Training your house of worship lighting tech team on preventive lighting maintenance is crucial to ensure the proper functioning and longevity of your lighting equipment. Here's a comprehensive guide you can use to train your team: Introduction to Preventive...
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Keeping It Simple: Seven Key Elements In Properly Training An A/V Team
Lessons learned over the years about how to train, deploy, and develop a functioning crew, regardless of their experience.
Discover the Leadership and Management Training Sessions at CFX!
Each of the three days of this year's Church Facilities Expo, to be held in Dallas October 9-11, will have a full schedule of sessions of interest to pastors, executive pastors, and leadership teams at churches of all sizes. The sessions, covering a wide variety of...
New for CFX 2023: Leadership Collective Sessions!
Church leaders, are always striving to maintain the balance between good leadership and the management of their ministries. With this comes joys as well as challenges. If you're struggling with a particular issue that you can’t seem to figure out how to get past,...
CFX 2023 Releases Schedule of Production Track Sessions
The schedule of Production Track Sessions has been released for this year's Church Facilities Expo, to be held October 9-11 in Dallas. There are more than 20 different sessions devoted to Worship Production, including an in-depth Masterclass the morning of October 9....
The Vitality of Multidimensional Safety Training in Churches
On March 27, 2023, a chill ran down America's spine when Aiden Hale, born Audrey Elizabeth Hale, open fired on the Presbyterian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Three innocent children and three adults became victims of another heartbreaking incident at an...
The Right Balance: Sorting Through Tools & Training
Determine if you really need new equipment or if you need better training instead. It might just save your budget.
Grow Your Volunteer Teams from the Ground Up
Growth is slow and quiet. It happens in tiny, often imperceptible ways. Sudden moments of success often come with years of faithful work out in the field. Even the harvest of a single season begins with planting and patiently cultivating for growth. As you invest in...
Worship Facility Podcast: Effective Training for Audio Volunteers
Tommy Lozure, Music Production Department Chair at Visible Music College, discusses how to train volunteers so that they feel comfortable behind a console or running audio from a tablet during worship services and other events. An essential component to effective...
Worship Facility and CFX Offer Scholarship Program
Do you know a small church that would benefit from attending high-quality education to improve the impact of their worship production and buildings?Apply or help us spread the word!As part of our commitment to education that helps all churches, we at CFX and...
45 Tech Takeaways From the ChurchGear Podcast 2022
In 2022 we recorded 2,378 minutes of podcast content with some of the most knowledgeable and known leaders in the church tech space. We talked with legends like Scott Ragsdale and Lee Fields as well as many techs who are currently in the day-to-day tech trenches like...
Four Steps to Keep Your Children Safe This Holiday Season
With the holiday season fast approaching it’s that time of the year when we fill our ministries with volunteers to support our kids programs. At this busy time, there can be a tendency to relax the volunteer onboarding processes or in some cases remove it, but this is...
Technology is Only Part of the Solution for Church Security
Facial recognition and behavioral identification technology have long been the stuff of movies and police dramas like "CSI", but recently they've made their way into software packages aimed at the workplace and houses of worship. To some this seems scary, to others it...
Getting & Retaining Tech Team Volunteers
Never forget, these amazing volunteers can make you look and sound great every week and you can’t do your job without them.
The Importance of Specialized Safety and Security Training
The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in their study of attacks on Houses of Worship, said communication and preparedness are key to preventing attacks at worship facilities, and if they should occur, surviving...
You Can’t Have Good Tech Without the Training
If you’ve ever worked with AVL technology, you understand there’s always a need to stay current on how to use the equipment.
CFX 2022 Production Seminars Offer Key Information for Every Production Pro and Volunteer
Every year the Church Facilities Expo (CFX) presents two days of workshops and seminars regarding church production, leadership, and facilities maintenance. This year's offerings, co-sponsored by Worship Facility are better than ever. For the next three weeks, we'll...
You Can’t Have Good Tech Without the Training
Creating a Welcoming Environment for Guests with Special Needs
In a previous article, we discussed how to create a welcoming environment for regular attendees with special needs to get involved in ministry opportunities at your church. Now, let’s discuss how you can create a welcoming environment for first-time guests with...
RF Venue Holding Free IEM Training Webinar on Wednesday, December 15
Online session “Setting Up In-Ear Monitor Systems” presented by Don Boomer, senior applications engineer at the company, will also discuss avoiding common mistakes with IEMs
Martin NYC Residency: Demos & Sessions
Experience this week of learning and experiencing Martin Lighting sessions and demos in NYC