The One About the New Series

So we are starting a new series on Sunday - Thrive.

This is the first time Allison and I have partnered on a creative project...we brainstormed it and talked about it for several weeks...and the end result was we were pleased but we both agreed, "we can do WAY better."  Here's a pic of a design we made for the welcome center.

The series is about ways we can thrive as leaders in the church.  The welcome center display consists of about thirty jars filled with dirt and fake flowers hung from the ceiling.  The graphic we printed on our large plotter printer and mounted it on cardboard that we ripped and shredded to look worn (instead of the normal black art board that we use for mounting).  We hung everything with thin pieces of rope.

In the Sanctuary stage right, we hung large pink letters that say Thrive, along with some three-dimensional flower pots underneath.  For those we used cardboard, flower pots that we cut in half, and acrylic paint.  For stage left, we made a 4x4 ft. 3D box of the graphic shown above.  We used a giant sunflower, metal letters, potting soil and a large garden box that we sweet-talked a guy at home depot into selling us for $10 off (it was a display).  More pics of that stuff to come.

Final touches were adding some more stage lights and changing out the lighting gels to green.

We kept pep talking ourselves along the way that we could do this, and that we could do it on the cheap and be resourceful.  We did well...we picked up things at the Genesis center, the cardboard we used comes packed in shipments from our printer as filler to keep things from moving around, and we used tons of paint and glue that we already had...and most of the things we did have to purchase, we will be able to use later.

We are looking into exciting new ways to work with coroplast.  More on that to come too.