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Christ Fellowship Church

How Uptimize Design partnered with Christ Fellowship Church on advanced graphic design across sermon series, four book designs, and a custom icon system.

Behaviors of Disciple-Making Leaders book cover by Dr. Spencer Plumlee, featuring a layered mountain illustration with hikers reaching the summit
Client
Christ Fellowship Church (formerly First Baptist Mansfield)
Industry
Church & Ministry
Location
Mansfield, TX
Project Type
Multi-year design retainer
Replace Yourself interior spread featuring the Mentorship Path circular diagram with five colored arrows labeled I Do You Watch, I Do You Help, You Do I Help, You Do I Watch, and Replicate the Mentor Path

The Challenge

Christ Fellowship Church, formerly First Baptist Mansfield, brought us in to handle the more advanced graphic design their in-house team didn't have the bandwidth to take on. The work needed to live up to the depth of the teaching: multi-week sermon series with concept art, full-length book designs, custom icons for disciple-making materials, and a visual system that pulled everything together.

The challenge was making graphic design feel like a true extension of the teaching, not decoration on top of it. Every cover, every page, every icon needed to support the scripture and the message, not compete with it. The materials also had to be enjoyable to read, which is a high bar for workbooks that members would carry for weeks or months at a time.

Two custom seasonal church banner designs in gold and forest green featuring ornate Christian motifs, including a star, archway, cross, scroll, and crown

Our Approach

We treated the work as a long-term partnership rather than a stack of one-off jobs. Every series, every book, and every icon was designed to fit a larger visual language, so a member who picked up a sermon graphic on Sunday and a workbook on Tuesday felt them as parts of the same whole.

We produced sermon graphics with the depth of editorial design: ornament, typography, and concept-led art direction. We designed four full books, including Covenant Membership, Christ Centered Discipleship, Behaviors of Disciple-Making Leaders, and 40 Days of Prayer. The icon set we built for Covenant Membership was even arranged into the cross shape on the book's cover, a small detail that pulled the system together.

Christ Fellowship Church sanctuary with custom Good Friday stage banner graphics featuring ornate gold typography and three crosses on a deep red background

Sermon series graphics designed to live at the scale of the stage.

Christ Centered Discipleship spiral-bound workbooks fanned out, with one open to the 'Jesus as King Section Three' pageChrist Centered Discipleship book standing open to show the gold-on-black back cover featuring an ornate frame and central cross illustrationChrist Centered Discipleship interior page closeup showing the spiral binding and the 'Seven Scenes' iconography that runs through the book

Christ Centered Discipleship: a spiral-bound workbook with hundreds of pages of original layout, ornament, and iconography.

40 Days of Prayer book cover featuring an illustrated globe with airline routes and the subtitle 'Consecration & Commission'40 Days of Prayer interior spread showing a world map made of small gold cross symbols, with mission city callouts and a QR code40 Days of Prayer book opened to the Matthew 28:18 opening spread, with a navy curved panel framing a circular photo of people gathered in fellowship, paired with the introduction page

40 Days of Prayer: a portable devotional book mapping the global mission field.

Custom icon: hands cradling a heart with light rays, from the Covenant Membership icon library
'Invest from Intimacy' interior spread with relational diagrams and ornament
Behaviors of Disciple-Making Leaders interior spread with a ladder illustration and a budget pie chart infographic
Covenant Membership book cover featuring the custom icon library arranged into the shape of a cross
Interior spread featuring the '3 Circles' gospel illustration: God's Design, Brokenness, and The Gospel
Custom icon: hands lifting a cross with light rays, from the Covenant Membership icon library

Icons, illustrations, and infographics built to support the teaching.

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