Rivers Church Cornubia: a new campus, ready for its first Sunday

Rivers Church was founded in 1992 and now meets across six campuses: Sandton, Kyalami, Centurion, Durban North, Ballito and Cornubia. Cornubia is a new campus, not a move. It's led by Dean and Janet Ivey, who also lead Durban North.

We have worked with Rivers since 2011, and Cornubia is the sixth campus we have equipped for the church.

Cornubia is the first building on a site Rivers plans to develop in phases. The auditorium, kids church and public spaces all had to be ready for opening weekend, and the building work only finished weeks before, leaving a short window to install, commission and train.

The auditorium also had to feel like Rivers from the first service. The worship, the teaching and the screen content should be the same whichever campus you attend. And the whole building had to be easy for volunteers to run, from the Sunday production team to the people opening kids church and the foyer.

In the auditorium we installed a d&b audiotechnik system: 24S loudspeakers with 21S-SUB subwoofers, and 44S front fills along the stage for the front rows. It runs on d&b's 25D and 5D amplifiers, the church's choice of PA at its other campuses too. Two Waves LV1 consoles run the mix: one for the room, and one for the musicians' monitors. Sennheiser Digital 6000 wireless microphones are used for worship and teaching.

Behind the stage is a Pixel Plus TrueRatio LED wall with a 2.6 mm pixel pitch. That's the gap between its pixels, and a gap that small keeps lyrics and scripture sharp from the front row. Blackmagic Design production equipment switches the video for the LED wall, puts the cameras on screen, and streams and records the service. Plus Lighting LED house lights light the room.

A Q-SYS system ties the building together. It controls and automates the auditorium, kids church and the public spaces, Volunteers bring a room up from a touch panel with presets, without needing to know the system behind it, and the building starts up and shuts down on a schedule. Audac and Plus Audio speakers cover the public spaces, driven by Plus Audio amplifiers over Dante (audio sent over the building's standard network).

Rivers Cornubia opened at the end of March 2026 and now holds three services every Sunday, at 8:00, 9:45 and 11:30. The auditorium, kids church and public spaces were ready for the first of them.