tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12659679.post8897307581368955665..comments2023-09-27T07:42:18.141-07:00Comments on Rebel Without A Pew: Worship Planning--Solo or Team Sport?Karen Sapiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01952041607368514856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12659679.post-14047884286183461592008-01-24T18:58:00.000-08:002008-01-24T18:58:00.000-08:00More and more as I read the other RevGal blogs, I ...More and more as I read the other RevGal blogs, I am grateful for the structure imposed on us by our tradition. Ya got yer Book of Common Prayer, ya got yer Book of Alternative Services; between them, ya got seven Eucharistic Prayers...and the "propers" for the Sunday (ie collect for the day, prayer over the gifts, prayer after communion) are set...<BR/>I realize I'd be lost if I had to "make it up" for Sunday.<BR/>Now it's not altogether uncollaborative even at that. We encourage our lay people to lead the intercessory prayer, where they can use a litany framework or a series of collects, or just focus on the "biddings" (= intentions).<BR/>Normally I pick the hymns to echo the lections. When I am pressed for time, the Music Director is happy to do so, and he's good at it.<BR/>And for the early service (ALWAYS the Book of Common Prayer)...our thirty-years-on-the-job volunteer organist picks, without consultation, two hymns appropriate to the season. I can't begin to count how many Sundays his offertory-hymn choice wraps up what I've just preached in a lovely neat package...better than I could. I'm blessed.Crimson Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13020190454645032359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12659679.post-67728187456953684972008-01-22T18:45:00.000-08:002008-01-22T18:45:00.000-08:00Hi Pastor Rebel,Please tell Elizabeth I've tagged ...Hi Pastor Rebel,<BR/>Please tell Elizabeth I've tagged her for a meme!<BR/>Amiezorrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301856272073306968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12659679.post-4651455643963609272008-01-22T15:52:00.000-08:002008-01-22T15:52:00.000-08:00I am part of a collaborative staff...we (senior pa...I am part of a collaborative staff...we (senior pastor, me, and church musician) study the lectionary text with three, sometimes more, people over lunch 8 weeks ahead of its use in worship. 7 weeks out we brainstorm worship ideas for that text and the general direction we've come up with, usually with 2-6 other people (different from the first set). Then 6 weeks out the three of us sit down and put the service together. The week of, on Tuesday, we finalize (and/or make changes!). It's a process that is actually really working for us, and it allows laypeople to feel like they have a part in worship planning (though ultimately it's down to the three of us, and even more ultimately it's down to whichever of us is preaching for final say/veto power).Terihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10838436991138846332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12659679.post-63900781648270476272008-01-21T19:24:00.000-08:002008-01-21T19:24:00.000-08:00Well, if you go to my place, you will see what I d...Well, if you go to my place, you will see what I did all day long today. Like Songbird, worship planning by team is not something that has been possible for me, at least not since internship.<BR/><BR/>Someday I hope to be in a more collaborative system, but with the rotating musicians we have at St Stoic right now, I know that will have to wait.Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18324456402703897094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12659679.post-46264049120143747132008-01-21T18:12:00.000-08:002008-01-21T18:12:00.000-08:00LOL at The Decider!I would love to work on a team ...LOL at The Decider!<BR/>I would love to work on a team for worship planning, but I haven't been in a setting where that has been possible. In my previous church, the only other person planning anything was a young and inexperienced musician. I tried to include her in planning by giving her themes and supplying her with lectionary based materials. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. <BR/>At my current setting, I give themes based on the lectionary to the Director of Music (or let him know if I'm going off-lectionary), and he pretty much does what he wants, some weeks hewing to the theme, others seemingly ignoring them all together. But we are way ahead of where they used to be, which was no coordination of effort at all.<BR/>When I hear others talk about developing worship as a team, I feel a little envious, but I wonder if I would love it as much in reality now that I'm so used to doing my own thing?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235049965406944684noreply@blogger.com