Fenton ... finished

A panaramic view of the main room at the Windsor Crossing Fenton campus. This angle does not compliment the size or detail of the room but gives you an idea. Picture taken during service run through on November 8th. Great design, nice acoustics, good tech systems and great people... @wcrossingFenton.

Fenton Update

A panoramic view of the progress happening at the new Windsor Crossing Fenton campus. Peek real hard and you will see the loudspeakers hanging over the stage with plastic around them. The booth on the left side of the picture will be where Front of House is located.

form vs. function

I posted about this a few weeks ago, Authentic worship production...saying that it seems we are at the beginning of another shift in church technology. The cause of this shift stems for the desire in churches across the country to move from production focused to authenticity based experiences in their services. That doesn’t mean that the production aspect is less quality, it just becomes less showy or ‘ta-da’ and more solid in expressing that authenticity. In other words, we are moving away from form and back to function.

Ben Arment at his blog www.benarment.com blogged about Creative Revearsal.....atleast for a season. It is a thought provoking post along with some great comments from his readers.

It seems that this 'shift' I was blogging about earlier continues to move forward. We desire to move beyond the form of our worship and get to the basic function of our worship. Form will engage all of us at some level. Function will fill that void that all of us long for. Sometimes getting it all out of the way so you and God can commune is what you have to do......

Now, dont be fooled. I am a full time technical director for a local church. Technology and the weekend experience is what I get paid to do. Creating engaging enviorments through the use of tech and media that others can connect with God and others is a passion. I guess all I am saying is we can't be so tied to one form and realize that striping all the gear and video away is a form all it's own.

Can You Feel It

From the weekend services at Windsor Crossing...the team doing david crowder band's Can You Feel It



and as always...audio is just a board feed....not as good as the mix live!

Check out the handycam view that was in the room as well

live to tell.....

For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will
believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just
as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may
believe that you have sent me."
John 17:19-21

leadership training....

Leadership training seems to be the theme of my week starting after Labor Day weekend.

I will be kicking off the new ministry year with a Tech Team Leadership meeting. We will be gathering our volunteer and paid leaders on Tuesday, September 8th to share vision, discuss the upcoming launch of the multi-site campus, Christmas, team structure and for us to brainstorm some other team issues.

On 09/09/09, I will be watching over 75 church leaders share their passion during The Nines The theme? "If you had nine minutes to talk one-on-one with thousands of church leaders, what is the one thing that you would tell them? The result is a series of passionate and personal messages that will help you and your church navigate into the future."

I will finish up the week attending The Forum, Life Church's leadership conference featuring twelve dynamic leaders in our culture.

These two leadership training opportunities happen online and are FREE. Yup, almost 100 leaders speaking into your life and sharpening your leadership gifts from the comfort of your location for the price of $0.00. I can not wait for this week....spending it with my tech leadership team and then the three days of some of the best leaders around.

As I type this, I am in an email conversation with leadership @wcrossing about how we set up an area within our church that staff and lay leaders can come be a part of both online events...it makes it even better.

Will you be attending?

authentic worship production....

It seems we are at the beginning of another shift in church technology. The cause of this shift stems for the desire in churches across the country to move from production focused to authenticity based experiences in their services. That doesn’t mean that the production aspect is less quality, it just becomes less showy or ‘ta-da’ and more solid in expressing that authenticity. It takes vision and sensitivity to accomplish that…and a lot of hard work.

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