CBC AV MINISTRY

Overview

Cleveland Baptist Church’s AV documentation is meant to help three groups:

  1. Current and future AV leaders who need enough detail to maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the ministry’s systems
  2. Leaders and advanced operators who need to understand how each room’s systems are designed and connected
  3. Volunteers who need clear, practical instructions for the specific position they are serving

This document is the landing page for the documentation set. Use it to find the right room, the right discipline, and the right level of detail. The documentation set is not only a volunteer training library; it is also intended to be an operational reference that a future AV director or ministry successor can use to understand how the systems fit together.

How to use these docs

  • If you are serving in a room and need to know what to do, start with that room’s Volunteer Role Guide
  • If you are troubleshooting, training others, planning changes, or trying to understand the full setup, start with that room’s Room Overview
  • If you are taking over responsibility for the ministry’s systems, start with the shared Cross-Room References and then work room by room through the Room Overviews
  • If you think in terms of Audio, Livestream, Projection, or Lighting, use the discipline index below to find the correct room documents

Documentation structure

  • This document (the landing page) - landing document and ministry-wide orientation
  • src/content/docs/shared/ - shared references, operational references, templates, and change tracking
  • {Room}/ - each room’s overview, volunteer role guides, and supporting images or screenshots

Room-specific guides are the authoritative documents. If repeated patterns emerge across multiple rooms, they can be summarized in a shared cross-room reference, but they do not replace the room guides.

Rooms

Room Systems documented here Planned room docs
Auditorium Audio, Livestream, Projection, Lighting Room Overview; FOH Audio Volunteer Role Guide; Livestream Audio Volunteer Role Guide; Lighting Volunteer Role Guide; Projection Volunteer Role Guide; Livestream Video Volunteer Role Guide
Gym Audio, Livestream Room Overview; Gym Audio Volunteer Role Guide; Gym Livestream Volunteer Role Guide
Fellowship Hall Audio, Presentation, Livestream, Lighting Room Overview; FH AV Operator Volunteer Role Guide; Fellowship Hall Signal Map
Thompson Chapel Audio, Livestream, Projection Room Overview; role guides for FOH Audio, Livestream, Projection
HBI Room Audio, Presentation Room Overview; HBI Presenter Volunteer Role Guide; HBI Room Signal Map

Find your area by discipline

Audio

  • Auditorium: FOH and livestream/broadcast-related audio responsibilities
  • Gym
  • Fellowship Hall (FH AV Operator role guide)
  • Thompson Chapel: FOH and livestream/broadcast-related audio responsibilities
  • HBI Room (HBI Presenter role guide)

Livestream

  • Auditorium
  • Gym
  • Fellowship Hall (FH AV Operator role guide)
  • Thompson Chapel

Projection

  • Auditorium
  • Fellowship Hall (FH AV Operator role guide)
  • Thompson Chapel
  • HBI Room (HBI Presenter role guide)

Lighting

  • Auditorium
  • Fellowship Hall (FH AV Operator role guide)

Current documentation priorities

  1. Use the Auditorium as the pilot room
  2. Write the Room Overview first
  3. Derive the room’s Volunteer Role Guides from that overview
  4. Use inline Markdown signal-flow diagrams, then add annotated photos/screenshots where identification matters

Shared references