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As our church has grown from being a smaller portable church to owning a rather large building, going through personnel changes, etc, we've had to begin implementing more structure in our service planning, band lineups, special events, and tech crews. 

Our college service meets offsite and has a rather extensive portable system which we keep in a trailer in the church parking lot.  We have our main auditorium which we've been slowly bringing up to speed with permanent built in equipment and finally have most of its components in place and running well.  We've got several other rooms in the building with smaller sound/light/projection systems that must stay maintained, and easy to use for volunteers.  We'd also like to create a small portable system for smaller outside events such as weddings and coffee house outreaches.  I am in charge of all of these systems, budget for them, as well as the crews that run them, and recently it's become apparent that we need to have more organization and better communication in place to keep things running smoothly. 

How do all of you organize your volunteer crews?  Do you have one sound person on each week?  How many sound people do you have?  How often do they rotate?  How do you handle communication?  Training?  Setup?  Equipment maintenance?  Purchasing? 

I know that's a lot of stuff, but we're in the process of revamping and I'd like to hear what areas you've had success in, and what doesn't work.  Thanks in advance for your input!!

-Travis