This church contacted AVL in the midst of the design phase of their new sanctuary. They were seeking assistance with acoustics, audio and lighting. The congregation of 1000+, who immigrated to the US during the Clinton administration, were a strong and dedicated community. Their plan was to use volunteer labor from the congregation to build much of the new building, including the audio and AV systems. This proposal can be daunting to consultants because the average church member does not usually have the technical skills required for much of this work. However, AVL found that these volunteers were highly skilled. Many of the laborers were engineers, software engineers and trades professionals. The workmanship on this sanctuary was among the best we have ever seen with great attention given to detail that speaks of old-world artisans. The audio and AV designs, however, were nothing “old world.” They are state of the art, utilizing digital audio consoles, ribbon line array loudspeakers and state of the art video projection and controls. On our recommendation, the church did retain an audio contractor to provide equipment, speaker rigging, system terminations, rack build, set up, and tuning. During commissioning of the system it became apparent that this congregation would make full use of everything they installed and would even stretch the limits. One of their software engineers actually rewrote some console code to fix a glitch they found. “Old school” in a new world!