Starting a Worship Planning Team September 9, 2014 8:30 p.m. EDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 6:30 p.m. MDT 5:30 p.m. PDT Entrance Sending Word Table
About Taylor Burton-Edwards Elder, Indiana Conference 1997-Present Director of Worship Resources, GBOD, 2005- Present Chair, Consultation on Common Texts, 2014- present Member, The North American Academy of Liturgy, 2008-Present GBOD staff for General Conference, 2008,2012, 2016 Brother, The Order of Saint Luke, 1996- present Contact me: worship@gbod.org @twbe
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Expertise Crafting Fine tuning Reflective work Writing/Creating Art/Composing Practicing for solo leadership
Production/coordination Group rehearsals: Choirs/bands/dance teams Specialty team work (altar guild, ushers, acolytes, communion stewards) Projects/Commissions Doing things right
Big picture: Doing the right things Overall coordination and flow of series and services Visionaries and evangelists Engaging the whole congregation in worship Diverse expertise Extended social networks
Who s on the team? Artists/Designers Musicians Pastor(s) Writers Choreographers Helper Reps Technology Wise Ones How Many? 5-7 or 7-12 Intimate group or working team? Relationship or task?
Recruiting One on one Passion and gifts ACT Available, Competent Teachable Clear about your expectations: meetings, participation, duration Ask about their expectations
Teaming and Training Team Covenant 2-3 months <-Accountability Knowledge and Skills-> Training
Teaming Team Covenant Preparation: Bring my best game to the table Presence: Be at the table Performance: Respect the expertise of each, and the insights of all.
Training Common Platforms: Basic Pattern, By Water and the Spirit, This Holy Mystery, Living into the Mystery, RCL and Christian Year Attending to Energy and Flow: Energy Map http://is.gd/v418sv Bearings in Worship http://is.gd/mjp5lx Order of Perception http://is.gd/q9snzt Attentional Worship http://is.gd/aky0rq Specialized Expertise
Seasonal Planning Your First Series Something Else Suggestion: Advent, then Holy Week or Eastertide Announce: 2-3 months out Start: 6 weeks + season length before season or series starts Book of the Bible Popular Culture Music Urgent Need Ethical /Doctrinal Series Other
Pastor s Homework (Solo) Study: the scriptures for the season or series Provide: an overview of the season/series and guide questions (WPH) The Series Meeting: Preparation Everyone s Homework (Solo and Team) Read: the scriptures and helps for the season or series Look for: feeling, senses and an anchor image or tagline that connects with all the readings Develop: synopses of the texts and how they relate to overview Begin: to create a story arc across the texts with the image in mind
The Series Meeting Gather: Morning/Evening Prayer, brief sharing, covenant reminder Movement A: Sense Out the Series: Feeling (space, sound, visual touch, smell, tastes, emotion), energy flow, anchor image metaphoraging 60-90 minutes Anchor Image OR Tagline/Story Arc Metaphoraging Storyboarding OR Movement B: Suss out the series: Start with a Bible study/word study and listen for story arc and threads that will become the direction and warp of the story line you weave
The Series Meeting Anchor Image
The Series Meeting GC 2016 Tagline to Preliminary Story Arc and Threads As we ve gone As we re going As we will go Learning in the journey Mercy, not sacrifice Flockness
The Series Meeting Moments: Sense Out Each Service Metaphoraging/Story Mining/Theme Weaving, initial blocking, initial art, music, prayer, action ideas, and SLICE focus areas
sacramental liturgical indigenous connected embodied
Moments: Sense Out Each Service Metaphoraging, initial blocking, initial art, music, prayer, action ideas, and SLICE focus areas The Series Meeting Mapping: Build a basic storyboard Assigning: Suggestions for each service Sending: thanks, theme, compline
The Series Meeting GC 2012 Storyboard Outline First Draft Mark 1:14-20 Call Jesus calls disciples by Galilee Mark 2:13-17 Invite Jesus calls Levi and eats with his friends Mark 3: 7-12 Heal Jesus heals and exorcises many Mark 4: 1-9 Listen Parables from a boat to a crowd Mark 4:35-41 Embark Asleep in the storm Mark 5:21-43 Believe Jesus raises daughter of synagogue leader Mark 6:30-44 Trust Feeding 5000 Mark 14:26-28; 16:7 Encounter A last meal with prediction of meeting again in Galilee John 21:1-17 Feed Jesus meets the disciples by the shore
Gather: Morning/Evening Prayer, brief sharing, covenant reminder Movement: Making Sense of the Series: Flow, other factors, and further thoughts. The First Services Meeting 60 minutes Moments: Making Sense of each Service More input, more specifics, SLICE focus areas and flow for each service Mapping: Build out the order for 1 or more Assigning: Full scripts for built services Sending: thanks, theme, compline
Services Change Series GC 2012 Storyboard Outline Revision Mark 1:14-20 Call Jesus calls disciples by Galilee Mark 2:13-17 Invite Jesus calls Levi and eats with his friends Mark 3: 7-12 Heal Jesus heals and exorcises many Mark 4: 1-9 Listen Parables from a boat to a crowd (Act of Repentance) Mark 5:21-43 Believe Jesus raises daughter of synagogue leader (Saturday Morning and Noon only) Mark 4:35-41 Embark Asleep in the storm Mark 6:45-51 Encourage Walking to Us on Water (Ecumenical) Mark 14:26-28; 16:7 Encounter A last meal with prediction of meeting again in Galilee John 21:1-17 Feed Jesus meets the disciples by the shore John 21:19, Mark 16:19-20 Follow (Closing)
Subsequent Services Meetings Gather: Morning/Evening Prayer, brief sharing, covenant reminder Movement: Checkin for course corrections 60 minutes Until 2-3 weeks out Mapping: Build out the order for more services Assigning: Full scripts for newly built services, notifications, rehearsals (cue to cue) Moments: Review full scripts, check in progress on other services Sending: thanks, theme, compline
Mid-Series Meetings Gather: Mid-day prayer, covenant reminder Movement: How did you see God moving in you? In others? In/through the series? Moments: Alignment, Attention/Participation, Flow, and troubleshooting 30 minutes after worship if possible Mapping: All plans in place through series? Assigning: Notifications, fixes, echeck-in Sending: thanks, theme, blessing
Gather: Evening Prayer, brief sharing, covenant reminder Movement: How did you see God moving in you and in others across this series? How did we work? SLICE progress? Overall learnings? Moments: Highlights: best of/worst of by service and specific learnings Series Wrap Meeting 60 minutes home setting celebration Mapping: Gearing up for next series, 3-6 months out with SLICE in mind Assigning: Notifications for input, meeting start dates, readings list Sending: thanks, theme, compline
Resources for Planning Teams http://www.worshipdesignstudio.com
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Resources Click on these links for more info! Common Platforms: By Water and the Spirit, This Holy Mystery, Living into the Mystery, Revised Common Lectionary and Christian Year Attending to Energy and Flow: Energy Map Bearings in Worship Order of Perception Attentional Worship Planning for Advent Webinar SLICE Overview PowerPoint SLICE Webinar and worksheets http://www.worshipdesignstudio.com