WILLOW CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH
HD VIDEO SYSTEM
SOUTH BARRINGTON, IL
For the six years, Willow Creek Community Church rented an HD-capable production truck to help them host their single largest annual event. In 2017 however, with their own new HD system, designed and implemented in partnership with Clark, they were able to broadcast the Global Leadership Summit to 450 satellite locations, providing each attendee with a "front row" experience.
The driving factor in Willow Creek's upgrade of their main campus in South Barrington, IL, was an 11-year-old SD system that had begun to fail and was becoming too old to maintain. A decision was made to overhaul their distributed TV network and camera inventory at the same time. With the Global Leadership Summit just months away, the church asked us to help position them for success.
Hands down, the most daunting challenge of the project was to keep the church operational during the two and a half month install. Two teams of installation technicians worked side-by-side to pull out miles of TRIAX camera cabling and replace it with new SMPTE fiber cable.
Dave Cooke, Willow Creek's Production Department Chief Engineer, had wanted the project completed a month before the big event to allow the tech team time to learn the system. We met the challenge. He says,
"Things went off very, very well. In fact, from a technical standpoint, it was probably one of the best Summits we've had."
