One of the best practices we have instituted for over a year now is having Creative Team meetings on a weekly basis.
We meet in our café every Tuesday from 10:00 to 12:30. Then we bring in lunch and all eat together.
In this meeting we debrief on the last Sunday and/or last event. We pick the whole thing apart – from sound, to lights, to message, to transitions, etc. Then we start looking ahead.
It’s really a lot of fun to sit with 8 – 10 people and all pour ideas into how to make Sundays and events the best they can be.
We laugh a lot. Some ideas are great. Some are not. Some moments get a little tense as we strive to get better. But everyone owns the fact that we are trying to do the best we can for God and people.
It’s pushed us into planning way ahead on what we are going to cover on Sundays. This is pretty new territory for me. I have usually just started a series with a word from God and then let it go as long as the Holy Spirit keeps giving me stuff.
Right now we have a pretty good idea on what we are going to cover through the beginning of September.
It’s all open to change should we get a “God interrupt”. We haven’t nailed it all down as an exact science but it’s really been a good move for us.
Life is better as a team sport.
BTW, this Sunday will be a blast. Suzette and I are continuing in the “More Than A Feeling” series. We’re going to do something this Sunday we’ve never done before. Hope it works! Be at church on time, seats are getting hard to find!
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