Symbolic Christ figure with halo designed to show reaching out of the garbage and to the viewer, circles in logo used to represent unity, "all for one" if you will and/or the opening of a garbage can.
Is there a way the garbage could look a bit more like trash - it kind of looks like coal now. When I went to the site there was a lot of recyclable bottles, trash...I was also stuck by the fact that not only were people digging through it but animals were as well.
Another thought is maybe to reflect "hope and/or community" within the trash too. No idea how to do that - but looks like you are really gifted so maybe you can think of how to portray that in the trash too.
Added cans & bottles in the garbage along with the murky green color to tie in the mustardseed.com. Also added the slogan and repeated the halo glow atop of the garbage heap to help portray hope coming from the garbage.
I like the trash much better - thanks ALso - could you put the slogan the way you have it except not in the green box background - just the words maybe change one of the fonts - either C. I. T .G.M. or the slogan to something more grabbing
Dropped green circle/background from slogan & kept font the same. Because font is smaller and the slogan is secondary to the CITGM title, the legibility of the font worked well so I kept it the same and changed the title font.
Version #4: Same as version #3, but changed the CITGM font. #3 is bold and a little abstract while this font is more traditional and has more of a "church" feel to it.
Version #5: Changed CITGM font to more of a garbage/rough style font. Expanded the gold background/circle so font could be enlarged and more prominent/legible.
Looks great If you check out www.mustardseed.com you will see the "parent organization" logo with the simple cross and the "roof" over head and the font used. I think the font on #26 may be the same which would be great - we would love for them to work well together and this would lead to some connection.
Would it be difficult to try to add a roof (two lines) over the cross in the garbage and also fill in the background around Jesus and within the circle to black - just want to see what that would look like.