This past weekend we kicked off our new message series - Elements.  The tagline of the series is “6 elements that move your faith beyond periodic.”  Naturally, the phrasing calls for a science-like decor on the stage, no?

Here are some pics from the weekend. (Click to enlarge)

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Grant and Vince working on the giant test tubes.  Plexiglass with light gels set behind them.  Add light and stare at for awhile.

Yep, that’s a DMC on the grill, as in ”DeLorean Motor Company.”  Where there’s science, there’s Doc Brown, and where there’s Doc Brown, there has to be a DeLorean!

Mike (the owner of the DeLorean) finishes up the detail work.  Those cars are PRETTY! (at least I think so)  This is my first time seeing one up close.

Dwight’s “podium.”  Very colorful. 

 

Super Volunteer Dave B. works on getting the giant test tubes mounted.

Guissepi the dog guards his master’s car ferociously.

The Elements stage from the control room.  I’m diggin’ the colors, man!

Doc Brown makes his entrance on the DeLorean (we actually had Mike drive it in from backstage.)  GREAT SCOTT!

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The DeLorean is actually a story in itself.  We had been wanting to move forward with this idea for weeks, and we just kept running into one dead end after another.  The creative team was about ready to give up and just send Doc Brown in on an explosion, or at least a lot of smoke.

On Friday night, our control room manager, who is also a teacher at Kent State, was in the building helping the visual arts crew prep the stage.  He got into a conversation with one of the crew about the DeLorean, and said “well hey, I’ve got a student that owns a DeLorean, let me call him.”  Within one hour, we had the DeLorean sitting on our stage.

It’s amazing how God works stuff out sometimes.  I mean yeah, we could’ve gone forward without the car, but it was a good fit and it added a good bit of excitement to the morning.  I mean seriously, how often do you get Doc Brown rolling in on a DeLorean…on the stage of a CHURCH!

But then again, that’s exactly how it should be on a Sunday morning…always exciting, always intriguing (what’s gonna happen today?), and NEVER boring.