Author: jill
Clear the Sound Pollution
Are you tired of struggling with poor quality of sound during your worship services? Do you find it challenging to achieve clarity and even coverage in your audio system? Sound pollution is a common issue that plagues worship spaces. Destructive reflections and collisions of sound within the room can significantly degrade intelligibility, making it
Benefits of Wayfinding Signs
Churches are central to the community. Custom wayfinding signs are essential to make these spaces more welcoming and navigable. Compliance and Safety Ensuring safety and compliance is critical to implementing wayfinding signs in churches. Custom signs must adhere to local, state, and federal regulations, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements. This compliance
Gloria de Cristo Lutheran Church Shines Brighter
In sunny Yuma, Arizona, Gloria de Cristo Lutheran Church serves as a second home for many, whether they’re able to physically be inside the beautiful interior or not. With a congregation size ranging from 50 to several hundred, coupled with an outdated AV system, church staff knew they needed an AV setup capable of
How to Have a More Intentional Mission Trip
By Doug Franklin Your mission trip has the potential to be a great and impactful experience for the community you’ll serve and for your students. But there may be a disconnect between your goals for your trip and your students’ expectations. While you (and your students’ parents) may be excited for students to learn
Holy Family Church
W2A Design Group provided full architectural services for a new 18,000-square-foot parish center for Holy Family Church in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. The main component of this parish center is a new 240-seat, 5,000-square-foot banquet hall. The hall can be subdivided into a 1,400-square-foot luncheon room specifically designed to provide a more intimate setting for funeral
Saving Lives in Sacred Spaces
How Churches Can Respond to Mass Shootings This Stop the Bleed Month In the wake of the recent tragic shooting at Lakewood Church in Texas, the need for proactive emergency preparedness in places of worship has never been more apparent. As the nation observes the month of May as Stop the Bleed Month, churches
Kay Park Recreation Corp. Marks Milestone Anniversary
2nd Generation Family-Owned Business Celebrates 70 Years Kay Park Recreation Corp., a pioneering manufacturer of outdoor park equipment, proudly announces its 70th anniversary since its inception in 1954. Founded by Keith Borglum, affectionately known as “Kay,” the company has flourished under the stewardship of the Borglum family for two generations. The journey began when Keith
Check-In Kiosks Are an Effective Solution for Protecting Attendants
Although there are church congregations that have remained smaller, big churches are becoming more and more common. These facilities, sometimes called “mega-churches,” may have multiple services per day for upwards of a thousand people during each time slot. Because of this, church security has become a bigger concern, especially when it comes to children’s
How to Plan and Build Your Sound Booth
The days when churches relied on their building’s acoustics are over. Nowadays, churches must have sound systems, microphones, amplifiers, and other modern technology. This means that a modern church needs a sound booth so that sound techs can ensure that everyone in the congregation can appreciate the music, clearly hear the sermon, and enjoy
LifeQuest Church Finds “Perfect” Projector to Fit Its Needs
Outside of Kansas City, Missouri, is LifeQuest Church, otherwise known as the “Perfect Church for Imperfect People.” Led by Pastor Chris Pinion, Worship & Student Pastor Tim Goulet, and Creative Pastor Jordan Mills, LifeQuest Church has created an environment that invites everyone for in-person and now live-streamed services. Living in the digital age, the