Yeah, there is a difference here.....

Your DJ doubles as a worship leader.
Your DJ interacts with the crowd more than we did...

If I were in the crowd and all I saw as a black figure standing on a balcony shouting scripture, I would be a bit freaked out. 

As Christians we want to play the humility card and make ourselves seem not really that important when in reality we are (very) important - this goes for DJ's as well. 

I am sure if you went to youtube and searched for David Crowder or Chris Tomlin (worship leaders) you will see that there are plenty of lights pointed at them during a worship service.  The crowd needs to see that your worship leader/DJ/talent is passionate about what they are doing and they need to see the DJ sweat, get stressed, rejoice and throw their hands up during a massive buildup - they want to know that the DJ/worship leader is a real person otherwise you might as well take the DJ out of the loop and replace him with an iPod... 

Your job as a club LD is to light the crowd first then the DJ, you seem to have the crowd thing figured out.  I am not saying throw a pile of pars on the DJ, at least go back to having a little light on him.

I don't want to give you the impression that Fusion patrons looked upon the DJ as a superstar (like those Paul Oakenfold live shows) - our patrons wanted to see the DJ at work.  We had times where Bill or another DJ would start preaching during their sets, we lit them up because kids were actually listening to what they were saying.  Part of the whole club experience is seeing the DJ do stuff.  Kids would see someone like Bill DJing and making cool things happen, then we would later in the evening play some chill music and serve the kids free pizza - the DJ that was playing cool music is now sitting next to me talking about life while eating a slice of cheese pizza - that is where our ministry was - hanging out with the kids and talking.  If we had done things your way and made the DJ a (humble) black silhouette shouting scripture, they would not be able to know that the same guy that was playing cool music was sitting next to them eating pizza at midnight.

I am not trying to downplay what you guys are doing up there - in fact I am jealous that we have at least 3 DJ's here in town and the resources to put together a great show and we have nothing going on.

that's some good advice there, james.

Yeah, I can understand the superstar mentality, but same token, I've been on both sides, as a lighting guy and DJ, and as a DJ I definitely don't want to be in the dark.  Gotten have some light to see what I'm doing.

Usually when I play, I have my scanners on a light stand behind me to scan the crowd and they're just straight up, like james said, they have good coverage.  They're sound activated, but the Mini Mac's run off a laptop program.

This Friday, we'll be there! (We being me, our youth pastor, another youth leader and his son, with the possibility of two more folks.)

You gonna be there, Kairsie? Does Mr. Stoltzfus still attend? If he does, I'd like to see about getting him together with our youth pastor for a chat.

According to the web site (www.clubworship.org), the time is 8pm to midnight.

It'll be good to see you both. Oh, and I forgot to practice the disco cat dance, so you'll have to live without having seen that.

HA! I do not fear your trolls!!

why won't you sign the new contract?