How many screens are there in your sanctuary?

Do you have more than one screen in your church's sanctuary? What's on them?

I'm particularly curious how churches use screens with different content. For example, my church has four screens on stage:

Left/Right: 16x9, showing primary slides, video feed during sermon. These two always show the same thing.

Center: Very wide (32x9?) screen used for duplicate of lyrics on primary during songs, and thematic illustration during sermon.

TV: 16x9 television directly behind the pastor with sermon points and Bible verses (captured in video of pastor, and thus re-projected to left/right during service)

What does your church use?

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

MJ. Smith

Normally no screens at all [:O]

Lee

In two city church I regularly visit on trips:

Left/Right: 16x9, showing primary slides, video feed during sermon. These two always show the same thing.
Center: Very wide (32x9?) screen used for duplicate of lyrics on primary during songs, and thematic illustration during sermon.

In another:

Left/Right: 16x9, showing primary slides, video feed during sermon. These two always show the same thing.
Center: none

In all of them, there are offstage screens flashing lyrics or presentation slides, for the speaker / worship team. Occasionally short messages can be sent to that screen, e.g. emergency announcements, time countdown.

Robert Harner

Above: screen on right and left (off screen) and in front of the cross a screen drops down for Scripture

Below: on the right is the left screen and 2 monitors on the balcony.

Floyd Johnson

Normally, no screen. We have one HDTV for occasional use - such as lyrics for a hymn not in our hymnal.

James Hiddle

Man Jesus in 4K resolution [:P] [:D]

Mark Smith

Just one. 16:9 in the center.

SineNomine

No screen at all, as we usually understand screens.

Our 'screens' are walls with sacred art on them.

Erwin Stull, Sr.

My primary church currently has none, with 1 16x9 planned. My secondary church (that we visit when unable to get to our primary church) has 2 4x3 Left/Right that they use for Scripture reading. There is also 4 churches with similar configuration to yours that I occasionally view streaming services only. The streaming service churches are more sophisticated in their technology configurations.

MJ. Smith

Ah SineNomine you had me laughing at the image of an Orthodox Church with screens ... other than the iconostatsis - do you suppose Bob P. would count it?

Dan Francis

None at our church either and while at a risk of being called a lucite, it is the way I like it.

-Dan

Glenn Crouch

Normally no screens at all

Same here

Mark Barnes

We have one 16x9, and may add another 16x9 as a monitor for the speaker.

Bruce Dunning

Just one. 16:9 in the center.

Same here at the front but there is one at the back as well primarily for musicians. Interestingly enough this past Sunday we had everyone in the Sanctuary sit around tables which was very well received. They were told that that could look at either screen.

Reuben Helmuth

No screens but one large 16:9 HD projector onto the wall directly behind the pulpit and a second smaller one projecting onto the back wall for a "confidence monitor."

Incidentally one of my gripes with Proclaim (which we plan to keep using!), is that we can't switch that back projector from being a "confidence monitor" to "notes" or even "slides" without going off air. During the worship service we want it to be a confidence monitor so that the worship leader doesn't need to "rubberneck" while leading. As soon as we get to the bible study or sermon, however, we'd like that to be turned to "notes."

Joseph Turner

We have one projector screen behind the pulpit that has sermon points, lyrics, and sometimes other media when necessary, and we have one small screen at the very back for the people on stage to use for cues like lyrics for soloists, which may be different that the screen up front, or it will duplicate the one up front. They are both 4:3 screens.

Robert M. Warren

at a risk of being called a lucite

Maybe you meant "luddite", but I wouldn't say so, as we (at least) share the screen opinion.

Our church (small) has two moderately sized screens on either side of the platform that are used for pre-service announcements and occasionally bulletin-song lyrics, but not during other parts of the service.

BillS

One screen, to left of center, in 4:3 format (12' wide). Before worship, we loop announcements. During worship, we show any liturgy with a congregational part, Scripture, including extra references during the sermon, & song lyrics. Feedback from our older congregation is that, the screen being easier to read than is a bulletin, it's kinder to older eyes. Otherwise, we black it out in solidarity with those who find a screen largely distracting.

Tom

We have one 16x9, and may add another 16x9 as a monitor for the speaker.

[:D] Same problem here!

Scott Burke

We have two screens. One centered in the front and one centered in the back of the auditorium. Currently, both project the same thing: announcements, lyrics, Scripture, and sermon points.

George Somsel

ZERO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBtCKRUUV8

HJ. van der Wal

None, though we do have a choir screen.

Cynthia in Florida

We have two during song worship and then when the worship team is off the stage, a large screen drops down for the video feed from Fort Lauderdale. Sometimes all three screens show the same thing, and sometimes the two side screen show verses or illustrations, etc.

Cynthia in Florida

BTW...notice I didn't give any technical details. [;)] I don't know speak technology-ease. I can tell you that on the center screen, it looks like the speaker is actually THERE. It kinda looks like a holograph. I don't know how else to explain it.

Rich DeRuiter

Do you have more than one screen in your church's sanctuary? What's on them?

We have one 4:3 screen front center. We do not project announcements before the service on them any more. Announcements tended to interfere with the preparation for worship.

We use them primarily for song lyrics (improved singing greatly), displaying Scripture verses as read (call to worship, etc.), sermon notes, the purpose of the morning offering and a pre/post service slide - usually a Scripture verse - for people to contemplate as they enter/leave our worship time.

We're considering a "confidence monitor" (probably a flat TV screen) in the rear of the worship space.

We have no plans for anything more at this time.

Mark

No digital screen. We use an old fashioned drop down screen sometimes for the preacher who wants to use powerpoint

Jan Krohn

Two screens at the sides with duplicate content. Usually we have Powerpoints with lyrics, announcements, sermon notes, scripture readings. Occasionally we have videos of various sorts (greeting messages, movie excerpts etc.)

David J. Wilson

What does your church use?

We use three screens, two at the front, one at the rear so that the people at the front can see what is being seen by the people facing them.

Each projector has two feeds, one digital for Proclaim and the occasional PowerPoint, the other an S-Video feed for separate videos from a DVD or VHS player. The photo above was taken during band practice, normally during worship the front lights are off to make the screens more visible. The projectors have the capability to take additional feeds and each can be individually switched between feeds.