So… What is Two Eight?

We’re a 501c3 non-profit missions organization, and we provide services like live music, media production, and live events (like conferences or festivals) to help ministries, non-profits and other organizations amplify their message and reach their audiences. We have 3 full-time staff, and dozens of musicians, media specialists and production engineers that make up our extended team.

Founded by Eric and Jillian Maitlen in 2005, our work started by being missional artists and performers doing outreach concerts and leading worship for various campus ministry and church events.

Over the years, we grew into a collective of artists and production specialists who worked together based on shared passion. Out of necessity, Two Eight began acquiring the equipment it took to tell our own story and produce events - sound equipment, cameras and lighting, projectors, an LED wall, staging, a headset comm system, etc.

So now, we’re able to provide those services to help other organizations with media, conferences, festivals or worship sessions where people can experience life change.

What does two eight do?

We help produce events and put together teams that lead musical worship, and our clients include campus ministries like Greek InterVarsity, Athletes in Action, and Cru as well as local organizations and churches.

We create media/film/video content that helps us and our partners tell their stories and connect with their audiences.

We help accelerate disciple-making movements with events, media and resources.

You do a lot in the area of addiction recovery. Why is that?

Through some personal family connections, we became acutely aware of the epidemic-level opioid addiction crisis in our state. And, we saw a need to find ways to connect people to resources and break the stigmas associated with addiction and with getting help.

In-person live music events create a fun, family-friendly place for people in those communities to gather. At these events, people can celebrate comeback stories, hear from leaders in the mental health and addiction recovery spaces, and find local resources for their recovery journey. And since faith is one of the many pathways to recovery, there’s room for us to talk about what we believe, without being heavy-handed.

Ultimately, we want to help people experience not only recovery, but redemption.

Those events and partnerships have earned us a lot of relational equity with leaders of local and state organizations across Indiana, and we’ve become trusted partners in creating events that accelerate what they’re doing.

Why “Two Eight”?

It's a reference to Psalm 2:8, which says: "Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession."

We have a great desire to help take God’s kingdom to the entire Earth. Two Eight’s early work involved international missions, and our staff have performed concerts in over 25 countries, spanning 5 of the 7 continents. We hope to get overseas many more times in the future.