House of Worship
Empowering Worship Through Professional AV Infrastructure
Solutions for Mixing Live Sound, Producing, Streaming and more
Today’s houses of worship are embracing professional-grade audio and video systems to connect with congregations both onsite and online. Whether you’re mixing live sound for a full orchestra, producing video content, or streaming services to a global audience — Lawo provides scalable, intuitive solutions that elevate worship experiences while simplifying operation.
From small churches to large multi-campus ministries, Lawo helps technical teams and decision-makers build resilient, future-ready AV infrastructure — with the same broadcast-grade standards expected by the world’s leading TV studios, and the volunteer-friendly usability that worship environments demand.
Solutions Across the House-of-Worship Workflow
Live Sound
Deliver pristine, immersive audio for sermons, worship music, and events. Lawo’s digital mixing consoles and IP-native audio systems offer intuitive control, flexible routing, and broadcast-grade sound quality — ideal for both volunteer operators and professional engineers.
Video Production
Create compelling visual content for in-person and online audiences. Lawo supports multi-camera setups, video switching, and integration with projection and streaming platforms — helping worship teams produce high-quality video with ease.
Broadcasting
Extend your message beyond the sanctuary. Lawo’s broadcast solutions enable live streaming, remote contribution, and multi-platform delivery — ensuring your services reach congregants wherever they are, with professional-grade reliability.
Venue Connectivity
Simplify signal flow across your worship space. Lawo’s IP-native infrastructure connects audio, video, and control systems across rooms, buildings and states — supporting distributed setups, overflow areas, and remote participation.
What Decision-Makers Value in Worship AV
Cost-Efficient Scaling
Expand your AV capabilities without overhauling your entire infrastructure. Lawo’s modular systems grow with your congregation and production needs.
Operational Resilience
Ensure uninterrupted services with reliable, redundant systems that protect your output and support mission-critical worship moments.
Future-Proof Flexibility
Adopt new formats, workflows, and technologies at your own pace — staying relevant and connected while minimizing risk.
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills: Worship, Reimagined.
With 10,000 adults attending every weekend and services running six days a week — from Thursday rehearsals to full Sunday productions with live broadcast — Calvary Chapel Chino Hills needed an audio system that could handle everything without missing a beat. Audio Director Jordan Brainard chose a fully IP-based Lawo infrastructure, and the results were immediate.
What Our Customers Say
What Lawo is doing IP-wise, both for audio and video, is nothing short of stunning. SMPTE ST2110 conveniently binds the audio and video together on a single, high‑performance network.
Products for House of Worship
HOME Platform
HOME is a management platform for IP-based media infrastructures and is designed to connect, manage and secure all aspects and instances of live production environments.
HOME Apps
HOME Apps are Lawo’s modular software applications that extend the HOME platform with flexible processing, monitoring, and control—enabling fully scalable, IP‑based broadcast workflows.
VSM
VSM is Lawo’s powerful, vendor‑agnostic broadcast control and orchestration system that unifies devices, workflows, and operators into one intuitive, IP‑ready control layer.
RƎLAY
RƎLAY is Lawo’s ultra‑compact, software-defined IP gateway that enables seamless SIP, NDI®, SRT, and STL connectivity for flexible, cost‑efficient broadcast and audio workflows.
mc² Series
Power Core
A__line
Edge One
Edge One combines audio and video connectivity in a single stagebox, bringing true AV convergence to life with HOME Apps.
Featured Case Studies
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills
With 10,000 adults attending every weekend, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills needed a system that could handle FOH, monitoring, and broadcast simultaneously — and be intuitive enough for volunteers to run on Sunday morning. Audio Director Jordan Brainard chose the Lawo mc²56 MK III as the centerpiece of a fully IP-based infrastructure, and the clarity improvement was noticeable from day one.
Granger Community Church
Welcoming 3,000 attendees to two campuses every weekend, Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana needed a system that was flexible, reliable, and ready to grow. After a thorough evaluation of competing solutions, they chose Lawo mc² consoles and IP infrastructure — prioritizing sound quality, expandability, and long-term support.
Cornerstone Chapel
A new 32-fader Lawo mc²56 audio production console has been installed by Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, VA, for their front-of-house audio system, greatly expanding their mixing capacity and completing their transition to IP networking. The new Lawo console, based on RAVENNA / AES67 IP technology, handles both live performances and broadcast tasks, providing a wide range of new options to help Cornerstone prepare for the future.
Flatirons Community Church
Located in Lafayette, Colorado and with an average weekly attendance of close to 19,000, Flatirons Community Church has installed a mc²56 digital production console to advance its live services and postproduction for its online community.
McLean Bible Church
On any given weekend, McLean Bible Church regularly hosts a full band, singers, worship leaders, an orchestra, choir and various audio playback elements and broadcast feeds to other campuses around DC. Audio quality, an increasing I/O capacity with a networked infrastructure, the need to manage routing for multiple campuses, recording facilities and multiple language broadcasts were key considerations in the decision to upgrade.
FAQ: House of Worship AV Systems
What is the ideal digital mixer for a church?
The best mixer depends on your size and needs. Lawo offers scalable digital mixing consoles with intuitive interfaces and pristine audio quality — ideal for both small and large worship environments. Where necessary, the main mixer can be complemented with a compact crystal board or a virtual-control app.
How can churches stream services professionally?
Lawo’s broadcast solutions support multi-platform streaming with low latency and high reliability, integrating seamlessly with your existing video and audio systems.
What video systems are used in houses of worship?
Churches use multi-camera setups, video switchers, and projection systems. Lawo supports these with IP-native infrastructure, signal processing and centralized control.
Can Lawo systems be operated by volunteers?
Yes. Lawo’s interfaces are designed to be intuitive and user-friendly, making them accessible for volunteers while offering advanced features for professionals.
How do Lawo solutions support multi-room worship setups?
Lawo’s IP-native infrastructure allows flexible routing of audio and video across multiple rooms, overflow areas, and remote locations — all managed from a central control point.
Associated Solutions
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