Trellis Creative Strategies
Empowering Growth with Ethical Media Practices
Services
Infusing a theology of media with industry-standard best practices, we provide churches with customized operations that support sustainable growth for the organization, and discipleship for its staff and volunteers.
Starting and scaling a media team or department
Volunteer management and leadership development
Production workflows
Production coaching and training
Storytelling and content marketing for fundraising and other campaigns
Mission
Trellis Creative Strategies exists to untangle the demands of media production for today's churches and to equip media teams within each church’s unique context.
Trellis is founded and directed by Christen Smith, who is a filmmaker, adjunct professor at NYU, creative director, and member of the local church in New York City.
“Christen brought incredible clarity to our media process and systems, and developed a team of bought-in leaders.”
“Christen Smith is a remarkably gifted and thoughtful digital media strategist and thinker. She worked on our team for years and brought incredible clarity to our media process, systems, and developed a team of bought-in leaders. Smart and strategic, I highly commend her to you.”
— Jon Tyson, lead pastor at Church of the City New York
“Christen always had the right question and feedback to help us see what we were missing and where we needed to go.”
“Our church was going through a time of transition and in need of new direction. Christen came alongside us and through multiple conversations helped us discern what the right next steps were for our community. Having an outside perspective is crucial for any leader, and Christen always had the right question and feedback to help us see what we were missing and where we needed to go. After our time with her, we gained greater clarity and more focus on where we needed to be spending our resources. I recommend Trellis to anyone feeling stuck or wanting to take their online ministry to another level.”
— David Stradling, lead pastor at Awaken Westchester Church