Category Archives: Campus Design
ramping up to the road less traveled
“nothing happens but first a dream…” (Rumi) every time we name a new worship message series at ginghamsburg we must sketch out what it will look like, trying to imagine what it will FEEL like to walk into the worship area and experience the setting that we will associate with these weekend messages. this is...
cloudy with a chance of meatballs
family flick night is a once-a-year event our children’s ministry puts on for kids and their parents/caregivers. such a huge, fun, pull-out-all-the-stops kind of affair, what kid wouldn’t LOVE to watch a movie this way? amazing set design, come in your pjs (including the band), pizza and popcorn “meatballs”, a 600+ meatball/balloon drop, meteorologist jamie...
a scandalous love affair
not your everyday advent theme, we chose to embrace God’s unconditional, nearly un-realistic love for broken humans as our advent theme. once the theme was established i began thinking of a suitable backdrop- where christmas and this “love” theme could meet. trees, i thought, bare trees creating room for a story – the story of...
life rhythm
ginghamsburg’s mission statemen: bring seeking people into a life-CELEBRATION of jesus grow in cell COMMUNITY serve out of our CALL and giftedness. this year our fall stewardship series didn’t quite reach into advent so we created a mini 3-week series on the DNA of ginghamsburg, a rediscovery of our life rhythm of CELL, CELEBRATION and...
heritage/prayer room at the Fort
our fort mckinley campus church came to us complete with 100 years of rich history and all the hundreds of photos to prove it. we’d been able to repurpose the wood salvaged from the stage/chancel area of the sanctuary as wainscoting in that room. a new color scheme and vine/burnished metal light fixtures served to...
Laughlines
LAUGHLINES was our september message series – a response to the failing economy and our collective need to lighten up a bit and enjoy the gifts God’s given. we wanted to go for a comedy club look so we purchased brickboard paneling and decopaged large posters to the cut out paneling pieces – dried and...
ginghamsburg BRINGS IT
ginghamsburg is closing a 5-week message series on servanthood. we called it CHURCH IS A VERB and had some really memorable worship weekends. speakers brian brown, kevin applegate, dave hood and nick cunningham spoke passionately to bring the message home. since ginghamsburg is a mission-driven church community the idea of church being a verb –...
children’s festival @ ginghamsburg
one of our recent events/décor projects was the ginghamsburg children’s festival~blessing of the backpacks that took place on the lawn this past sunday. over 400 backpacks were blessed by our lay pastors to send our kids off to school with God’s protection and direction – all the while inflatables, walking tacos, pizza, games, contests and...
anthro in atlanta
people often ask “how do you get your ideas? what do you do for inspiration?” every artist, designer or co-creator needs to be able to unplug and find places that stir up new visions. one of the places that sparks my best ideation is the globally famous “anthropologie.” it’s a mall kind of store- usually...
summer style
following the birth of amari life picked up speed. i find myself needing to get back to blogging and sharing more pictures, ideas and what’s going on in general…summer style. african tent eventginghamsburg is currently hosting 12 african pastors to help them learn everything we know about effective communication. our ginghamsburg host families and these...