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News & Updates

2024

8 Questions to Ask Before Your Church Goes Multisite |

March 6, 2024


8 Questions to Ask Before Your Church Goes Multisite Is your leadership team considering adding a campus (or two) to your growing church? Becoming a multisite church is a significant step in your growth and development. Before you add a […]

2023

Agape International Missions selected as grand prize winner in PlainJoe Design Intervention Challenge |

December 13, 2023


    PlainJoe, A Storyland Studio has selected Agape International Missions (AIM) as the grand prize recipient of its 2023 Design Intervention Challenge.   AIM is dedicated to rescuing, healing, and transforming survivors of human trafficking worldwide, with a particular […]

Six Questions To Assess the Effectiveness Of Your Church Building |

March 30, 2023


Church buildings are incredible tools for ministry, but often times they need a few tweaks to make them even more effective. Here are six questions to ask about your building—and how well it is actually meeting your goals as a […]

Meet the Story Leaders: Justyn Smith |

March 23, 2023


Meet our new Story Catalyst: Justyn Smith! Justyn, who lives just outside Seattle, Washington, spent more than two decades working in church ministry before joining the Storyland Studios team. His primary focus was on teaching teens and kids, as well […]

2022

The Life Changing Power of Story Telling |

February 14, 2022


Story forms who we are, and story has the ability to transform who we can become. Story is at the core of the human condition. From the earliest cavemen to a contemporary campfire, each generation passes on collective and individual […]

2019

Your Space Can Tell Powerful Stories |

October 10, 2019


Great spaces, art and stories let us join God in reflecting his image. For thousands of years most people have believed in the holy trinity of universal transcendentals: truth, goodness and beauty. Plato connected these three properties of being with […]

The Life-Changing Power of Storytelling |

June 23, 2019


Story forms who we are, and story has the ability to transform who we can become. Story is at the core of the human condition. From the earliest cavemen to a contemporary campfire, each generation passes on collective and individual […]

A Desert Oasis | Canyon Ridge Christian Church |

May 23, 2019


A church in the desert wanted its campus to reflect the biblical concept of the path that draws people to Jesus, disciples them toward holiness, and leads them out to make a difference in the world. In this article, originally […]

The Star in the Heart of Singapore |

May 14, 2019


New Creation Church takes an innovative approach to its new facility. What if the church could gather in the hearts of our cities and towns, rather than in suburban industrial parks, separated behind seas of asphalt parking lots? What if […]

Telling the Story of the Bible |

March 27, 2019


As God’s story from eternity past to eternity future, the biblical narrative is also very much our story—the true history of the world written down for mankind to learn from, obey and cherish. Not only that, the history of the […]

Restoration Roasters Helps Transform Lives Through Coffee |

January 13, 2019


The Corona, California, coffee shop is staffed by volunteers and residents of the Corona-Norco Rescue Mission. One thing I have learned over my two decades of working with ministries around the world is that shift happens. For example, I have […]