Here is a hodge-podge of images from our visuals during Advent 2020. I made the iron frame back in summer to hold fabric. In Advent it held a wreath and globes that represented candles and/or stars. Early on the frame was bare, but I added black fabric as a base to keep things from showing through between the sides. This first shot shows what the wreath with lights looked like (before the black fabric).
This is the "candle" side. Youth made these globes a couple of years ago for a youth Sunday. I was really delighted I had held onto them. Each one lights. It doesn't quite show but there is a fairy light curtain behind the blue fabric. There is also a glittery toile type fabric in front of the sheer blue piece. The lights glistened through with a pretty cool effect. For Epiphany I changed the blue sheer fabric to gold lame'. It was very dramatic.
Our
big group project was this outdoor Advent wreath. We were slow getting
all four panels finished so their installation was staggered. But the
final effect was good. The hassle was getting the battery-operated
strands turned off and on. The central candle in each panel was on a solar control.
These candles we paired with this large star. A guy into metal-working in our congregation made it. It went up the few days between Advent 4 and Christmas Eve. It's lit from below. About 6 feet across.
I saw a picture from another church that did this and promptly stole it. The green boards are a bit too narrow (I forgot about the fickle nature of lumber measurements). But this was about 3/4 through the season. We took in a huge amount of food for our local ministry partner.
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