Booking Information

If you are interested in bringing Jerry to your community, please contact him at (509) 525-0709 or e-mail him at: jerry@onefamilyoutreach.com. Jerry offers multiple types of events for both secular and religious groups. This includes keynotes, concerts, retreats and extended trainings.

Workshop and Keynote Needs

Jerry likes to move through the audience when he talks - asking questions and including responses into the presentations. Workshops are also very interactive so it is good if participants can turn and speak with each other. In workshops, Jerry also frequently uses visual aids so please consider providing a digital overhead projector. This is also a good way to project participative songs for your group (Jerry has a laptop computer and many song lyrics loaded on it already).

Keynotes Needs

In keynotes, as well as concerts, one real important key is always setting the stage and the atmosphere. A bad atmosphere can make an event so much harder to succeed. What helps an event?

Lighting and Seating

• Centralized lighting during the presentations should be focused on the stage or speaking area. Colored lighting that reflects the mood of the topic are really an asset as well.
• A stage should not be busy… but it should have an inviting backdrop and definite sides to the viewing area. Even a dead gym can be turned into a relaxed concert setting if there is a nice backdrop, a riser for the stage and the stage has the appearance of sides that focus the viewer on the central area.
• Seating for the crowd should be respectful of the audience. To be seated on the floor is uncomfortable - even for middle school youth - it tempers their attention span. Always treat youth as though they are adults.

Sound

• 1000 watt amp with speakers. If your room is larger than 10,000 square feet or you think that the audience will be larger than 1,000 - the standard rule is 100 watts per each additional 100 people. Plan to a higher level - it would be terrible to go through such trouble to have a concert and then have no one able to clearly hear the presentation.
• Stage monitor
• Jerry requires (3) boom stands and (3) microphones - Shure SM 58's are the best microphones (a high quality headset microphone leaves Jerry room to move around the audience).
• Jerry travels with his own guitar but not his own keyboard. Please have a quality piano (with microphones) or weighted keyboard available.
• Your sound system should have at least 8 channels with effects (chorus or reverb) for the voice.
• All necessary cables and routing equipment
• Please have water available for Jerry on stage.

Personal Needs

Please put Jerry in a hotel, it doesn’t have to be fancy, but he prefers a high-speed internet or " wi-fi" connection so that he can keep up with his work and stay in touch with his family while on the road. Jerry also runs daily and exercises daily if that makes any difference in your choice of hotels.

Jerry needs a per diem for meals and will request that your group pay transportation and lodging. His rates are adjustable, but he generally asks $1500 U.S. per weekend, with an additional negotiable amount per diem. Extended contracts are available and Jerry prefers to make a longer-term commitment to an area. As such he prices himself accordingly. We want to provide an in-depth quality event that will have a lasting impact.

“In-Residence” events, weekly, or longer rates are negotiable.

For additional questions, please contact jerry.