Rivers Church: six campuses, one experience

Rivers Church started with 70 people in 1992. It now exceeds 15,000 across six campuses: Sandton, Kyalami, Centurion, Durban North, Ballito and Cornubia. It keeps growing through new satellite venues that reach more communities.

We have built a close working relationship with the church over the years. In February 2026 its Sandton campus hosted the Johannesburg date of our free Church Production Roadshow.

With six campuses, Rivers Church needs each congregation to have the same experience. That means audio that covers every seat in each auditorium, and video that travels between sites.

A new satellite has to work from its first Sunday for a large congregation. At Kyalami, in Kyalami Heights in northern Johannesburg, the system also had to take the broadcast and streaming needs of the facility into account.

All of the auditoriums have d&b audiotechnik PA systems supported by a Q-SYS audio network. We used d&b's ArrayProcessing software (which tunes how a speaker array covers the seats) with Yamaha digital consoles and Sennheiser microphones, so the whole congregation hears a unified sound. For the visuals we supplied LED displays from Pixel Plus and Unilumin, and ACME lighting.

Rivers Church is a pioneer in multisite video transport, using Living As One technology (now Resi). The Sandton campus also has a large AoIP environment (audio over a standard network) with over 300 channels of audio, intercom and control.

At Kyalami we designed the installation as a special project and delivered it in partnership with the church itself. It spans audio, video and networking, and covers broadcast and streaming. The system brings together d&b audiotechnik, Yamaha, Sennheiser, Pixel Plus, Novastar, Blackmagic Design, Living as One, Audinate (the company behind Dante, audio over a standard network), QSC and Audac.

Over the years we have supplied audio, video and lighting across the church's campuses. Rivers Kyalami opened with a system built for its congregation and for its broadcasts, and in March 2026 the sixth campus, Cornubia, opened in a new building we equipped.

The Sandton campus now runs more than 300 channels of audio, intercom and control on one network, and one of the campuses hosted a day of our 2026 Church Production Roadshow.

Rivers Church Kyalami won the House of Worship category at the 2020 InAVation Awards, which cover Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We were the only company from sub-Saharan Africa nominated.