According to the Hartford Institute for Religion Research which has several statistics regarding United States church sizes as measured by attendance. http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/fastfacts/fast_facts.html#sizecong Approximate Distribution of U.S. Protestant and Other Christian Churches by size (excluding Catholic/Orthodox) ATTENDANCE # OF CHURCHES WEEKLY WORSHIPERS PERCENT 7-99 177,000 9 million 59% 100-499 105,000 25 million 35% 500-999 12,000 9 [...]
Soundman/woman, what are the main skills you need so that the overall service or event is as best as can be technically achieved? We tech folks typically really concentrate on tech things and can easily get absorbed into the gear, settings, and tweaking everything. Some of this is needed to achieve excellence. But those non-tech [...]
Below is the answer to one simple question. Now this puts the 80/20 rule back into perspective! From Brian: We talked about most of this on the phone, but HH2 will also give you a compressor for Marcus! I would assume Marcus will come out front (and is ideal to get him separate from the [...]
What does it take to come up to speed for everything, sound wise, to flawlessly execute a large churches contemporary worship service? Much more than most people realize! My wife and I joined the church this past May that Brian is the Audio Director for. I ran sound under his watchful eye for the first [...]
This past Sunday was the first day I was assigned to do sound in our churches Video Venue service. This service is held in the youth auditorium, the H2O Auditorium which is named after the youth group. The Video Venue service has it’s own worship team and then we watch a video recorded earlier in [...]
Here we are on the plane on the way home from the Word of Life Church installation. It is about 76 hours since we started the trip. We put in three long days of work starting with 15.5 hours on Thursday, 10 hours on Friday and about 4.5 today and an hour or so of [...]
Writing a blog entry on a crowded plane is an interesting experience. The iPod Touch with decent sound isolating ear buds helps. We are on our way to complete the installation of a sound system at Word of Life (WOL) church in Surprise, Arizona. I will try to minimize my use of Surprise puns for [...]
What is the goal of the church technical team? To enable and enhance the worship experience so that the following can be a reality (Sean Feucht blog post 2/20/09): But as we began to sing together and flood the atmosphere with the goodness, glory and truth of who HE is, I could see frequencies and [...]
Sitting at KFA with my wife during the rehearsal for the morning service. A bit of a change from our small church experience. Of course this is the norm for Brian who is the Audio Director on staff at KFA. We have done many large events with our live sound rig, but this is like [...]
Here I am sitting at our local small church, Holy Spirit Community Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin waiting for the worship team to arrive for the preservice sound check, practice, prayer, etc. I’ve been here all afternoon since the morning service to setup for this event. Our small church does not use a live worship team [...]