Comments on: Blog Reader Profile

By: dorothy (vicar of vibe)

dorothy (vicar of vibe) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:02:59 +0000

I agree with Billy Chia. I bet alot of your creatives link over from Ragamuffin.
I am a volunteer on our fuZe (creative worship/arts) team (my team does 5S, worship design elements) and I am pretty sure that I linked to you from Carlos (particularly Creative Chaos). Liked your stuff. Once I link a couple times to a particular site, then I try to figure out why?
You have culturally relevant stuff. That’s one of the areas I tend to focus on.

By: TJ Goff

TJ Goff — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:57:01 +0000

I read and I imagine a lot of Worhsip/Arts pastors read because alot of us serve as pseudo-executive pastors as well as arts, music, etc. I’m doing as much Admin. and Volunteer organization as I am service planning and worship leading. We also only have 4 on staff at my church so if no one can figure out who is in charge of something, it tends to become a “worship issue.” Everything is worship, right?

By: jane

jane — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:31:45 +0000

again, the children get the shaft. Thank you to the SMT at NS for focusing on the children. Hopefully there will be fewer screwed up adults in 20 years throughout SC because of what God is doing.

for the record…volunteer here.

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:27:16 +0000

Children’s Ministry folk here (waving my hands). Maybe most of them are to deep in the supply closet looking for next week’s game (actually that is where I should be).

By: TLC

TLC — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:08:19 +0000

I’m an artist (musician/author/speaker) who is not on staff at a church, and I follow you for a few reasons:

- you regularly post on creativity and the purpose of the arts in church/worship.

- your posts on leadership challenge me to be a better leader in the areas where I’m leading others, as well as prompting me to pray for my church leaders.

- your church is one of my three favorite churches. Given that I travel to 40+ churches per year, that’s kind of a big deal to me. I respect what you do and the way NewSpring serves the Kingdom.

- you manage to straddle the line between being entertaining (metro-rednexual, occasional videos, etc.) and challenging (in both business and spiritual realms).

Hope that helps! Thanks for what you do!
~TLC

By: tony

tony — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:14:49 +0000

ha… that’s funny, jweaks. i’ll get you the correct numbers this evening. obviously i was in a rush getting that post up. typos galore and bad data. i have a feeling the boss at tonymorganlive.com is about ready to call me into his office and i’m going to have to have a talk with myself about improving performance.

tony

By: jweaks

jweaks — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:08:50 +0000

oh… and I’m a volunteer… I’m real curious about that number too.

By: jweaks

jweaks — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:07:26 +0000

I’m curious as to why the “roles” all add up to 115%? Either there is a typo or other error or the form allowed more than one role to be chosen.

The “98″ does not surprise me. The “88″ is a little surprising. I wonder how many outsiders have had some interaction, like Unleashed?

Your roles numbers look odd. Why did “IT” go with “Admin” and “Finance?” I think maybe you have more IT folks and they put “arts” as their role. The high number of “other/combo” may mean you need a better breakdown.

Sorry I didn’t participate… I missed it. -jw

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:36:29 +0000

I think it would have been interesting to see how many volunteers do read your post.

By: Tony Staires

Tony Staires — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:08:24 +0000

As a worship leader, I value the principles that you share on leadership, which are transferable across the board in most ministry areas. I also agree w/ @rebeccamoon, it’s I like to hear how established & growing ministries operate, in order to learn how to better lead my team. Thanks Tony!