Recently I had the chance to spend a little time serving the Leading Smart Network of Executive Pastors on behalf of PlainJoe-A Storyland Studio where I help churches and non-profits tell their story. In addition joining the invite only XP network call, Tim and I did an interview that can be shared more widely. You’ll find the short video below. Check out Tim’s Leading Smart Cohort and the rest of his blog HERE.

We have some pretty talented story tellers at Mosaic in the area of video. Recently, we tasked them with creating some new videos to use in our Chapter One Class (for new people at Mosaic). It involved a lot of filming over multiple weeks in an effort to catch multiple staff and congregants. As such, it made sense for them to build a little film set that we could use for this and other projects down the road.

Our Student Ministry just did a big Fall Kick Off Event. All the new students that just became old enough were invited and because we’ve grown a lot this year, we had even more students show up for the first time. The team pulled off a high energy event that they called “Glow Night”. Anything that could glow, was glowing that night. Even the band. I walked in to drop off my girls and encourage the team and I was blown away by what they had pulled off with honestly not a very big budget. As I saw all the kids having an absolute blast, I thought “Oh shoot, I wish the video team was here tonight capturing this”. No sooner did that thought cross my mind did I see one of our video team out in the middle of the crowd getting some great shots. Check out this recap video they made of the event. We shared it on social media and people loved it. Videos like this help parents know that Student Ministry is pretty awesome at Mosaic. Don’t spend a ton of time creating an awesome event and then forget to capture photos or video of it for future or current use. Even if it’s all volunteer based, do something with that stuff.

Our church just jumped into the book of Acts again after a little break. Our creative types put together a cool video to use as an intro. I share it here for you to get ideas for your church.

Like many churches, the summer is full with things like VBS, Student Ministry Camp, etc. We decided to celebrate those events with a little video that we showed in the announcement space of our gatherings. It’s just a short punchy video re-cap of our kids events. Doing things like this and showing them in church can help your whole church get on board with the mission. It let’s people in one demographic see what is going on for people in other demographics in the church. Things like this really help build a sense of community and family in a church full of different ages. Enjoy the Video!

At Mosaic Church, we have been blessed with some Godly musicians, vocalists and worship leaders. A goal of ours has been to tell our own story of Gospel transformation through original worship created by our people. It’s something I constantly encourage our worship team to do. But you can’t just encourage it, you have to resource them to do it well by giving them song writing retreats and you have to celebrate them when they complete a song. Recently, our team completed this song and then our video team made a little music video of it. It’s not studio quality by any means, but I think it turned out really well.

At Mosaic, we take caring for Orphans seriously. Check out this video we used recently about one families journey.

Serve the City is all about connecting you to the leaders and organizations in our city who are doing great work to bring justice and mercy to those in need. Come and be inspired and equipped at the first conference ever at the Mosaic Winter Garden Campus on January 26th & 27th! We hope to to see you there! SIGN ME UP!

Mosaic Church just opened it’s new Winter Garden facility. It was a crazy day with nearly 4,000 in attendance (blowing away our usual 2500). I asked one of our story team to capture the day for me and put together a quick video. Here is that video. We posted it quickly on Facebook, etc. within a day of opening so that people could celebrate with us online. Enjoy!

A few days ago, Mosaic Church opened it’s new Winter Garden Campus. This time lapse video of the construction served as a countdown video to start the service. It was also a part of a larger vision for what the whole weekend would feel like. As you watch it, imagine it on a 10×30 LED wall. It was pretty awesome.

Yesterday, Mosaic Church opened it’s new building with nearly 4,000 in attendance. We’ve been working on it for more than a year. And in some ways, we’ve been working on this video for just as long. We created this video to share the story of the construction and the key people involved in it’s creation. And we used it on our opening Sunday. Enjoy!

Ok, I know, it’s just a building. But a lot of lives were changed there. People met spouses, dedicated children, got baptized, got saved, etc. While it may be just brick and mortar, these spaces take on an important role in our lives. So when we have to say goodbye to one building and move to another, even if that change is due to growth, it’s important to take a minute to acknowledge all that happened in that old space. This video is an example of that effort. We used this video on our last Sunday in the old building.

This year, my life has been all about the new building. And as often happens, we hit a snag. Rather than have it be a downer, we decided to make it a fun announcement that the opening date was delayed. We created a time lapse video and had some fun showing the slowdown. Watch it to see what I mean.

Do you like to watch the special features from your favorite movies? I know I do. As Mosaic Church continues onward towards completion of it’s new building, we thought it would be fun to do a super indepth video tour of the building for those who want the details. I also selfishly wanted to capture this moment in my life without a ton of editing. So rather than the highly produced videos we typically do, this one was low budget, and one take. At 45 minutes, it’s long, but if you like this sort of thing, you’ll love it.

Recently, I updated our church on our new building project. Here is a video. Perhaps you’ll get some ideas for your projects.