What is Good Design and How Does It Impact Your Church Facility?
Take a new look at your facility and apply some creative design ideas to raise both the form and the function of your building. What is good design and how does it impact your church facility? We...
View ArticleDefining Good Church Design: Measuring Your Facilities’ Form & Function
Both form and function need to be equal partners – often at great tension with each other- that need to be brought together harmoniously to create great design. The American architect Louis Sullivan...
View Article3 Important Things To Consider Before You Build
The excitement of embarking on a building project can lead to rushing the process, thus not taking the time to ensure these three important things are covered. Embarking on a building project should be...
View ArticleWhat Does A Worship Leader REALLY Want From a Church Tech?
Recently, I’ve been doing an informal survey on this topic, asking worship leaders for their views on working with techs at their churches. What does a worship leader want out of a tech? According to...
View ArticleRecruiting Church Volunteers: Knob Twisters or Team Members?
Explore motivational strategies in recruiting people who will prove to be creative, engaged and committed. I was recently thinking about a something I watched take place several years ago – the...
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Facility = Function and Feeling
The combination of physical elements and the emotions one experiences from their surroundings can shape the the comfort level from beginning to end. When you enter a church, or for that matter any...
View ArticleHow Often Should You Renovate a Church Facility?
Practical guidelines to help you determine when it’s really necessary for you to update or renovate your space. Is it really an absolute necessity to update or renovate my 15-year-old building? The...
View ArticleDiscerning The Reasons for A Building Project
Generally, a building project is birthed out of growth that is happening in the ministry. However, that excitement can lead to a desire to rush the process and, perhaps, a failure to take necessary...
View ArticleThe Path To Worship Mix Success
A great mix is the sum of a whole lot of components in addition to pushing faders and twiddling knobs… After mixing sound at worship services for more than three decades, and teaching dozens of others...
View ArticleWhen Scents Make Sense For Church
What does your church smell like? Is it a pleasing aroma? Research shows that a visitor will be able to recall the scent from your service far longer than the look of the building. I am headed to a...
View ArticleCut Down On The Noise—Simplify
“It’s been said many times but bears repeating: “Technology is best when it’s transparent.” As I’m sure is the case with many of you, my life is quite hectic right now, packed beyond capacity with...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Regularly Testing Cables
Why let one of the least expensive aspects of a system be its weakest link? Operating the sound system from the mix position during a recent Sunday worship service, it all began when the first note...
View ArticleEvaluating Our Abilities And Starting Fresh In The New Year
As the new year draws near what challenges will you face? I’m not rally a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, primarily because when I make them they tend to last about 1 – 2 weeks. However I do like...
View ArticleWorship Leader vs. Tech Director
I have been in sound checks and rehearsals where the tension in the air was so tight that it was palpable. Worship Leader Vs Tech Director. Who leads who? At a Leadership seminar I attended, Bill...
View Article5 Ways to Instill A Call to Ownership in Your Church Facility
It really is great when people take ownership of your church, they take initiative and responsibility. They take notice and treat things better. After all isn’t that why we say, “treat it like your...
View ArticleThe Art and Science of Audio
Just what is the real art and science of great audio? The author narrows the discussion down to a one-word solution. One of my favorite sayings: “Audio is an art that everyone thinks is a science,...
View ArticleWhat is Good Design and How Does It Impact Your Church Facility?
Take a new look at your facility and apply some creative design ideas to raise both the form and the function of your building. What is good design and how does it impact your church facility? We...
View ArticleChurch Etiquette For Parking Lots
Traffic flow can greatly influence how a ministry functions. Here are four keys to developing a parking lot plan to ensure a safe, timely and engaging welcome. At an earlier point in my life I was...
View ArticleWhen Our Tech World Is Turned Upside Down
Sometimes things can be going so well and then when something goes wrong. well… Most of us who have been involved in church production have had at least one mistake or failure during a service (I have...
View ArticleTechnical Upgrades: How and When
How and when to upgrade…. Over the past year the church I serve at has gone through a number of upgrades and expansion of the technical systems. Some of them were necessitated because of the growing...
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