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Gloria Christmas Tour

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the week after i got back from Indonesia, i jumped on a tour bus with Travis Cottrell, Cindy Morgan & Shaun Groves for Compassion’s Gloria Tour!

The last two weeks have been awesome getting to VJ Christmas media for their incredible songs. Brandon Horner did the first leg for me (as there was a good chance i could have missed a flight in between Bali and Atlanta + the fact that jet lag kicked my butt this go around)….but i met up with Travis and the gang in Houston for Living Proof Ministries‘ CONVERGE event. We flew to Amarillo, then drove to Petal, MS, then to Jacksonville, FL. This weekend we hit Camp Hill, PA - Hickory, NC & Kingsport, TN.

Some of the churches had HUGE screens…like movie theatre sized canvases. It was obviously a lot of fun getting to “paint” them with visuals throughout the night. i’ve got to say that the most moving part of the evening was when Cindy Morgan sat at the piano and led us in “Praise the King”. And if that wasn’t enough, Travis followed it with “Jesus Saves” and “In Christ Alone”. Every night ended on a high note and with all fingers pointing to Jesus!

opening of “Ring the Bells” sung by Travis Cottrell

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Cross-dissolving Africans during “Ring the Bells”

“Christmastime is Here” sung by Cindy Morgan

“Beautiful Bird” w/ music video, sung by Cindy Morgan

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Cross-dissolving manger scenes with framed swirls for “Joy” sung by Cindy Morgan

Shaun Groves

Shaun Groves singing “Kingdom Coming”

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“O Holy Night”

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“God Is With Us”

“Praise the King”

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“Praise the King” ProPresenter screen

“Jesus Saves”

Tags: EVENTS, ProPresenter, ProVideoPlayer, TRAVEL, VJ-ing by proctor
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environmental projection

This week @ seminars4worship (in Bradenton, FL), we tried out environmental projection for the first time ever. Not only was this my first time to VJ using this creative yet simple technique, but it was also my first time to see it first hand. i’ve seen lots of pictures…i’ve even taught on the concept. But experiencing it live and hearing the feedback from those with me, i’m still blown away.

For those of you wondering, i’ll break down the technology a bit:

- MacBook Pro running ProVideoPlayer (for all image playback)…

- …which outputs into a Matrox TripleHead2Go…

- …which is tied directly into three 5K projectors set up on a ledge in the back of the room.

- MacBook Pro running ProPresenter…

- …tied directly into the house video system, where white on black lyrics were run (hitting the house screens which were splashed with the environmental projection)

- lighting by ProGear Warehouse (Elation LED fixtures), LD was Greg Moore, one of the best worship lighting guys i’ve ever worked with.

In no way do i take full credit….we had an AMAZING production team & volunteers help in the set-up. I also have to give credit where credit is due, as i learned from the master.

If you are thinking about doing this in your church, tread cautiously. B/c if you don’t have the right content & VJ it tastefully, you can create the biggest distraction ever. i’ll blog more about that later.

It’s really exciting to do something that is really so simple and relatively cheap, which can transform a stark-white, boring room into a place of inspiration and creativity that hopefully draws people in and points them to Jesus.