When I buy a new piece of equipment, it comes with an owner’s manual. If I am trying to figure out what equipment to buy, I can generally find literature, a magazine article or some other tech person who can help me determine what is best for me. Gear is easy.
What about dealing with the life I have chosen as a technical artist? Where can I go to learn how to be all that God has created me to be; a so called “techie”? Where is the manual that helps me with a difficult music director? Or where can I learn how to deal with last minute changes that always seem to come my way?
There are so many issues that face each of us technical artists. They are common to every church. Regardless of the size of the congregation or how big your budget is, there are challenges we all face and yet there is nowhere to turn for help or answers. We all struggle with not enough money; with church leadership that doesn’t understand our world; with working too many hours at Christmas time…OK all the time.
How can we navigate all these issues? Or are these struggles just the way it has to be? Since we all deal with them, maybe. Yet I believe we are called to change the world through the use of the technical arts in the local church, and that won’t happen if we are constantly feeling victimized by the very churches we are called to serve.
Check out http://www.willowcreek.com/wca_prod.asp?invtid=PR32004, where you will find the first in a series of resources I have written to explore the issues that are specific to being a technical artist in the local church.
Friday, July 11, 2008
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