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Student Ministries Stage Design

// January 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Stage Design

**Note from Andrew:  I asked Britni Nelson, our newest stage design family member at Blue Ridge, to write about Student Ministries’ most recent stage design.  I snapped a few photos from a non-Student Ministries event to give some context to their ideas and execution.  May I introduce to you…Britni Nelson and the student ministries design team:

We all leave a mark, we all influence people we come into contact with, and whose mark are you leaving, our own or Christ’s? With this stage design we wanted to really drive home the point of making and leaving a mark.

Who doesn’t love to throw and splatter paint around sometimes? We took 3 different colors of paint, in this instance, orange, blue, and green semi-gloss and used 8 foam balls. We dipped them into the paint and threw them onto to wall to create yet another type of mark. Each splatter is different representing that each of us leaves a different mark. To fill in gaps between the marks that the foam balls had made we used paint brushes and paint stirrers to create the more unique marks and designs on the wall.  We hit the walls with blue gels to make the colors pop.

We used 4×8 sheets of insulation board t hat had been glued together and painted with flat white paint creating 4×16 sheets to create our “X”. the top corners of the board were fitted with wires then screwed into the wall. Then screws were screwed in the wall for the boards to rest on. We Used Pink gels and closed the shudders on our lights to focus the lights only on the “X” making it stand out with its vibrant color.

Proper Image Management

// January 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Thoughts

We’ve been working on a new stage design this week for our first series of 2010 called T3.  I’ve been thinking of what we, as human beings, care about and why and how those things drive our behavior and speech. The following quote has been stirring my heart as I’ve been working this week:

A zealous man in religion is pre-eminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to say that he is earnest, hearty, uncompromising, thorough going, wholehearted, fervent in spirit. He only sees one thing, he cares for one thing, he lives for one thing, he is swallowed up in one thing; and that one thing is to please God.

Whether he lives, or whether he dies whether he has health, or whether he has sickness
whether he is rich, or whether he is poor whether he pleases man, or whether he gives
offense whether he is thought wise, or whether he is thought foolish whether he gets blame, or whether he gets praise whether he get honour, or whether he gets shame for all this the zealous man cares nothing at all.

-J.C. Ryle

whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. yes, whatever.