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Central Christian Church

Cutting Edge Worship With Roland

by Corey Fournier

Central Christian Church is a thriving, multi-site church community in Las Vegas, NV. Central currently has four weekend services at its Henderson campus and two services at its new Summerlin campus with a combined weekend attendance of over 10,000. Michael James Murphy is Central’s executive worship pastor. “Roland products play a key role in Central’s worship ministry”, says Michael. “We currently use the Fantom-X8 workstation keyboard and VK-88 dual-manual organ as staples in our worship services. We’ve also incorporated the V-Synth for creating loops and the RD-500 for various piano needs.”

Central has experienced considerable growth and recently launched their first satellite campus in Summerlin, NV. “With the September 10th launch of the Summerlin campus, Roland instruments were the obvious choice,” claims Michael. “The Fantom-X8 doubles as a comprehensive synthesizer and an extremely realistic and expressive piano.” Michael and his staff strive to stretch the stylistic boundaries in contemporary worship and technology helps them achieve this goal. According to Michael, “Both the Fantom and the VK-88 are the perfect tools for our cutting edge worship environment, and they even fit in the same road case for storage.”

Central recently released its first live worship CD, Live @ First Wednesday 10.05.05. You can go to www.myspace.com/centralworship or check our website at www.centralchristian.com for more information.