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A sample is enclosed which may be placed in the church bulletin,. Barnabus’ Band – This is a program wherein a designated number of your people agree to be “encouragers” as was Barnabus. These will promise the Lord that with. Revival Planning Packet.doc.
Collect This is the brainstorming stage, where ideas are thrown up on a whiteboard and randomly bantered and tossed around. There are no bad ideas. Some of the best ideas each week come from students who gather every Tuesday in my office to do just this. Don’t worry if they are possible, and don’t worry about the size of the idea. Seth Godin says, “Big ideas are little ideas that no one killed to soon.” If we were really good, we could be doing this several weeks in advance. Compile This is where we turn the ideas into an order of service called a program sheet. The program sheet gives a framework from which to work for the week and proposed idea of the emotional arc/tone of the service.
Assign Using the program sheet as a guide, assign tasks and projects to various volunteers or students, i.e., who is making the bumper video, creating announcement slides, etc. You can also begin asking people to help on stage as well, figuring out who is giving announcements or running the game, too. Manage If you’re going to survive the weekend tornado, you have to follow-up on the projects that have been assigned. Talk to the students or volunteers who own tasks, help them fight through roadblocks or adjust the idea so that it can be accomplished by the service time. You might have to cut bits at this stage, but it is better than being surprised/disappointed a few hours before the service starts. Execute This is the step of actually holding services. We do four student services a weekend, so execution actually takes two days.
Making sure each service improves and is as good as or better than the last is always a challenge. Execution with excellence is tough, especially when you’ve seen/given the message, songs or game three times already. Debrief After the first service, we gather the main players together and talk through what happened. We make tons of adjustments and tweaks to the next service. Sometimes these are small; sometimes we almost start over with the order (like last week). There is also a weekly debrief focusing on big picture thoughts and major changes, and adding to the list of things we’ll never do again.
Archive At the end of a series, everything gets archived. MP3s of the talk, outlines, handouts, videos—everything ends up on the team network drive to be stored permanently. We post a ton of elements online as well. When it’s all done, get ready for the next weekend tornado to hit—it’ll be here in days!