For Easter 2008, I visited two Tulsa churches - LifeChurch.tv and Church on the Move. I thought you might be curious to see what each megachurch did for their Easter services. Here are some photos and a video.
For Easter weekend, LifeChurch.tv began a new series called “Warrior.”
To promote the series, LifeChurch.tv equipped members with invite cards and fortune cookies. They also mailed postcards and even painted the sermon series graphic on the side of the Tulsa campus building.
To kick off the service, worship pastor, Derrick Henslee, sported a Guitar Hero controller and performed “The Pretender” by Foo Fighters with his band, while video of the game played on the projection screen.
A total of 3,088 people attended LifeChurch.tv Tulsa this Easter, and 43 hands were raised during the altar calls. And a grand total of 31,264 people attended all 13 LifeChurch.tv campuses this Easter weekend with 479 hands raised during altar calls.
For Easter weekend, Church on the Move continued in their sermon series called “Gethsemane.”
Church on the Move hung three large sheets of fabric around their stage and projected the sermon series graphics onto them before the service began.
During the beginning of the worship service, these sheets of projection screen fabric were used to project video footage of Jesus and motion graphics while music played. After about seven minutes, the sheets dropped to the floor, and the worship pastor, Andy Chrisman, began leading the congregation in worship. I managed to get a couple minutes of video footage showing the fabric panels in use.
Church on the Move had a total of five Easter church services.
The song covered in the video above is called “Crimson” and it was originally recorded by Nichole Nordeman. When the curtains dropped, Andy and the band launched into “Count Me In” by Leeland.
Thanks for sharing the video. Very creative! I really liked the transparent look of the images. I’m going to have to play with that idea a little bit.
Both Lifechurch.tv and Church on the Move are doing great things for the Kingdom.
For guys like me who are busy at our own churches, getting updates like this is vital. Thanks for serving the rest of us.
Brian Jones
http://www.brianjones.com
Thanks for posting these photos and talking about your experience. It is amazing to me that there are so many really good churches in the Tulsa area that are doing everything they can to reach people in our community. We’re amazed at Lifechurch.tv at what God is doing and are just thankful to be along for the ride!
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It is a fresh way to do lighting and imaging. It moves us away from the “right angle” approach to video.