by Brett Eastman | May 25, 2018 | Main Blog
We invite you out to the Lifetogether office in California to produce your very first video curriculum. The curriculum would be based off a weekend alignment series or maybe a past or future sermon series that you felt would be most influential. A featured benefit is that you wouldn’t have to bring out any equipment and we would use our own to shoot your production on the beach, in our studio, the mountains, and so many other great locations. We’ll even put you up in a beachfront bed and breakfast for the night! Join us in January or in the next 90 days and produce a second series at no additional cost!
Our beach production schedule is extremely popular and we have only a few availabilities, so call today!
Coming to California is a great way to get a scenic video curriculum series professionally produced at one of our best rates of the year! Most of our production crew is based here, so we can do a one-day or multi-day shoot without the expenses of travel, lodging, and meals. We also know a ton of great locations, from intimate bed and breakfasts with picturesque front porches to flowering gardens to church chapels, and, of course, some of the most beautiful beaches in the country.
In California on the Saddleback campus where I produced the first video curriculum series for Rick Warren. We’re excited to announce that it’s not too late to produce a video curriculum that is shot in California with you and your spouse in one of a dozen locations. Over the next six weeks, you have the ability to come out and shoot a curriculum on the beach in Laguna, a beautiful production studio, in downtown Hollywood, Disneyland, the desert, or any one of a dozen beautiful scenic shots on the beach.
You could pick from a dozen different types of curriculum that would include a series for your Fall campaign, a book that you have written or want to write, membership series, financial series, mission vision and value series, capital campaign, or any number of sermon and layman topics from your past, present, or future.
You can choose from a wide variety of California locations including:
Jesus Basics is an incredible 6 week study that lays the foundation for learning the basics about what it means to be a Jesus person – while experiencing the joy of growing in community together.
30 Days to Easter was shot in Rick Warren’s studio out here in California, and it is an engaging Easter study that extends the invitation to know and follow Jesus. With the close of the year just around the corner, we could help you produce your upcoming Christmas or other seasonal campaign right here in California!
by Brett Eastman | May 25, 2018 | Main Blog
Over the last twenty years, Lifetogether has produced more than 500 award-winning video and print curriculum packages, for churches of every size, denomination, and from every part of the country.
After more than two decades of working with churches to produce church-wide video and print curriculum, we’ve developed the game-changing worship experience that includes, you guess it – live worship (and we learned how to shoot it by watching how the NFL grabs video of the huddle!)
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: We connect with worship leaders and their teams to choose a set list, talk through instrumentation, create a great set, prep it with sound and light, and then produce a live shoot featuring the worship pastors and their worship team. The result is engaging and intimate worship that can be used for a small group, a Microsite or Conversation Service, or even the launch of a new campus. It’s your people doing your songs your way-and it’s a great opportunity to expand your ministry. And these days, we’re doing this in a whole new way with our new and most popular Town Hall format that has been taking church-wide video curriculum to a whole new level.
We have a worship production for you!
For our Acoustic Worship, Lifetogether provides full-service production of 4 -6 songs with a small acoustic band and a small community of worshipers. We offer live sound recording and subtitled lyrics to give this simple production style an intimate feel.
For our Living Room Worship, Lifetogether provides full-service production for 6 -8 songs with a medium sized band and a mid-sized community of worshiping. We offer professional sound-mixing and subtitled lyrics to enhance the experience of worshipers in your small groups.
For our most popular, Large Venue Worship, Lifetogether provides full-service production of 6-12 songs with a full band and a large community of worshipers. We offer professional sound-mixing and subtitled lyrics to enhance the experience of worshipers in your small groups.
Take a look below at our featured worship productions with some of the largest and fastest growing churches in America!
As we mentioned in our recent “On The Road” blog post (check it out HERE), Lifetogether has had the pleasure to partner with Christ Chapel Bible Church out in Texas working on an amazing production for their Fall series and campaign. Here’s a worship sampler from our sessions with their team.
Here’s another great worship medley from our partnership with Fellowship Monrovia. We loved working with Albert Tate and his team to produce their worship productions for “Disobediant God”. Check out the companion, digital print curriculum HERE.
by Brett Eastman | May 25, 2018 | Main Blog
As you well know, our vision here at Lifetogether is to champion a new way of doing church by leveraging the life and leadership of any senior pastor in any local church to connect their entire congregation into community in order to reach their community for Christ.
Our video curriculum is built around story. Instead of “talking head” teaching and a simple discussion guide with a few questions, our series always integrate the power of story shot in a variety of formats. Take a look at the video below of Brett explaining how to produce three professionally published video curriculum in a day.
Over 25 years ago, while I was on executive staff at Saddleback Church, I filmed the first video curriculum with Rick Warren. As a result of the past decades of learnings, innovations and insights, we have published over 500 professionally published video curriculum for every major Christian publisher, parachurch ministry, and hundreds of the largest and fastest growing churches in America. We have learned the art and science of writing award-winning print curriculum with fully integrated magazine style color curriculum and state-of-the-art video production. Take a look below at a few of our feature samples.
Northwoods Church
An engaging study guide curriculum that shows us how to see together, how life has certain rules and steps that are certain and unchanging – like the basics of baseball. God designed us and He had a certain kind of living in mind when he did it.
Link to Print Curriculum
New Life Covenant
This is a beautifully designed, six-session study in which you will be inspired by the stories of some heroes and heroines of the faith, and grow in your faith as well. Gaps exist in our countries, our communities, and at home with our families. God is looking for people who walk toward their fear and stand in the gap to help those in need.
Link to Print Curriculum
Victory World Church
Take a look at a recent project about racial reconciliation, that we produced for Pastor Dennis & Colleen Rouse at Victory World church in Norcross, GA. This production embodies the very essence of what a conversation service is and what it means for people as they come into a setting where they can engage and share in open dialogues as a means for connection.
Bayside Church
Explore this engaging series that detail how too often we spend our days stressed out, leading to feelings of being worn out, that ends up producing lives that are burned out. Paul, inspired by God’s Spirit, wrote the timeless truths of the book of Philippians and everyone can experience that same transformation, especially as we pursue Christ’s joy together.
by Brett Eastman | May 25, 2018 | Main Blog
Over the last twenty years, we’ve had the privilege of working with hundreds of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the country, including 50 of the top 100 mega-churches in America.
Through my time serving on the senior staff at Willow Creek and Saddleback Church, I’ve been able to partner with churches in launching thousands of groups on and off campus. It’s connected me to work with 7 of the 10 largest churches in the country and over 50 of the top 100 mega-churches in the country.
Watch this short video of Brett’s 4 insights into emerging models that are aligned with weekend services, with the vision of the church’s pastor, and with the mission of the congregation.
This year as we reviewed that list, we also reviewed some of the things we’ve worked with these churches to create and some of the insights we’ve gained along the way. These 4 discoveries have introduced an exponential approach for not only connecting entire congregations into community but also equipping them to reach their communities and beyond for Christ.
Take a look at our updated Ministry Offerings to see and vision how we can partner with you and your ministry today!
Producing Weekend Alignment Video Curriculum
We are partnering with churches to create sermon-based video curriculum that aligns with their weekend service. In addition, we’ve produced Senior Pastors on camera for a variety of projects for para-churches, Christian publishers, or ministry networks.
Small Group Consulting of Exponential Strategies
We’ve consulted with some of the largest congregations to help develop and execute strategies in order to connect 100% of the adult congregation into groups and 10% of the adult congregation to lead groups, in order to reach community, through community.
Leveraging the Senior Pastor’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
We’ve come alongside Senior Pastors from churches of all different sizes and stages in order to leverage the life, leadership, and legacy. We’ve developed breakthrough and far-reaching curriculum by partnering with Senior Pastors. After all, this generation of church wants to hear first and foremost from their Senior Pastor.
Discover how to utilize our breakthrough Town Hall Production to leverage the life and legacy of your Senior Pastor.
Connecting Your Community to Reach Community for Christ
Our vision is to present the Gospel in a simple and transferable way. We leverage technology and media as exponential strategies for outreach and evangelism. These strategies have proven to increase weekly tithes and offerings, grow weekend service attendance, and take people deeper into the Gospel.
by Brett Eastman | May 24, 2018 | Main Blog
On the Road is our recurring series where we follow Brett Eastman, founder of Lifetogether, “on the road” as he travels across the country and gives us an exclusive look into who we’re meeting, what we’re doing, and how we’re living life together.
We’ve always thought of Lifetogether as a learning community discovering the new and next, exploring the breakthroughs and innovative ideas around the country. We’ve found that in each of the larger tribes or denominations or ministry networks there are some key learnings that help to shape and accomplish our mission even better – our mission to catalyze spiritual conversations that lead to a change in the community.
The primary vehicle for accomplishing this mission of catalyzing spiritual conversations has always been a small group setting, but we are discovering additional opportunities as we work with some of these large churches. Over the past week, we’ve spent time out in Texas at a couple of amazing churches – Jeff Jone’s Chase Oaks and Ted Kitchen’s Christ Chapel Bible Church.
Here are more details on each of these churches and a little behind the scenes on the discoveries and insights we gained with each church.
Chase Oaks Church
Watch the video below of Brett Eastman taking us behind the scenes of our latest partnership with Chase Oaks Church out in Texas. We spent the past week filming a Town Hall production, our breakthrough interactive conversational format, with a stellar team!
Christ Chapel Bible Church
We also spent some time with Christ Chapel working on an amazing production for their Fall series and campaign. Scroll through the gallery below for a behind the scenes look, featuring a stunning set, engaging worship band, and dedicated staff.
