This week has been all about the video promo. We’ve had several shoots and done quite a bit of talking about look, color, feel, textures, scripts, lighting, animation, etc. So much that I’m glad to work on some graphics today. : )
Here are two projects HT Creative has put out this week.
Genesis Promo:
The 30 Day Challenge:
We just hosted the first ever Creative Round-up here at HT. I had 3 goals in pulling all existing creatives and new recruits together.
- Hang Time – so many of us serve every week together but do not know each other
- Vision Casting – giving a glimpse of our desired future
- Call to Action – we need your help and if you are already serving, we need more!
In the vision casting I hit up 3 areas.
Our Calling:
There are 2 types of callings, “vocational” – getting paid to minister and “relational” – using our everyday lives, circumstances, relationships to share the Good News. Not every believer is called into vocational ministry, but all are called into relational. I don’t get paid to give my life to God…that’s a choice!
Our Gifting(s):
Will you use what God has given you to further the Kingdom? Your gifts, talents, arms, legs, and brains?
In life, lack of talent isn’t near as fatal as lack of desire.
Orrin Woodward
Gifting’s will not propel the church in their entirety, but our willingness to serve in and out of them, our desire to see God move, our heart for lost, our commitment to getting IT done.
What does it mean to serve in and out of your gifting?
- Serving in your gifting is easy. It’s what you were born to do, what’s natural, what you desire to do.
- Serving out of your gifting is work. It’s what comes out of passion, commitment, authenticity and desire to see the church succeed at any cost
Our Creativity:
The utilization of creativity in today’s church does NOT replace, help, or dictate the move of God.
Pastor Marty has said it best like this:
Harvest Time will never change the message of Christ, but the methods in which we present will always change!
Mission of North Point: To lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ by creating environments where people are encouraged and equipped to pursue intimacy with God, community with insiders, and influence with outsiders.
– Andy Stanley
Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.
– Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
Our Team:
It currently takes about 9 people to run a LIVE Sunday AM service each week. If we had 15, we could do something as big as Man Month every week!
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
We are not asking for you to sign up for a specific service, but rather say “I will do whatever it takes for the message of Christ to go forward.”
Leading Creativity at my organization has led to some incredible moments of satisfaction and accomplishment. Over the last year we have launched many innovative ways to connect with our church, online video, notes & fill-ins available before service, podcast, updated website and visitor friendly foyers. We’ve also had some incredible moments of response to ministry and some kick tail sermon series. Leading Creativity has been an awesome ride so far.
Being the leader of creativity has opened my eyes to “how I lead.” One of the things that is haunting me now is this: to lead creativity means you make final decisions on designs, videos, etc., which means the leader is actually the barrier or hindrance to creativity. If I am not careful, our team can start creating things that they know I will like versus what the organizations vision is looking for.
As leaders in creativity it is our responsibility to know the heart of the organization (church) and only use the boundaries necessary to keep the vision moving forward.
This is hard to swallow but sometimes there are better ways than yours/mine. Don’t get me wrong, specific designs and videos need the touch and direction of the leader…but not everything!
Lesson #1 to learn for Leading Creativity:
Create environments for your team to design/create beyond your expectations and creativity.
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” ~Antoine De Saint Exupery