Beginnings was a five week series at Riverview on the Old Testament, culminating with Easter services highlighting prophesies that point directly at Jesus.

The original design called for many trees/roots, then we talked about sunflowers, then a single tree, then saw Andrew Hunt’s Blue Ridge Origin set and decided we should ask to use the idea.

So, over the course of almost a week we constructed this set. There is a steel stud wall across the full length of the back wall (about 54 feet) with 3mil plastic and polymuslin cloth covering it. Attached to the back of the wall are 25 LED lights and the cross (also made from steel studs covered with plastic and material) is attached at the architectural truss and to the back of the wall.

The gray area and lettering is all projected on our white wall.

The ‘dirt pile’ is actually a structure of wood and chicken-wire with landscaping fabric covering it and 10 cubic feet of peat moss spread over the structure. The leaves are 1.5in Styrofoam that was cut with a jig-saw, painted and then holes were drilled in the ends to put bent PVC pipe into. The PVC was bent then spray-painted.

It may not sound like all that much but it was a long build.

Riverview series on a few of the names of God.

Forty CRT monitors attached to nineteen splitters, attached to seven old computers. Each computer is running the same 7 minute video on a delay of 45 seconds or so. The back wall projection is a static image that changes for each service segment and each song.

The lighting during the music is setup on a 30 second fade from color to color. There are a handful of little Chauvet LED lights behind the monitor structure.

The monitor stand was built level by level as we added each row of monitors.

Riverview’s “Declassified” series which ran in January.

Loosely based film noir look, cityscape gobos on lights pointed at the side and back walls of the auditorium, projected cityscape on the stage wall. One fixture with a G40 incandescent bulb hung from the architectural truss. A desk/typewriter/wire-fan/coat placed on the stage.

A Riverview series that ran November 2008…

Six upside-down inflatable globes hung from the auditorium ceiling using floral wire to accompany projection of an upside-down map of the earth on the back wall.

We had to reinflate a couple of the globes every week because they became droopy.

The ACME Anvil Co. series at Riverview is coming to a close so I thought it was about time I get the build information up…

The series “ACME Anvil Co.” is about weights, things that slow us down from going all out for Jesus.

What we did: The set is comprised of shipping crates made from disassembled pallets and some new materials. We were able to round up about 4 dozen pallets over a period of a month prior to the beginning of the series. Pallets are made to be structurally sound so taking them apart perhaps wasn’t the best idea but the alternative was spending a lot of money to get all-new materials.

There were tons of folks that got involved in this build and a handful of companies that donated materials. It has been great to have the help from people around Riverview grow as we continue to do more aggressive sets.

We put some 4×4 legs on the drum riser and ’skirted’ it with pallet materials. One crate was hung stage right and a replica anvil was made and set on one of the crates. Kristie made two stencils that we used to spray the logo on the crates. Five additional crates were constructed for our other venue.

Tomorrow we’re transitioning to our new set for the next series.