A few weeks ago at Northland we had the pleasure of hosting our kids church services in the main worship room for our weekend services. Big church, as the kids call it, is a little different than our children's church. Although both of our services have a primary goal of helping us grow closer to God, we do it in very different ways. To give you an idea of a normal kids church weekend have a look at the pictures below.
As you can probably tell, this is normally loud and rambunctious. They do a time of worship, an amazingly themed skit that acts out a portion of the gospel, and small groups that build on that.
So we essentially tried to replicate this amazing atmosphere. Below is a picture of one of the worship songs. that lead into our service.
The theme for this month skit is about spreading the gospel throughout the universe. We follow our space explorers as they work through how to serve others and share the gospel.
For the set for this special weekend, we decided that we should try and re-create Skylab Omega (our spaceship in kids church). George came up with a plan to fly trusses on angles like the outline of the deck on a space ship. We also layed out some of our Mega-lite LED frames to give it a futuristic look.
One of the coolest special aspects of this design was the space teleporter. We built a pulley system that raises a "teleporter" that the actors appear in. Our teleporter is built as a 5' x 5' box that attaches to our pulleys. From this box, we hung clear 4 mil plastic. We used a fog machine to fill the tube with smoke and the actors climb out of the teleporter. One of the coolest aspects is how the actors appear. They navigate under our stage to an existing trap door. They remove the trap door and climb a small step ladder, making it look as though they appear out of
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It was a pretty fun service, below are some more pictures.
All the amazing lighting design was done by George and Denise. I am so lucky to be able to work with such a great team.
