Snippet from the posting at EchoHub:
This Christmas Eve, Salem Lutheran Church here in Texas (with an Echo Hub reader or two on staff) tried something pretty interesting. Joel Wetzstein, SLC’s Director of Worship & Integrated Communications, told me the team set out to do two things:
- Leverage the church’s new organizational structure, which combined Worship, Communication, IT, and Production Technologies into one department.
- Put Salem Lutheran School’s 54 iPads to good use during Christmas.
That’s where the idea for an iPad-driven video wall came in. While doing some research, the team discovered Sofftech A.S., a company in Istanbul that had coordinated large iPad video walls in the past. Joel and the team worked with Sofftech’s Çağdaş Timurlenk on the software development, and also went to work coordinating the music, video, and choreography elements of what they had in mind.
How far are you and your church/org willing to extend the creative energies within your communities? How does this provoke you to step out further?
One of the kinks that you tend to run into when you have a Sunday schedule like ours (i.e., visiting many churches/fellowships per month), is that of the holiday season. You have some groups which do a great job of trying to center their communities on the “holy” part of the holidays. Then, you have others who seem like they are doing everything they can to get rid of that materialistic mentality all-to-common for this time of year. IMO, if every church simply observed Advent, that might not be so hard to do.
A few notes before the holiday pause:
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Just Spend Today in Thankful Reflection
Friday, December 25th, 2009Call me a bit of a non-conformist, but I really don’t so much want to wish you a merry Christmas as much as I just want to thank Jesus directly for gifting Himself to us. Upon enough thankful reflection, I’m sure you’d agree with the perspective. Or at least join in the praise
Tags: choirs, Christmas, music
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