Services for the church are held at a variety of campuses ranging from high schools to community centres and entertainment venues and are produced primarily by volunteer "worship teams". While the sermon is delivered from the Grants Mill main campus in Birmingham, Alabama via the Internet, each campus worship team runs the program and services locally. "We wanted to create a passionate high-energy worship atmosphere with lighting that could be quickly loaded-in and loaded-out by volunteers every week," said Worster.
The main campus deploys Martin's MAC Viper moving head luminaires and MAC 250 wash lights. Worster also often specified the Viper series for youth conferences put on by the church, citing their optics and power. "We recently put on a youth conference in which we brought in 28 Auras and 18 Vipers," said Worster. "The Vipers offer great gobos, they are extremely punchy, and have incredible optics that deliver strong output and framing."
Martin's MAC 101 series wash lights are also used at each of the church's locations to ensure that volunteers can easily update positioning on short turnarounds. Worster also brought in the 101s for their ability to colour mix as well as for their efficiency because many of the campus locations have little to no infrastructure for large amounts of power consumption.
The Tuscaloosa campus features 16 101 RGBs on the upstage floor shooting on the ceiling above the stage, while the Woodlawn campus, a high school theater uses 8 101 WRMs for front wash as well. The Fultondale and Huntsville campuses feature 10 101 RGBs on trusses upstage as well as several 101 CTs downstage for front wash.
"The service Martin has provided to us has been incredible," summarized Worster. "The fact that Martin has a team specifically dedicated to the House of Worship market is huge for us-we feel like we have another ally on our team and I could not have imagined the success of our services without their help."
(Jim Evans)
