Kerith Church Case Study

Client:

Kerith Community Church is a community driven and supported place of worship, which is involved in many activities with the local community and beyond. They aim to provide a safe place for communal worship, as well as friendly and casual atmosphere, providing activities and events for people from all walks of life and diversities of backgrounds.

The Brief:

Kerith Community Church approached PacificWave with a simple brief; please help us enhance the visual experience(s) of our community for their daily, weekly and annual services and events. The brief covered two key area’s within the Church; the main hall and the K2 Centre adjacent to the main Church building.

 The installation:

PacificWave spent many hours analysing the usage of the area’s in question, collecting useful feedback which was used to design a simple, yet effective system, capable of meeting the needs of the congregation, pastors, group leaders and general users of the churches facilities, whilst integrating with the existing lighting and audio facilities already present. Working around the community groups proved challenging, after all, they were a source of income for the church and a collection of the key users all at the same time. 

 The installation within the main hall was designed to the exact specification requested by the client. The main hall included a centralised, 4m wide projection screen with a Barco 4,500 ANSI Lumens DLP Data Projector which has been installed to the under-side of the adjacent first floor, tiered seating area. To the front facia of the tiered stand, PacificWave complimented the Barco projection unit with a 65” Panasonic Plasma screen which is used as a repeater monitor for the Pastor hosting the sermon or service. The displays are used primarily to relay messages to the audience or project the words of the chosen hymns.

 The system is further complimented by a live video recording and distribution system. The system allows the church to record and stream the service to other area’s within the building and is controlled from a centralised desk, along with the balanced lighting and evenly distributed audio. The record facility is also used by the local user groups for plays, music events and conferences, which can be archived and stored for later use.

 Within the K2 centre, the system was much simpler to integrate, install and commission. PacificWave installed a wall-mounted Sanyo 5,500 ANSI Lumens LCD projector into the environment, linking visual images with the submissive audio already present in the environment. The K2 is mainly used by local hirers for audio and media-based events and provide effective and efficient playback from multi PC and Video based inputs.

 Equipment used:

Throughout the delivery of this installation, PacificWave used some of the most recognised products from the industries leading manufacturing partners, including:

• 1no. Barco RLM-G5i DLP data projector (Main Hall)
• 1no. Sanyo PLC-XP57 LCD data projector (K2 Centre)
• 1no. Panasonic TH-65PF9 65” HD plasma screen
• 2no. Panasonic TH-50PH10 50” HD ready plasma screen
• 1no. Future Automation motorised plasma wall mount
• 1no. Extron MLC-226 MediaLink® control panel
• 1no. Extron MLS-406 MediaLink® six input switcher with stereo audio
• 4no. IP-based camera’s, with long throw lens
• 1no. HardDisk recording, storage and streaming media device

 Summary:

 Today, PacificWave continues to support the Kerith Community Church with their day-to-day consumable and service requirements. PacificWave are also in talks with the Kerith Community Church about upgrading their audiovisual solution to include a full 1080p HD media distribution system throughout the buildings, improving the experience of their ever present members.

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