"An example of worship space" Video Transcript

Video Transcript 1b: Example of Worship Space

All right, I'm making a supplemental video, I've showed you things about space and church and services. So I thought I'd show you my space. This is the church that I serve. Right behind here, this whole building used to be a grocery store, we now rent some of the space, you can see over in the distance there, we rent that into the post office. So we have the post office in our building. This is our front end pathway church, we have things sort of decorated for Christmas. But we don't have snow this year. So anyway, I'm going to take you inside and show you some of the things. Some of the things that I talked about in the earlier video about space, and worship, how important that is, when you come in our space is just a little entryway here. Just basic kind of thing. 

Coming in, violin, we've started decorated things, put some things on the wall, sometimes we have, we put paintings on the wall, or we have invite artists to come in and do something just to get the community involved. Over here is sort of our general purpose space. We've been worshipping in here for the last six months, it's just a big space. Even lighting lighting is pretty much the same everywhere, just fluorescent lights. We met in here for six months. And this was what our worship space looked like, before we renovated we've been renovating for the last six months, trying to make it more a space that that actually is conducive for worship. I mean, you can worship anywhere. I mean, don't get me wrong. But if you do a few things to your worship space, it can enhance the whole experience. So anyway, come on in, we'll walk into the sanctuary. This is where we've been remodeling, you can see it's dramatically different than the space we just came from. There's way more interest everywhere you look. One of the things we did is we took the ceiling out and we painted it black. And so the ceiling sort of disappears and gives the illusion of a high ceiling, our ceiling really isn't that high. We took the floor out and we replaced our floor with these ceiling or these carpet tiles. And you see they don't match we've made kind of a pattern out of it. It's a lot cheaper that way and it just adds more interest to the space. We start out repeated that pattern on the walls, you see these little squares on the walls around the sanctuary. 

Those are sound deadening panels, especially for the if you have flat walls, the sound will come out of the speakers and bounce right off the off those walls. So we made sort of a decoration with that it sort of reflects the squares of the carpet. And then you'll notice our sound booth has the same kind of little squares. behind me here, that's actually pallet wood, that you know, trucks and so on carry things and and forklifts and so and lift, lift the stuff on pallets, and people throw those out. And we took a bunch of them, we took them apart, we stained them. And we made this interesting wall for our sound booth. And then we repeated that pattern. Up front. at a stage you can see our stage here and at a high stage just a foot and a half high. You see that pallet wood goes all the way around. And and one one thing you want to do with the with the sanctuary space is there's a lot of cool things you can do in terms of decorating and you know, art and so on. But in a worship space, you want it to say something, you know, at home, maybe a decorate you just like colors and you like certain shapes and so you just do it. But in a worship space, you want it to mean something. 

And for us, this pallet wood business that we used, pallets are sort of thrown away. It's junk, it's discarded. And we took what was junk or things that are discarded. And then we repurpose them and we made them into something beautiful. And that's really what God does with us. So this is sort of a symbolic of of what Christianity does, it can take something that the world thinks is worthless, and turn it into into something beautiful. So that's what we're trying to say with this kind of decorations. The walls are sort of a neutral gray a little bit darker, because we want to be able to control the light. We don't Want light everywhere we don't, one of the problems people have when they come to a church service is everything is lit up equally, and then their eyes wander and people are A.D.D., and they can't focus on anything. And so we want to help help them focus. So when you walk into our space, where are you going to look? See the whole lighting experience focuses you to the front, because that's where things are lit up. The lighting is very interesting. We'll talk about the LED lighting in the in the lighting section of this course. But just to give you a little, little preview of that, here's the lighting, sound board, I guess, I'll talk about how this works. 

But if you see the lighting up front, we can just change the lighting very easily, very quickly, somewhat dramatically. We can make it really bright, we can make it different colors, I have saved a lot of different kinds of lighting. Make it intimate lighting. Anyway, so we'll talk a little bit more about the whole lighting thing in another video. But I want to show you this whole design this space, by the way, you can see now is sort of our the horizontal we took a took the room and we're using it horizontally, the stage is right up there. And then all the chairs go around the stage before the front of the sanctuary was right over here. And and we set up the chairs and long rows going this way. And people were a long ways it wasn't wasn't it didn't have an intimate feel. It had your traditional, you know, old church look where you have the the altar and everything up front, and then everything comes away from that, we wanted more of an intimate feel. So when you're up on our stage, Everywhere you look, you get up on the stage. 

Everywhere you look, the people are sitting there sitting around you. So no matter which way I go, the people are sitting around me. I think you can see that a little bit. And the person on the stage is the most lit thing in the room. So when people are trying to pay attention, and they're trying to figure out what is being said, it's real easy to see where they should be focused. A lot of times you have light all throughout the room. And then the person speaking is in the darkest spot in the whole room. And then you wonder why people don't always pay attention. So we arranged things horizontally, we have the chairs fairly close to the front, it's only like five, six feet away from me, because we want this more intimate feel. Now you'll notice the the walls or the Yeah, the walls of our backstage, you see these kind of sail things. That's actually a it's a spandex kind of material. But the spandex material lights up when you when you put a light on it. So we can change the color. And the two big ones we actually use as our screen. So we have our I don't know if you can see those up there. But there's one of our projectors, and the projector shines on that screen right there and that screen over here. So we have two projectors, two screens. But when the projectors that are not being used, we just use that material as sort of a background. And that helps the foreground stand out. So you color the background. And then the person standing in front stands out or singing or whatever it is you're doing. 

Again, the whole goal is to create a space that's intimate where we where we can worship God, but not only worship God, but we want to, we want to do it together. If people just want to worship God, they could just stay home and put a tape on and sing their hearts up and some that's a good thing to do. But we come together, not to just listen to somebody we can listen on the radio, we can listen online, we can listen to a lot of great speakers, but we come to come together to be together. And so in our church, it's really all these people, that what it's about, and because our chairs are our, you know, sort of in the round, the whole thing is in the round, people not only see what's going on stage, but they see what's going on with the people around them. They see their neighbors, their friends, their relatives, their kids singing their hearts out. And so worship space is meant for something that promotes us doing it all together. So anyway, I just wanted to show you that and I'll be back in this space again to show you how this whole lighting thing works.