Can you help an innovation group for churches actually look, you know, innovative?

Innovation Laboratory

Center for Youth Ministry Training (or) CYMT

The Center for Youth Ministry Training is the overarching organization, and we've recently begun a new effort, the Innovation Laboratory (or Innovation Lab - we're willing to entertain logos with either the long form or short form). The Innovation Laboratory works with churches (of various Christian denominations) to reinvent and reimagine youth ministry. We help them imagine, design, and deliver innovative solutions for youth ministry beyond the typical "youth group" model that often characterizes middle school and high school ministry. Using a design thinking approach, we help congregations dream about how to effectively form the faith of young people by reaching beyond the walls and ideas that usually confine their efforts.

We're willing to look beyond this color scheme, but this project is a subsidiary of a larger organization that uses the following color scheme in its current logo: #fa8b18, #6c7174, #f3f3eb, #845e49, and they've begun to introduce #80c7bc (mint) too.

UPDATE: A new color palette has been released from marketing: Navy: 243746 (background mostly)
Seafoam: 80c7bc (accent)
Orange: f78f23 (logo & accent)
Gray: 6f7072 (logo & accent)

These colors can be used in our logo design however you wish. We do not have to be lock-step with the rest of the organization.

We'd love to find a way to incorporate the existing branding of the CYMT (see cymt.org for our concentric circles logo) into this logo design, but we are open to designs that forge a new path. I've attached some mockups of things I've tried to create in house; we like the fact that a church building is shown, but it's broken up and open to the outside world. We feel the typography however is too staid and the overall design speaks late 90s rather than innovation. The light bulb is also very overused, but we do like how the existing CYMT logo was incorporated into it. We've thought about exploring the popular mosaic-style or pixel-point images that I see around, but haven't mocked anything up that way.