Category Archives: Campus Design
Amari’s Room
While in Iowa City Clark and i were able to help our kids in a number of ways: visiting them in the hospital and lovin’ on our new granddaughter, unpacking boxes in the new/old home our kids had just moved into (circa 1860, next to a beautiful city cemetary) cleaning, landscaping and staging their home...
Backyard Project
years ago after realizing our ministries would need to share spaces and create welcoming -albeit temporary- environments for each week’s gatherings, our weekend children’s ministry landed in the large gym area of the AVENUE. they use the stage, lights and media that large space provides and fence in a large portion of the floor. upon...
everyday inspirations
i am an inspiration addict and it doesn’t take crazy extravagant visuals to send me into a grateful fit of joyous inspiration. here i’m posting a random assortment of my “everyday inspirations” from the last three days: my daughter heidi who is 8 months prego and the antique rocker i just recovered for her/them, the...
Hero Academy ~ Set Design
today five women combined efforts to create a stage set for our ginghamsburg children’s ministry summer series. their stage is in our student activity center (the avenue) and we feel they deserve a great background over which to experience the powerful message of jesus for their young lives. check out our process for creating the...
Day 6: Mission Accomplished
as mission trips go, today was bittersweet. after quick stops to the rental shop and lowe’s we got right to work at mt. zion. the team was anxious to get as much done as possible and leave a cleanly gutted building- prepared for the building to begin. we wanted to cover the round window opening...
Day 5: demo demo demo
(lori meyer writing)on day 1 it was almost impossible to imagine that we would finish any, if all, of the projects listed on clark’s team checklist. yet, after three days of scraping paint, destroying walls, taking down ceiling tiles and packing 2 dumpsters full of debris we are finally seeing progress! accomplishing these tasks has...
Day 4: a double dumpster day
today was a quick stop at the rental store for scaffolding, then on to mt. zion for a very full day of scraping floors and walls, removal of large damaged ceiling tile @ a height of 40′(and a temp of 98 degrees) and complete gutting of three second floor classrooms. the work is grueling (two-30...
Day 3: demolition begins
you can dress’m up and take’em out, but ginghamsburg servants are happiest when you set’em loose on a work project. this team of 20 is the most insanely hard-working group of people i’ve ever encountered. today we scraped, pulled,tore out and hauled a 30-yd.dumpster full of post-hurricane *&^%! it was incredible to watch these people...
Day 2: exploring the city
(mickey langston writing today)today was a day of many sights, sounds and emotions. we woke up early and headed into new orleans for worship at mt. zion church. the congregation welcomed us with open arms. they were so grateful to finally have a team of people give them the hope of rebuilding the sanctuary they...
Day 1: the journey
we arrived in slidell around 8 p.m., moved our belongings into the dorm room and settled in a bit. half the group went to walmart for groceries and picked up pizza for dinner at papa johns. it’s amazing how adaptable and easy going servants can be. we are going to worship at the church we’ll...