Nashville, TN - December 2015… Striving to follow Christ in
His mission of loving people, places, and taking responsibility to care for all
of God’s creation, Christ Presbyterian Church assumes a pivotal role in the
greater Nashville area. With both traditional and contemporary worship
services, the church recently added video projection capabilities in its
sanctuary so as to increase its ability to engage the congregation and make
services more meaningful. Recognizing the importance of image quality and its
ability to impact people, the church selected projectors drawn from the catalog
of Eiki International.
Corner
AV of Nashville, TN, a division of Corner Music, was contracted to design and
deploy Christ Presbyterian Church’s new video projection system. After meeting
with church management to ascertain their goals and expectations, the decision
was made to deploy an Eiki LC-HDT2000 15,000 ANSI Lumens HD Widescreen
Projector for the main display and an Eiki EIP-X5500 DLP® Projector for
confidence monitoring. Bob Nickerson, Production Consultant for Corner AV,
handles a combination of sales, system design, installation, and training. He
discussed the nature of the project.
“Music
plays a vital role in Christ Presbyterian Church’s services,” Nickerson
explained. “The church has a choir, an orchestra, a praise band, and a praise
vocal team, so services can get quite lively. With the addition of the new Eiki
LC-HDT2000 projector, they now have the ability to display any combination of
lyrics, images, video, and sermon text to help the congregation follow along
and get more involved. The projector is mounted from the ceiling and projects
onto a large widescreen that is positioned on the rear wall—centered over the
stage area.”
“A
second Eiki projector—the Eiki EIP-X5500—is used for confidence monitoring for
those people on stage,” Nickerson continued. “Like the primary projector, this
unit is ceiling mounted, but it projects onto the rear wall of the sanctuary.
This way, the Pastor and others can read their messages and other content,
enabling them to stay focused during services. Both projectors are mounted
using Chief hardware that was coordinated through Eiki at the time of purchase.
Since Eiki is an authorized distributor of Chief products, we were able to
order everything we needed and know that it was all going to work together
properly on the job site.”
When
queried about those attributes that made the LC-HDT2000 projector the best
choice for this particular installation, Nickerson offered the following
thoughts. “Eiki projectors offer excellent image quality and great
reliability,” he said. “Beyond the projector’s high brightness, color, and
contrast, it offers a host of innovative performance, configuration and
utilization features—all of which make it a great tool for the church. As
integrators, it also provides us the confidence that everything is going to
work as expected, enabling us to meet or exceed the client’s expectations.”
With
any sophisticated AV project, questions inevitably arise. Knowing that capable
response is just a phone call away is another import consideration for any AV
integration company. Here too, Nickerson gives Eiki International high marks,
“Eiki has been our projector of choice since 2007. The depth of the product
line, the image quality, the reliability, and the knowledgeable support are
excellent. I have nothing but the highest praise for Eiki: from our regional
rep, Casey Burgess, to the staff in California—especially Cheryl Chavez and the
customer service team. My true field of focus is audio, so having folks who are
knowledgeable in the video realm and who look out for me is invaluable.”
With
the Eiki projectors in place and operational since August, Nickerson reports
that the entire project could not have gone better. “Our main contact at the
church, Don Stanley, is extremely pleased with the results,” said Nickerson.
“We were contacted at the end of June about this project and one key demand the
client had was that the equipment had to be in place and ready for use by the
first weekend of August. Our July schedule was already quite full, but with the
support of the folks at Eiki, our chief installer/systems designer, David Goon,
was able to make everything come together. Now, when the lights dim and those
images appear up front, it is really quite inspiring.”
To learn more about Christ Presbyterian Church, visit their website at www.christpres.org. For information about the services of Corner AV, go to www.corneraudiovideo.com