A quick post about church production budgets. It’s an interesting quirk in churches – some of the most innovative lighting and staging that I am seeing comes from mid-sized churches, as opposed to the largest churches. I’m convinced that a big part of it is their budget – they have some money to build a solid look and feel, but not so much where they can afford to continually buy or rent gear. They have to continually ask themselves “what’s the best thing that I can do with what I have?,” and sometimes they come up with uniquely creative “outside-the-box” ideas.
Personally, I will occasionally rent, but will default towards buying things that can be consistently or at least periodically used. Truss – like the truss in the attached photo, for example – is a good expenditure in my mind. It can be used in a wide variety of different ways, and can serve as the base or structural support for lighting and/or lightweight staging. Versatility adds value.
Spend your production budget wisely – truss is a good bet.
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I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
Oh yeah - the name's Greg. Greg Wallace. But not the race car driver or the major league pitcher or the British celebrity chef. Just the creative worship guy. Hi.
It's my hope that these ideas, musings, rants, raves, etc... will inspire you. They're just my opinions - but again, I hope that they'll help to inspire you. Because the church really, really needs inspired creative types. If you're a creative type (and most people are, deep-down), ask God for help. Then take any ideas that are useful to you - borrow them, nab them, use them, adapt them - and make them into something greater...
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