General Ideas Notes from Planning Christmas Webcast 2009 My Christmas Planning 2010 video Staging Stage design on a small church budget Branding and Marketing O Christmas Medic kits Marketing idea Another Marketing idea Video Jesus Messiah Teaching Series Christmas Chaos Experiences – Creative Element Let them be a part, getting others involved Scavenger Hunt O Holy Night Little Drummer Boy [...]
Poster I designed for Battle of the Bands in Mattoon.
Poster I designed for Mattoon’s Back To School Jam
I had the opportunity to spearhead this year’s Baccalaureate for Mattoon High School. I feel like it’s a dying trend. So to counteract that, we did a lot of direct mail. Every year Seniors get asked the question “What are you going do after high school?” Which isn’t a bad question, but probably not the best question. So we challenged [...]
Several artists from the Mattoon area provided music for a couple hours at Common Grounds. We raised $1019.69 for Convoy of Hope which is roughly 5098 meals for those in Haiti. Photos were taken by Perfect Picture Jo
Tonight Katie and I had a chance to go see a couple students from our youth ministry in the musical Little Shop of Horrors. Last week when I told Katie that we had tickets to it, she goes, “What kind of school would put on a musical called Little Shop of Whores.” LOL. The musical was in Neoga, population of [...]
Sunday we announced at First Assembly that we are going to become one church with two locations. Starting in August we are going to be opening our second location at Common Grounds in Mattoon on Saturday nights. The location will have a specific target those with a mind set over a age bracket. The mind of set of those not [...]
Sunday night is First Assembly’s annual candlelight service. We didn’t want it to look like what a traditional candlelight service is. Where everyone lights and holds a candle and sings, this little light of mine. I’m just assuming, because I’ve never actually have been to a candlelight service, but that is what I picture in my head. What it will [...]








