IT’S COMPLICATED: a message series on relationships, taken from the sermon on the mount.
Change the World: teaching edition
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...
Avenue Stage Build-Out
creating the road less traveled
TRthe worship design team as well as the unpaid stage makeover team were extremely busy this week as both worked hard to prepare for the new series “the road less traveled.” madison freeman sketched out the wall mural/design and the guys added split rail fence accents, complete w/ woodsy weeds and mason jar votive accents....
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...
Change the World
How can 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...
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...