Calvary Church Communications Blog

Good Friday & Easter In Communications

For Good Friday and Easter, we did a couple of things in the Communications / Video world that I thought might be of interest.

For Good Friday, we used a 30 ft wide by 10 ft tall screen in the center of our stage. We projected motion backgrounds on it during worship and also used it for a video / drama combo piece. It required us to create separately exported content for the big center screen and the side screens - which required a lot of rendering and exporting. Here are some photos of the middle screen video from our balcony. These photos are on my facebook account...so you get some bonus photos of my family nailing their "thank you" prayer to Jesus on the cross).

For Easter (and for the weeks leading up to Easter), we used a similar set up with 3 smaller center screens. Again, lots of rendering and exporting.

To accomplish the sync between the center screens and side screens content, we used several Macs with Renewed Vision's Pro Video Player (and PVP Network Node). It worked exactly as billed and after a little set-up time, it was great!

One thing that we didn't do this year that we typically do was a big newspaper advertising campaign. It will be interesting to see as things shake out as to whether that was a good idea. I have a feeling with all of the noise that is happening in the world that newspaper advertising isn't as beneficial as it once was and that word-of-mouth (viral) marketing will be our avenue of choice for the future.

All in all, it was a great Holy Week, though exhausting for our ministry, and we saw lots of lifechange.

March & April Update

We've been busy in the Calvary Communications Ministry this past month. We are excited about the things God allowed us to see in do.

We were privileged to support the candidacy and announcement of Pastor Terry as our new Lead Pastor. His blog has recently launched (www.TerrySanderson.com) to help you hear from his heart. 

We've also been busy with some exciting things with the Prayers of Jesus message series. We assisted with the creation of a very cool stage design using Renewed Vision's Pro Video Player multiple screen controlling system. It works very well and I highly recommend it. Creating content for the multiple screens was a lot of fun and I'm excited about the ideas that our Creative Team has for using that system in the near future.

We also launched Calvary Church's Facebook and Twitter (@calvaryonline for all you Tweeps out there) online presence. We're looking forward to exploring ways that we can use these tools to keep connected with the Calvary family.

A couple of us also made the journey to Ontario Canada to make a video with Pastor Terry that you'll be seeing very soon. It was a great experience to hear and see what the future holds for Calvary and for North Park Church in Canada.

Currently, we're in the middle of video and graphics production to support our Good Friday and Easter services. I'm confident that God is going to do an amazing work for His reknown this Easter. Isn't it an awesome thing to serve a Risen Savior!

Coming soon is Calvary's Esther message series. We've already begun the planning for that series and we will begin the work on the communications elements very soon.  Stay tuned, we'll be in touch!