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What Makes Music Equipment and Sound Gear So Important?
- By William Swindle
- Published 04/5/2011
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Imagine for a moment, that you are the leader of a ministry in an under-developed foreign country to the United States. You have a church that is growing, and when you hold meetings, hundreds of people show up. The ministry continues to grow, and many people are touched by God. Word spreads and the few hundred have turned into over a thousand attendees to your meetings.
This sort of scenario may be a fantasy for many ministers in the U.S.A., but it happens over and over again in other countries. Imagine then, trying to preach and teach the masses. Raising your voice and shouting can only go so far, and soon you find that only 150 or so of your people can actually hear you. The other 850 are left wondering what you are saying.
I have experienced this personally while teaching in Africa, and it is actually where the idea for Heart of a Worshipper International was birthed. While preaching and singing in a mountain church with no sound equipment, that was so crowded people were standing outside the walls and looking in windows and doorways; I realized that something more needed to be done for people all over the world. Over and over again, as our missions team visited churches and ministries, we found they were under-equipped, or more likely had no equipment at all for sound amplification. When talking to missionary friends from other countries, we found that many other ministries all over the world deal with the same lack of necessary gear. This is where the slogan "Without the gear, how will they hear?" came from.
After years of struggling with the concept, we developed Heart of a Worshipper International to address these issues. It is now a charity that thrives and survives because individuals, churches, and ministries donate money, musical instruments, and sound equipment to us. One of the main things that we then do is turn it around and give the sound equipment and musical instruments to ministries in need overseas and in some places in the U.S.A. We use donated funding also to purchase gear and give
it away. It is amazing how God uses this gear to equip people to impact their world for Jesus Christ. Instead of reaching just a few, they are able to reach thousands, and in some cases tens of thousands. The plain truth of the matter is that without the gear,
many of the people just can't hear when there are crowds of much more than 100 people or so. In some of the places we work with, crowds can easily exceed 5000! We know of trust-worthy ministries that are in desperate need of musical instruments and sound equipment in Sri Lanka, Africa, Poland, India, Armenia, Iran, the Dominican Republic, and several other countries. We are only limited by available funding and donated gear. If you would like to donate monetarily or donate
musical instruments or sound gear, please contact us:
Heart of a Worshipper International
P.O. Box 82
Tamassee, SC 29686
864-903-1054
This sort of scenario may be a fantasy for many ministers in the U.S.A., but it happens over and over again in other countries. Imagine then, trying to preach and teach the masses. Raising your voice and shouting can only go so far, and soon you find that only 150 or so of your people can actually hear you. The other 850 are left wondering what you are saying.
I have experienced this personally while teaching in Africa, and it is actually where the idea for Heart of a Worshipper International was birthed. While preaching and singing in a mountain church with no sound equipment, that was so crowded people were standing outside the walls and looking in windows and doorways; I realized that something more needed to be done for people all over the world. Over and over again, as our missions team visited churches and ministries, we found they were under-equipped, or more likely had no equipment at all for sound amplification. When talking to missionary friends from other countries, we found that many other ministries all over the world deal with the same lack of necessary gear. This is where the slogan "Without the gear, how will they hear?" came from.
After years of struggling with the concept, we developed Heart of a Worshipper International to address these issues. It is now a charity that thrives and survives because individuals, churches, and ministries donate money, musical instruments, and sound equipment to us. One of the main things that we then do is turn it around and give the sound equipment and musical instruments to ministries in need overseas and in some places in the U.S.A. We use donated funding also to purchase gear and give
it away. It is amazing how God uses this gear to equip people to impact their world for Jesus Christ. Instead of reaching just a few, they are able to reach thousands, and in some cases tens of thousands. The plain truth of the matter is that without the gear,
many of the people just can't hear when there are crowds of much more than 100 people or so. In some of the places we work with, crowds can easily exceed 5000! We know of trust-worthy ministries that are in desperate need of musical instruments and sound equipment in Sri Lanka, Africa, Poland, India, Armenia, Iran, the Dominican Republic, and several other countries. We are only limited by available funding and donated gear. If you would like to donate monetarily or donate
musical instruments or sound gear, please contact us:
Heart of a Worshipper International
P.O. Box 82
Tamassee, SC 29686
864-903-1054
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