19 Dec #Throwback Thursday – Life App of Honesty – March, 2010
Life App: Honesty – choosing to be truthful in whatever you say and do.
Theme: The Web – Be Careful What You Weave!
Date: March, 2010
Cycling through Life Apps!
Our church is almost eight years old, so we’ve cycled through the 36 Life Apps twice already. We taught the Life App of Honesty this past spring when the theme was “Moment of Truth” (see that set here). But, we also taught about Honesty back in 2010 (when it was called a virtue not a Life App – I’m feeling old!). It’s fun to see the same Life App taught in a different way with a different theme.
Simple- NOT EASY!
Today’s Throwback Thursday feature was one of our more simplistic sets. HOWEVER, when I say simple, I do not mean easy.
Has this every happened to you? You think to yourself, “We’ll keep it simple,” but before you know it, that simple thing you planned turns into a very intricate or tedious task. That was the way it went with this set back in March of 2010. We thought to ourselves… oh, we’ll just follow the suggestions in 252 Basics Get Ready section of the Large Group Script. We’ll fill the backdrop with spider webs and put words about lies and deception in the webs. Simple enough-right? WRONG!
Creating the webs ended up being quite tedious and took a long time! So much of that was because we share our space with student ministry and had to find a way to create “portable” webs that we could put up and take down without having to recreate/restring them each week. Also, we wanted them to be colorful so they would “pop.” As a result, we decided to use bright colored duct tape rather than string. Since we share the backdrop, we couldn’t tape directly onto it, so we had to make each spoke of each web “not sticky.” We did this by attaching two pieces of duct tape together, back to back (sticky side to sticky side). That gave us long strips of colorful duct tape that we then attached with T-Pins to our insulation foam backdrop to form spider webs. The taping process and the creation of the webs took a lot longer than we anticipated. I remember being quite frustrated as I worked on it, but when it was all said and done, I loved the backdrop. It is still one of my favorites.
The lettering/words for the theme were cut from a Cricut and pinned to the backdrop. The words inside the webs were created in a Word document and printed on card stock.
How about you all? Do you have any good stories of detours you had to take when creating your sets or things you thought would go one way, but went completely awry? Share them with us in the comment section below.
