Great Church Sound: a guide for the volunteer

This practical guide is the best place to start for anyone needing to gain a better understanding of the church sound system and how to get a great-sounding mix. Church sound techs from all backgrounds and experience levels will benefit from the clear explanations, plain instruction, and focus on the fundamentals that matter most.

Pastors and team leaders will appreciate this easy-to-follow handbook that delivers a consistent training platform for new tech team members. Whether you want to get rid of feedback, improve your mix, or lead your team effectively, Great Church Sound is the resource for you.

The AVL Production Perspective: A How-to Guide for Serving on the Audio, Video, and Lighting Teams at Your Local Church

Author M.T. Losey provides a thought-provoking perspective on how the truth of the gospel and your relationship with Christ impacts how you lead and serve on the production team. He encourages you to not let fear, doubt, or your lack of experience get in the way of what God has called you to do. Instead, leverage the gifts God gave you to make an impact in your church by answering these questions.

Whether you are a leader, on staff, or a volunteer at your church, you are directly related to the success of reaching the people your services are designed for.

The Volunteer Church: Mobilizing Your Congregation for Growth and Effectiveness

Working with volunteers can be a rewarding and exciting experience—for them as well as for those who recruit, train, and maintain their services. However, if church leaders are honest, they know there are times that it can be frustrating. They know that volunteers are essential, vital to creating growth and new ministries, and are the key to introducing youth and children to Jesus Christ. They have welcoming smiles at the door, they serve the food, pray for needs, stuff bulletins, organize missions trips, and on and on. If they want to see their church grow, it must be a volunteering church, a church that runs on volunteers.

The Innovative Church: How Leaders and Their Congregations Can Adapt in an Ever-Changing World

The church as we know it is calibrated for a world that no longer exists. It needs to recalibrate in order to address the questions that animate today’s congregants. Leading congregational studies researcher Scott Cormode explores the role of Christian practices in recalibrating the church for the twenty-first century, offering church leaders innovative ways to express the never-changing gospel to their ever-changing congregations. The book has been road-tested with over one hundred churches through the Fuller Youth Institute and includes five questions that guide Christian leaders who wish to innovate.

The Post-Quarantine Church: Six Urgent Challenges and Opportunities That Will Determine the Future of Your Congregation 

From thousands of surveys of church leaders and in-person consultations, Thom Rainer and his Church Answers team have gathered the essential wisdom you will need to face the challenges and opportunities that the quarantine crisis creates for the local church.

This book is, in effect, your personal church consultant, helping you plan and prepare for the future. In the midst of heartbreak, tragedy, and struggle due to Covid-19, here’s hope, wisdom, encouragement and vision.

I Love Jesus But I Hate Christmas: Tackling the Challenges of Being a Church Technical Artist

Technical artists serving in the local church understand what it means to love Jesus—but somehow hate Christmas. By the time Christmas (or any church event) is over, technical artists have poured hundreds of hours of their lives into thankless jobs—rolling cable, taping the stage, checking mics, and other invisible jobs. They’re the first to arrive and the last to leave. They work behind the scenes and dress in black. They’re the unseen heroes who have to figure out how to do the impossible. Week after week. Unnoticed. Invisible is what they do…until something goes wrong

Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church

Pastor and best-selling author Paul David Tripp argues that lurking behind every pastoral failure is the lack of a strong leadership community. Tripp draws on his decades of ministry experience to give churches twelve gospel principles necessary to combat this leadership crisis. Each of these principles, built upon characteristics such as humility, dependency, and accountability, will enable new and experienced leaders alike to focus their attention on the gospel.