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12Stone Church, Lawrenceville, Georgia
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The main entrance to 12Stone is both a symbolic journey as well as a place of natural beauty. 12Stone exists to “Inspire Bold Crossings” in all areas of life, and the bridge symbolically reminds every person who enters the doors of this challenge. It also demonstrates the commitment to maintain the natural beauty of the property God has given to12Stone. (Photos courtesy dB Audio & Video.)
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The 2,600-seat worship experience center is designed so that no seat is more that 100 feet from the stage. Even with a full band set for worship music, the stage is free of stage monitors and microphone cables due to the use of wireless systems. (Photos courtesy dB Audio & Video.)
12Stone Church’s worship facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, is a visually stunning, entirely HD theatrical space laden with some of the newest broadcast-quality components. The space itself is not called a sanctuary; rather it’s quite intentionally deemed a “worship experience center.” According to Michael Wright, president of TI Broadcast Solutions Group of Norcross, Georgia, (who also served as principal designer for all the HD video systems at 12Stone), “The idea is to envelop people in the room with world-class sound, lighting and, of course, HD video. Those three elements working together in concert produce an environment where ultimately the people in the crowd are invited into an intimate moment with God.”
Weeks before moving into their 2,600-seat worship venue, the church stepped into a new season with the new name, 12Stone. Founded as Crossroads Church in 1987, the ministry presently serves more than 5,000 adults and children weekly.
The name 12Stone comes from the story of Joshua who led the Israelites into the Promised Land. Before reaching the Promised Land, however, the Israelites needed to cross the flooded Jordan River. God told Joshua to have the priests step into the water. When they obeyed, the water was cut off, allowing the Israelites a safe crossing. On the rivers edge, 12 stones were stacked to represent the 12 tribes of Israel and the rescuing hand of God.
Similarly the vision of 12Stone is to “inspire bold crossings in the lives of everyone we come in contact with,” states Kevin Myers, founder and senior pastor of 12Stone.
“A ‘bold crossing’ may be encouraging someone to step foot inside a church, strengthen their marriage, accept Jesus Christ as their Lord, or give themselves away in acts of serving and compassion,” maintains Myers.
A Room with Five Views
The overall goal of video, even though the worship center is a broadcast-quality facility, is to provide cutting-edge video internal to 12Stone. Every signal in the facility, from the head of the camera to the input of the projectors, is a 1080i HD SDI signal. The system’s primary output feeds image magnification (IMAG) and experiential images to five giant HD displays mounted in the worship experience center, to other displays on campus and then for weekly viewing of recordings at satellite locations.
“One of the coolest design elements is that all the screens (by Draper) in this room float in space,” notes Wright. “They’re all rigged with custom steel superstructure that was fabricated on-site. When you look at the stage, it creates a dramatic visual with black space behind the screens’ images suspended in air.”
Concerns with rear projection hot-spots and low contrast issues propelled the church to install all front projection. Five Christie S+ 20K 3-Chip DLP projectors, each for a different display screen, are used during services in the main room:a large 39-foot-wide center screen, two 24-foot-wide screens, and two more screens are suspended over the audience. The five-screen orientation creates a 230-degree semi-circle. To about 70% of the room, all five screens are clearly visible. To the remainder, a minimum of three screens are visible. But for 64 viewers in the room (32 on each side), content is displayed via 65-inch plasmas mounted on the back of the two floating screens.
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Alison Istnick is a regular contributing writer for Church Production Magazine and Worship Facilities Magazine. She can be reached at aistnick@churchproduction.com.
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