Worship Design Studio

One Day Workshop 

with Dr. Marcia McFee

Grand Rapids, Michigan

(Rockford UMC)

Saturday, January 19, 2013

 

All denominations welcome. 

Inspirational, experiential and interactive day of learning and worshiping! Marcia shares her concepts for enhancing your worship that are applicable no matter the style or size of your church. Make worship more sensory-rich, more deeply spiritual, more participatory and anticipatory. Have more ease, more fun and less stress planning worship week after week.

This workshop is especially productive for churches who bring multiple people–taking the shared experience, enthusiasm, tools and planning strategies back together for continued conversation and implementation!

 

Workshop schedule:

 

8:00am Registration Begins

9:00am Session 1:  Creating Worship with Deep Soul

In this session Marcia will introduce what she means by "M-M-Good" Worship and why this is the most exciting time in worship history to be planning worship - no matter the "style!"

10:30  Break

10:45  Session 2:  Think Like a Filmmaker

What can we learn from filmmakers that can inform our work in offering the greatest Story ever told in sensory-rich ways?  Why do we need sensory-rich worship and how can we do it in large as well as in small churches with small budgets and volunteers?

Noon - 1p  Lunch

1:00pm  Session 3:  The Politics of Change

With lots of interactive music we will explore the various rhythms of worship vocabularies and why we benefit from utilizing a diversity of rhythms through the liturgical year (AND why we get into "worship wars" and how to avoid it).

2:15  Break

2:30  Session 4:  "O Lord, Is it Sunday Already?!"

Worship planning can be relentless with Sunday coming EVERY week!  We'll talk about planning substantive and vital worship without getting burned out, drawing on the model offered in Marcia's Worship Design Studio.

 3:30 Depart

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