Nik Goodner is the creator of the Facebook page CRTVCHURCH. It isn’t a real physical church, or even a church at all, but it is an online community of thousands of church employees. Graphic designers, photographers, media techs, videographers, communication folks… any church creative person knows about CRTVCHURCH. He even has put together a 24-hour online conference that is coming up next week and I plan to attend. The conference is some of the best of the best communicators, graphic designers, photographers, and videographers coming together to share their knowledge and expertise.
His Facebook community currently has 11.2k members and growing. I know that number isn’t extremely high, but the quality of the members interacting, being kind to one another, asking questions and receiving valuable information from one another is incredibly helpful. Nik also has an Instagram page for @CRTVCHURCH and it has almost 80k followers. He posts daily on it with new design trends, and mostly encouraging posts for his followers. Here is an example.
Nik works hard to be encouraging and also to be a resource for people who work in ministry. I have gotten much encouragement from his pages over the last year since I myself began working as a videographer at a large church. Covid really made churches struggle and his page was a place for people to find answers to questions no one expected to have to ask this year. Whether it was how to make a video for beginners, or how to set up live streaming and what equipment to use, CRTVCHURCH was a place for answers and help. Members from all over the world were working together to get churches online and streaming when no one was allowed to meet in person during the peak of Covid. I believe the community Nik built with his encouragement to others had a direct impact on how his online community was able to come together and serve one another.
I am thankful for people like Nik and communities that have been built to help serve one another. As someone who is working full time in ministry, having an online community as a support group has become more valuable every day as new challenges arise for churches all over the world. Church have one common goal and that is to serve Christ. The same goes for the ones who are communicating the Word out to the world by creating graphics, photos, videos etc. The hard work and dedication that Nik put into his communities has given us all a place to confide and also to enjoy company virtually. It brings people together online and this is an incredibly valuable thing.
Thank you Nik Goodner for your kindness, and willingness to share God’s light to other, and also for cultivating a community for those in ministry to bear one another’s burdens.
