Other Creative Ideas

1.    For a series called “Building Your Dream Home” we wrote a skit called “Drool Time,” a parody of the show Home Improvement with Tim Allen.

2.    For a series on “Friendship” as a themesong we rewrote verses for the “Cheers” themesong and used this as a theme throughout the series.

3.  For a series called “Cross-Training” we decorated the platform with work-out machines (treadmill, weight bench) and a cross.

4.     For “Cross Training” the worship team wore workout clothing (sweats and sweatshirts, sneakers, etc)

5.  For “Cross Training” the first week the worship team entered from the back of the sanctuary jogging up to and onto the platform with the theme to the “Rocky” movies playing on a CD.

6.  For a series called “Somebody” during the week entitled “Somebody Prayed” a clip from sermonspice.com called “Can You Hear Me Now?” (a verizonwireless commercial parody) was used to communicate the idea of God always hearing when we pray.

7.    For the “Life” series we painted 4 HUGE panels (10ft by 4ft) with the letters        L I F E and set them up on the platform to look like the game board.

8.     Theme song called “Life” from when Jan was in youth group, we learned this and sang it a few times during the series as a service opener during the “Life” series.

9.  We learned a Switchfoot song called “This is Your Life” that we used as a theme song for a couple services during the “Life” series.

10. To advertise the Vacation Hot Spots series we wrote up two  “Motel 6” commercials with Tom Bodett and played them live (guitar, bass, violin and a person to play Tom Bodett) a couple weeks before the series kickoff.

11.  During “Vacation Hot Spots” the worship team learned “On the Road Again” by Willie Nelson, to start out a couple of the services.

12.  As a welcome one week in “Vacation Hot Spots” the worship team learned the music to Gilligan’s Island, and we had a man sing some lyrics that we wrote that tied in vacation themes and also a friendly greeting and welcome.

13.  For “Vacation Hot Spots” we did a worship song called “Why So Downcast” with a reggae beat to make it sound Caribbean.

14.    One week in “Vacation Hot Spots” we learned the music to the Beach Boys’ song “Surifin’ USA” but we rewrote the lyrics and entitled it “Surfin’ the NLNC way.” (NLNC = New Lothrop Nazarene Church)

15.     During “Vacation Hot Spots” we played a scene from “The Incredibles” with them driving in an RV, a humorous stereotype of the family vacation.

16.     For “Welcome to the Planet” we download a special countdown called “Starfield” from Sermonspice.com that showed stars and planets and had high energy music.

17.    As a theme song for “Welcome to the Planet” we played the Switchfoot song “Dare You to Move” since the first line says “Welcome to the Planet.”

18.    We found a video on sermonspice.com called “Galaxy” that features beautiful space images.  The video included the song “God of Wonders” but we chose to mute the video’s sound and play “God of Wonders” live.

19.   We arranged an upbeat, guitar and drum driven version of “This is My                 Father’s World” for the “Welcome to the Planet” series.

20.   For “Welcome to the Planet” one week we read the Genesis account, but                 added many scientific facts that gave evidence for biblical creation,                     and Pastor and I read this tag-team style.