“Like it or not we as the body of Christ are competing for people’s attention. We have to be able grab people’s attention and hold it. If we are trying to reach people with the only hope of life which is through Jesus Christ and we are to make disciples of them then we need to be able to reach them and teach them using a tool that they can relate to and that is the various forms of media. So when to use media is pretty much every time the doors are open.”

That is from an awesome post over at Media Ministry.Ernie totally nails it.

We are fighting for attention. The trick is to actually challenge those that come thru the door as well as grab them. If we miss the point, we will just be building Christian Disneylands.

That would be ashame, ’cause Disney does it really well.

Fits & Starts Productions announced new tour dates through December 2006 for its HOW-TO workshops, and will include sites in Maryland, Indiana, Virginia, Texas and California. The HOW-TO workshops will now include a Friday evening, three-hour “Podcasting for Worship” workshop, featuring recording, editing and more. In addition, the Saturday HOW-TO Church sound workshop provides a full 8-hour day of audio training at a local church.

HOW-TO workshop attendees and others who go to www.howtosound.com can now register to receive the Sound Bytes newsletter for free; the newsletter features helpful articles, product highlights and workshop dates and locations.

Craig Anderton over at Harmony Central has a great post on compressors. Here is a sample:

“It’s one of the most used, and most misunderstood, signal processors. While people use it to make a recording “punchier,” it often ends up dulling the sound instead because the controls aren’t set optimally. And it was supposed to go away when the digital age, with its wide dynamic range, appeared.”