Christmas Meets Broadway and Vegas

Church Production Magazine: The audience has just settled into Gateway Church’s 2016 Christmas show, “Chasing Lights,” when the room appears to shake and the image of a solid brick wall on the church's expansive 50-foot by 20-foot video wall crumbles to the ground. Suddenly disoriented, the onlookers react with a collective gasp, then chatter with nervous excitement. “It is the last thing anyone is expecting,” says Gateway’s Associate Director of Lighting Production Tim Logsdon, “and it gets a huge reaction from every audience.” If the audience wasn’t sure when they walked in, they now know this is not a typical Christmas show.For many Christian churches around the world, the eagerly anticipated Christmas show has become a time-honored way to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.