Not thought about songs yet...but will do soon! I absolutely love planning for Easter services! What I have thought about is how we're gonna start our Sunday night service on Easter day...with a reverse cardiograph reading. It'll start with a constant beep and a straight green line, then kick into a rhythm and a beep, beep, beep etc. They kick into a rocking worship song - working on finding something suitable! A bit of work video editing but should be well worth it!

I'll give y'all a shout if I can get it working. I just thought it'd be an ace way to start. Might be a bit crudely done as I don't have loads of video software. I may just have to make a massively wide picture and pan it if you catch my drift, instead of having the tracer. I'm also thinking about constructing a cross from parcans facing the congregation so we can get blinding light in the shape of a cross. That or a bank of TVs in the cross shape running loops. Arial boosters with 8 ouputs can be obtained from ebay for a pittance. I do kinda go a bit mental at Easter, there was the year I put a good half ton of rubble in a pile on stage, with a 15 ft high scaffold cross and a massive barbed wire crown of thorns. Also had a smoke machine. My dad (vicar at the time) gave the talk whilst drinking a beer. The sign on the cross was done mid-service with a spray can. Very powerful. Good times!

Steve, I LOVE the cardiograph idea!!! AWESOME!!!! Iain, if I understand your question correctly, my interporetation of where the cardiograph fits is from death to life, ie Jesus being raised from the dead. Therefore His cardiograph goes from flat (dead) to beeping (alive). Am i right Steve? That's so cool!!!!! Sorry for the hijack Isaac ;) No Easter ideas from my side yet... gC

I love that heartbeat idea too Steve - do you mind if I use the same idea at our church?!! http://www.justworshipgod.blogspot.com/