Able Productions was formed to create a service the Church could use that would provide professional level production services at an affordable cost. The owner and founder Sean Massey has grown up in the Church and spent years improving his techniques and insight on what makes for an excellent worship service.

As a child he worked beside his father who had done lighting for the church for over 20 years. While developing his lighting design and programming skills, Sean was also growing as a musician and spending many hours of his high school years recording his band and other local artists. By his early 20′s he was working as a lighting director for the House of Blues in Hollywood. Around the same time Discovery Church of Simi Valley California hired him to help renovate the lighting and sound systems of their main room. Sean realized the potential of what he could help the local church to accomplish. He realized that many churches have the equipment, but don’t know how to use or implement it.

While playing keyboards for a youth conference called CIY (Christ In Youth) Sean sat with the bassist Jayme Lewis to watch a film the students were watching. The film was entitled Love Costs Everything, and was about persecution in the church worldwide. By the end of the film he said to Jayme “There has to be more, I need to do something more”. In only a month and a half Shepherd of the Hills of Porter Ranch California called Sean and asked what it would take to have him work as their lighting director. Sean explained that he would not leave Discovery Church since he was so vested in what they were doing. Shepherd of the Hills church was very understanding of this and worked with him to find a good compromise. This is when the idea first dawned on him that he could help the church beyond just one location and create a system in which he could duplicate himself by training up aspiring engineers to help other churches who have similar needs. This stayed as only an idea until Real Life Church of Valencia California called Sean and asked what it would take to have him on their team. Sean thought this would be a perfect time to share the business model he had been working on with them and see if they would go for it. After hearing his proposal, it didn’t take very long for them to decide that Sean was a good fit.

When asked how he came up with the name Able Productions, Sean responded with this “We are an enabler company. We don’t want to come in and push anyone out, but rather enable YOUR people to do more. This means that your people still run the services and are able to serve. We just give you the upper hand to succeed. In fact, I want my guys to be serving at their own home church on the weekends. The church is more than just a building; It’s a huge pep rally for God. So the more churches we can help, the better”.

Sean brought on his first intern and saw that this model was working. But soon he realized he wanted to do something more. Although he was helping the church, he wanted to do more than just share his talents and create a successful business. It was at the Catalyst conference that it struck him. God had always put on his heart to sponsor a child, but Sean always put it of for one reason or another. This time he decided “no more putting it off”, and right then and there he sponsored a child from India. Then it struck him “What if I sponsored a child for every contract we get through Able Productions? What impact could that have?”. He realized that this was a way for him to give back. So, built into the business model of Able Productions is just that. For every contract Able Productions signs with a church, they will sponsor a child. In this way they can partner with the church to enable them to do more with their resources and directly affect someone’s life just by using the service.