Resources
The following are resources that I created while on staff as the Production Director at First Assembly of God in Cedar Rapids, IA. I hope to update and add resources from my current church, Victory Worship Center in Tucson, AZ soon. If there is anything you want to see that I might have created, please ask and if I have it I will be happy to post it. I am only posting files that have been requested of me.
Volunteer Job Descriptions – In an effort to make serving in our department as simple and straightforward as possible, we created this position description sheet so that people interested in serving with us could know exactly what roles were available and what was expected of them. This document was last updated in 2009 before I left 1st Assembly.
1st Assembly of God volunteer Description 07-05-09
Organizational Chart – The overall vision I had for our department was to build healthy, effective, capable and rotating teams to meet the ministry needs presented at our church while growing our relationships with God and each other. The vision essentially was to create a small group mentality within our serving teams so that the relationships within the teams were held to equal value as the ministry we did. In order to create this document in 2007, we sat down over a few meetings and as a team determined all of the things that we currently had to accomplish, all of the things we could do with what was already in place, and the things we wanted to be able to do in the future. We also discussed as a team what a healthy rotation of service was, and it was decided by our group as a whole that 3 week rotations were right for us. This document was a result of that brainstorming and shows how many people it would take to do everything we wanted to do currently and in the future while having everyone serve on a 3 week rotation. Our teams more than doubled in the 2 years following this process and the creation of this document. I firmly believe that as people have the opportunity to serve with their friends and people they care about, recruiting from within comes naturally because everyone loves what they are doing.
Production Org Chart – PDF Version Production Org Chart – doc version
Class PowerPoints
Building Technical Teams
Leading Technical Artists
Keys Audio Success
Audio 101: Fundamentals
The Source: Mic Technique For Great Sound
Visual Worship Spaces
I am a husband, father, and leader of technical artists. The views expressed here are mine and are not intended to represent the views of anyone else.
Hi Duke
You have amazing ideas. Do you mind if I translate some (like portions of your blog) to Brazilian Portuguese and share with the Brazilian Churches?
Go for it Carlos!!! Let me know if I can help.
What is striking equipment I can not find a definition of what it is or what they are or do I know that I should know. Please Help Thanks
Hey James,
“Strike” is a theatrical term. I’ll let Wikipedia give the definition:
Strike: to remove a set piece or from the stage (“Strike that chair.”) To “strike the show” is to disassemble the entirety of the set, return all equipment to storage and leave the venue as it was before the show was set up. May be used as a noun to refer to the event at which the show is struck.
Good question! Sometimes I forget that I’ve been doing this long enough that all of the industry code language isn’t commonly known. In fact, if you want to increase your knowledge of “professional” stage terms, Wikipedia’s page is pretty solid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stagecraft/Terminology/List_of_theatre_terms#S
Thank You Sir for your time and answer
Duke
I am using a Mackey 32 channel board an older one, using CDs to record and I am wanting to use a computer to record we have mac computers and use garage band to edit what would you suggest there are only xlr and 1/4 in no USB or FireWire plugs thanks for your time. James
If you’re just trying to record a stereo feed out of your soundboard, I would use something like a M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB Pre-Amp to run audio from the console outputs into the Pre-Amp and into Garage Band. If you’re trying to record every channel individually, that will get a lot more complicated. If you’re sound board has direct outputs for every channel, it may be doable (though clunky). Does that help? Let me know if you have more questions.