The Hosts
Jesse and Dan have both spent years in the production booth at their churches. This podcast is what happens when they stop pretending everything goes perfectly on Sunday.
Jesse has been running production at his church for over a decade — long enough to have survived every kind of Sunday disaster you can think of, and a few you probably can't.
As a production pastor, he sits at the intersection of ministry and technology. That tension — between the creative vision upstairs and the technical reality downstairs — is exactly where Sunday Stream was born.
He started this podcast because he kept having the same conversations with other church tech people who felt like they were figuring it out alone. Turns out nobody has it all together, and that's exactly what makes this community worth building.
Dan started running slides in youth group when he was fifteen and never really found a reason to stop. These days he's the AVL Director at his church — managing everything from the console to the camera crew to that one light that always needs attention right before doors open.
He brings the newer perspective to the show: someone who grew up with streaming as the default, not the afterthought. If there's a piece of gear or a workflow that just dropped, Dan's already in the weeds on it.
His goal for Sunday Stream is simple: he wants the volunteer running cameras for the first time to feel like someone out there actually gets what that Sunday morning is like. Because he does.
Why This Podcast
The worship team gets the green room. The pastor gets the prep time. The production crew gets the group chat that blows up at 7am Sunday with a last-minute setlist change.
Jesse and Dan built Sunday Stream because the people running production in the church deserve a space too — a place to laugh about what goes wrong, learn from people who've been there, and feel a little less alone in the booth.