I had the pleasant experience of hanging out with Mel McGowan yesterday afternoon for a light chat and a good cup of coffee. For those that don’t know, Mel is one of the founders and key principals at Visioneering Studios, a creative architectural powerhouse. Although they are the largest firm that services ministries and churches, [...]

One of the increasing areas that many ministries and churches are spending their time, resources, and energy into is that of the specific ministry environments that their congregation and visitors experience. Out are the rustic halls of old smelly buildings and in with creative full-experience environments. Check out this one that features Toy Story:

Coca-cola has some seriously great advertisements. During the warmer months, they market themselves as the perfect addition to your summer; during the colder months, they’re synonymous with polar bears and even Santa Claus himself. I recently caught their Happiness Machine commercial and loved it. Have you seen it?

Advertisements are everywhere. We see about 3,000 different types of advertisements a day. Standing out from the crowd is a difficult task for advertisers and their products. So why not just use your surroundings. Check this creativity and ingenuity:

For some inexplicably nerdy reason, my heart goes “pitter-patter” when I see great visuals projected in a unusual environment. As you look through these videos, do you think the future could see the church using this technique more often? Are there any practical applications for the church? Right now, it still has the “novelty factor” [...]

This has got to be the most expensive (and ridiculous) Home Theatre system ever…! It’s a whopping $6,000,000 dollar investment and I’m sure it’s worth every penny. If you’ve been having trouble getting up the courage to invite people to your home for small group or bible study then perhaps you simply haven’t invested the [...]

So… You’re a photographer and everyone at your church knows it. They approach you one day and ask if you’ll consider doing photos for a special service such as Christmas, Easter, July 4th, etc. in addition to other events surrounding those holidays. Anybody can take snapshots. So instead of giving them the typical things one [...]

Is working for your church like Google? What Google does is it allows you a fantastic environment to be innovative and to get your product developed quickly… We always really try to avoid bureaucracy so that people can really do what makes sense in their project… Should working for the church be like that?

Running your lyrics with a black background & looking to spice things up a bit? Short on cash & can’t afford buying stock video loops? You’ve come to the right post. We’re going to show you how to create from scratch those abstract video loops that you see on sites like SermonSpice, or WorshipHouse Media [...]

Creating environments is a growing business, especially within the Church. Or perhaps we’ve been doing it for a long time yet we haven’t spent nearly as much time, resources, strategy, and energy into making them the very best. In either case I’m becoming more and more aware of a number of businesses that make it [...]