Custom Media Staff Picks from Summer 2022

Steve Dirks


To say that our team loves crafting and creating content for churches and ministries that serves churches would be an understatement.

We’ve produced lots of Custom Media pieces this summer but below are some of our favorite Custom Videos we produced for churches and ministries over the last few months.


HOUSE OF THE LORD – LYRIC VIDEO

First, we love how the Lord uses us to reach kids with the Gospel through media content! Our team has worked on this unique worship lyric video, and we have loved seeing it here for churches to use each week.
You can download this video here using the button below.

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SEEDS CHRISTMAS – JESUS LYRIC VIDEO

Another great project isn’t released yet by our friend and partner, Seeds Family Worship. We enjoyed the challenge of creating a stripped-down design to match the song and lyrics; keeping a video simple but still good is very hard – it’s much easier to add more and more stuff to distract the viewer. But the song was so beautiful and simple, and I wanted the video to match that.

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LIVING HOPE – SERMON SERIES

Design Project Artwork

We loved partnering with PARK HILL BAPTIST church on their LIVING HOPE series. When they first contacted us, they shared with us that the primary theme is hope. Suffering is unavoidable as it is the cost of following Jesus. As we endure trials and suffering, we look to a future hope which is the glory to come. Our hope is not rooted in the temporary things of the world but in Jesus Christ Himself, who never changes. They mentioned that they liked the 80s and 90’s aesthetics that have come out recently. So our team loved making this series of art for them here.


BLESS YOUR HEART- SERMON SERIES

Design Project Artwork

We then partnered with Ooltewah United Methodist Church to create this artwork. Their pastor’s heart for this series was, “One of the strong themes of the Bible is blessings and curses. This series will examine these in practical terms that hugely impact our living.” Once we delivered this look, they mentioned they loved the idea of having it on one of those wall signs. We have to say we love how it turned out also.


RISKING IT ALL- SERMON SERIES

Design and Bumper Video Project

A new church partner of ours this year, Southbridge Fellowship, asked us to help them with this series of theirs, RISKING IT ALL. This sermon series was based on Hebrews 11. Each week they examined one “hero of the faith” and focused on what they risked to say yes/live by faith. We had the privilege of creating artwork for them.

We then also got to take their design and bring it to life with this promo video.


HOLIER THAN THOU- SERMON SERIES

Design and Bumper Video Project

Our dear friends at Starpoint Church asked us to help them create artwork for their 5-week series titled HOLIER THAN THOU, which is designed to help their church see our tendency is to be more like Pharisees than like Jesus. In Jesus’ day, everyone wished they could be as holy as the Pharisees. Everyone wished they were as devoted to God as the Pharisees were. People hoped their boys would one day grow up and be one of their daughters would marry one. No one thought of Pharisees as someone who wasn’t serious about their faith. Of course, Jesus had some strong words to describe their “holiness.” Is it possible that Jesus feels the same way about our self-described holiness?

Their team had the idea that the logo for the series “Holier than Thou”… have a “halo” over one of the words.

So our team created this artwork for them.

We also created a bumper video to match and set up the series for promotion or as a bumper.


SO MANY DECISIONS – SERMON SERIES

Design and Bumper Video Project

Our friends at Crossway asked us to help them with their series, So Many Decisions Series. We created their artwork and bumper, and we wanted to show you their bumper here.


COMMUNITY KIDS

Logo Design Project

I don’t know if you know, but our team can also create ministry or church logos. Our team meets with you first to hear your vision and notes about the direction of your church and what you want in a logo. Then our team gets to work. We offer you 2 versions to review, and then we make any tweaks and export HI-RES files for you to roll out immediately.


LIFE ON THE EDGE- SERMON SERIES

Design and Bumper Video Project

We also served our friends at Community Church for their Life On the Edge series. They asked us to create artwork in this direction: We like the idea of the series graphic looking like an actual photograph rather than just word art. So we created this design for them.

For the bumper video, they gave us some specific requests: Different cliffs or angles of the person on the edge of a cliff, Danger zones vs. safe places, andΩ Cliffs (Sexuality, Money, Marriage, Friendships). We then went to work to bring this vision to life


TURBULENCE – SERMON SERIES

Design and Bumper Video Project

Our friends at Salem Lutheran Church recently had us create artwork and weekly videos for a series they called TURBULENCE. Turbulence means a violent or unsteady movement of air, water, or some other fluid. On an airplane, turbulence can cause people to become very afraid, have an unsettled stomach, lose their balance, or scream. Turbulence can be both expected and unexpected when flying. With this overview and some specific direction, they gave us Dark clouds, thunder, lightning, and wind sounds, matching the design with colors, no airplanes, though. So we created this artwork:

And then our team had some fun bringing this to life in this video:

We also made them a short motion version as well:

 

Wow! As I reviewed all this content to share this post. I realized what I already knew but was reminded how skilled and talented our team is and, most importantly, how incredible and a privilege it is to work with churches to create art that communicates a message from the gospel. We pray that these series and pieces of content wouldn’t just be awesome but that we would see life change in our churches. That God would speak, and his people would respond and hear the word of God. We count it a joy to partner with you! If you want more info on how our team can serve you, just click the link below to schedule a call with me. Let’s talk about our process, what we do, and what your next project looks like.

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About Steve Dirks

Executive Director
Church Visuals

Steve Dirks is the Executive Director for Church Visuals. He has spent over 10 years serving in different churches serving in lyric presentation, audio, and visual content creation, and helping lead teams of volunteers. Steve lives in Pittsburgh and uses production background to serve Steel City Church. He loves being a father to Mercy & Caleb and a husband to Bekah his amazing wife. He is a huge fan of any sports team in Pittsburgh and of course his hometown South Carolina Gamecocks!

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