Wyatt Park Baptist Church
St. Joseph, Missouri
Seat Count: 900
Construction Type: New Construction
Opening: July 2003
Client: Wyatt Park Baptist Church
Architect: Mantel Teter Architects
A/V/L Installation: Harvest Productions
AD Scope: Auditorium Design, Acoustics,
Audio, Video, Lighting And Broadcast
Wyatt Park moved to their new campus location in 1995 but decided not to build their new worship center until further growth had taken place in their congregation. During this time the services were held in the church’s multi-purpose building. Now Wyatt Park is happy to have a worship center that was designed specifically with their ministry needs in mind.
Wyatt Park has vibrant traditional and contemporary services, and they wanted a worship center that supported and enhanced both acoustically different services. This was accomplished by designing a room with excellent natural acoustics which are desired for traditional worship services. The room’s natural acoustics can be deadened for the contemporary services by pulling curtains out of hidden coves that surround the congregational area and by pulling the theatrical curtains that are on stage.
The sound system is designed for both the acoustically reverberant natural room and the less reverberant curtained room.
Lighting was a special concern for Wyatt Park because of their television ministry and the use of video projection during their services. Because television broadcasting calls for a well-lit stage, new high luminance projectors were installed to project to the two rear projection screens. The high luminance projectors allow for brilliant video projection even when the room is well-lit for television cameras.
Television broadcasting is accommodated in a new suite that contains an audio recording control room and a television studio.
The video system is connected to a video downlink for satellite video conferencing.
Wyatt Park Baptist Church produces the five minute program, "It's a New Day," in-house which airs weekday mornings on local broadcast television. There is a small studio adjacent to the control room. AD integrated the church’s existing equipment into the control room and provided cabling infrastructure and lighting to support the studio.
