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Author: Anthony D. Coppedge

Lamps (not bulbs)

Lamp technology has gone through significant leaps in technology over the last several years, and the new technologies have created much longer lamp life, and a host of other caveats and pitfalls. I feel a mini-article coming on, so here I go: It used to be that a projector manufacturer would say 1,000 hours was…

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Planning Weekend Experiences

Does your Pastor use a Creative Team to help craft the weekend experience at your church? Does your team plan out sermon series, music, videos and events well in advance? Chances are, your Pastor is overloaded with studying for the weekend, managing the staff, meeting with members and handling the day-to-day of today’s church. I…

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It’s Knowing How to Say It

“Vegas has nothing to say, but they know how to say it,” says Ed Young, Jr., Founding Pastor of Fellowship Church (my home church), “and the Church has everything to say, but typically doesn’t know how to say it.” Boy is that sad but true! Because I travel and speak at various conferences all over…

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Why Most Churches….

There is a saying that churches buy a sound system three times. The first is the one the building “comes with” that was most likely designed by the general contractor or a local music store. A well-meaning but ill-experienced volunteer who adds some new Radio Shack equipment that has pretty lights typically installs the second…

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Implementing Media

Have a defined vision, purpose and plan for using Media. That’s it. If the church leadership has a desire to use Media, then there must be a clear vision, attainable goals and operating budget established. 1) Vision If the desire is to be ‘cool’ or ‘do what ABC Church is doing’, then I’d question the…

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How Much Media Budget?

The concept of Media budgets is relatively new (aside from broadcast oriented churches), and the amounts jump dramatically from church to church. So how much should you set aside for your Annual church Media budget? The best way to answer that is to look at what drives the budget. Budgets for churches are driven by…

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Projector Connections

Simple, yet legitimate questions about projectors are often the ones that are assumed. A subscriber of mine once asked me what sorts of connectors should be on a projector. First, the projector should be DATA and VIDEO compatible. This is the de-facto standard in today’s projectors, but it never hurts to ask. The physical types…

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