Cow Tipping Finale – Shawnee Mission Theatre in the Park 9/4

As a church with multiple campuses and multiple services we celebrated and worshiped together as 1 church in 1 location. It was the end of our series Cow Tipping.

The big idea for this series was that Jesus expects us to examine our beliefs in the light of scripture.

It was quite a large undertaking for our Production Team, whom I am extremely proud of. Not only this year did we setup the audio supplied by Harvest Production in conjunction with their installed system.

We also were graciously donated video walls and a 4 camera video system from Big Picture Productions to help bring the baptism experience closer to the audience.

The crew of about 20 started at 5am unloading the truck and we finished at 2pm packed back up and pulling out.

Here is a great timelapse from Wes:

The only problems we faced were troubleshooting our ProPresenter stage display confidence monitor setup for the lyrics. Wes (ATD) spent over an hour trying different configurations. We had set the whole thing up in the office and beta tested it to make sure we were solid when we got out there.

Final fix was to use a laptop next to the TV’s and screen share the ProPresenter stage display screen. It worked then right at the start of worship the worship leader turned on his 2.4ghz wireless transmitter for his guitar and bam gone. Dooo… It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but by that time we were 4 songs into the set.

The worship team went through the whole service with no lyric support on stage and no lyric sheets and did a great job!

What can we learn:

Setting up the day before would have given us more time to troubleshoot then pushing up to the wire. The video system was such a last minute add that we didn’t have the budget to rent the venue for the day before.

I am thankful to a ton a volunteers who rolled in at 5am for load in. Also to Wes Koetje for leading the charge on creating the content for video, video directing and being a amazing assistant TD. My wife for bringing breakfast and being willing to run backgrounds for me last minute. And Evan French who donated the video gear.

GEAR: