Thursday, June 30, 2011

Concerning Projection In Churches

By Alisia Woodlin


Over the past 10-15 years, the use of projection software had a great impact to people, even making worship more effective in touching their senses.It has been nearly three decades that some large congregations are using multimedia presentations, and in line with this, smaller congregations too have started to make use of projection.

Primarily, the financial factor became the hindrance. It is because the video projectors and the necessary software are very expensive things that smaller congregations can't afford. Churches nowadays, may it be a big or a small church, are now capable of buying multimedia devices that are necessary to enrich worship and ministry for these products of technology have considerably dropped their prices as latest products of the same kind enters the market.

The following are the most common uses of projectors:

1. Displaying the full lyrics of the song.

Because of the presence of the lyrics that are projected on the screen or the all of the chapel or auditorium or sanctuary, worship leaders would even have more freedom in introducing new songs easily without giving everybody any song book or hymnals. Another thing here is that, there is no need for someone to flip even a single page in the song book. This totally suits to more expressive worshipers since they can freely do the actions that they want.

Now, with the use of projectors, worship leaders can make a whole new worship experience for everyone since this allows them to be more created in the songs and even more in the lining up of the songs. It is true that music itself is not worship. But through the use of music, church leaders can create an environment that is more conducive for worship.

2. Gives More Meaning top the Message.

The use of projection is a great help to people who learn visually and to the people who loves taking down notes. For people to even more understand the key points of the sermon, most pastors have made use of the Microsoft PowerPoint.Many pastors also projects quotes and Scripture passages while they are being read. Through oral and written communications of the message of God, the paste can even more stress out the message of the sermon to the people.

3. Facilitating announcements.

To further facilitate the announcement, the full announcement will also be displayed in the screen or wall during the time that the announcer is reading the announcements. But there are also this cases wherein, there will be no announcement time, but then certain announcements are made through the a loop, after and before the service. But then, there are also this churches that use both styles to even more inform the people.

4. Showcasing video presentations.

The use of video presentation opens the churches to a very wide variety of choice may it be any illustration that would even more explain a message, or a testimony of a person, or a promo of anything, There are now online video producing companies that are helping out churches in obtaining its goals towards humanity and divinity. It has been also a fact that these video producing companies charge professional fees, but then there are some that offers it for free.




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