I have an opportunity this morning to serve a new group of people who will be meeting at Crossroads, and I couldn't be more excited!Pastor Dave is an encourager of identifying passion areas within our jobs, so I've been thinking about the things that I love doing, and serving guests at Crossroads, communicating the message of Jesus thematically through the inclusion of creative pieces within a service or event, and producing events are definitely my favorites. During the Leadership Summit I saw a post that said "18 Friday's until Christmas", so as soon as the details of the Summit ended I was looking through my Christmas notes again.
I have two primary areas of focus and development right now, our next teaching series and Christmas - so here we go!
I get asked occasionally what my job entails, so I thought I'd list some of what's involved. I'm considering offering a CLASS in the Winter that would allow a few people to create a service or event, and the opportunity to hangout behind the scenes one weekend. We'll see!
When we create a new series these items are involved:
- Pastor decides on title and content of the teachings
- We brainstorm about a fitting 'visual'
- A video promo is usually shot or created to use for advertising within the services as well as on Social Media
- Our graphic designer begins to develop the ideas for print: this visual will be used on the Pastor's Notes; Background on the stage; advertising; archives for messages; website
- Worship team works on thematic song selection for all the services falling within this series
- I write scripts for all of the announcement segments
- We shoot any videos that need to be used as transitions or featured pieces
- Meticulously go over every element in each service in our programming meetings to make sure they all connect and support the topic and that nothing distracts from the teaching.
- The organization of any additional artists or set design work
I could continue, but you get the idea. I'm blessed beyond anyone I know, I love what I do and as I'm enjoying my day off, I have just been praising the Lord from whom all blessings flow!
