesome churches and ministries we had the privilege of working with this year. We’ve produced hundreds of Ready-Made and Custom Media pieces over the last few months. Below are a few of our favorite Custom Videos we produced for churches... read more
Today’s Church Online Tip is this: Utilize your Pre-Show You might start your Livestream a few minutes early to allow people to log on, jump in the chat and start talking and get settled. I would do this 5-10 minutes before your service starts. I’ve also suggested before... read more
Today’s Church Online Tip is this: Use Pre-Made Kids Worship Experiences Even though churches are opening back open their doors for Worship Experiences, most churches that I know aren’t touching Kids and Students yet. You might heavily consider a joint family service approach when you invite people back to your building. But... read more
Today’s Church Online Tip is this: Provide Multiple Service Times for People to Watch If you are fully online, there is no reason why you can’t offer your service at multiple times throughout Sunday and even through the week. Here’s how I would do it – on Sunday... read more
Today’s Church Online Tip is this: Engage with your Kids with Online VBS Even though churches are slowly reopening – I’ve heard from many different churches that kids and student ministry they are not touching with a 10-foot pool. For a lot of churches, its just not smart or safe... read more
Today’s Church Online Tip is this: Take your Production Quality to 2.0 You might have tried different things during COVID-19 as a church. You might not have been Livestreaming before COVID, or you might have had one camera mounted in the back of the room that you streamed the service... read more
Today’s Church Online Tip is this: Make Your Kids Service and Resources Easy to Find Watching a Worship Experience Online with small kids is not easy. I have a 7 and 9-year-old and for them to sit and watch a service for adults for an hour is difficult. I’ve... read more
Today’s Church Online Tip is this: Share Fun, Personal Videos If you are still 100% online, now is a great time to get creative with your Online Worship Experiences. My idea is this – Either in your countdown or as your opener, or even sporadically in your Worship Experience,... read more
Today’s Church Online Tip is this: Put Videos in your Countdown Countdown Timer Videos, especially on your Online Worship Experience is real estate that I think churches don’t use to their fullest potential. Certainly, you can put just countdown numbers in your countdown. But you can easier put the actual countdown... read more
Not long ago, my family and I went on vacation This included a side trip to enjoy one of those themed dinner shows in a touristy area. What struck me most about the experience, was that from the time we got out of our car to the time we left... read more