Joshua Hoegh from First Baptist Church of Elgin in Elgin, IL brings us this stage design for their series titled “Acts of God”. (Originally posted November 2014) They were inspired in part by the Steam Punk Stage Design from Potential Church. The concept was based on the fact that each gear, in and of itself, is nothing special. But […]
Greg Culbertson from Gethsemane Church in Evansville, IN brings us this nice use of Coroplast. From Greg: This stage design was to show people that we have to get outside of our 4 walls and focus on those outside the church. We used 4 sheets of Coroplast 4’x8’ in 2×4 frames and 3/8” plywood, painted black. […]
Gian Benallo from First Christian Church of Huber Heights in Dayton, Ohio, presents a unique stage design that resembles sheet music. Gian used 8-foot clear fluorescent light protectors, purchased from Lowe’s, and attached them to a frame made from 1x4s painted flat black. These were screwed to the stage with L brackets. To attach them, […]
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Patrick B. Pointer from Manistee Assembly of God in Manistee, Michigan brings us this design for a musical drama. “Revealed” is a Christian Musical Drama by Patrick B. & Joanie M. Pointer. This set built for the production was built by 3 men in the church on a budget less than $200, using stage flats that were […]
John Weiker from Grace Church Bath Campus in Akron, Ohio brings us this awesome segmented design. From John: Our summer set had to meet a couple requirements, cover the full stage, provide pleasing camera angles across the entire stage, and not contain a defined design that allowed people to see different thing each time they looked at […]
Brian Black from The Fellowship Round Rock in Texas brings us this design inspired by many slat-wall designs on the site. They decided to build their own and added hanging lights to create a star-like upper stage design. The cross design in the center was an afterthought once they had the panels setup…they just used some black […]
Paulo Junior from Igreja de Familia in Belo Horizonte, Brazil brings us this cool simulation of tube lights. They used 22 white LED tape strips fit inside red fluorescent tube guards to diffuse and get the color they wanted. The upright tubes were attached to iron supports with adhesive tape. The horizontal tubes were supported […]
Walter Halliwell from The Well in Geneva, IL brings us this great use of LED tape. (originally posted September 2016) Details from Walter: Overview: I started by getting a ton of measurements of the stage. Unfortunately, the stage brought many challenges when it came to measuring everything since we have an uncentered baptismal tank (essentially nothing is […]
Chris Monson from Faith Chapel in Billings, MT brings us this epic stage design. From Chris: Our winter 2017-2018 stage design was a fairly intense build with quite a bit of technical complexity. We decided early on that we wanted to build some large scale low resolution LED panels and combine that with projection mapped video to […]
Greg Culbertson from Gethsemane Church in Evansville, IN brings us this cool PVC stage design. 88 – 10′ 1/2″ PVC pipe. ( 3/4″ would work a little better in a larger room.) 2×4’s painted black… repurposed from previous set. Metal 2×4’s painted black would be ideal because they don’t warp. Either will be fine. Velcro 1 or 2″ […]
Jason Christensen from Resurrection Life Church in Grandville, Michigan brings us this LED tape mountain range. This stage build was for our churches One Heart Youth Conference. Every year we put on a conference for students in 6th grade up to 12th grade. This year the theme for the conference was Arise. Coming up with design to […]
Chris Monson from Faith Chapel in Billings, MT brings us this epic stage design. From Chris: Our winter 2017-2018 stage design was a fairly intense build with quite a bit of technical complexity. We decided early on that we wanted to build some large scale low resolution LED panels and combine that with projection mapped video to […]
Jake Massey from Dunn’s Creek in San Mateo, Florida brings us this cool LED tape logo for their stage. The center piece of the design was the logo for the year’s vision: Amplify. They were inspired by another design, Diamonds and Arrows, and included arrows moving outward from the logo. For the design, they built the frames […]
Mike Gerrells from Harvest Church in Billings, MT brings us this Chicago skyline. They started by projecting the Chicago skyline onto 1/2″ MDF then cutting for 4 hours with a jig saw. After they cut out the face layer, they started building the 3D layer which involved adding 6″ to 8″ strips to the face to make it look […]
Heather Snider from Lakeside Christian Church in Springfield, Il brings us this this cool backdrop. From Heather: This is for our series on the Holy Spirit called Second Breath. We were able to do this whole design for $40. I designed the art on my computer in Illustrator and Photoshop. We then projected the design on […]
Patrick Fore from Journey Church in Norman, Oklahoma combined his passion for Illustrator and Photoshop with some stage design savvy to create these cool panels. (originally posted June 2010) He used Epson Backlit Paper (3’x100′ roll) through his wide format printer to create the paper patterns, then attached them to black wooden frames. He created […]
Josh Brage from Hope Crossing Church in Denver, CO brings us this design that features sliced trunks. (originally posted March 2016) The design consisted of a handful of downed, dried aspen trees cut into “donuts” and then pin-nailed to some stabilizing backs. They used exposed vintage bulbs because wood + yellow light = natural wonderment. Overall budget: Wood Backing, Nails, […]
Chris Monson from Faith Chapel in Billings, MT brings us this epic stage design. From Chris: Our winter 2017-2018 stage design was a fairly intense build with quite a bit of technical complexity. We decided early on that we wanted to build some large scale low resolution LED panels and combine that with projection mapped video to […]
Kevin Barringer from Calvary Community Church in Sumner, Washington brings us this awesome stage lighting setup. To create this design, they diffused LED tape in vertical columns, then added color bars and moving lighting in between. To set up the LED tape lighting, here are links to the products: LED Tape Lights: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E0EVHYA/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=csdi-20&linkId=60834cccb0eaae6e0dcdfe785566876d&language=en_US LED Tape Light […]
Adam Carmichael from Santa Cruz Bible Church in Santa Cruz, CA brings us this cool use of pallets with gaps of light bulbs peeking through. (Originally posted February 2015) They designed this pallet stage to accent their theater-style layout. Materials: – 20-30 pallets of various shapes and sizes, all carefully dismantled (Note: they went for the weathered look, so they chose pallets […]
Matt Lee from The Crossing in Quincy, IL brings us this simple Super Bowl set addition. They wanted to do a Super Bowl-themed sermon this past weekend. They went to Home Depot and bought cheap carpet “turf”. It was 65 cents a square foot and they did a 12×8 foot section, so the cost was roughly $60 for the turf. […]
Joey Riggins from Lighthouse Church in Panama City Beach, Florida brings us this fun design filled with arrows. (originally posted September 2015) In this design, Joey wanted to capitalize on the latest aztec craze in design. He designed a few different patterns in Photoshop and landed on this one. The overall concept was to create a pattern that […]
Chris Monson from Faith Chapel in Billings, MT brings us this epic stage design. From Chris: Our winter 2017-2018 stage design was a fairly intense build with quite a bit of technical complexity. We decided early on that we wanted to build some large scale low resolution LED panels and combine that with projection mapped video to […]
Cypress Church from Cypress Church in Galloway, Ohio brings us this great LED tape design. From the team: This is our shot at an LED Tape Light Set that spanned across our whole stage. We have a very oddly shaped stage and don’t have a ton of real-estate due to our triple-wide screen setup. We saw some […]
John Weiker from Grace Church Bath Campus in Akron, Ohio brings us this awesome bubbly design. From John: With just having come off of a very popular, very large set, our fall set had some big shoes to fill. The set we were getting ready to take down had covered every inch of stage space we could […]
Jordan Christie from Hillcrest Baptist Church Spanish Trail Campus in Pensacola, FL brings us this stage design incorporating trees. They used branches from crepe myrtle trees, spray painted them white, and cemented them in 5 gallon buckets. The branches came from Jordan’s front yard. Materials: 5 strands of bistro lights with Edison bulbs, $550. 20 cans of white spray […]
Jordan Leino from Seven Marks Church in Raleigh, NC brings us this stage design for their series titled “The Valley”—about pain and suffering. (originally posted April 2014) They built the framing off-site (small enough sections to fit through double-doors) and painted any exposed edges black. They brought them in and installed the framing pieces into the designed […]
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Jordan Greene (Haciendo Collective) for the General Youth Division brings us this vintage design for their Commune-ity event. There were two stages; for the main stage, their pulpit was constructed of several vintage hardback books which were donated by a local Christian college library. Their walls were constructed from pallets or skids that they pulled from […]
Walter Halliwell from The Well in Geneva, IL brings us this great use of LED tape. (originally posted September 2016) Details from Walter: Overview: I started by getting a ton of measurements of the stage. Unfortunately, the stage brought many challenges when it came to measuring everything since we have an uncentered baptismal tank (essentially nothing is […]
Monte Bach from Westover Hills Assembly of God in San Antonio, TX brings us this cardboard box design. From Monte: We had to come up with a post-Christmas stage design, but we had the challenge of two conferences on back-to-back weekends with little turnaround before Easter. The challenge was to come up with something all-purpose which we […]
