Please do NOT make the "t" in Heartland into a cross, unless you can do it in a way that's unique from the other 900,000 churches that do that. :)
We will be using the logo with AND without the word "church", so the design would have to allow for absence of "church".
http://www.hopebrunswick.org/ Check out this link for a church's logo. I like what this church did with the budding leaf. (I'm not crazy about the cross on the side - it looks like it was added with a cheap Paint program.) We don't necessarily want to copy the leaf, but the subtle design idea really captured their name.
Our logo will be painted on the sides of our new building when it is finished. It is a renovated warehouse on a busy intersection. We will maintain much of the industrial look and decor both inside and out. The logo doesn't need to be "industrial" looking, but it will need to work in that setting. Here's a picture of the building and site when it was still a business.
http://www.vision-products.com/about.html