AARHUS, Denmark - With ten campuses and more than 30,000 active members
throughout Alabama, the Church of the Highlands delivers a unique style of
prayer that utilizes professional production elements to create a
high-energy, high-worship atmosphere. Now in its second decade, the church
was in need of a versatile and reliable lighting solution for its weekly
services and Lighting Designer, Brian Worster, turned to HARMAN's Martin
Professional lighting fixtures to provide stage and effect lighting across
the ten campuses.
Services for the church are held at a variety of campuses ranging from high
schools to community centers and entertainment venues and are produced
primarily by volunteer "worship teams". While the sermon is delivered from
the Grants Mill main campus in Birmingham, Alabama via the Internet, each
campus worship team runs the program and services locally. "We wanted to
create a passionate high-energy worship atmosphere with lighting that could
be quickly loaded-in and loaded-out by volunteers every week," said Worster.

The main campus deploys Martin's MAC Viper moving head luminaires and MAC
250 wash lights. Worster also often specified the Viper series for youth
conferences put on by the church, citing their optics and power. "We
recently put on a youth conference in which we brought in 28 Auras and 18
Vipers," said Worster. "The Vipers offer great gobos, they are extremely
punchy, and have incredible optics that deliver strong output and framing."

Martin's MAC 101 series wash lights are also used at each of the church's
locations to ensure that volunteers can easily update positioning on short
turnarounds. Worster also brought in the 101s for their ability to color mix
as well as for their efficiency because many of the campus locations have
little to no infrastructure for large amounts of power consumption.

"The 101s are super bright and in some locations we are throwing 100 feet or
more to the stage and still only at 70-80 percent output," said Worster.
"The lens accessories are great for zooming or narrow the beams to blend the
front wash. We also use the 101s during the message portion as a supplement
to house lights like in a theater."

The Tuscaloosa campus features 16 101 RGBs on the upstage floor shooting on
the ceiling above the stage, while the Woodlawn campus, a high school
theater uses 8 101 WRMs for front wash as well. The Fultondale and
Huntsville campuses feature 10 101 RGBs on trusses upstage as well as
several 101 CTs downstage for front wash.

"We've used the 101s at the Fultondale campus for almost two years and
they've totally changed the way we approach launching a campus with the
church," said Worster. "They offer more flexibility and provide an
atmosphere that we can recreate at every location. Also, budget is an
important when launching a new campus and the 101s are extremely bright yet
also inexpensive enough that they were a no-brainer for our productions."

"The service Martin has provided to us has been incredible," summarized
Worster. "The fact that Martin has a team specifically dedicated to the
House of Worship market is huge for us-we feel like we have another ally on
our team and I could not have imagined the success of our services without
their help!"

For more information on Martin's stage lighting solutions, please visit:
www.martin.com