In my September-Set Design Post, I mentioned gathering a team of volunteers together to talk through our current process for set design in our elementary environment. That meeting brought about some of the most amazing changes to the way our set design process will work....
Life App: Trust—putting your confidence in someone you can depend on. Theme: High Wire Date: September 2016 Trusting My Team - During Trust Month! As noted in this post, this month's set was completely volunteer driven. Not only did the ideas come from the volunteers, but they also owned most of...
Life App: Trust—putting your confidence in someone you can depend on. Theme: High Wire Date: September 2016 New Season, New Strategy! I had a few ideas rolling around in my head for this month's set, but couldn't really give too much time to it because of all that came with the...
Summer in Maryland I know that in many areas of the country, the school year ends in late May and kicks off again in mid-August. As a result, many churches program for summer in June and July. Here in the North East, however, kids attend school through...
Since the main focus of this blog is about creating irresistible environments, I felt I would be remiss if I did not post about the amazing environments at OC16! After all, the Orange Team has inspired my love of environments over the years and fueled...
I loved every bit of the Orange Conference this year, but the final session was the one that had the greatest impact on me. The speaker was Perry Noble and as always he encouraged me, made me laugh, and inspired me to keep going! I...
From Control to Freedom… Stuart Hall opened his breakout with one of those things that everyone feels awkward about in the moment, but then realizes it was the perfect way to start. He began with an audience participation game! Strike 1 for many people who don't...
I love listening to Jon Acuff. He has this uncanny way of using humor to teach me, inspire me, and challenge me! I take every opportunity I can to learn from him, so of course I signed up for his breakout on Day 2 of...
Life App: Contentment - deciding to be happy with what you've got. Theme: Supersize Me Date: May 2016 This is absolutely one of my favorite sets we've every done. I love anything super-sized. We've done super-sized objects in the past. Some of my favorites included a stopwatch, piano keys, paint brushes,...
I LOVE conferences… particularly the Orange Conference. Our team comes to Atlanta each year and most years we’ll have someone joining us that has never been to Orange before. It’s usually after our first few minutes on-site that someone from my team jokes and “warns”...