Shadow boxes are a very versatile staging idea – fairly easy to create, and easily adaptable for a variety of situations and applications. They’re especially useful for longer sermon series – simply change up the look of the boxes, and how they’re positioned, and you have a completely new set!
This particular service was part of Northview’s take on the FREE spiritual growth campaign originated at Crossroads Church in Cincinnati. The message was broken up into four sections – each section had a corresponding box that lit up when the topic came up.
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I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
Oh yeah - the name's Greg. Greg Wallace. But not the race car driver or the major league pitcher or the British celebrity chef. Just the creative worship guy. Hi.
It's my hope that these ideas, musings, rants, raves, etc... will inspire you. They're just my opinions - but again, I hope that they'll help to inspire you. Because the church really, really needs inspired creative types. If you're a creative type (and most people are, deep-down), ask God for help. Then take any ideas that are useful to you - borrow them, nab them, use them, adapt them - and make them into something greater...
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Hey I am a Creative Pastor in the Boise area and I am just wondering what are the shadow boxes made of and how do you go about building them and getting the image on there??
Thanks So Much
I Love the Blog!!
Nathan
Hi Nathan – Sorry, we’ve been so swamped that I had to put the blog on hold for a couple days. The boxes were actually made of wood – they were solid and VERY heavy, but we needed them to be strong enough for people to stand on. The screen material was simply spandex, and we had various “gobo-type” stencils made of wood that we could put in the boxes so that they could say various things. Afterwards, we repurposed the wood for drum risers! : )
If you’d like any more info, just shoot me an e-mail at greg.wallace@northviewchurch.us