Matt Llinas is the Executive Creative Arts Director at GRACE Church Bethlehem. Born and raised on Long Island, Matt loves using art and design to point people to God's truth and creativity.
Matt earned a B.B.A. in Marketing from Baruch College and started his career at the Luis Palau Association, designing print and digital pieces for outreach events around New York billboards, brochures, merch, and banners, for events at Radio City Music Hall, Central Park SummerStage, and Times Square.
Since then he's worked in both the private sector and the local church. At Kolstein Music in New York, he handled branding, marketing, and client relationships for a shop that provides fine string instruments to the New York Philharmonic and Broadway show orchestras. He also designed the branding and social campaign for C3, Fellowship Church's creative conference in Dallas.
Matt sees creative work in the church as helping people connect the dots of their faith. Every graphic, video, and song is one dot on the page, and when they line up they tell the full story of the gospel and who Jesus is. At GRACE he leads the design, production, and modern worship teams every Sunday.
Matt and his wife Alona live outside of Philadelphia. When he's not at the church you'll probably find him playing volleyball somewhere in the greater philly area, where he plays in a few local leagues. He and Alona love to travel, and they're always up for a concert or hunting down a new restaurant.
