Venture church lincoln road campus1/11/2024 A few years after moving back home to Mississippi, a good friend of mine told me that he was moving to Hattiesburg to take an audio position with this church and that he would love to have me come help out. After I graduated I was able to travel around with them, and that’s where I got my feet wet mixing rock worship music. While I was there I got connected with a local worship band and was able to mix for a weekly college service where they led. “I attended the recording industry program at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) where I studied audio production. Kevin Scott, the audio director for Venture Church, has a similar story. After four years of working at a UPS store, when Venture Church’s TD left, they approached me about taking the position.” I volunteered on the technical production team there, and did video editing for both the college and the church. While attending University of Southern Mississippi, I attended First Baptist Hattiesburg, which eventually changed name to Venture Church. By the time I graduated high school, I knew I’d be doing some sort of ministry work. “In the ninth grade, I started volunteering with the sound team and learned how to mix. “I grew up in the church in a small town in Alabama,” says Whit Stewart, production director and video director for Venture Church. Venture Church's five live production staff all served significant time as volunteers at the church before being invited to join the department staff. However, making sure that a new staff person not only is technically competent but will also fit in well with the intangible culture of the church, and particularly church staff life, is almost impossible to do via a relatively short visit as part of the interview process. Some churches do a national search for the best candidate to fill a position, which certainly opens up a wide pool of talent. Venture Church in Hattiesburg, Miss., has instituted an effective strategy to achieve production consistency, not only through equipment selection, but also through how it has approached staffing the technical production ministries department. If attendees walk into one venue and have vastly different or lower quality experience than at another, they'll likely opt for the main campus, or just choose another church. Most churches shoot for consistency in presentation and production quality-goal that becomes even more important if they have multi-site campuses.
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