I'm part of a large church and I do photography for some smaller churches and nonprofits. My church regularly collects model releases for anyone who is participating / volunteering. If we're producing a video we will often do another just for that video.

Events that take place in public spaces (church picnic in the public park for example) we don't collect releases for since there isn't an expectation of privacy and they are in a space that anyone could legally photograph them.

I try to encourage my nonprofits to collect releases or at minimum make a notification of photo and video recording part of their sign-up / sign-in process. I find that many new (less than 10 years old) organizations simply don't know about model releases or photographers rights.

Powerful! Thanks for the great summation and recap! I was going to go, but hesitated when buying my tickets online and missed out. I'm hoping that there will be an encore.

I'd seen the preview online and knew that they message of this film was going to be quite powerful! The Amos quote (from the Message) was the perfect way to open this up. Again, thanks for sharing your insights - I'm going to share these with a few friends who talked about going as well.

The real reason why she "smiles with her eyes"

I certainly hear you on that! I've been subject to the same tendency to want to help wherever I can, then realizing that at certain times everyone will be calling on me at the same time and suddenly my hands are tied.

Part of my drive was an issue with negative self worth - that is to say that I found worth by doing - so if I wasn't doing, then I felt worthless. My priorities (and relationships) have begun to change but only for the better (and not without difficulty)!

I'll one-up ya. I shared this with one of the other worship leaders at our church and in one of her leads on Sunday she encouraged people to do the "pentecostal sway" - I almost hit the floor laughing!

HA!!!!!! This is great! Thanks for posting, I'm sharing this with a few friends. :) We have the 2 & 4 clapping conversation almost weekly.

Wonderful article. Steps two and four are the main steps that I have to continually focus on. I'm getting pretty good at 2, but step for sometimes gets away from me. :)

Making progress though. Thanks for sharing this so clearly!

Wonderful article. Steps two and four are the main steps that I have to continually focus on. I'm getting pretty good at 2, but step for sometimes gets away from me. :)

Making progress though. Thanks for sharing this so clearly!

I'm a volunteer so I'm not exactly 'intimate' with the timeline. I do know we've done some brainstorming and are narrowing those ideas to choose what elements will make up the story we want to present. And our big Christmas service happens weeks before Christmas. :)