We have 4 or 5 volunteers on the projection rota, some using their own laptop, and some the church laptop. We sometimes have students who might join the rota for a while and move on. Some of our congregation are Deaf, and some are elderly and benefit from having as much of the service projected as possible.<br><br>Our church is part of a group of churches - a circuit in Methodist terms, so we share quite a lot of the material, but our church has a shared slot of common worship with the Junior Church, and then a blessing when they leave for their own activities, and others have different arrangements.<br><br>Preachers will often produce a shared blessing for the end of the service for everybody to say together, or responsive Call to Worship, thus my laptop has items in its custom slides<br>
20180218 CallToWorhip
20180218 Anthem
20180218 Prayers1
20180218 Prayers 2
20180218 Blessing
These will probably never be used again, and I should probably tidy them up, but I am probably more IT aware than some of our volunteers, and there are many items in out custom slides which I have inherited which I have not had the time to go through and sort, and even if I did, they would still be in everyone elses copy, depending on when they were put in.<br><br>Most of this material has been hand copied from the service book, so where we encounter a transcribing error it usually will only be fixed in one copy. <br><br>Baptisms tend to include the name of the child, or children being baptised, and the names of parents and godparents, but otherwise the format is always the same (Apart from us having different services for Infants and Adults etc)<br><br>Problems with projection are quite visible, so anything which make is problematic make it less likely that people will volunteer, but conversely as OpenLP improves it is more likely that we will benefit from someone saying 'I use OpenLP in my home church, and am studying here for a year, I will join the rota' - which is what we need.<br><br><br>