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Jo El from Oasis City Church in Westerville, OH brings us these cool glowing circles. They covered their entire back wall with 5×10′ black fire-rated curtains. They got a great deal from tableclothfactory.com – all under $300. Then they bought hula hoops in different sizes, painted them black, wrapped them with regular Christmas lights that were […]

Brendan Krismer from Prescott Christian Church in Prescott, AZ brings us this fun mixtures of string panels and LED tape. From Brendan: For this set, we used a couple of different element. First, we built 7 string art panels to be lit on the inside run with LED strip. I didn’t document much in regards to […]

Mary Dickey from Highland Community Church in Baltimore, MD brings us this fun paper link design. They were looking for an inexpensive, rustic, Christmas set that popped. This is what they came up with. They used about 2000 sheets of white copy paper to make the paper chains on the back wall. They were uplit with […]

What is the ultimate purpose of a church platform or stage? Is it to inspire? Entertain? Challenge? Or dare we ask...has its role in our worship become "marginally outdated"? As we are in the process of completing our first proper stage as an 11-year-old church, I have been grappling with these very questions...and God led…

This year for their Easter services Nathan Stickling at Northwoods Church in Peoria, IL reached out the the team at Mod Scenes about creating a custom Stained Glass look. Nathan and the team at Mod Scenes landed on creating 3 different elements: Stained glass chandeliers, large stained glass window arches, and smaller squares stained glass windows […]

Abby Barras Interiors from Area 10 Faith Community in Richmond, VA brings us this great live-streaming setup. From Abby: Like most churches this past year, ours took an unanticipated leap (further) into the digital world on March 15 when we began livestreaming our services. We were fortunate to have a great crew of volunteer audio and visual […]

Josh Miller from The Heights Church in Richardson, TX brings us this awesome Christmas look. From Josh: We have a really large stage, so it can be really difficult to create stage designs that are big enough to make an impact! My hope was to shrink the stage both from a height and width perspective. I was […]

The sets for McDermott's staging of Philipp Glass’s modern masterpiece Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera of New York.

Joshua Hoegh from First Baptist Church of Elgin in Elgin, IL brings us this warm Christmas look. Their 2014 Christmas series was titled “Simply Christmas”, and after weeks of discussion and brainstorming, they decided to move forward with a design that implemented “simple” elements, but in a grand and striking way. The original concept was to incorporate panels of wood […]