Down The Pipe
With Advance 09 and RE:Sound under our belts, I’m spending time looking at the rest of the summer. Here are a few things under development in the worship and production ministry of Vintage21 Church.
Durham Service
We’re five months in with our service at Rigsbee Hall. In that time we’ve learned a lot about operating as a multi-site church and we are excited about our future in Durham. Band leader Brandon Squizzato is leading the majority of weekends there, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive for his band, leadership, and contextualization. The band I lead is in Durham this Sunday – stay tuned for a post next week about the service in Rigsbee Hall.
Tech Development
Vintage21 has always operated as a DIY church. This hasn’t always been our preference, but instead we are passionate about presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ and calling people to respond in worship to Him, so we go to great lengths to make do. Our techs are creative and hardworking, and I plan on spending a good part of the summer training, thanking, and getting them what they need to effectively run video, slides and sound.
Recording
With the original songs and arrangements at Vintage21 Church, my goal has been to get good live recordings. This is both so people can become familiar with the songs, enabling them to focus their hearts more on God and less on trying to learn a new song. In addition, we hope to take our cultural understanding of worship- music and singing on Sundays- and broaden it to a more biblical view: living every second of every day in an appropriate response to Jesus Christ. A reason to record is in the hope that the congregation of Vintage21 Church would take their praise through these songs out of the Sunday service and into the world. This is more than Sunday, more than a service.
We’ve been limited by gear for years now. Our recording setup should take 16 tracks into pro tools, but the reality is that rarely happens. I’ll put time into this, but even more time into praying that the right people would come along who are talented in and passionate about recording, that can develop this aspect of our ministry.
Stay tuned for more! See you Sunday.

