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 [...]
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 [...]
From the heat of Arizona to hot events in Wisconsin, July is a very busy month. Our Arizona installation appears to be working well. As of several weeks ago the church was very happy with the sound quality and capabilities. We arrived back in Milwaukee around midnight, got to bed around 2 a.m. And back [...]
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 [...]
As I grew up in a Lutheran environment, our services were repetitive and very traditional. Now that was a “few” years ago of course. In April my wife Terri and I visited her sisters church. Her sister was playing keyboard for a Contemporary Lutheran Worship Service. I must admit that my expectations were that they [...]