re:Designing Worship

today ginghamsburg hosted the tipp city business expo in our “avenue” building-the only tipp city venue large enough to house this event! we erected a double-wide booth using a large indoor tent – and went to work creating our own signature “organic” displays. from the get-go we planned to feature only those ministries that were [...]

This morning we hosted nearly 40 church leaders to experience Mike teaching a preview session of content from his new book Change the World – recovering the message and mission of Jesus. We video recorded the session, with the pastors as our studio audience, to supplement a leadership training curriculum on Change the World to [...]

How can [re]designing spaces change the world? one room at a time. check out pp. 98-100 in Mike’s hot-off-the-press book…
Exciting news…this past week Pastor Mike’s newest book, Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus, was released nationally. This book truly could change the future of the church. Encourage friends to order one [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 CALL. the slideshow [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]