we were asked to create a ginghamsburg bookstore (aka “the vine”) presence/location at our fort mckinley campus… a somewhat portable, lockable kiosk-type cart that would attraction attention and enable the fort to sell resources, message cds/dvds and mission tshirts. i researched carts and found them online beginning at around $1000 – a bit pricey. at...

ginghamsburg is a mission-driven church but that hasn’t excused us from valuing our visitors! we strive to create welcoming spaces that invite guests to feel at home and navigate effectively on campus. we don’t have much community space built into our campus so we max out the spaces we have. conversation areas, great signage, information...

…and today was one monday that was perfectly awful outside – rain, snow, sleet and very cold. inside the fort was a different story. five servants painted, sanded, hung lights, munched on salad and brownies and shared stories. this extra room off the main worship lobby has now been transformed into a prayer room. new...

a lot has happened at the Fort in the last several weeks and months. we bit the bullet and went to work in the basement. i don’t have before pictures, but trust me we’ve come a long way baby. lots of joint compound texture treatments, creative pipe painting and a few well-placed wall pieces. pastor...

every once in awhile i get to pull in a few servants and do an office makeover. these are especially fun when the staffperson has a theme or a vision of what they’d like and it’s our challenge to fulfill that concept. in this case the staffperson has been out of the office for three...

two weeks ago we gathered up a collection of artsy servants to create stage sets for ginghamsburg’s “backyard” children’s ministry as well as our six clubhouse outreach locations. both were approaching a “narnia” series using the chronicles of narnia and the new prince caspian. 8 sheets of foam, 12 carpet roll tubes, 32 yards of...