Vision
The hope and prayer is to have the visual elements of worship in the sanctuary connect us to the rhythm of the Christian year and challenge us to experience a deeper awareness of each festival and season and their relevance to our walk with the Lord and our worship of Him.

The Plan
The purpose of the Visual Elements Ministry is to continue to use a liturgical approach for the appearance of the sanctuary in order to deepen our worship experience and heighten our awareness of the Christian year with its seasons and festivals.

Following this approach means using the traditional liturgical seasons and the colors assigned to each season. i.e. Advent is dark blue. Liturgical colors express emotions and ideas associated with each season. The dark blue of Advent symbolizes the night sky, the darkness of the world waiting for the Light, and the anticipation of the coming King, first as the Christ child and again as the victorious King over Satan. This system of colors will be used throughout the sanctuary such as banners, flowers and other visuals. Liturgical seasons help mark the passage of time and help us remember and re-experience the life of Christ and the story of salvation.

Current Season: Ordinary Time
Ordinary Time takes its name from the Latin word, ordinal, which means numbered. The numbered weeks in the liturgical year represent the weeks from Epiphany also known as Three Kings Day (the end of Christmastide) until Ash Wednesday (beginning of Lent) and again from the Pentecost (end of Eastertide) until the first Sunday of Advent. The emphasis during this time of the church year is unlike the other times. Where Advent, Christmastide, Eastertide, Pentecost, and the other seasons and feasts celebrate specific acts within the story of salvation, Ordinary Time directs our energy towards the Sunday to Sunday rhythm of the Christian life. This season presents each Sunday as the celebration of the grand story of salvation, the presence of the Christ today as we live and breathe in Him, and a great anticipation of future events yet to unfold. This reminder of the Sunday rhythm in our lives points us towards cycles of work and rest all set within the context of a God who was and is and is to come. It is in this pattern that we live until Advent.

Green has been associated with Ordinary Time, a season of new life and growth. In Christian tradition, green came to symbolize the life of the church following Pentecost, as well as symbolizing the hope that Christ’s resurrection brings.

Experience Seasons of the Church Year

2011-2012
Church Year