5 years and Counting

Today marks 5 years since my wife and I started our journey at Friendship Church. God has done a LOT of amazing things in 5 years. I’m looking forward to many, many more.

Still creating,

Dustin

 

Set List Sunday 6.24.12

Here’s what we sang this morning at Friendship Church as we continued in Part 4 of our series, “Weird”:

• Kingdom (Kristian Stanfill)
• Go (Hillsong United)
• At Your Name (Phil Wickham)
• Give Me Faith (Elevation Worship)

Set List Sunday 6.3.12

Here’s what we sang this morning at Friendship Church as we got a little weird with a new series from Craig Groeschel:

New Day (Ben Cantelon)
Go (Hillsong United)
The Glory of Our King (Matt Redman)
Cannons (Phil Wickham)

Growing Young Artists

Since becoming a father, creative arts pastor, and growing as an artist over the past couple of years, I’ve had a pretty weighty thought on my mind constantly. I learned from Andy Stanley years ago that you always need to replace yourself. This task is both humbling and daunting. In thinking on it especially over the last few months I realize that replacing myself is less about just “my position or unique role”, and more about building and growing up others around me to be great in the same field(s).

It’s plural.

I want to grow young artist to create things that we have never seen before that honors the Lord in ways that only HE can imagine.

Who are you growing today?

FriendshipCreative.com

In January of this year we launched our full-scale creative department, Friendship Creative. Since that time we have grown the number of creatives by over 30% and have seen win after win in our experiences as we set the table for God to move in the hearts of people. We’ve hosted our first creative night and a few workshops as well.

Friendship Creative is growing, fast.

So, on June 18th we will be launching a fully functioning website, FriendshipCreative.com, with lots of great blog content, social media, and resources to unite and equip a creative community. Mark your calendars and stay tuned to our Twitter & Facebook for updates:

@FriendshipCrtv

Friendship Creative on Facebook

Set List Sunday 5.6.12

Here’s what we sang this morning at Friendship Church as we cranked up our new series, “Ready?”:

Go – Hillsong United
Kingdom – Kristian Stanfill
At Your Name – Phil Wickham
Nothing But The Blood – Matt Redman
You Revive Me – Christy Nockels

Set List Sunday 4.15.12

original artwork by Friendship Creative

Here’s what we sang this morning at Friendship Church as we continued our series, “Potential Me”:

Kingdom (Kristian Stanfill)
Say Say (Kristian Stanfill)
Marvelous Light (Charlie Hall)
Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is (Chris Tomlin & Christy Nockels)

Potential Me | Stop Motion Video

For this series we wanted to do something really special for the video bumper. The video bumper is what set’s up the main talk for the day. The artwork for this series was so fun and playful, that we thought it would be fantastic to to create a stop motion bumper.

First, we brainstormed what we wanted it to look like, and then we wrote out what our little stick figure would encounter on his journey:

From there, our amazing creative team animated our scene and cast, then took over 100 pictures to moving the scenes inch-by-inch.

We then decided on the speed/pace that we wanted our video to run at (180 beats per minute or 3 frames per second). Added our music and the series graphic at the end, and here’s what we ended up with:

Potential Me from Friendship Creative on Vimeo.

Set List Sunday EASTER 2012

original artwork by Friendship Creative

A HUGE morning at Friendship Church and for Friendship Creative. We kicked off our series, “Potential Me”, with switching permanently to two service times. We also released a few new videos created by Friendship Creative. More on the videos later this week on the blog. Until then, here’s what we sang (twice!) this morning to celebrate Easter 2012:

Kingdom (Kristian Stanfill)
The Glory of Our King (Matt Redman)
Where Would We Be (Matt Redman)
Kindness (Chris Tomlin)
Free To Be Me (Francesca Battistelli)

Set List Sunday 3.18.12

Here’s what we sang this morning at Friendship Church as we continued out series, “Virtuous”:

Awesome is The Lord Most High (Chris Tomlin)
Where Would We Be (Matt Redman)
Knees To The Earth (Watermark)
Jesus Paid It All (Kristian Stanfill’s version)