How many different production departments do you have.

[jflash]

We have ~500 across 3 services each Sunday (50 in Casual, 150 in Traditional, and 300 in Contemporary). Our entire technical department consists of our main FOH tech (who has been at the church for years and was heavily involved in starting the contemporary service; he also uses his left hand to run lights) and me. Since I started a year ago, I've been fairly extensively cross-trained, and as a result I end up wearing the sound, lighting, recording (audio only at the moment), IT maintenance, graphic design, video production, and projection computer operator hats. Computers are my specialty, and so my main role is MS operator (which ends up including graphics, video production, etc.). It also means, though, that when our FOH tech is out of town I get to design the script in MS and then let someone else run it while I handle sound.

And yes, we are both volunteers.

[tedanderson]

We have a total of 4 production departments that are media related. Similarly structured like the military, I am in the "marines" which is what we call our "media department" which pretty much does EVERYTHING and ANYTHING media related. We do television, audio, internet streaming, PowerPoint presentations, etc. while the other 3 production teams focus strictly on certain areas. Our audio department handles the live sound, we have a Technology Team that makes sure the network, computers and website is running properly and lastly, we have a marketing team that manages and evaluates the overall effect of what we are presenting to the audience. They handle the printed materials, ideas for TV commercials, and they are the liason between us and the bookstore to help ensure that we are producing a quality product.

Even though we are all separate departments, we work closely enough to overlap duties in the event that there is a worker shortage. The only downside is that there are more people from the "marines" who are able to assist the other departments than there are people from other departments who can help us.

[nicjustice]

We operate in a strange way. At least in my humble opinion. Sound is run by the same guy that has done if for years, he is now training a new person(not really labled a department). His daughter runs the projectors for service, we use easy worship. They also are in charge of recording the service for cd sales. We don't record video of the service, we have a weekly video announcement program, a team of 3 guys help me run that(vtv team). Print media is handled by our marketing department(separated in external and internal). Our worship leader also is in charge of web development. We have no lighting department.

I think it would be good for everyone if it was all under one roof. We all work together fine when needed but it would just make more sense in my mind

[lyno]

we have a media team that consists of two paid employees, myself and my video guy. we have 10 volunteers responsible for audio, video, dvd & cd, sales weekly. i am responsible for working sound and trying to keep the team motivated for wednesday worship and 3 times on sunday. productions are made during worship and sold after worship.

[icyboyz]

For background info, the church that I serves in have ~4000 people over 11 Services on two days (2 Youth, 2 Tertiary, 2 Adults, 2 Filipino, 1 Kids, 1 Mandarin, 1 Indo).

Each congregation has their own media team consisting of volunteers from their own services/congre operating the gears and supporting the services in either the main auditorium or various portable venues.

We have a main In-charge for the whole church's Media Ministry (the only paid staff in the whole ministry). Under him are the various congregation Media Ministry Leaders.

For Youth Media, we have approx 50 volunteers over 4 Main Departments (Sound, Video, Lights & Multimedia).

1 Main Ministry Leader who oversees the whole ministry as well as the Sound Department.
Under the sound department there are 2 team leaders leading approx 10 volunteers on the FOH and Backstage.

I'm in-charge of the Multimedia, Lights & Video department together with 4 other team leaders/ tech directors.
We have 8 volunteers on the Multimedia Department (running Powerpoint & ProPresenter), 17 volunteers on the Video Department (~3-4 Cam Ops /team & 1 VM), 11 volunteers on the Lights Department.

Some upcoming departments are the photography and video production departments.

We have a separate communications Ministry which handles on-screen publicity, web & our monthly print bulletins. The production department will overlap with the Communications Ministry in producing publicity/ short films for special services.

[Paris MkVI]

I have the privilege of serving as our AVL (audio/video/lighting) director. Under AVL we divide into four teams, each with a team leader who oversees training and scheduling for that team. The teams are sound, graphics, video and lighting.

I serve for now as the lighting team leader as well. Sound and graphics were aleady up and running, and God sent a great blessing for a video team leader, so I no longer have to lead that team also. Now I am able to focus more on the larger picture and spend more time preparing for the future.

The current AVL staff (all volunteers except me; I am quarter-time) numbers about 39. I anticipate having nealy 50 staff members by the end of this year.

Why so many? I firmly believe any volunteer should have to serve once every three weeks. If they wish to serve more frequently, that is fine, although I keep an eye to avoid burnout. But keeping priorities in order is important. I want them to worship and be fed spiritually. And I want them to spend time in worship with family and friends.

My experience is that they are more eager to serve when it is their time on the schedule, and they stay with the teams long-term more consistently. We also allow and encourage cross-training, with the understanding that one team must be their primary team.

This team currently covers seven services: general adult, teen and kids (2 each in the morning) and one young adult (18 to 20-somethings) that runs in the evening.

I am continually humbled and awed by the privilege of leading and serving them.

[Steven]

I oversee four main "tech" areas:

1. Network and Communications (I.T.)
Computers, campus server, telephones, etc.

2. Worship Audio/Video/Lighting
All AVL for the main worship services (3 campuses, English/Spanish, 3-4 services each weekend - 16 services per week)

3. Campus Support Audio/Video/Lighting
High School ministry, middle school, and children's ministry all have AVL systems. This also includes campus support (Geek Squad!) as well as church events (conferences, sub-ministry worship nights, weddings, etc.) and our lobby kiosks and information screens around the campus.

4. Creative Design
This includes presentation graphics, video productions, stage design (blends with the "L" aspect of Worship AVL above), as well as printing/publications.

I report to the Associate Pastor, who oversees the "operations" aspect of the church, and reports to the Senior Pastor.

I have a staff team leader over each area who reports to me. Each of them has two-three staff people under them, in addition to the dozens of volunteers who do most of the work.

Also, to be completely honest, I don't consider myself an "expert" in any of those areas by any means, though I do know enough to take care of business, I prefer to fill more of a "managerial" role, and enable and empower the staff/volunteers to do what know how to do. Let them be the expert technicians, and I'll handle the paperwork and ho-hum business.