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Are You a Warrior? 2 Comments Read more »

Are You a Warrior?

Mike Gerrells and his team of volunteers at Crosspointe Church in Duluth, Georgia constructed this cool set for an Easter series. The six home-made panels (shoji screens) are made of rice paper attached to plywood frames…lit with par cans. Then the 5 banners were printed on…


Sick of Love? 3 Comments Read more »

Sick of Love?

Mike Gerrells and his team of volunteers at Crosspointe Church in Duluth, Georgia put this set together for a series on relationships. The letters are made from plywood with a 1/8″ medium-density fibreboard face. For the graphic on the “O”…a vinyl sticker (or decal) was…


In God 1 Comment Read more »

In God

Check out this stage design on a budget for a ski trip. Walt Anderson and Steven Rinaldi put this backdrop together for their student ministries’ ski trip to Ridgecrest, NC. Their focus for the trip was being “hidden in God”. This simple idea literally only required…


The Red, White, and Blues 6 Comments Read more »

The Red, White, and Blues

Another Duke Dejong stage treatment…this time…4th of July style. The stage centered around a 12′ by 8′ American flag with three pieces of fabric underneath that were lit with red, white and blue. The whole center column was supported by two 1′ box trussing.


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The Orient Express

Lisa Masteller put this series backdrop together based around a cool area rug she found at Lowes. Shoji screens were arranged on both sides of the stage from top to bottom…then the area rug hung in the middle as the main visual.


He’s Got the Whole World… 2 Comments Read more »

He’s Got the Whole World…

Joel Caron, the Production Designer at Fielder Road Baptist Church in Arlington, TX submitted this fantastic and inexpensive stage design. All of the supplies used in this design can be purchased at Home Depot and Ikea for under $200.


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Follow Me!

Thanks to Mike Sessler from Coast Hills Community Church for this simple, clean stage design. The FOLLOW letters were made from expanded polystyrene and were 4′ high and 4″ thick. To attach the letters to the floor they used 1×6 medium-density fiberboard spray painted black.


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Reaching the “Lost”

Quest Community Church in Lexington Kentucky is capitalizing on the last season of Lost. They built a jungle scene and a fully wrecked plane fuselage on their stage. I heard about this stage design on Twitter a few weeks ago but have been unable to find…


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Don’t Peek

Need a set of dressing rooms on stage? Probably not…but it makes a great stage design for a title like “Christianity Undressed”–a series about stripping Christianity to its core. The dressing rooms were build from wood, painted, and dressed with fabric. All of the lighting…


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Origins of Stages

Andrew Hunt and his team of seven created this stage design for a 4 week series on creation/evolution. The back wall was created with Spandex stretched over a wooden wall. The leaves are made from wood and were hand painted attached to the back wall…


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