Items Tagged with "Vision"
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Upper and Lowercase Vision
For an introduction to this series, check out my article The Preferred Future (or Why I Get up at 5am) at WorshipMinistry.com I want to make a distinction between two kinds of vision. (And this distinction is somewhere between "thinking out loud" and a working hypothesis. So if you don't agree, that
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RadioShack Sound Systems & Faith-Infused Realism
Most leaders (volunteer or paid) find it easy to think about what they want to do and have and be after their ministry or organization grows. A preferred future is fun to think about. The current reality, especially for those in small churches, well, not so much. Here was reality at my first church:
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Author: Jon NicolTags: worship training,
worship teams,
worship planning,
worship,
vision,
planning worship services,
numbers,
leading a team,
leadership,
current reality,
"small church big worship",
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #16
Vision and mission are two big buzz words that keep buzzing. They sometimes take on new forms or variation, like "missional" and "purpose." And they all get attached to a "statement." At worst, a church's vision/mission/purpose statement is ripped off from another church and then slapped on a banner
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Author: Jon NicolTags: worship training,
worship planning,
worship leading,
vision,
segues,
planning worship services,
music director,
mission,
leadership,
church services,
announcements,
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Don\'t Let Your Budget Drive Your Mission
For many of us, the calendar (or our executive pastor) is telling us to start thinking about next year's budget. Statistics show that 98% us feel we should have at least 73% more money in our budget. Alright, I just made that up.* But no matter the church size, we all wish we had more to work with.A
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Five Actions to Prepare for Growth
Last week we started talking about how to get more musicians and, specifically, two huge factors that affected that:the size of your church - the larger your church, the more potential musicians you'll have the quality of your church music - good musicianship attracts good musicians.There are
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What are the best motivations for Preparation?
I taught a breakout session at a worship conference this past weekend. The topic was Overcoming the 7 Deadly Sins of the Small Church Worship Ministry.It was only a 50-minute session, so I couldn't spend a lot of time on each point. Instead I gave them links to articles here on WorshipTeamCoach.com
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