Week 3: The Importance Of Team
If you want to do creative worship, you've got to plan as a team. Think about this:
The boring church plans worship in silos. Each element is crafted separately with little guidance or collaboration from other worship staff or volunteers. The worship leader doesn't know what the video will look like, the pastor doesn't know the worship sets, etc.
The creative church plans worship in collaboration. Elements are crafted to compliment one another and individual team members look to each other for guidance and direction.
The boring church worship leader doesn't like to take song ideas from the media person.
The creative church worship leader appreciates the ideas and differing viewpoints of the media person.
The boring church pastor doesn't start thinking about their message until Saturday night.
The creative church pastor can share the theme, scripture and big idea atleast 2-3 weeks in advance.
Worship planning teams were being used at almost every church I have visited for the CWT. There were different team make-ups and timelines but each one understood the huge benefit of planning worship as a team.
In a team environment you can challenge each other, sharpen each others ideas, communicate more immediately with each other and most importantly have a lot more fun than you would on your own.
Action Questions:
What does your current planning set-up look like?
What is keeping you from planning as a team?
Who are 3-6 people you think would be a good fit for a worship planning team?
Starting in two weeks we will go more in-depth into this topic by looking at different team models, what kind of people need to be on your team and also learning some basic but essential practices for working as a team, building relationships and fostering creativity.
Next Week:
With a better understanding of what creative worship is, how to answer the "Why?" question and why team worship planning is important, next week we will take some time to help each of us develop a game plan for taking the next steps in doing creative worship. (click here to view the whole syllabus.)
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The boring church plans worship in silos. Each element is crafted separately with little guidance or collaboration from other worship staff or volunteers. The worship leader doesn't know what the video will look like, the pastor doesn't know the worship sets, etc.
The creative church plans worship in collaboration. Elements are crafted to compliment one another and individual team members look to each other for guidance and direction.
The boring church worship leader doesn't like to take song ideas from the media person.
The creative church worship leader appreciates the ideas and differing viewpoints of the media person.
The boring church pastor doesn't start thinking about their message until Saturday night.
The creative church pastor can share the theme, scripture and big idea atleast 2-3 weeks in advance.
Worship planning teams were being used at almost every church I have visited for the CWT. There were different team make-ups and timelines but each one understood the huge benefit of planning worship as a team.
In a team environment you can challenge each other, sharpen each others ideas, communicate more immediately with each other and most importantly have a lot more fun than you would on your own.
Action Questions:
What does your current planning set-up look like?
What is keeping you from planning as a team?
Who are 3-6 people you think would be a good fit for a worship planning team?
Starting in two weeks we will go more in-depth into this topic by looking at different team models, what kind of people need to be on your team and also learning some basic but essential practices for working as a team, building relationships and fostering creativity.
Next Week:
With a better understanding of what creative worship is, how to answer the "Why?" question and why team worship planning is important, next week we will take some time to help each of us develop a game plan for taking the next steps in doing creative worship. (click here to view the whole syllabus.)
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