Kicked the week off big with the performance of a Mutemath song called, “spotlight.” Mack killed it at our providence campus. Take a look at these pics. Remember, if you want something you see on our stage, then when we are done with it, you can have it!
Photos by Sean Lyon.
Hello! We’re back after a nice vacation! Eight days of phone being dead relaxing! I’m about to start mixing the audio from Christmas Eve. Once the tracks are mixed I’ll be posting some more video of the service online. Here are a few things to look at from the stage design.
First off… We have some incredible photographers! The pictures below are taken by Sean Lyon and Cheyenne Schultz. Sean leads our photography team. Check out their sites to see more about what they do.
God did some amazing things on Christmas Eve. There were over 6000 people in attendance and over 400 salvations! I was blown away by how the night turned out. God is Good.
Here are some insights on the Christmas Eve stage design. There were several considrations… I wanted depth between Pastor Steven/Worship Leaders and the background so we used a scrim behind the band that was about 25ft behind the last piece of lightlight truss you see in these pictures. The scrim was lite with about 30 COLORado 3’s all in line. So that’s the background…
Then we had 40 movers in all. 12 were flown above the stage and 28 were placed on the lighting truss and ground. Zach from Audio Ethics came up with the lighting design for the event.
We had three screens flown over stage. (2) 16ft x 9ft screens on either side of a 24ft center screen. In addition to the screens we had 6 plasmas on stage that expanded the stage out around the bowl of the stage.
The guys from Audio Ethics were great to work with. Check them out if you have any production needs.
All this may be boring but for those of you who wanted to know what all was on stage… there you go! Enjoy the pictures.
We are in the middle of our series called Do You Hear. This series has been strong. This week we had a great time of worship that was really intimate. Below is a clip of Mack singing Go Tell It On The Mountain. The version we did is by Lee McDerment from Newspring in Anderson, SC. I can’t wait to see what God does this week to close out this series.
On a different note. I’m really excited about our Christmas Eve service Uptown on the 24th. Our service times are 3:00pm, 5:00pm, and 7:00pm. This will be a christmas eve like none other you’ve experienced. Of course we are doing it Elevation Style. We get to celebrate as a church together to close out what God has done this year and in anticipation for what is yet to come. Pastor Furtick says it best, “The best is yet to come!”
Check out this video from this week. You can see this and others here.
We began our new series called “Do You Hear” this week. Everything was real smooth. The series teaser is in the highlight video player. We produced this video about life change. Here is a clip from the video at our Butler Campus. The video is from a wideshot camera so the quality is donkey and the audio is no bueno. But… thought you might like to see how we use video elements in our services. Enjoy.
This week went really smooth. Everyone seemed to get sick this weekend, but everything worked out great. God is awesome. I don’t want to ever forget the priveledge we have to worship Him freely every week. Brett Younker and Casey Darnell were in to Lead this week. Here are some worship teases from this week. The first is of Casey and the Second is of Brett. The guys did great. Casey led at Uptown and Brett led at Providence. However I had both of them on stage for the 1 O’Clock service. Enjoy. You can watch some other videos here.
We had Chrystina Fincher in from Atlanta. Today’s highlight video is of Chrystina singing one of her originals called “Your Love.” Pastor Steven used pumpkins as a financial illustration. There was nasty pumpkin insides all over the stage! For a list of the worship songs from this weekend go here at some point this week! I’m also showing you an announcement video and sermon recap video for the series which includes all weeks of Real Change except for this week. Enjoy.
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This week @ Elevation was great. God blows me away with what He is doing in Charlotte. Our bands played a couple of our new worship songs which were amazing. For the list of songs and other goodness click here. Check out this video of Mo Money Mo Problems… only… a little different.
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I’m always real excited when the guys write a new worship song. It’s no secret that I like original songs. This new one is called, “You Are Holy.” It’s an Elevation Original. I love how the song really opens up in the chorus. If you like it, leave the guys a comment here or see more about them here here and here. Enjoy this teaser.
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