I love Thursdays! Here’s why:
Creative Chaos.
This week I’d like to ask the portable church kids a question: Do you have any creative systems in place to maximize environmental potential and volunteer efficiency while constructing worship centers week in and week out?
The following are pictures of our two transformed dance studios. It worked out well, but took a LOT of time. Now that we’ve set the bar, my challenge is to figure out how to maintain it every week…without killing my volunteers.
We did some pretty ghetto audio arranging to make both rooms work… (we came out of the main board with a 100 foot snake into a second board in room two, where we remixed the mix from room one…) and we had a female vocalist & acoustic guitar in room two so they didn’t feel like they were just watching TV…avioms in both rooms…it was a long shot, but it worked. We also got some of these lights for room two, which are awesome.
How do you overcome your facility limitations to reach people for Jesus?
Here’s an 88 second clip, showing how things worked in both rooms:
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wait, so the musicians in both rooms were playing with each other? But from different rooms?
great idea - i love the way this opens up different feels in different rooms from one gathering. and way to maximize space!
Comment by jimkastkeat — March 27, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
yes, isn’t that nuts? we fed the live mix to room two (but on individual channels so we could remix the levels b/c the rooms are completely different.) then, in the 2nd room we added an acoustic guitar to the mix, and we cut out the female vocal from room one and added the live female vocal in room two. but yes, they were all playing with each other and could hear each other in their in-ears via avioms.
Comment by rebeccamoon — March 27, 2008 @ 1:34 pm
Amazing! We are in a portable situation and also place a high value on the environment.
We have been very intentional about recruiting non-band people to help us set up. We were finding that our musicians where getting fried with set-up, warm-up, worship then tear-down.
Our musicians are treated like pros. They show up and everything is all ready to go.
That has been huge for us…
Comment by Dave Milam — March 27, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
Yea, definitely see if you can develop a volunteer base that only does set-up and tear down. Once they do it for a while together as a unit, they will fly through it. I’ve been with a portable church for 8 years now, and our guys are nasty. It really does help the musicians too.
When it comes to the musicians, here’s my advice: Sell that tv and try and rent or find a bigger projector for it. The bigger it is, the less awkward it is. Also, i’d just bag the two extra musicians for the overflow room. We have a video cafe area where its just an extra room with more seating. If they know that they are going in there and it will be a screen with the music pumping through a system, they will be fine. Don’t be scared to take the element of the musicians in the second room away. It will appear more polished and together. With that many musicians and two locations, we’d be creating so many more opportunities for something to go wrong, and i definitely know how things can go horribly wrong! Try those out.
Comment by cdenning — March 27, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
Looks awesome. Great job.
Comment by Pete Wilson — March 27, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
OK. I have to admit. That was nuts.
Amazing job.
Bravo.
Los
Comment by Los — March 28, 2008 @ 1:16 am
look at you gettin’ props from everyone…yall deserve it! you want me to be your set-up/tear down team:)
Comment by Morgan — March 28, 2008 @ 7:29 am