God & Country Set
Posted by: josh on: July 1, 2009
Our team does such a great job…
3 Random Minutes at The Bayne Household
Posted by: josh on: June 29, 2009
Upping The Ante
Posted by: josh on: June 25, 2009
Our production director extraordinaire, Adam, recently added a new feature to the Athens Church website that I think provides a great deal of value. On the “watch messages” page you can now click on “songs” and be directed to an iTunes iMix of all the songs we did that particular week. This is a great resource for you ACers who wanna stay in the know with what new songs we’re singing! Check it out…
Sunday Snapshot: Athens Church
Posted by: josh on: June 18, 2009
Here are 8 images that tell the story of this past Sunday at Athens Church. Our AM set was great (God Is Alive, Glorious One, Stronger, the “In My Life” tag from Came To My Rescue, and God Of This City). Sunday night we had what we call Community Celebration, a more-or-less quarterly night of worship and fellowship event- held outside this time at a venue in Watkinsville called Ashford Manor. Here’s what it all looked like…
Sunday Summary: Ridge Church
Posted by: josh on: June 12, 2009
A little delayed in getting this up, but better late than never. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to be up in Charlotte with my friends on staff there, so Sunday was a real treat. Getting to experience On Location pt 2 again was also good for me. Here was our (simple) set:
Sing, Sing, Sing – Chris Tomlin
All Because Of Jesus – Fee
Beautiful The Blood – Fee
Excellence Attracts Excellence
Posted by: josh on: June 10, 2009
This is why we:
-Print well designed bulletins high gloss, full color
-Change our set design every series (or at least every season)
-Place our friendliest people in the parking lot and at the doors
-Arrive for load-in long before the sun does
-Do a full-service runthrough with zero people in the room
-Pay our musicians
-Evaluate for hours
-Pray without ceasing
Excellence is who we are, all we know, and what we’re trying to attract.
I Have The World’s Best Dog
Posted by: josh on: June 8, 2009
Sorry, I just had to brag…
Now or Next?
Posted by: josh on: June 6, 2009
- In: Leadership
- 1 Comment
It’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately in regards to ideas and potential things I could do or initiate in ministry. Is this NOW or is this NEXT? I’m not so much interested in jumping on the “now” bandwagon. I would, however, love to be a “next” early adopter.
-One site
-Multi site
-Community groups
-Web community
-Worship movements
-Movements in worship
Ok, maybe I’m fishing now =) But you get the picture. Like any other thing in the world and culture, the way we do church changes. Change is not bad in the same way that the sun rising and falling is not bad. It’s inevitable and actually helps us create momentum. But momentum doesn’t come from now; it comes from new (or in our case: next).
So this initiative of yours: is it now or is it next? Vision implies direction. That’s the goal of vision: common movement in a common direction. Direction in terms of progress and momentum, though, is only linear, and “now” ideas get you nowhere. Today’s now is tomorrow’s yesterday, actually, so if you’re moving at all… it’s backwards. “Next” ideas, however, move our hearts and our eyes and ultimately our hands and feet forward. And that’s the goal.
