Calvary Fort Worth

Calvary Church Fort Worth is a bilingual congregation on McPherson Road that runs services in both English and Spanish. The graphic design subscription started in February 2026 and wrapped at the end of March 2026, when the church decided to bring more of that work in-house. I worked mostly with Pastor Anthony Morehead and Production Pastor Chris Carbajal, plus their financial team for the direct deposit setup.

How we started

Pastor Anthony brought me on at $500 a month, direct deposit on the 1st, with Laura Davis on the finance side handling the paperwork. He looped Laura in on February 6, 2026 to get the recurring payment set up. From the very first project he came in with clear specs. Sizes, brand notes, links to last year's reference files in Dropbox. He kept the brief tight and let me focus on the design.

The work

Almost everything was bilingual. English and Spanish versions of the same asset, often on the same day. The rhythm broke down into three buckets. Sermon series graphics (a title slide, a scripture slide, a blank slide, social sizes in both languages). Easter, which was its own season unto itself. And a steady stream of one-off print pieces, slides, and event graphics for Pastor Chris on the production side.

The Easter rollout in February and March covered a full set: main sermon graphic, invite cards, door hangers, water bottle labels, floor decals, road banners, social media in four sizes, and updated logos for both languages. Pastor Anthony pulled examples from the prior year's Dropbox so I could keep visual continuity with what the congregation had already seen.

Pastor Chris ran a separate track for the youth ministry, CYC. The April series was called Mega Series, and he gave me brand elements, slide dimensions, an LED wall size at 3456 wide, and a 2-bit visual style cue Pastor Blake wanted incorporated. I sent first-round options the same week he asked.

A specific moment

The Easter main graphic became the source file for the whole season. Pastor Anthony's original note said it was the first Easter project and the most important one, with multiple flower backgrounds to choose from. I sent options with different font directions on February 16. After he picked a direction, I extended that look across the invite cards, the door hanger, the water bottle label, the floor decal, the road banner, and all the social sizes. Several of these went out in both English and Spanish.

When I sent the social sizes, Pastor Anthony came back asking for the AI files instead of just the PNGs. He wanted to play with the road banner himself because it sits on a busy road and the fonts need to be readable at speed. That kind of detail (a banner that has to work for drivers, not just for a phone screen) is what made the Calvary work satisfying. They knew their congregation and their context.

In their words

"These are wonderful Emily, thank you so much. I'm going with the English version, the Spanish one has last year's date, but that's ok. The artwork is super clear." — Pastor Anthony Morehead, February 28, 2026

Where things stand

Calvary discontinued the graphic design subscription on March 30, 2026, after the Easter season wrapped. Pastor Anthony had mentioned at the start of the arrangement that this was the plan if they could shift the work in-house, so the timing was not a surprise. I still have all the source files for anything they ever need to revisit, and the door is open if a future project calls for outside help.