{"id":30,"date":"2008-10-05T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T21:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-10-05T15:10:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T21:10:17","slug":"trying-out-a-different-setup-service-in-the-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Trying Out a Different Setup: Service in the Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been thinking of trying a different physical layout for our church service where the stage is in the center. We decided to try it out this weekend (tonight) for our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leadership Community\u00e2\u20ac\u009d service. This is a service we have every quarter to encourage those in ministry, and let everyone know where the leadership feels called to go with the church.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here is the layout as we planned it:<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/service-in-the-round-stage-setup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Service_In_The_Round_-_Stage_Setup\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"354\" alt=\"Service_In_The_Round_-_Stage_Setup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/service-in-the-round-stage-setup-thumb.jpg\" width=\"479\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n\n<p>This requires the worship team to be on the ground (the yellow circles) and only the vocalists on the platform. This would only work well with multiple vocalists so the worship leader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back is not to part of the congregation. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post after the service and let you all know how it went.<\/p>\n\n<p>By the way, the image was drawn using Gliffy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gliffy.com\">www.gliffy.com<\/a>) which is a great tool for doing Visio-style diagrams on the web. Check it out, its free to try.<\/p>\n\n<p>-Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been thinking of trying a different physical layout for our church service where the stage is in the center. We decided to try it out this weekend (tonight) for our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leadership Community\u00e2\u20ac\u009d service. This is a service we have every quarter to encourage those in ministry, and let everyone know where the leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-ideas","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worshippinginthewilderness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}