Diversified was approached by Eastern Hills Community Church in late January to fully transform their lighting and video systems in time for Easter – less than 3 months away! As the final phase of a 3 year long upgrade, the primary goals of the church AV system were to create a multi-layered modern theatrical lighting system with high color saturation that would be capable of a variety of looks and feels from the same design, alongside a center LED wall as a digital canvas to replace a 55” flat panel TV during teaching and repositioned IMAG side screens.
“The difference with Diversified’s process and team…fast, efficient and excellent. So good.” Phil EuBank, Senior Pastor
So with a firm budget and aggressive timeline, the Diversified team went to work creating a design concept that would meet the church’s creative requirements.
The lighting system is centered around LED wash and spot fixtures for key light and stage design. Every fixture’s output can be repositioned from the console, easily enabling a variety of stage configurations as well as minimizing the total number of required fixtures. This allows for a smaller quantity of higher quality fixtures than would otherwise be possible.
The center digital canvas display is ground supported LED panels with processing and a media server that provides content to the screen, controlled by the church’s console. Diversified even added a “video cross” comprised of 7 LED panels as installation neared completion to help maintain focus on the crucial symbol but in a modern and fresh way. Its digital content flexibility enables the cross to match any stage design and has made it a favorite component of the finished system.
Successfully transitioning the room from the old, worn out system to the new one ahead of schedule, the Diversified team was able to give the church staff 2 extra days for training and programming to prepare for the first services with the new system.
The project received the WFX 2019 Solomon Award for Best Design and Installation of Video Display or Lighting Design (801 – 2,000 seats) and the church’s leadership team highly praised the system’s impact on their worship environment, as well as the fact that it didn’t come alongside any debt.
2019 WFX Solomon Award for Best Design and Installation of Video Display or Lighting Design
