Amplified Impact Church Communication Podcast

Gary Molander, one of the founders of Floodgate Productions, talks about how to maximize the impact of video in your church services. This guy knows his stuff…

Beau Coffron, the Social Media Director at Life.Church, explains how they effectively manage and engage on 80+ social media accounts across 27 campuses. The answer may surprise you…

Kem Meyer, the author of Less Chaos, Less Noise, shares practical tips for improving your communication, reducing information overload, influencing change in your organization and telling better stories. She also explains how to make your content like a progressive dinner. It’s a fantastic episode full of wisdom.

John Falke shares a number of free resources that churches can utilize.

Katie Allred shares some of her church social media secrets on how to increase engagement and save time managing church social media accounts.

Justin Dean unpacks his new book: PR Matters: A Survival Guide for Church Communication and his experiences dealing with crisis while on staff at Mars Hill Church during the last years of its existence.

Ryan Hollingsworth, the Creative Director at Elevation Church, pulls back the curtain and unpacks their sermon series planning process and how it has evolved over the years. He also explains what to do when your pastor doesn’t tell you what he is preaching in advance and how creatives can form a healthy relationship with their pastor.

It can often be really difficult to find, train and mentor creative volunteers in your church to effectively capture what is happening in the life of your church. Ben Stapley unpacks practical steps you can take to build your volunteer photography and video teams.

Phil Bowdle talks about how what used to work a decade or two ago in church communication no longer works. So how do you adjust your church communication in 2017 to reach your community in areas like: Social Media, Engagement, Storytelling, Worship and Announcements?

Chris Abbott unpacks how he has helped churches have huge success with Facebook Ads without spending much money.

Stephen Brewster talks about what it does to create a more healthy culture for artists and creatives in the church.

Kenny Jahng shares tips on reaching millenials, your community, how to use social media to create a conversation and produce a ton of content. 

Seth Muse talks about social media, ministry, digital marketing and getting fired twice. Seth is a marketing ninja and is currently the social media & web developer at his church. 

Trent Walker share tips on how he has gone from 0 to 6,000 YouTube subscribers in 6 months and several videos approaching 1 million views! Trent and his wife Siobhan are traveling worship leaders. They have been living full-time in an RV with 5 boys for the past year and tell about some of their experiences on the road as a family of 7. 

In this very first episode of the new Amplified Impact podcast I was fortunate enough to talk with Jonathan Malm about church communication. Jonathan shares how he got into ministry and the challenges of small church ministry from the early days. He also talks about his transition from worship leader to tech director at a church in order to amplify the impact of the worship service. Jonathan is a veteran church communications expert who helps churches through his various websites, books and coaching.