Where Creativity Thrives, Christ Shines
Filmmaking, video production and social media are mission-critical elements to communicate the Gospel. If you’re ready to be inspired, equipped and connected, come meet your tribe.
Bring your team and find the educational track that best serves your needs. Check out the Tech Arts Conference at CFX for additional educational offerings!
Who Needs to Attend Capture Summit @ CFX 2025?
- Church Filmmakers
- Live Video/Streaming Production Teams
- Creative Staff
- Digital/Marketing Teams
- Senior Leaders
Basically, anyone involved in live or recorded video production or who needs to know the latest digital/social strategies for proclaiming the Gospel should attend Capture @ CFX!
Speakers and Sessions
Check back often for program updates!
Video Production & Filmmaking
Crafting Documentaries That Inspire Change
Description: A great documentary does more than inform—it inspires change. Learn how to craft and select powerful narratives that connect with your audience, blast through barriers, and drive your congregation to meaningful action.
Speaker: Patrick Clark and Brittany Clark
Equip Your Volunteers to Capture Stories Using Their Smartphones
Description:There are more stories worth telling than people equipped to tell them. We live in a world where everyone has an amazing filmmaking tool in their pocket, they just need to know how to use it. At this point, it’s not the cameras on our smartphones that are holding us back from telling powerful stories. It’s the knowledge on how to best use them. This breakout will give people the knowledge of how they can equip their volunteers to capture stories at events and of the life change happening at their church.
Speaker: Adam Erickson
The Church Filmmaker Workflow
Description: coming soon
Speaker: coming soon
Directing for Filmmaking
Description: coming soon
Speaker: coming soon
Cinematography
Description: coming soon
Speaker: coming soon
Mission Trip Filmmaking
Description: coming soon
Speaker: coming soon
Live Production
Hope is Not a Plan: The Value of Pre-Production
Description: Planning Center is set for the weekend, now what? Have you ever found yourself staring at the plan for the weekend and wonder how you will take that and turn it into an excellent production. This breakout is for you. Dave will share how he approaches live production at Cottonwood Creek Church (Dallas), and the tools he has effectively implemented based on Dave’s Emmy Award winning career in the professional sports world.
Speaker: Dave Evans
We're Better Than This: Taking Your Production from Good to Great
Description: No matter what size your church is or how much equipment you have (or don’t have), your production has room for improvement. This session will look at how preparation, an effective workflow, and an emphasis on quality can elevate your production – and it all starts with understanding your mission.
Speaker: Dave Evans
Lighting Overhaul: Improving In-Person, Online, and Getting Creative
Description: Join us for a before-and-after look at how a major lighting overhaul opened up our creative possibilities, enhanced the in-person experience, and dramatically shifted the livestream look. We’ll talk about the planning, the implementation, getting it all to work — and finding new volunteers along the way. Learn from our mistakes, wins, experiments, and pursuit of getting it right.
Speaker: Shawn Kirsch
Camera Training Basics
Description:Learn the basics of composition, camera operation and foundational techniques your director needs.
Speaker: Jesse Maitland
Advanced Camera & Creative Techniques
Description:Learn how to shoot like a pro with ninja strategies for camera movement, transitions, advanced shot planning, and when to get whacky with creativity and when to break the rules.
Speaker: Jesse Maitland
Strategizing Future Equipment Needs and Investments
Description: coming soon
Speaker: Graeme Spencer
Mastering Pro-Presenter
Description: In this class, we’re going to dive into some strategies for figuring out what has gone wrong with ProPresenter, how to fix it, and how to pevent problems before they start. We’ll also talk about whether the problems are ACTUALLY something that’s gone wrong with ProPresenter or another piece of gear of software.
Speaker: Paul Clifford
Video Editing
Description: coming soon
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Streaming
Building Your Live Stream Audience
Description: Churches have an incredible opportunity to grow their reach through live streams, but some of our streams have become trickles. We will identify why there has been a decrease and give you best practices to open up the faucet to help those streams become floods again
Speaker: Ben Stapley
Does Your Church Still Need a Livestream?
Description: Discover the importance of sustaining live streaming as a vital element of your church’s online content strategy, even after the height of the Covid pandemic. Learn how to prayerfully engage your congregation and leverage digital tools to maintain a thriving, connected community.
Panelists: Brian Blackmore, Will Chapman
Mastering Your Podcasting for Your Pastor's Success
Description: In today’s demanding church environment, pastors need efficient ways to share their messages of encouragement and hope. Discover how to set up an affordable, high-quality podcasting system that even non-technical users can operate seamlessly. Learn from real-life experiences and creative problem-solving techniques that address common challenges in audio and video recording, lighting, and user-friendly operation. Join us to explore practical solutions that empower your pastor to easily record and share uplifting content with the church.
Speaker: Will Chapman
Revitalizing Church Streaming: Moving Beyond Covid Fatigue
Description: Discover the importance of sustaining live streaming as a vital element of your church’s online content strategy, even after the height of the Covid pandemic. Learn how to prayerfully engage your congregation and leverage digital tools to maintain a thriving, connected community.
Speaker: Will Chapman
Copyrights and Streaming
Description: coming soon
Speaker: coming soon
Next Level Directing for IMAG, Livestream, and Overflows
Description: Explore the art and craft of directing a livestream and broadcast with excellence. This session will cover essential techniques, communication strategies, and creative approaches to ensure your church’s online services are engaging, impactful, and seamless for viewers. Empower your team to deliver a polished and meaningful worship experience to your virtual congregation and your in-person congregation.
Speaker: Jesse Maitland
Digital Strategy & Social Media
Master Church Communications: Drive Growth Through Your Marketing Strategy
Description: Building momentum in your church community means strategically engaging your three key groups: Your Core, Your Crowds, and Your Community. In this session, we’ll walk step by step through a proven church communications road map that will help you build your overall strategy, create your creative assets, and implement effortlessly. You’ll walk away from this session with free tools and high-level resources used by top churches to streamline their communications processes, amplify their reach, and fill their seats with new guests every week.
Speaker: Zac Morgan
Sponsor: Motive Marketing
Gospel Influence in a Digital Age: How to Build a Social Media Strategy That Actually Works
Description:
Social media is no longer optional for churches—it’s the frontline of modern ministry. But too many churches treat it as an afterthought, struggling to gain traction in an oversaturated digital landscape. If your content isn’t reaching the right audience, inspiring action, or building meaningful connections, it’s time to rethink your strategy.
This session is designed for church leaders, communicators, and media teams who are ready to stop guessing and start executing on their social media strategy.
Speaker: Mark Lebrun
Holy Ground in a Digital Age: Balancing Tech and Transcendence in Worship
Description:The post-COVID era presents churches with a new challenge: people are anxious from digital oversaturation yet hungry for peace, authenticity, and sacred experiences. This session explores how the pandemic accelerated digital engagement and amplified anxiety, especially among younger generations. We’ll reframe technology and theatrical production—lighting, audio, video—not as distractions but as artistic, theological tools to support holistic worship when used with sacred intentionality. Attendees will gain practical strategies for designing worship environments that foster intentionality of praise, peace, and divine presence while avoiding overproduction. By embracing a theology of beauty and wonder, churches can meet today’s longing for holy ground in an anxious world.
Speaker: J.P. Kwok
Using AI in Content Creation
Description: coming soon
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Church Communications Audit
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Speaker: coming soon
Leadership & Ministry
United in Excellence: Strengthening Tech and Worship Ministry Through Skill, Humility, and Healthy Relationships
Description: In this session, learn from a technical director and a worship pastor how to pursue musical and technical excellence while developing healthy relationships between the two groups of people involved in bringing the worship production to life. All too often there seems to be a tension between the worship band and the tech team with possessive attitudes towards the stage, the gear, and the responsibilities of both groups. These two groups of people are usually the ones who spend the most time together and yet have the potential to create the most tension and problems with each other. This session seeks to provide ideas and examples of how to bridge the gap between the two groups to bring about next-level excellence in our worship services.
Speaker: Aaron Spencer and Rob LaLiberte
Ideas on a Deadline: How to Be Creative When the Clock Is Ticking
Description: Based on Phil Cooke’s acclaimed book of the same title, this workshop will be the definitive experience for creative people who must deliver breakthrough ideas on demand. One of the most destructive myths about creativity is the idea that we must wait for inspiration. However, as artist Chuck Close said, “Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work.” If you’re a creative professional, this session will teach you how to “prime the pump” of your creativity, overcome the blocks, and deliver great ideas when you need them the most. And if you lead a creative team, this is a must-attend session!
Speaker: Phil Cooke
3 Mindsets of Success
Description: This session will guide you through the key attitudes that shape our approach to success. From the Prideful Mindset, rooted in worldly wealth, power, and prestige, to the Personal Mindset, which highlights growth, purpose, and learning from failure, and ultimately the Eternal Mindset, focused on humility, heavenly treasures, and fulfilling the Great Commission. Participants will leave equipped to reflect on their own perspective of success and anchor their efforts in faith and values.
Speaker: Dave Evans
Women in Ministry and Leadership
Description: Step into an engaging and heartfelt panel discussion showcasing the remarkable journeys of women in church ministry and leadership roles. In this panel discussion, our speakers will share their personal journeys, creative insights, and the impact of their work in ministry. With introductions and stories from each panelist, followed by a dynamic Q&A, this session offers an opportunity to explore the vital contributions of women in church ministries and gain inspiration for your own path in faith and creativity.
Panelists: Brittany Clark
Keeping Your Pilot Lit: Five Strategies for Avoiding Burnout in Ministry
Description: In the world of ministry church leaders face challenges and pressures on a consistent basis. For many who are Bi-Vocational the ministry and life demands are doubled. The demands of ministry on a church leader’s time, family, and health have led many to burn out and leave the ministry altogether. Church leaders are expected to be experts in the scripture, model a perfect marriage, be involved in or lead a small group, while at the same time become the employee of the month or manager of the year at their other job and while coaching their children’s soccer team if they are Bi-Vocational. Although God has gifted those of us who lead in church with grace He has granted, the task of leading in a 21st Century church can be grueling.
By the end of their time with me, pastors and church leaders will learn how to see the signs of buildup to burnout and learn strategies that will help them avoid burnout so they may burn bright in their calling. Attendees will leave the session with hope as they will be given takeaways that will assist them in keeping fresh fire for ministry.
Speaker: Arthur James
The Buy-In Blueprint: Earn Trust, Solve Problems, and Secure Resources for Impact
Description: You have the ideas, but do you have the strategy to get leadership to support them? Creativity without influence leads to frustration. In this session, you’ll discover how to earn trust with decision-makers, solve leadership pain points, and secure the buy-in and budget you need to take your church to the next level.
Speaker: Patrick Clark and Brittany Clark
Children and Youth Leading the Way in the Worship Ministry
Description: In this session, we’ll discuss how to incorporate children and students into the worship & tech ministry at your church. We’ll also discuss how to encourage church leadership to work with you to develop a culture of ministry growth with the younger generations by showing how First United Methodist Church in Bentonville, AR was able to develop a program that worked with their congregation’s needs and abilities.
Speaker: Allison Earhart and Ray Wheeler
The Five "S's" of Ministry Success
Description: In ministry there are always challenges, there are always problems, difficulties, and situations that leave you scratching your head, asking, “WHAT IS GOING ON!??” In all of the hustle of ministry life and complexity that comes with it, it is really easy to get lost in the “Fog” and before you know it, that building project is so far off the rails not even Google can find it! In a blink of an eye that seemingly minor staff issue gets really big – really fast. Or, maybe the facilities and the budget don’t seem to align, or you have security and access control nightmares that make your head spin and maybe your AV systems are a running joke!
The Five “S’s” helps cut through the chatter, the noise, and the fog, and helps to bring the issues to front and center so it can be dealt with in a clear and concise way.
Speaker: Rich Fuchs
How to Keep a Volunteer for Life
Description: coming soon
Speaker: Dennis Choy
Additional Advanced Learning Opportunities:
- Worship & Tech Director Leadership Collective
- Pastor & Executive Pastor Leadership Collective
- Audio Mixing for Worship
- Worship Production: Creating an Engaging Testimony Interview Video
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