Our church recently wrapped up an exciting series called JUST MY TYPE: GOD, THE ENNEAGRAM, AND YOU. Having recently decided to dig deeper into the Enneagram, I was very excited to be a part of helping to bring this series to life! I knew it would be a perfect opportunity to bring faith to the forefront of discovering how our personalities are wonderfully designed and mutually needed.
As our team sat down to discuss the various elements of the series, we knew we wanted color-coded wrist bands representing each Enneagram number for our congregation to keep after discovering their personality type. We also wanted a compelling, low-cost lobby piece that would enhance the message series. As NextGen Pastor, I led our Youth Staff in a collaborative effort to develop a youth curriculum that would piggy-back onto the adult service series to allow greater conversations at home and on the go. A separate team of Enneagram enthusiasts in our church community also created a specialized leader guide for our young adult and adult Small Group Leaders to dig into. The cherry on top was that at the end of the series, we invited a lovely couple in the Austin area that are Enneagram specialists to come and do a guided Q&A session during the last week of the series. I loved everything about this series! It was exciting to be a part of helping it all come together. I want to take some time to show you some of the fun projects I got to help with along the way.
Enneagram Bands To Accompany Each Type
When I was asked to create the graphic for the series, I actually came up with three different options:
After some standard process edits, we finally arrived at this look:
The next exciting project to tackle was our lobby piece! We wanted to create an attractive, low-cost interactive piece to place in the middle of the lobby that would enhance the messaging as we journeyed through it. After many thoughts and debates on how it should look, what to include, and where to put it, I was finally able to create one of my favorite lobby interactive displays!
To create this lobby display, I took all of the IKEA KALLAX bookshelves from the shared offices on campus and picked up some extra storage cubes to create spaces for us to store additional silicone bands that we had made to pass out in our JUST MY TYPE Small Groups first and then to the congregation at large. The graphics panels are posters I designed and had printed at Walgreens (they almost always have a coupon for posters!). I trimmed them to fit the bookshelf spacing dimensions. They were then spray glued onto Dollar Tree black foam board that was also cut to size beforehand with a utility knife. The backside of the bookshelves were covered with additional black foam board from the Dollar Tree. Here is an up-close look at the graphics featured on the lobby piece:
Our Eikon Youth (EY) students were also able to take the Enneagram Test in their small group and were given resources to help them understand how to grow their personality in healthy ways and embrace the unique ways that God designed them. We also gave them the series silicone bands and created Parent Cues and eXPerience pieces to assist families along the way. The EY series graphic I designed had a more adolescent approach to it, and I love it just as much!
My favorite thing about this series and all the interactive elements was that they led to some of the best conversations both in group settings and one-on-one. I even got to talk with many parents who were wondering how to best parent the different personalities of the kids in their households. After discussing some ideas and sharing resources, they were able to make some great traction and I can see how their families are getting stronger and closer. If you want to know more about how faith and the Enneagram intersect, feel free to check out the series messages from our team below!
Hey Look! It’s me!
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