I was privileged to recently be able to sit down with Marty Taylor, the Executive Director of Media Design and Technology at Northland Church (Located in Orlando, Fl) and ask him a few questions pertinent to his role.  I posted a few exerts from or dialog together.  (Marty’s responses have been paraphrased and therefore are not direct quotes):

BA: What does the Sunday service creative process look like at Northland?

MT: It’s a collaborative effort between the teaching pastor, media, worship and others who primarily focus on Sundays.  We usually work towards finalizing elements of that weeks message and move towards going over concepts for the coming week’s message.  We focus pulling the one word or takeaway that the Pastor has in mind for a particular service and build concepts and themes around that.  At that point a weekend architect is given the duties of putting the service order together.

BA:  What do you do to stay keep up with the industry?

MT: I read lots of blogs.  I don’t concern myself with always  having the latest technology.  If you have a system in place that is high on the technology side and low on the volunteer understanding side you will have a problem where your team(s) will not be able to utilize a system you have implemented.

Another Helpful interview with Marty from LiveDesignOnline.