How does one of the largest churches in America handle their Sunday morning production, and more importantly, how do they recruit and train enough volunteers to make it happen?

In this episode, we are joined by Griffin McCravy, the Broadcast Lighting Director at Church of the Highlands. After kicking things off with some amazing stories about growing up with Dolly Parton, Griffin shares his personal journey into live production. We then pull back the curtain on the massive AVL operation at Church of the Highlands.

In this episode you'll hear:

0:00 Intro: Losing Dolly Parton

4:00 Griffin’s Experience Growing Up with Dolly Parton

13:20 Griffin’s Journey into Becoming a Lighting Director

20:00 Behind the Scenes: Production at Church of the Highlands

24:45 How to Find Great Church Tech Volunteers

28:00 Strategies for Training Tech Volunteers Well

35:00 Lighting Design at Church of the Highlands

43:00 ChurchGear Disaster Story with Highlands

47:15 Church Tech Disaster: Christmas Joy

49:20 Live Production Disaster: When the Lighting Guy Does Audio

52:15 Keep Sundays Running: Don’t Let It Become Normal

55:55 Church Tech Confessional

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