Church stage decor

What is the ultimate purpose of a church platform or stage? Is it to inspire? Entertain? Challenge? Or dare we ask...has its role in our worship become "marginally outdated"? As we are in the process of completing our first proper stage as an 11-year-old church, I have been grappling with these very questions...and God led…

Allen Dunn from First City Church in Pensacola, Florida brings us this styrofoam design. Inspired by the MultiDish. They used foam plates and bowls from the Dollar Store to construct a hanging curtain for each side of the projection screen. Low Temp hot melt held the plates together. Each 18 foot tall, 8 foot wide bowl and plate […]

Michael Sanders from FBC Midlothian in Texas brings us these faux stained glass pieces. They decided to give their traditional service some long overdue stage design love. The windows were cut out of MDF with a router then backed with a stained-glass style privacy film. The bases were a pieces of plywood leftover from an […]

Abby Barras Interiors from Area 10 Faith Community in Richmond, VA brings us this great live-streaming setup. From Abby: Like most churches this past year, ours took an unanticipated leap (further) into the digital world on March 15 when we began livestreaming our services. We were fortunate to have a great crew of volunteer audio and visual […]

Church stage design for Easter FSBC

Chelsea Bernstein from New Hope Seattle Foursquare in Shoreline, WA brings us this design inspired by a wedding. From Chelsea: Balloons are a cost affective way to make a big impact. Not just for birthday party’s or made to look cheesy anymore! With a bunch of help we made this happen the night before Easter as a […]

Robin Lear from Calvary Assembly of God in Dover, Delaware brings us this great pallet screen with typography on top. This stage design was created for a Night of Worship, but will continue to be used until the Christmas Holidays. This design was inspired by all the pallet designs Robin has seen for the past couple of years. The actual […]

Jo El from Oasis City Church in Westerville, OH brings us these cool glowing circles. They covered their entire back wall with 5×10′ black fire-rated curtains. They got a great deal from tableclothfactory.com – all under $300. Then they bought hula hoops in different sizes, painted them black, wrapped them with regular Christmas lights that were […]

David Nikolic from KW Christian Fellowship in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada brings us these stacked end tables. They followed the pattern of So Fresh and So Clean for this design. They used 30 Ikea end tables and made six towers by stacking them together. They added fabric inside the tables and backed the tables with a sheet of plywood […]

Charlton Cupp from Harvest Baptist in Paragould, Arkansas brings us this awesome Easter setup. From Charlton: Our backdrop for our first Resurrection Day in a new facility…I got the idea from a few other designs that used “Risen” on stage. I began by finding a font that I liked, then I printed that on transparency and used […]

Chris Kelly from Radiate Church in Columbia, South Carolina brings us this great LED tape set. It’s just LED tape. They used...

Set Design, Graphic Design

Matt Temple from Church of the Harvest in Olathe, KS brings us these floating diagonal strips. The frames were created using 2x4s, spray painted black. They also added a support 2×4 in the middle of each frame. This was important to give the stripes more structure to be drilled in. The stripes were 1x2s. They […]

Greg Culbertson from Hope City brings us this great LED light tube look-alike design that is super versatile depending on the lighting colors used. From Greg: Seeing many mega churches with the standing light tubes gave me the inspiration for this design. Being a smaller church we couldn’t purchase lights to achieve that look, we […]