youth group logo

you know how sometimes you do one thing and it leads to another and that other thing leads to still another and so on?

since i started on the journal project for the students of my Sabbath School Class, i decided to create a Facebook group page where i could remind all of them at once to write their journal entries.

i know it could be a task to have to write sometimes, and i hope the regular prompts would actually work. :D

creating the page compelled me to find a suitable profile photo. not having enough photos to go through for the perfect one (meaning everyone's there so no one feels left out), i decided to just make a logo.

now, i know photoshop, but only as far as crop, save, fill, add text, and other basics. but i think the effort i put into this logo was pretty much worth it.

the idea revolves around the International Association of Free Seventh-day Adventists logo, which my church has adopted. so the three angels and the globe are there to depict the world-wide scope of the gospel commission. but i wanted to add something to make the logo distinct from the general group and to emphasize that this is a sub-group for youth, thus the text. blue has always been our unofficial color as a church and it's fortunate that the IAFSDA logo is also largely blue. the maroon/dark red is yet another tribute to IAFSDA which uses the color a lot in its publications, or in its newsletter at least. the contrast with the blue is also nice, i think. the yellow "Royal Valley" text was added as an afterthought, just to make it closer to home. maybe after we've planted other churches, they would like to customize that part. it's yellow because i realized i didn't want too many colors in the logo. it's the same color as that of the angels in the IAFSDA logo.

i was in a bit of a crisis for a while regarding this logo. i was caught between making it more "fun and colorful" or a bit on the "formal and conservative" side. i apparently chose the latter. :D

after i got this logo up on the page, i thought it would be fun to turn it into a badge that the members could wear. but i didn't know how to make one that the others could conveniently use. besides, i'm still hoping they would want to use it. haha. so i just made one for myself.

with Genry, my on-off "boyfriend." ;-D

the logo isn't official. it's just me trying to stretch my creativity and photoshop skills.

so there, my recent example of "chain reaction." it happens a lot, too, with habits. and that's why we need to be careful what we're doing because it may lead to other things we might not be able to handle.

the chain that led to this logo, i think, was okay. :D

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