C3 2012 took leadership, creativity, and innovation to the next level…and beyond! These three powerful days empowered and equipped leaders from around the world to embrace God’s plan for their ministries, lives, and futures. These highlights are just a few of the many incredible moments that took place during the C3 2012 Conference. Check out the DVD’s of the entire conference HERE. And, make sure to register now for C3 2013 and “Bring the Team in 2013″!

That’s right, C3 2012 starts TODAY! If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time to register now online or with walk-up registration! There are so many ways to take your C3 Conference experience to the next level like following @C3_2012 and @fccreative for behind-the-scenes pictures, videos, and insider information! For opportunities to participate in the conference through polls, surveys, and conversations, make sure to “LIKE” C3 and FC Creative on Facebook!

Stay up-to-date with everything C3 by downloading the the C3 Conference app today on your mobile device! There will also be opportunities for you to text questions to the speakers and participate in real-time polling of the C3 audience by texting “C32012″ to 32898. So, make sure to take advantage of all of these exciting opportunities to take your C3 Conference to a “‘Hole Nutha Level”!!

Our team has been hard at work in the studio and we are so excited to announce that we have a 3 song Pre-release called “Rooftops”. This pre-release includes songs that come directly from the heart of Fellowship Church and have become anthems for our house. “Rooftops” will be available on iTunes or at our C3 Conference on February 15th.

Our C3 2012 Conference is less than one week away! Every year the C3 Conference inspires, influences, and starts a ripple effect that touches lives around the world. If you haven’t already registered you can register here now! Not able to make it to the C3 Conference during the day? Make sure to come to our C3 Nights experiences! We’ll have incredible speakers, creative elements, and exciting worship every night during the C3 Conference and C3 Nights is free and open to the public! Don’t miss the life-change that is going to take place this year during C3 Conference 2012!

 Sexperiment Part 4:

“You” 

“You Are God” 

Prayer

‘Welcome / Greet
VIP / Guest Card 

VIDEO: “C3 2012 Commercial” 

Tag/Front 

“Have You Really Ever Loved A Woman?” 

—— ** LIVE TIME ** —— 

Message 

“Prayer” 

Offertory Setup 

VIDEO: “Marc & Tiffanys Story” 

Closing Comment 

—— LOCAL TIME ——

During all of our “Capturing Christmas” brainstorms, meetings, and dream-sessions there was always one word that kept coming up – warm. We wanted everything associated with “Capturing Christmas” to bring about the warm Christmas memories that you had as a kid and the nostalgia of Christmas we all remember. And, this warm nostalgic theme continued to be communicated through our stage design as well!

When creating a new stage design there are multiple things we consider during our brainstorm sessions. For our Christmas stage, specifically, we wanted to keep the same basic stage design we had and “Christmas-fy” it. We also needed something that would look good behind Ed on camera for campuses and TV.

The final design we ended up with was a mixture of mini winter wonderland tree forests (dormant trees from Allaso Ranch that we spray painted white and built basic stands for), large newspaper snowflakes (also called stars, poinsettias, or flower bows depending on who you ask), and a mixture of different size hanging mason jars to pull in our “Capturing Christmas” album art. All of the stage design elements were built in-house by volunteers using materials we already had on-hand such as newspaper and recycled foam-board.

All of these elements worked together to create a warm nostalgic Christmas feel for our stage that we transformed into multiple unique “looks” for our specific elements through the help of creative lighting. Take a look below at a few of the different ways we used this stage design during our “Capturing Christmas” experiences!

Sexperiment Part 3:

“Rooftops”

“Love Like Yours”

“Jesus Be The Center”

Prayer

Welcome / Greet
VIP / Guest Card

VIDEO: “Church News“

Tag/Front

VIDEO: A Whole New World

—— ** LIVE TIME ** ——

Message

“Prayer”

Offertory Setup

—— LOCAL TIME ——

“I Won’t Give Up”

—— ** LIVE TIME ** ——

Closing Comments

For our Christmas services, we preformed “O Come O Come Emanuel” from our Capturing Christmas Album. We wanted to give the song a fresh unique look so after playing around with a few ideas, we landed on the idea of multiple drum sets that could light up. To accomplish this, we created lights that could be mounted inside of each drum. This is a simple DIY project that created a unique look for the whole element.

To make these light fixtures we took a small piece of plywood and cut it into the shape of a 10” pentagon. We then drilled out 8 – 1”3/8 holes for the placement of the lamp sockets. We used pin type single circuit outdoor sockets. These sockets have pins that pierce the lamp cord when the cap is screwed down so there is no spicing or stripping of wire needed. We then inserted the lamp socket and daisy-chained the socket’s lamp cord. We gaffed the back of the connectors to stabilize them before installing the 100w soft white bulbs and the power connector on the end of the lamp cord.

In order to mount the finished fixtures in the kick drums, we ran tie line around the drums and attached it to holes on the outer edge of the fixture. To mount the fixtures to the snare drums we placed double sided adhesive to the back of each lamp socket and secured it to the bottom head of the snare. The lamp cord ran out of the drums under the rim. White drum heads were used for the front/top heads. The bottom/back heads were lined with black wrap on the inside. This eliminated any bleed from the fixture.

These fixtures did produce a lot of heat however, for the length of our element the heat was not an issue. All in all these simple DIY light fixtures added a unique vibe and visual interest to our “O Come O Come Emmanuel” element that we were able to use at all of our campuses. See the full element in the video below.

O Come Emmanuel Live V2-WEB from Fellowship Creative on Vimeo.