SOUND SOLUTIONS
ACTION CHURCH CHOOSES ALLEN & HEATH, PART 2 | Doug Doppler
Technology & Worship
In case you missed Part 1, you can read it here. serving on that team. Not only is all of this key a Church that has a servant culture that is
In the meantime, here’s a brief recap. Action to understanding Action Church’s astronomical reflected from the top down. Sadly, this tends
Church is four years young, just launched their growth, it’s the key to understanding how you not to be the norm, but again if we choose to
fourth campus, and has a weekly attendance of can leverage what they’re doing to supercharge look at what they’re doing in terms of how it
3,500-4,000 people! We also talked about how your own team, so let’s get to it! can benefit what we’re doing it is a win. While
technology is impacting what we do on Sunday
I’m not suggesting creating a subculture, most
as well as what we share with the rest of the Let’s face it, Pastors and key Church leaders sound teams do have an internal culture that
world via streaming, YouTube and social media. don’t always have tech teams in mind when reflects who they are, and impacts the quality
In this installment we really wanted to speak to they make decisions that impact what we do. of the serve experience for the team members.
the smart moves that have formed the culture How many Churches have you walked into Being conscious of ways to improve that serve
and values that have led to and sustained where the sound desk is not centerfield, need I experience but stay within the overarching
Action Church’s meteoric growth. Whether say more? But, like the snarky comments from vision of your Church is the key! That’s why I
you lead a sound team, or serve on one, it’s the platform about muted mics or perhaps want to encourage you to look at what Action
important to understand that Action Church’s the lack of appreciation that sound teams are Church is doing right in order to understand
success doesn’t happen one Sunday at a among the first to arrive and the last to leave, their DNA, and in turn see the things they’re
time, it happens one person at a time. In we get to choose how we react to this kind of doing that would fit within the vision of your
turn, regardless of the size and aspirations of stuff and in turn how we allow it to impact our Church. Maybe you don’t need to hear that,
your Church (and there is a big need for small team’s culture. We get to choose! but trust me, I’ve seen enough sound tech
Churches that are happy ‘just the way they
meltdowns to know that we need to find a
are’), a great sound team is not measured So why then am I parading Action Church way to be OK with things not being OK, so we
by the quality of the sound on Sunday, it’s around like an award winning pony? Because can fix the problems that we can fix and trust
measured by the quality of the experience of it is a truly lovely thing when you can look at God to do His part to fix the ones He wants
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