The Best 11 CHURCH LOGOS Of 2019

05/02/19 • 19 min

The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer

Your church’s logo is the foundation of your visual identity. And with the prominence of digital platforms, your church logo is now more visible than ever before. So to get you inspired, I want to share with you eleven of my favorite church logos - along with seven rules for logo design to help put you on the right path toward better church branding.

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What's In This Session?

#1: Rileyville Baptist Church--Design by Ariel Rudolph Harwich (4:30)
Rule #1: Meaningful (4:40)
#2: Risen Church--Design by Michael Sevilla (6:30)
Rule #2: Scaleable (7:28)
#3: Trinity Presbyterian Church--Design by Peter Voth (9:15)
Rule #3: Work well in monochrome (9:30)
#4: Lakeside Church--Design by Even place (10:24)
Rule #4: Simple (10:30)
#5: Limitless Church--Design by Bruno Nascimento (11:32)
Rule #5: Unique (12:29)
#6: Harvest Church--Design by Benjamin Oberemok (13:22)
Rule #6: Memorable (13:50)
#7: 20 MIle Church--Design by Joel Davis (14:20)
Rule #7: Timeless (14:25)
#8: Grace Generation--Design by Stephen Costello (15:35)
#9: City Hope Church--Design by Ben Stafford (15:43)
#10: NewSpring Church--Design by Dave Keller (16:10)
#11: Rush Creek Church--Design by Allan Peters (17:50)

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What's In This Session?

#1: Rileyville Baptist Church--Design by Ariel Rudolph Harwich (4:30)
Rule #1: Meaningful (4:40)
#2: Risen Church--Design by Michael Sevilla (6:30)
Rule #2: Scaleable (7:28)
#3: Trinity Presbyterian Church--Design by Peter Voth (9:15)
Rule #3: Work well in monochrome (9:30)
#4: Lakeside Church--Design by Even place (10:24)
Rule #4: Simple (10:30)
#5: Limitless Church--Design by Bruno Nascimento (11:32)
Rule #5: Unique (12:29)
#6: Harvest Church--Design by Benjamin Oberemok (13:22)
Rule #6: Memorable (13:50)
#7: 20 MIle Church--Design by Joel Davis (14:20)
Rule #7: Timeless (14:25)
#8: Grace Generation--Design by Stephen Costello (15:35)
#9: City Hope Church--Design by Ben Stafford (15:43)
#10: NewSpring Church--Design by Dave Keller (16:10)
#11: Rush Creek Church--Design by Allan Peters (17:50)

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Previous Episode

The New Rules For Church Buildings (With Futuristic Examples)

As church attendance continues to decline, ministries are beginning to confront a glaring problem with how we do church today. The problem? Our buildings are extremely expensive, they only get used once or twice per week, and they’re often removed from the everyday life of our communities. Thankfully, there are churches working to solve this problem in innovative ways. And by the end of this video, you’ll learn the new rules for church buildings and how your church can begin applying these principles immediately - whether your church is big, small, young, or old.

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What's In This Session?

Century Church: A United Methodist church plant meeting at Pike Road School in Pike Road, Alabama has grown to about 500 people - lead by their lead pastor Dr. Patrick M. Quinn. (2:11) Century is ready to build their own building - but, they’ve set out to create a church campus that will abandon the 20th Century church design formula in favor of directly addressing some of the factors that are contributing to decreases in church participation. (2:42)
If present trends continue, the percentage of the population that attends church in 2050 is estimated to be at almost half of 1990’s attendance. (4:07)
Only 2 in 10 people in the U.S. under the age of 30 consider attending church “important”. (4:36)
Over the last several years we have thought church attendance was dropping because of relevance. (5:10)
“The 20th Century model for building churches focused on the church buildings, whereas we believe that the future of the church is to focus on how to build the community first,” says Quinn. (8:23)
Instead of creating a large church building that is surrounded by a sea of parking and only used once or twice a week, Century wants to create a campus that is vibrant throughout the week because: #1. It has buildings that cater to the entire community, #2. They are designed to be so welcoming and comfortable that people will simply want to hang out there. (10:20)
What most churches offer has become commoditized; this move towards community and meeting space cannot be commoditized by the Internet. (12:23)
Four basic principles can be applied to any church of any size. (15:49)
1. Community first, church second. (16:07)
2. Partnerships that matter. (17:58)
3. Incremental design. (19:44)
4. Sense of adventure and creativity. (22:26)
It is a fiscally responsible solution, it's a theologically smart solution, and it's a practical solution. (26:10)

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Next Episode

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Church Testimony Video

Today, I want to share with you my step-by-step system for creating gripping church testimony videos. This is the type of video that shares the real story of someone in your church - their story of life change in Christ. So follow along, and by the end of this video, you’ll know what questions to ask during your interviews, the best way to light your setup, and I’ll share with you a pair of real examples I’ve produced as well.

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What's In This Session?

Core Value #1: Show don’t tell (1:07)
Core Value #2: Don’t force resolution (2:41)
Core Value #3: No story is too small (4:03)
Core Value #4: The responsibility falls on the storyteller (4:54)
Stage #1 - The Interview (5:33)
Finding interview candidates (5:40)
Interview prep (6:45)
Film location - interviewee’s home (8:58)
Record for about an hour of talking (12:07)
Keep the questions open-ended - ex. Tell me about a time when, or tell me the story of (12:43)
Shift from story questions to introspective - ex. How have you changed in the last 5 years (14:35)
Find the bruise: Identify the meaningful moment and dig deep (16:15)
Stage #2 - The Story (19:45)
Your main job here is to cut upwards of 90% of the footage you captured in the previous step (19:50)
You don’t need your story to follow the same linear path of your interview (20:20)
Once you’ve completed the first edit of your story elicit feedback by asking two questions #1: When are you confused? #2: When are you bored? (20:38)
Stage #3 - The B-Roll (21:47)
Plan to capture as much b-roll as to cover every second on your video (22:22)
Edit your story with 80% b-roll and 20% interview (22:33)
Visual Element #1: Location (23:40)
Visual Element #2: Stabilization (24:08)
Visual Element #3: Framing (24:44)
Tip #1: Hold each shot for at least 10 seconds (24:50)
Tip #2: The 3:1 Rule (25:22)