Feb 17
Music tends to be the centerpiece of what we do when we design worship services. And songs tend to have shelf-lives. So finding new music becomes, you know, a ‘thing’.
(On the topic of ‘shelf-lives’ … we’re probably not still singing all of the hymns from the 1800′s. Just a thought.) Read more
A year ago we were six months away from moving into a new worship center. At the time, this giant project of ‘moving in’ was more a source of anticipational flurry than anything else. (I just made that term up, by the way. Anticipational Flurry. Great band name, plus also the source of most of my anxiety.) I spent time writing down questions I had about how we might need to operate differently in our new space. I called a few worship leader friends to ask questions about how they run their teams and their weekly production cycle. I ate breakfast with my husband once a week to put ideas and strategies around all of my questions.
I just found some of these brainstorming documents full of all these questions. We’ve now been in the new worship center for six months and have a fairly sustainable strategy for how we do things every week, so most of my questions no longer apply. But… I also found more timeless things that I wrote down. And it made me pause.
Oct 6, 2009
What we value for firstMBchurch worship experiences:
Why value creativity?
Ok so have I’ve actually put action around these things? have I shared this list with anyone else? Well, no, I haven’t. But now that I’ve stumbled upon this again, I will.
So. What would YOUR value list look like?
Sep 28
A simple way to engage your worship team with people who show up at your church….especially people who are new.
If you’re short on time, start watching at 1:37.
(a big thank you to my friend Stephen Humber for sharing this)
Aug 29
Recently, I came across some thoughts about worship leadership that keep swirling around in my head:
People worship in response to revelation. Big revelation will result in big worship. Revelations 4 gives us a picture of this and it’s what we have in store for us before long. For most of us, though, here and now, God is often drowned out by the world around us and too small and therefore so is our worship. Our job as worship leaders is to help with the revelation part - not skip to coercing the response.
Aug 24
This summer we gathered together, for the first time, a group of artists from our church. We gathered to talk generally about art in the church and specifically about launching our first gallery show of original art pieces by FirstMBChurch artists.
The show: ‘Stories’
The theme: any of the ten Bible stories featured in the ‘LIFE: Ten Stories’ sermon series beginning Aug 1 (same series referenced in this post)
The medium: any visual art piece that can be displayed on the gallery walls in our lobby
Our artists came through. Here are the results. My heart is full.
Theme: Linen by The Theme Foundry
