Hi,

First of all, thank you so much for all your responses.

When I step up to take this position, I already knew that there are a lot
of problems, and they might not even be solved without major change(s) of
the floor plan, but I still want to do it.

Because no one else can, not saying they don't want to, but I can be
considered one of the most experience guy among our congregation that
know something about sound, equipment, and acoustic!

And yes, we don't actually call it a gym, we do call it a "Family Life
Center". So it is not only for a bunch of people playing ball games, but
actually can hold some functions there.

To sum up what I saw above, can I draw the below so called "conclusion":

1. Should use a lot of small speakers instead of a few pairs of large
monitor speakers, how small we are talking about? Because that concern
what kind of power amplifier we are going to use.

2. Sound-stage equipments should not cost a lot, I'll say, small
speakers, a few power amp., mixer console, CD-player, some nice
unidirectional mic. (by the way, what's mean by "true diversity
microphone").

3. The acoustic treatment is going to be the most costly consideration.
Any suggestion, other than tell me to back-off?

And no, not all churches have a lot of money in their bank account, we
spent what we think will benefit the most, after sincere praying by a lot
of people. And yes, we believe God owns everything, he can have a state-
of-the-art Gym./Family Life Center built in a slap of his fingers, but he
doesn't want to be that way, and we don't want to be that way. We want
everybody to get involve so that by the time the building is done, we can
praise the God and move one... That happened last time we had our main
building built.

Sorry for the long message, but since someone here brought it up, I feel
I have the responsibility to answer it.

Once again, thank you very very very much for all your responses, and
please keep on feeding me with ideas.

Panzzi