Rodolfo Hand
Rodolfo has led worship in Hampton Roads congregations since 2004 — first as a volunteer bassist in a Ghent house church, later as the full-time music director of a mid-sized congregation in Virginia Beach. He founded Emberlight in 2019 after watching too many worship teams collapse under the weight of trying to sound like someone else.
He lives in Norfolk with his wife and two teenagers, plays a battered 1998 Taylor 314, and believes the best worship service is the one nobody films.
Ordained: 2011, non-denominational.
Studies: M.A. in Worship & Theology, Regent University (2016).
Reads: Eugene Peterson, Marilynne Robinson, Fleming Rutledge, and — always — the Psalms.
Four convictions we won't quietly drop.
Small is not a stage on the way to big.
Most of the churches we serve seat under 200 people. That's not a limitation to overcome — it's a form of worship the American church is quietly losing.
Volunteers are not amateurs.
They're the people who make Sunday possible. Our coaching treats them like collaborators, not like a problem to be professionalized.
The pastor plans the service.
We don't hand you a bulletin template and leave. We sit at the table with your pastor and shape the flow together, week after week if that's what you need.
Truth first, then beauty.
A song that means something imperfectly sung is worth ten flawless renditions of something no one in the room believes.
We work locally, in person, on purpose.
Emberlight primarily serves churches within an hour of our Norfolk office — Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Hampton, and Newport News. We take on a small number of remote engagements each year for churches outside the region.
Office
4760 Allison Avenue
Norfolk, VA 23502
Hours
Monday – Friday
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET
Sunday visits by arrangement