Manna Fellowship Church, located just outside Kansas City, Missouri, features a 600-seat worship space along with fellowship areas, classrooms, and offices. For the main sanctuary, Stark Raving Solutions, now Avdoxa, led the audio, video, and lighting design, integrating Meteor’s Archi-Color® W+RGB technology into a flexible house light system built for both worship and everyday use.
One System for White Light and Color
Aaron Smith, Worship Pastor at Manna Fellowship, programs the church’s lighting system each week, making flexibility a critical part of the design. The space needed high-quality RGB color to enhance the worship experience, while still delivering strong, independent 3000K white light for the start and end of congregation gatherings.
Unlike typical RGBW systems that heavily rely on RGB-mixed white, Archi-Color® W+RGB is designed with a dedicated 3000K white channel that delivers 50% of the fixture’s output as true white light, while the remaining 50% is dedicated to RGB color mixing. This gives the space a stronger architectural white-light foundation, while still maintaining the color flexibility needed for worship scenes and stage-driven moments.
DMX Control for Modern Worship
The fixtures were also required to provide smooth DMX dimming and integrate seamlessly with the church’s theatrical stage lighting system. As a DMX-controlled house light solution, Atria W+RGB gives the worship team the ability to program house lights, stage fixtures, dimming transitions, and color scenes within one coordinated control environment.
The room shifts naturally between gathering, speaking, music, prayer, and dismissal — moving from warm architectural white light to saturated color moments without disrupting the visual rhythm of the service.
Architectural Form, Theatrical Flexibility
Installed throughout the worship space are 42 Atria 10 and 27 Atria 6 W+RGB fixtures, offering high-performance white illumination and dynamic color transformations from a single architectural cylinder family.
The project achieves a consistent cylinder aesthetic across the sanctuary while adapting output and scale to the needs of the space. The result is a house lighting solution that feels architectural in appearance, but performs with the flexibility of a theatrical lighting system.
