Sun 2 Jul 2006
Light and Life moves to the Gym
Posted by Andrew Mitry under AudioVisual, Light and Life
Our Sunday young adult meeting, Light and Life, moved out of the basement (the room was limited to 97 seats) to the gym. I am excited about the gym, it is going to give us an opportunity to have live praise and worship and a real flexibility with the space. The biggest benefit is having space to grow, two weeks ago we had 10 people sitting in the hall outside the classroom. This week we had setup the stage, a 12′x12′ screen and 120 chairs. We weren’t expecting too high a turnout because of the holiday weekend, so we thought it was the perfect time to change around rooms so as to minimize the chaos. Everything went great, thank God and everyone liked the setup in the new space.
Father Anthony gave a great summary on his Unlocking the Da Vinci Code series, and we concluded with a hilarious promo clip on our upcoming American Idol series that we purchased from Sermonspice (Unfortunately, the link I have is dead and I can’t seem to find it online anymore).
We are hoping to add live video and audio streaming as well as podcasting, the additional space will be nice as we add equipment (on carts).
July 5th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
Found the link for the Religous Idol promo clip…
http://www.bluefishtv.com/MediaPlayer.aspx?cid=1138
July 8th, 2006 at 5:01 am
Our church in Chicago met in the gym (they still do, though they outgrew it by adding a second service) of the old Catholic high school that they bought. Every Sunday one of the Care Groups would do the set up. We had large vinyl “tarps” that we would put down to protect the floor. This is my first time hitting your site (thanks for the link in the sidebar!!), so I didn’t read enough to know if you own the building you’re in or if you lease it. If you own it, you may want to look at a way to protect that beautiful floor you’ve got there!
July 8th, 2006 at 8:00 am
We do own the building we are in, we used to use the vinyl tarps for events in the gym, but we found them to be a lot of headache to keep clean. Right now our facilities manager has the floor coated with several extra layers of wax which he says should protect for now. We are looking at a clear expoxy coating for the long term. I think if the epoxy won’t work we will probably have to go back to the tarps. you are welcome for the link, I enjoy reading your blog.