I want to highlight a couple of churches that have REALLY cool and beautiful worship spaces, that are a more traditional smaller, longer room with vaulted ceilings, lots of wood accents, and warm lighting.  The two churches are First United Methodist of  Mansfield, TX and Pinedale Christian Church of Winston-Salem, NC.  Both churches have a main sanctuary apart from this more traditional room, but these rooms are still used quite a bit for ministry, and both have worship services in them.

You don’t have to have giant white walls to surround your vision with appropriate imagery for visual worship. Every room is different; but I wanted you to see how Environmental Projection can even work in here.

FUMC Mansfield just completed installing their Environmental Projection system in their room (called the Chapel), and I wanted this to hopefully be an encouragement to you if your church happens to have a room like this, or if this is your main worship space.  The room has a 4000 lumen projector hitting the entire back wall behind the band.  The effect is beautiful!  There were a few challenges to overcome – such as making sure the audio and lighting did not shadows.  There is a center rear-projection screen for lyrics that is flush with the stone wall.  The stone wall is also a feature of the room that does dictate imagery that can be used.  But, it’s part of the room – and I like that. Brian Certain and his team at the church are a FANTASTIC group of people who get it, and it was a blessing to work with them.

I won’t tell you that you have to have a flat blank white wall.  But I will guide you through what imagery will look great, and what imagery might not look the way supposed to.

Pinedale Christian Church has a room that is almost identical, and this week while I was out sharing my heart and designing the system for their campus, I referred back to FUMC Mansfield and how the same look could be achieved.  The pictures were taken just during the demo; but the final result will be near exact to this.  The lighting and audio needs to be moved up, but that is a small task.

I love how this Awake Image fit perfect into the curved wood beams on the back wall.

In both rooms; that look is achieved with one projector.  I hope that’s an encouragement to you if your sanctuary looks similar. Now remember – it’s much more than simply shining a projector on a wall. There is a specific way to approach what type and how bright of a projector you need, as well as how to mask it and where.  The reason why these images look so cool is because we chose appropriate imagery that fit the room, the vibe of the church community, and style of worship that will be taking place.