A Guidebook for Visual Worship

Some of you may know this about me already, but worshipVJ.com is just a small piece that somehow fits the mystery-puzzle of my life. And this piece connects with a few more puzzle pieces that form what we call “Grateful Inconvenience.” “GI” was started over six years ago by myself and Nate Griffin, one of …

Imagine walking into a worship experience where you had to bring a light bulb to help illuminate the space…

And then a spoken word poet-prophet and called us to true, biblical worship…

Then a few of my favorite worship designers led us in an honest, authentic response to that spoken word revelation…

And it was …

Being in this crazy line of work (traveling, conferences, blogosphere, etc), I come across a lot of worship leaders, techies & creative types looking for a job at a (new) church, as well as churches looking for new creative staff. People have told me that I have the ability to see “what’s next” when it …

I’ve recently started following a Japanese artist in New York by the name of Makoto Fujimura. He’s quickly become my new hero. Mako is an artist (like a for real artist) living out his faith in the contemporary art world. He’s passionate about creating art that is “generative” and nurturing the creative community …

Zach Fonville is one of the few media producers that “gets it”. He creates stunning, creative visuals to use in the church that aren’t distracting. I was SO happy when I heard Brad Zimmerman at CMDtv talk about Zach because it changed my church’s Sunday morning. Before RedFerrisWheel, we were using some cool loops, but …

I want to introduce you to Nathaniel Schweinberg, a good friend of mine and my new intern this summer!

I met Nathaniel at Gurus last year. And throughout the year, as I was following him on Twitter, he just seemed to stick out. Overall, he just impressed me. Later on in the year, he …

The first time I met Anthony Lee was in May/June of 2009 on my first trip ever to Hong Kong. I was VJ-ing the opening of a missions conference called “Call2All” as well as presenting a workshop on visual worship. Through the magical power of social media, Anthony reached out to me via Twitter and …