1985 Vineville Avenue Macon, Georgia
The Walden Auditorium
A New Macon Sunday Tradition
Live Gospel
Choirs, quartets and special guests on a real stage.
Southern Brunch
Food shared in fellowship before and after the show.
Macon Music
The legacy that made this a music city, still working.
Community
Family, friends and visitors in one room every week.
Preserve the place. Broadcast the music. Build the legacy.
ChurchView at 1985 Vineville
A permanent nonprofit home for gospel music, broadcast, recording and Macon’s musical history. We are raising the founding support to acquire the property and open it.
Help acquire the property
A charitable gift, bargain sale, lead acquisition gift, preservation funding, financing, or a combination.
Bring ChurchView FM to Macon
Leads, introductions and funding toward an existing FM broadcast operation, subject to due diligence and FCC approval.
Fund the studios and auditorium
Professional audio, video and podcast studios, plus a live recording and broadcast standard for the Walden.
Underwrite Sunday Gospel Brunch
Southern brunch downstairs and live gospel on the Walden stage, recorded every week.
The Vision
Not a preserved building. A working media institution.
Five operating parts, one property, one mission.
The Walden Auditorium
A 375-seat performance and broadcast venue for gospel concerts, choirs, quartets, visiting artists, community programs and interviews.
ChurchView Studios
Audio, video, podcast and interview studios producing original programming and documenting the people who shaped Macon’s musical and spiritual heritage.
ChurchView FM
A broadcast home for gospel music, Macon music, local churches, community programming and performances recorded live at the Walden, subject to required approvals.
ChurchView Archive
Recordings, photographs, memorabilia, interviews and oral histories that would otherwise disappear.
ChurchView Commons
The dining and gathering space supporting Sunday Gospel Brunch, artist dinners, meetings, receptions and educational programs.
Good food. Great music. Macon stories.
Sunday Gospel Brunch
Guests gather downstairs for brunch, then move into the auditorium for a professionally produced live gospel performance.
Choirs. Quartets. Soloists. Macon legends. New voices.
Each Sunday is recorded once and used many times. One Sunday creates programming that runs all week and reaches far beyond Macon.
375 seats. One historic stage. A new Macon Sunday tradition.
Why Macon
Few American cities hold Macon’s concentration of musical history.
Gospel, soul, Southern rock, R&B, country and the traditions of the Black church all shaped a culture whose influence traveled far past Middle Georgia.
The goal is not simply to remember Macon’s music.
The goal is to keep making it.
One property
What your support does
- Preservation
- An important community property gets a permanent new use.
- Broadcast
- A nonprofit radio, streaming and media platform based in Macon.
- Performance
- A 375-seat live audience studio back at work.
- Recording
- Professional facilities for music, interviews and oral histories.
- History
- Macon’s gospel, church and musical heritage documented.
- Hospitality
- Food and fellowship that make it a real gathering place.
- Tourism
- A stop on Macon’s music and visitor circuit.
- Education
- Young people learning broadcasting, recording and production.
Founding Opportunities
Help establish a permanent Macon institution.
We are talking with individuals, families, foundations, corporations, churches and institutions.
- The ChurchView Broadcast Center
- The Walden Auditorium
- ChurchView Studios
- ChurchView FM
- The ChurchView Gospel Archive
- ChurchView Commons
- Sunday Gospel Brunch
- Artist Green Room
- Broadcast Control Room
- Oral History Studio
- Education & Production Fellowship
Naming would be structured subject to nonprofit governance, campaign policies and applicable charitable requirements.
Help us establish ChurchView in Macon
Become a Founding Partner
Tell us how you would like to help. A short conversation is usually the fastest way to find the right fit.
We are beginning conversations with property stakeholders, community leaders, institutions, broadcasters, preservation partners and prospective founding donors.
- Property acquisition Open
- FM broadcast acquisition or partnership Open
- Studio and auditorium development Open
- Sunday Gospel Brunch launch Open
- Founding philanthropic support Open