{"id":1470,"date":"2011-06-25T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T18:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2011-10-19T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:12:12","slug":"vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1471 alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2011\/06\/IMG_2922-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"CCC Candles\" width=\"240\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2011\/06\/IMG_2922-300x263.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2011\/06\/IMG_2922-1024x898.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?sk=group_185609151457779\" target=\"_blank\">Better Together<\/a> worship community continued to discuss a myriad of topics this week. \u00a0Among them were celebratory comments regarding one of our members who was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/06\/20\/is-lebron-the-nbas-samson_n_880668.html\" target=\"_blank\">published in the Huffington Post<\/a> (congrats brother!), pondering discussions relating to the covenant book of worship and hymnal (and how we can get them digitized for use on the web, Planning Center Online, etc), practical discussions about how to create calls to worship and benediction music, and serious discussion about diversity and how we conduct worship therin. \u00a0One of our discussions that took a very serious turn indeed came when we discussed the financial situations of our churches and how it seems that our denomination is all over the map financially; some of us have been blessed in spite of the recession, while others continue to struggle.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One discussion I&#8217;d like to highlight is the need for vision in our worship ministries. \u00a0Whether we are small churches and our job covers more than the Sunday gathering or we are in very large churches and we work with a large volunteer base, whether we&#8217;re traditional, blended, contemporary, or ethnic, vision plays a key role in the way we run our ministries. \u00a0The questions many of us struggle with have been numerous in recent months, but here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do we capture the breadth of the vision of worship in language?<\/p>\n<p>How do we help our congregation best understand what worship is?<\/p>\n<p>How do we find new volunteers?<\/p>\n<p>How do we cast that vision, once we have it?<\/p>\n<p>What qualities ought we look for in our volunteers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The worship pastors, music directors, and many volunteers continue to wrestle with these questions and many more over on the ECC Worship Community Forum; join us!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=1470&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Better Together worship community continued to discuss a myriad of topics this week. \u00a0Among them were celebratory comments regarding one of our members who was recently published in the Huffington Post (congrats brother!), pondering discussions relating to the covenant book of worship and hymnal (and how we can get them digitized for use on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,14503,13,8,14,91,16,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-better-together","category-core-values","category-leadership","category-local-church","category-multicultural","category-music","category-order-of-worship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources - Worship Connect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources - Worship Connect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Better Together worship community continued to discuss a myriad of topics this week. \u00a0Among them were celebratory comments regarding one of our members who was recently published in the Huffington Post (congrats brother!), pondering discussions relating to the covenant book of worship and hymnal (and how we can get them digitized for use on [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Worship Connect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-25T18:24:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-10-19T19:12:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2011\/06\/IMG_2922-300x263.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chris\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chris\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chris\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e2a9c0653d22be1c964cd7f0645e111d\"},\"headline\":\"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-25T18:24:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-10-19T19:12:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":298,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Arts\",\"Better Together\",\"Core Values\",\"Leadership\",\"Local Church\",\"Multicultural\",\"Music\",\"Order of Worship\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/\",\"name\":\"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources - Worship Connect\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-25T18:24:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-10-19T19:12:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e2a9c0653d22be1c964cd7f0645e111d\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/\",\"name\":\"Worship Connect\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e2a9c0653d22be1c964cd7f0645e111d\",\"name\":\"Chris\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5a4b3e4efadbb183a0f0f581f13e3ba4a6ee252291cedf6042820ed3ff05a34a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5a4b3e4efadbb183a0f0f581f13e3ba4a6ee252291cedf6042820ed3ff05a34a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5a4b3e4efadbb183a0f0f581f13e3ba4a6ee252291cedf6042820ed3ff05a34a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Chris\"},\"description\":\"Chris is an ECC Worship Artist currently serving at First Covenant Church of Omaha, NE. Though he was born and raised in Rochester NY, Chris is a third-culture child, a dual citizen of the United States and Switzerland. In addition to voice and guitar, he is also plays French Horn and Saxophone. His wife Liz is also a musician, and they have been married since 2004. They have three kids, a daughter named Aurora (Rori), a son named Caedmon (CJ), and a daughter named Brielle (Bria). He graduated with a self-designed B.A. in Music in Christianity from the University of Rochester, studying and writing on the interactions between music and the Christian faith in the postmodern paradigm. He received his M.A. from Asbury Theological Seminary in 2008 in Intercultural Studies, an Anthropology and Sociology degree that specializes in Christian Missions. He\u2019s been a missionary in Australia, India, Mexico, and Haiti, and has served as a worship pastor previously in Mitchell SD and Lenexa KS. His passion is to see worship become a missional endeavor, that the Church understand their faith in the broader context of the imitation of God and participation in the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than as an event on Sunday mornings. He hopes one day to do a PhD in Anthropology, studying how our worship practices ought to be understood in relationship to the changing cultural landscape of the Western world. Chris is also a photographer, and enjoys days out with his family and camera. He loves to read, to scuba dive, and to kayak. It\u2019s hard for him to say no to a Hawaiian pizza, and has been known to frequent coffee shops for a caramel latte or an iced Chai.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/randomthoughtsbychris.blogspot.com\"],\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/blogs.covchurch.org\\\/wc\\\/author\\\/chrisl\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources - Worship Connect","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources - Worship Connect","og_description":"The Better Together worship community continued to discuss a myriad of topics this week. \u00a0Among them were celebratory comments regarding one of our members who was recently published in the Huffington Post (congrats brother!), pondering discussions relating to the covenant book of worship and hymnal (and how we can get them digitized for use on [&hellip;]","og_url":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/","og_site_name":"Worship Connect","article_published_time":"2011-06-25T18:24:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-10-19T19:12:12+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2011\/06\/IMG_2922-300x263.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Chris","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chris","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/"},"author":{"name":"Chris","@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/#\/schema\/person\/e2a9c0653d22be1c964cd7f0645e111d"},"headline":"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources","datePublished":"2011-06-25T18:24:39+00:00","dateModified":"2011-10-19T19:12:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/"},"wordCount":298,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["Arts","Better Together","Core Values","Leadership","Local Church","Multicultural","Music","Order of Worship"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/","url":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/","name":"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources - Worship Connect","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-06-25T18:24:39+00:00","dateModified":"2011-10-19T19:12:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/#\/schema\/person\/e2a9c0653d22be1c964cd7f0645e111d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2011\/06\/vision-casting-finances-and-digital-resources\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/#website","url":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/","name":"Worship Connect","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/#\/schema\/person\/e2a9c0653d22be1c964cd7f0645e111d","name":"Chris","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a4b3e4efadbb183a0f0f581f13e3ba4a6ee252291cedf6042820ed3ff05a34a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a4b3e4efadbb183a0f0f581f13e3ba4a6ee252291cedf6042820ed3ff05a34a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a4b3e4efadbb183a0f0f581f13e3ba4a6ee252291cedf6042820ed3ff05a34a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Chris"},"description":"Chris is an ECC Worship Artist currently serving at First Covenant Church of Omaha, NE. Though he was born and raised in Rochester NY, Chris is a third-culture child, a dual citizen of the United States and Switzerland. In addition to voice and guitar, he is also plays French Horn and Saxophone. His wife Liz is also a musician, and they have been married since 2004. They have three kids, a daughter named Aurora (Rori), a son named Caedmon (CJ), and a daughter named Brielle (Bria). He graduated with a self-designed B.A. in Music in Christianity from the University of Rochester, studying and writing on the interactions between music and the Christian faith in the postmodern paradigm. He received his M.A. from Asbury Theological Seminary in 2008 in Intercultural Studies, an Anthropology and Sociology degree that specializes in Christian Missions. He\u2019s been a missionary in Australia, India, Mexico, and Haiti, and has served as a worship pastor previously in Mitchell SD and Lenexa KS. His passion is to see worship become a missional endeavor, that the Church understand their faith in the broader context of the imitation of God and participation in the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than as an event on Sunday mornings. He hopes one day to do a PhD in Anthropology, studying how our worship practices ought to be understood in relationship to the changing cultural landscape of the Western world. Chris is also a photographer, and enjoys days out with his family and camera. He loves to read, to scuba dive, and to kayak. It\u2019s hard for him to say no to a Hawaiian pizza, and has been known to frequent coffee shops for a caramel latte or an iced Chai.","sameAs":["http:\/\/randomthoughtsbychris.blogspot.com"],"url":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/author\/chrisl\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}