i want to believe...

...that it is possible for postmodern pilgrims to engage into powerful God experiences. although worship designers cannot make that happen in weekly worship, we can certainly prepare spaces and places that honor God and bless people. combining the spoken word, visual media, music and stage design, environments emerge where God can show up.

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Spiritual Awakenings ~ an art journalling retreat

Spiritual Awakenings

Mar. 11, 2013 No Comments Posted under: On the Side

Spiritual Awakenings is essentially journaling via art – true, but really it’s about uncovering our stories and experiencing God’s healing presence as we create side by side in community.Our next Spiritual Awakenings Retreat is Thursday April 25: 6:30-9p/Friday and Saturday 10a – 4p. Cost is $85.Register soon by emailing us @ spiritualawakenings@ginghamsburg.org  

Our Fort Mckinley campus is growing – with three explosive worship celebration every Sunday morning. The worship team needed  some space to relax and refresh but what 1960s church building sports a green room close to the worship stage? Enter one of my favorite mantras: EVERYTHING YOU NEED YOU ALREADY HAVE. And yes, we did [...]

full stage  Our Ginghamsburg Makeover Team set out to design a stage to provide an engaging backdrop for our seven-week series on the Holy Spirit. Inspired by a Columbus, Ohio Anthropologie storefront, our key resources were smashed aluminum cans (clean!) and paper pendant lights from IKEA. With weedcloth as a wall covering/backdrop – and following a [...]

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our second workday at The Point was amazing and exhausting. 59 servants, 11 cans of paint, 8.5 hours, one newspaper and two TV stations later we had a vibrantly painted cafe. i met a lot of great people and was surprised all over again at how much can be accomplished with a single focus and [...]

Cafe Area: BEFORE. This pic was taken in August of 2011…just another one of the many lovely lavendar rooms in this place Doing our homework, scouting colors and styles of area-wide coffee shops Starbucks on Brown Street in Dayton …the color palate is right on the wall! Tomorrow is the big day. Several TV stations [...]

A panoramic view of the basketball/gym side. We are done! Many thanks to the incredibly amazing Men's Ministry @ Ginghamsburg!

40 Men & A Movie

Jan. 23, 2012 4 Comments Posted under: Campus Design

one of the best parts of my role as campus designer is to get to partner nearly all our ministry teams at one time or another. this past weekend i was blown away by the camaraderie and creativity of two teams on two huge projects. Family Flick Night with our Ginghamsburg Kids’ adult leaders and [...]

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how does your team press into the future? we’ve all heard it said that if we do things the way we’ve always done we’ll get what we’ve always got. our team’s new day is dawning in the context of mini-retreats, days apart (at a coffee shop, a business center, a comfy living room, etc.) planned [...]