Eddy Foye from Chets Creek Church in Jacksonville, FL brings us these trees on their stage.
They simply cut down some trees that had no leaves on them, they spray painted them white outside. They placed them in buckets with sand in them to keep them from tipping over, and placed them on their stage.
I wanted to make one correction to our build process above. We actually used concrete in the buckets. We put 2 different size PVC sleeves into the concrete. We decided to use 2 and different sizes for future use of the buckets if we ever needed them again.