Worship
CFCI Jerusalem campus: a turnkey worship room in Esikhawini
Covenant Fellowship Church International (CFCI) · Esikhawini, Richards Bay, South Africa
Summary
Covenant Fellowship Church International began in Esikhawini, and its Jerusalem campus is there today. We delivered the whole room as one project: sound, mixing, wireless, an LED wall, stage lighting and the network behind it all.
A campus's whole room delivered turnkey by one partner, simple for volunteers to run.
The setting
Covenant Fellowship Church International (CFCI) was born in Esikhawini, the township outside Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal. Its founder, Apostle Collins Dhlomo, received a prophetic word in 1992, while working at the University of Zululand, to start a church. The first Spirit-filled services met in a beerhall, and in November 1994 he and his wife, Pastor Nomusa Dhlomo, led the revival that grew into the church.
Today Apostle Collins leads CFCI from Durban and Richards Bay, and Pastor Nomusa leads its creative arts and worship ministry. The church says it has 31 churches in South Africa and one in London. Its worship team recorded the Vuka Africa albums and has travelled with them.
At CFCI's Richards Bay campus, we installed a d&b audiotechnik 10AL system and a Yamaha CL3 console, among other things.
The challenge
Jerusalem is where the church began, and its congregation was ready for a room that sounds and looks like the one in Richards Bay. The room needed sound that carries every word to every seat, a screen everyone can read, and lighting for the platform and the cameras. It also had to be simple enough for a volunteer team to run each Sunday.
CFCI wanted one partner accountable for all of it, with no gaps between the audio, video, lighting and network contractors.
What we did
We delivered the room turnkey, as one design, one install and one handover.
For sound we installed a Plus Audio FS210 line array with FS219B subwoofers. A line array stacks several speaker modules into one column, so the sound reaches the back rows as clearly as the front. A Yamaha DM7 Compact digital console mixes the service, and Sennheiser wireless microphones carry the preaching and the worship.
Behind the platform is a Pixel Plus LED wall for lyrics, scripture and camera feeds. Plus Lighting fresnels and LED bars light the platform.
Underneath it all is a complete IT backbone: the network that carries audio between the console and the speakers, and runs the video and lighting control. One network means the team can add to the room later without rewiring it.
The outcome
The Jerusalem campus now has the standard sound and a team trained to run it
Equipment used
- Plus Audio FS210 line array
- Plus Audio FS219B subwoofers
- Yamaha DM7 Compact digital console
- Sennheiser wireless microphones
- Pixel Plus LED wall
- Plus Lighting fresnels and LED bars
- Complete IT backbone (network, cabling)
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