Category: Decorating
My church just started a new sermon series on the Gospel of John. It’s a long series… something like 14 weeks, so we decided to change over the stage for the series.
There is a DVD on the Gospel of John and as I was watching it, I was inspired by Israel’s countryside and tents that were in the video. I wanted to create a set that felt like it was back in Bible times. So I got out my handy dandy Illustrator program and threw together a quick design idea.
This Christmas our church did a modified program based on WillowCreek’s Imagine Christmas. The setting was an outdoor forest scene. Our stage is minuscule compared to Willow’s, as well as our budget. So we had to come up something a little different.
In December, we put up a stage design for the weeks before Christmas. It was a simple design with big impact — lots of positive compliments. Ironically, the “simple” design ended up being way more work than we anticipated!
Today we started a new series called The Hole in Our Gospel, based on the book written by Richard Stearns, the president of World Vision.
The series is about how the gospel is not just about salvation, but also about living out our faith and caring for others in the world, including the poor and needy.
So this past week the stage design team worked on putting a new set together.
This past July, our church put on a summer day camp/Vacation Bible School for the kids. Since I was not there, I didn’t participate in the actual event. But Albert was one of the teachers so I went to help him the two days he was teaching.
Albert was Nunu of the North. He came out bundled up against the elements (good thing there was air conditioning indoors!)
Because last week was Breakaway (sadly, this year I was not involved due to being on leave of absence 
), the stage was torn down. This week a new stage design needed to go up.