Yesterday's worship service was powerful. We added a prayer from our Pastor and a video (we did a voice over and added our own music to one that we purchased from sermonspice) in between our up-tempo songs and our mid to slower tempo songs and it was a perfect transition. A couple things we always try to look at are lyrical compatibility (with the Pastor's talk and with the other songs), key signatures (for smoothe transitions), and tempo (we dont want it all over the place). These things determine where we place songs in the order and how we create transitions.
It's important for us that we dont do four songs and sit down. I want it to be a change from week to week so we never become too "routine" ("predictably unpredictable" is our goal) and I think we're accomplishing that right now by small changes in each service.
No doubt yesterday's service would have been a big mess without our media and lighting people hitting all the cues perfectly. We had 6 videos and over 30 lighting changes yesterday which may have been pushing it on our part but it emphasizes the importance of our technical crew. Our team is awesome! Good job guys. I'll try to keep you all up to date each week with the worship set at the Torch.
Call to Worship: Sing to the King(C)/God of Ages(G)
Pastoral Prayer: Pastor Mike
Video: This is the Truth
Worship: God of This City(Db)/There is a River(Db)
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It's great that you are using media wisely. Sometimes it can be over done and leaves the congregation with an overdone Mickey Mouse (The Disney Effect - orchestrated animatronics) experience, but when media is combined with a true sense of worship and reverence media can serve enhance the worship experience.
Check out my blog jeffsalyerjr.blogspot.com. I plan on writing a lot about media ministry and some interesting research from Ron Gilbert on the subject (especially in the COG).
Eventually, I will have the Church Media Institute up and running where we will try to network media pastors for the sharing of ideas and theories of media ministry.
Maplewood!
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