OMAHA, NE – The Lifegate Church in Omaha – currently moving to a new campus – needed to remodel its existing stage and lighting. Local GLP dealers Heartland Scenic — who meet around 80 percent of the church’s lighting needs — steered the decision toward the GLP solution.
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OMAHA, NE – The Lifegate Church in Omaha is a growing organization, with an average congregation of 1,900 people attending its weekly services. With a sanctuary that seats around 1,350 people, Lifegate’s technical production values need to match that of a concert-like atmosphere.
Currently moving to a new campus, the church needed to remodel its existing stage and lighting, and upgrade its video delivery system from SDI to HD. This included the installation of GLP impression Spot One and impression Wash One LED moving heads in an investment driven by Robert Wilson, the church’s executive director, creative communications and technology.
Local GLP dealers Heartland Scenic — who meet around 80 percent of the church’s lighting needs — steered Wilson toward the GLP solution.
“I was looking for yoke fixtures because of their capability to enhance our worship experience,” he explained. “I was focused on several features: brightness, color range, gobo options, flexibility, ease of use and maintenance.”
He attended a demo at Heartland — whom he describes as “a major player in the Omaha market who have always done an excellent job” — and also witnessed a video demo of the impression Spot One. Impressed with the attributes of GLP’s innovative LED head, he ordered four of these and a further pair of impression Wash Ones.
Installed by the church’s technical team, the four impression Spot Ones are mounted on truss towers flanking the stage, with the impression Wash One fixtures positioned downstage on the floor, with all lighting (including more than 30 LED battens) controlled from the FOH.
The impression Spot One is generally used to provide atmosphere for the worship set. The fixtrue is a true hard edge LED profile fixture with a packed graphics engine that includes two fully indexable gobo wheels.
With a similar baseless yoke, and 400W RGB LED light engine, impression Wash One offers a 6°-60° zoom range — but the key differentiator is its 3° narrow beam mode and its variable soft-edge beam control that allows softness adjustment. Another attribute is the beam shaping function that enables the user to illuminate only the parts of a stage that need to be lit.
Regarding the GLP fixtures, Wilson said, “These are great lights that deliver consistent brightness through the color spectrum with all the capability of a yoke fixture. The gobo wheels as particularly impressive with the added features.
“We are just beginning to discover all their attributes, but from what we have been able to use them for so far, the results have been awesome. They are a great fixture with the anticipated ease of maintenance providing an additional benefit.”
The fixtures play a vital role as Lifegate Church continues its new campus development -which boasts a total of four rooms that are all rigged with dual screen projection, stage, full band set up and digital audio.
