 Okay. All right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this class on media and technology and ministry. Thank you for connecting to the class. Let's take a moment to pray and we'll spend some time together. Dave, could you just pray with us please if possible? Thank you so much. You are such a wonderful God. You are God who is full of love. Thank you God once again for this class. As we gather together, I hope to learn how to serve in the church. I think it's one of us to understand that. It's one of us to organize and to be able to learn as much as we can to be a service to New York City and to bring forth the opinion and bring it to the fullness of the city. Thank you so much. It's one of us. Man. Okay. Thank you. Welcome everyone once again. So last week we didn't have any classes. The week before we went through live streaming just to give you an overview of the configuration, how a live streaming happens. And we had a request to just put a list of things together. I have the list. I just have to put it in the document and make it available to you as a PDF, which I will do. And the last thing I wanted to talk about in this section on equipment and so on is about stage decor. So I'm going to, we're going to do that today. Just talk a little bit about stage decor. I just want to give you ideas. You may or you may or may not be, you know, use this immediately in your churches or your ministries. But I just want you to have this idea that these things can be done. And whenever you have the time, the opportunity, then you could revisit these things and make use of these ideas. So what we've done in this particular chapter on digital equipment is we talked about the software that is needed, that is typically used in a church setting in church office. And then we talked about the various pieces of hardware and equipment. So we talked about the sound system. We talked about the lighting. Sorry, we talked about the cameras. We talked about the lighting. Then we talked about the, the peer system. We talked about, you know, how you manage the sound inside an auditorium or gathering place. Then we talked about video recording when we talked about live streaming. So just kind of touched on a little bit on all the equipment that's typically used. So, you know, we have an idea and of course we will have, we will have experts or people who know this, you know, working or volunteering or helping us out. But we do need to be able to understand what they're doing and we need to be able to tell them what we want to see happen in the service or in the meeting. And we need to understand what they're telling us from a equipment point of view, et cetera, so that we can, you know, work together and the end result should be good. Whether it's the audio or the video or the live streaming, all of that, the end result should be good. So we've covered up to live streaming, which is pretty much most of what we wanted to do. And one last part, which I wanted to do was to talk a little bit about the stage itself. So in our, you know, typically in our Sunday services and as well as in other events, maybe a conference or a seminar, you know, typically you're in an auditorium and you have a stage. If you can, it's good to do up the stage in a nice way so that everything that is released from the stage for the benefit of the people is something that is well received, that people enjoy the whole experience. I'm not saying, you know, we should make that the whole focus of our efforts, no. I'm just saying that if we can do a nice stage, the decor on the stage and how things are presented on the stage, if we can do it nicely, we should try so that it can be impactful, the whole message can be brought to the people in a very nice way. And these days, we have lots of ideas and lots of equipment that can be used to create a nice stage, stage decor, it can be done nicely. Some of the things that are very commonly used these days and are easily available for us these days are, you know, LED panels and lighting. So we don't have to go and buy, you know, lots of props and, you know, lots of things to make the stage. What we can do is just if you just use the LED panels, lighting, lights very carefully, very creatively, because the LED panel, you can put any kind of graphic on it. I mean, any kind of background, you can just change backgrounds, you have the panels, and you just have to change the graphics which is displayed on the panels, and it immediately, you know, gives you a lot of flexibility and it creates any kind of environment or any kind of mood and any kind of scene in the background that you want just by changing the graphics. So it makes the stage decor very easy and then you can play with the lighting. And these are things you don't need to buy, you can just rent them for the service, which is what we are doing as well. So we don't have to go and, you know, buy the decor for the stage. We just get the LED panels and then just think of the graphics that you want that can help enhance what is being brought to the audience, right? So I just want to share along those lines some things and then we will close. And then once we finish this, the next chapter is we want to talk about software systems. We did touch a little bit about that in our second year class, but I will get a little more deeper into it and that will be the last section for this course. We talk about software systems that they can use, the technology part. So let's now just look at stage design, stage decor. And for this, I'm going to share with you some websites. I'll put it in a document, put the links in the document. I didn't want to, you know, copy all the graphics as there's a lot of graphics. I thought we'll just look at it online and look at it from the website directly. And of course you can go and visit those websites. So these are websites that show us a lot of examples on stage, church, stage design, how it is done. And, you know, it's so good that people are sharing what they are doing so we can learn from it and we can try to use whatever is possible. I'm not saying we should copy everything, but whatever you have access to and whatever you can, you can use. And of course you can, you know, you can refine the idea or use whatever is relevant to your place, whatever you have available. But I just want to share some of these ideas, some of these things that people are doing these days, because it's very interesting and it really gives a nice experience. Okay. So I'm just sharing this with you directly from the website rather than just copying and putting it into document. I'll give you the website. So the website is churchstagedesignideas.com. Pretty straightforward, churchstagedesignideas.com. And you see, you know, what they're doing is they're just using simple ideas with lights, with, you know, both light streaming in and LED panels to create a design that many times it's communicating something. So here in this particular stage design, you know, they wanted something that is very geometric. So you have all of these triangles and rectangles coming through just using these lights. Here is another stage design. They have these big LED panels for display. And then they're having using ropes. See, they're just using ropes, just hanging ropes. You know, so it's something very simple, but it's creating a certain effect that they wanted for their stage. Here is a very simple living room kind of setting. Again, it's, they've converted that living room into almost like a small chapel type setting. So you've got an LED panel here, a black curtain, a table with words and the lighting, you know, that makes it look, gives it a thing. It's just a living room setting that they have done up. Right. Very simple. Here's another stage design using coroplasts. Coroplasts is basically a form of plastic that is corrugated and you can cut it up the way you want it. So they're using plastic and lights to create a design that kind of enhances the stage. So basically it's plastic with lights, lighting. It's reflecting. Let me see. I think over here, you know, I should go to page two. All right. Here is another design with lights, dots. And they, yeah, so basically it's the lights and dots and now they're creating the effect of the cross with these bulbs, all these bulbs and lights are creating the effect. So it's almost like, you know, you have all these bulbs here. Turn the bulbs off. You're having the effect of the cross and the lights coming in, creating that effect on the stage. Right. Here's one up and down design here. This beautiful looks very nice with arrows. And you can see, you can read into how they have done it actually. It's another nice design here using lights. And so these are round lights, bulbs, LED panels, creating an effect. So this is interesting because the theme of this is the rise up. So you've got arrows pointing up. You've got the word rise set up there on top and then a lot of the lights coming in. Now, I'm not saying, you know, we always had to make it so grand and big and grand, but I'm just giving, seeing that, you know, here are ideas. It's all just lights using lights, LED bulbs. And they create this effect. Here, they've got a graphic that's displayed on the LED. And this topographic lines that put a graphic on the LED panel. And then you have lights coming off the stage and onto the stage. So using lights in an LED panel and the graphic, they're creating this effect. And, you know, these these graphics can you can use any graphic to be shown on this LED panel. They've used this kind of a graphic that that shows this mountainous layers. And a backup what's being, I guess, to go for the sermon and so on. So there are numerous ideas here. They're using LED rectangles. Yes, using what we would have called as tube lights, you know, these lights just set up this way on. The wall is just like a brick wall with color lights. So you're giving it blue and brick color going on the wall. And then you've got light bars or what we would call as tube lights. You know, just arranged like this, giving it some sort of a look that they wish to achieve. It's very simple. You know, it's actually a brick wall with color lights and tube lights, giving it a certain effect. Here, these lights are coming off of the stage going and filling up the auditorium. And then there is a pyramid like structure that's been put together just for the boxes. You know, more coroplast plastic screen plastic being used and lights. Okay. Yeah, I think I will just pause with this. So you say again, because you're the LED panels where the sermon is projected the person preaching is on the screen people can see. And then there's lighting and these effects causing just to make it look nice. So what I want to say is typically what we need is an LED panel. I mean, what we are doing at APC nowadays is on the stage. We just have an LED panel that surrounds the whole stage. And then what we do is we change the color in the graphics and then we have lights coming on the stage. And then we can change the color, the light colors, and we can change the graphics on the LED panel. Very simple. So you can create, you know, you can put graphics that are related to this sermon. Now during worship time, you can create, you can put graphics that are related to that particular song. You can also change the light colors, lighting that comes on the stage, bright light, red light and different colors just creating an effect just to make it a nice experience for the people as they are worshiping. Right. So I'm not saying that this should become the focus of all our efforts. No, this is purely secondary. The main focus, of course, is the preaching and the teaching of the Word of God. But when you have the opportunity, if you can, then there are lots of ideas that you could look into in working on the stage and, you know, how you can set the stage. There are just so many different things and people these days are doing really nice things, you know, with the stage, making it look very appealing for people, creating themes that back up the sermon so that it makes everything very impactful. So you see how on the LED panels, a lot of things are being done, and these are all just graphics, you're not creating something physical, it's just graphics that are displayed on the LED panel, which just gives it effect. There's another website called churchrelevance.com. And here again, they show you different ways in which people are using light and LED to, you know, create various designs. This one is wood, so they have a wood panel set up and the lights coming on the panel that gives it a certain effect. This one is yarn or cloth that is done up like this and lights being, you know, lights focused on these cloth panels, giving it a certain effect. These are all strings, you know, of course done in a very creative manner, lights being flashed on them, giving them a certain effect and a look. All of these things are very simple but very nice being done here. And again, these are all white panels, but then you have different colored lights that give it a certain effect, right? So these are just white panels with colored lights coming on it and then the lights combined to give it a certain effect. Or you can use drapes, which are all the cloths just coming in and colored lights being flashed on it, giving it a different effect. But this is just simple cloth coming down with colored lights. This of course is the LED panel and giving creating a certain effect here. This is wooden frame like what we saw earlier, just wood all around giving it a certain effect. These are lights, lights set up on wooden slabs. Yeah. Okay, so they're even just balloons here to do up this one, this particular stage. This is plain cardboard, just cardboard cut out with the light focused on it. Very simple, but you know, you could use this idea to just back up a particular sermon theme or a topic, just how the cardboard is put on the light focused on it gives it a nice effect. Again, so there are lots of ideas and I'll just point you to both these websites as and when you have the opportunity, you could consider doing up the stage and like what I was saying, these days, all we are using is lights, LED panels and some other basic materials like whether your cloth or rope or wood or just cardboard cutouts and the way you put the lights in and you can easily very simply create. You don't have to go and buy heavy things. Just use these simple LED panels and lights and you create a nice stage. Right. And why do we want to do that is so that we want to make the whole presentation meaningful. Right, so think about meaning being communicated through all of this. That means there's a message being preached, but if the stage set setting backs up that message reinforces that message creates a certain emotion or stirs up a certain emotion, thought, understanding, it just enhances what is being spoken from that perspective. We're not doing it to compete with other people or waste money, but very simple, but yet very meaningful is these are things that can be done. Okay. So think about it. Keep these ideas in mind. I will share these links in the in the in the document that I will share with you and you can go and visit these things to get some ideas and use them whenever you can in stage decor so that people find the whole experience when they come to worship or attend a conference or a meeting, they find it very, very meaningful. Right. But remember, if you don't want to be distracting, we don't do things that are disturbing people, but we want to enhance their experience as they come and worship God. Right. So we'll stop with that. I understand this was this is very short class, but I just wanted to kind of finish up this whole section talking about stage decor and how you can how we can do these things very well. So what actually happens is you've got the LED panel and you've got you can control the graphic that comes on the LED panel from your computer. Right. So you have a computer that has a software that controls the LED panel. Right. So on your laptop or usually we use a laptop. We can change the graphics. We can also change the colors. We can play with the intensity of the colors of all the panels. You know, so you've got big control of this already LED panel of what you want to do with it. And it's all just on your computer. Yeah, you're controlling it from your computer. So you can be very, very flexible. You can even during the service, you can keep changing the graphics and the colors and the intensities from various panels and so on. So it makes it very, very easy and easy in the sense it's just software that's driving what is displayed on the LED panel. So it makes it very easy to change what you're doing. You're not physically going and putting up props and things like that. Just from your laptop you're controlling the whole mode and the effect of what's happening on the stage. So that's why I feel it's a very nice way of creating the stage decor and controlling stage. You can change it week after week. Just change the graphics, the colors, the lighting, what you're showing. You know, it's always the LED panel and creating a completely different scene, a completely different effect just by changing graphics and colors and lighting and intensity. It gives a good effect. Okay. Any questions or any thoughts before we dismiss? Any questions? All right. So with this we close off this particular section on digital equipment and the various parts that we looked at. From tomorrow we will start talking about IT systems, the software, the technology that people use in ministry work. So it's a slight shift from what we have been talking till now. We'll get into that and that will be the last section that I wanted to cover in this course, right? So I hope you find finding everything useful and you can use it in your ministries. Okay. Let's just pray together and we will dismiss. Maybe Kannen, why don't you pray with us and dismiss us today. If your mic is okay or maybe Siddharth, if you can pray and dismiss us. Thank you. All right. Okay, Kiran, go ahead. We come before you three once again and we want to say thank you, Father God, for everything, Father God, thank you. Help us to move forward, Father God, give you wisdom and thank you, Father God, for your wisdom and knowledge, Father God, that we are understanding your subject, Father God, and help us to apply your kingdom growth. Every side, Father God, give your revelation and your words, Father God, thank you. Rest of the day submitting to your hand. Take care of every side. Thank you. Almighty Jesus. Amen. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Rowan. We'll meet again tomorrow. We've got three hours together and look forward to that. God bless. Enjoy the rest of your day. See you soon. Bye now.