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Stage Lighting on a budget

Matt Rothacher — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:23:58 +0000

For most of us small church youth pastors stage lighting is a luxury we can’t afford, right up there with a fully functional sound system. Well let me tell you what we did in this particular situation. I walked down the lighting aisle at WAL-MART and picked up a couple of those clamp lights you Continue reading →

Framed Shirt Art

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:14:15 +0000

Something I’ve always found cool, thats a great way to decorate empty walls with class is “Framed Shirt Art.” It’s a very simple and inexpensive way to add sentimental decorations that are unique to your group. All you need is an event T-shirt and a picture frame: We use our church’s Disciple Now T-Shirts, but Continue reading →

Trash Bag Sanctuary for under 50 bucks

Matt Rothacher — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:32:27 +0000

When I first moved to my current church we had no space to meet in on Wednesday nights. AWANA needed our one place that was ours, in fact AWANA pretty much needed the entire facility. Now I will preface this article by telling you that I was the first full-time youth pastor in the church’s Continue reading →

Trying to do to much?

Matt Rothacher — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:10:55 +0000

So I went to restroom today at a local restaurant and this was what I was met with. Now I don’t mean to be gross but this is a classic example of trying to do too much with too little. This is also, an unfortunate pit many youth guys/girls fall into while trying to make Continue reading →

Decor for a Dime

Matt Rothacher — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:21:12 +0000

My Mom once told me that God allows you to experience something so that you can better understand what someone else is going through and help them with that. Truthfully I always thought that kinda sucked, but the older I get the more I see her, and especially God’s, wisdom in it. I have toiled Continue reading →