Mission Creative FAQ

Mission Creative is a church production and creative company, founded in 2004 by Dave Bookhout and Heredes Ribeiro and based in Tampa, Florida, that builds brands, sermon series and capital campaign creative, video, audio/video/lighting production systems, websites, and AI training and workflows for churches nationwide.

Co-founders Dave Bookhout (Chief Launch Officer) and Heredes Ribeiro (CIO). Heredes is an ordained minister with 20+ years in church work as a designer, artist and musician, a Claude/Anthropic certified specialist, and Senior Director of Communications at Idlewild Baptist Church in Tampa.

Churches of every size — replants and plants to multi-campus churches — plus ministries, denominational partners and mission-minded businesses. Recent work includes Epic Church, Oasis Church, Vision Church, Florida Baptist Financial Services and Legacy Roof SC. Read the Epic Church, Oasis Church, Vision Church, Florida Baptist Financial Services and Legacy Roof SC case studies.

Yes. Mission Creative serves churches across the United States; design, video, web and AI training happen remotely, and the team works on-site from Florida and New York.

Brand identity, sermon series and capital campaign creative, video production, audio/video/lighting and livestream systems, websites, SEO and AI search visibility, and AI training, workshops and coaching for church staff.

Yes — workshops, one-on-one coaching and team setups covering tools, prompts, workflows and an AI policy. See AI training for church teams.

Yes. We design the system and the Sunday workflow and train volunteers to run it. See the Vision Church case study.

Yes. We deliver layered, editable files your team can open in Canva, PowerPoint or ProPresenter, plus a short guide.

Every creative project gets a written scope and price before work starts. AI training starts at $150/hour for coaching, $750 per live workshop and $1,500 for a half-day in-person intensive.

Six to eight weeks for a sermon series, about twelve weeks for a capital campaign, four to eight weeks for a website.

Send a note through the contact form or email h@missioncreative.com. We'll set up a discovery call and send a proposal. Open the contact form.