Welcome! First and foremost let me say that as a fellow believer I love to see God's people using new media as a way to advance the kingdom! I have had the opportunity to work with churches here on this site and in my local practice, and it is always an added bonus.
My first design concept is of a path to a sunrise. The sunrise of course is for the daybreak. The path is the journey from or state of needing redemption to the full joy of our.Savior.
This simple yet profound message is the foundation of our faith. Lost/Found...darkness/light.
I welcome any feedback that you may feel is helpful.
Paul, thank you for the warm welcome. And the encouragement. This is a new venture for us for sure. I really like the sleekness of this. With the image could you do more of a wash? by that I mean almost like a paint brush stroke coming off of it giving it a canvas feel?
with #20 I feel it draws to closely to the Obama logo.
Can you try some different color schemes
Really like the font of the title, but not super keen on the logo to the left of it. Really would welcome some other concepts. Keeping withe sleek thought but even venturing into something a little messy... like the brush stroke method
Can you play around with something like this as well http://www.mcleanbible.org/ with what you have already done. I'm going to post this tomorrow, but because yours resembles this idea I wanted to give you 1st dibs at it.