I have served for many years in the role of “service producer” in large church environments. When I try to explain to people what that means, I’ve seen the highest level of understanding occur when I say that it’s similar to being the producer of a live television show. Twenty things going on at once, and lots of planning, preparation, allocation of resources, and – of course – team dynamics.
In any live situation, things will go wrong at some point. A big part of leadership is the ability to keep from freaking out when a stressful situation occurs. Calm is the key word – if you are the leader, heads will turn to you to gauge your reaction when there’s a problem. A calm demeanor can actually scale down the perception of an incident from “an emergency” to “an issue.” Simple phrases like “We’re on it” can help Senior Pastors to have confidence that something is being done. Your team will have one question on their minds: “What do we do?” Help them to collectively take a deep breath, quickly gather information and then systematically get to the source of the issue. #creativeworshipideas
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I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
Oh yeah - the name's Greg. Greg Wallace. But not the race car driver or the major league pitcher or the British celebrity chef. Just the creative worship guy. Hi.
It's my hope that these ideas, musings, rants, raves, etc... will inspire you. They're just my opinions - but again, I hope that they'll help to inspire you. Because the church really, really needs inspired creative types. If you're a creative type (and most people are, deep-down), ask God for help. Then take any ideas that are useful to you - borrow them, nab them, use them, adapt them - and make them into something greater...
You can head over to my Instagram site for an abundance of shorter posts: creativeworshipideas. If you're looking for consulting - especially on weekend services, team leadership or multi-site strategies - I'd love to help. Just message me here, and I'll be in touch - Greg
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