Creativity – that may be the easy part.
But what if you’re responsible for leading, managing, and advancing a creative department in your church?
I had the honor talking with Stephen Brewster about this very thing. Stephen is the Creative Arts Pastor at Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. He leads the creative team for a church of 5 campuses.
I’m not going to lie, but this is one of my favorite interviews so far on the podcast. So practical, down to earth, and close to what we all experience as local church worship leaders.
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What You’ll Learn
- How to create a “get to” environment
- What it’s like to have 1 full time worship staff and 23 volunteer worship leaders across 5 campuses
- 6:00 am Sunday morning call times 🙂
- Creating a culture of discipline and excellence
- How to cast vision to your entire team
- How to get your team to show up for events
- Ideas for leading creative meetings
- How to lead creatives
- Scheduling creativity
Resources Mentioned in this Post
- Website: www.stephenbrewster.me
- Website: www.crosspoint.tv
- Cross Point Church’s Communication/Marketing Plan worksheet
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Loved, loved, loved it! Lots of practical stuff. If you ever want to do a second and third interview with Stephen, I would be first to listen. 🙂
Thanks for all you do!
Thanks Tina! I’m sure we can get Stephen back on the show in the future 🙂
Well I guess I don’t have to spend the weekend fingirug this one out!
Great stuff David! Appreciate this blog so much and it’s encouragement. I was thinking about planning an event for our team to get together and now I have an idea how to go about it in time for the upcoming holidays. Attendance for anything outside of rehearsals is usually slim. The need to schedule that creative time for yourself is so important too. I need to work on that one!! I’m in a stale season too right now! Blessings and be encouraged as well. Thank you.
Hey Laura, glad this was helpful to you. Hope the event goes well!
Great interview David! I have really appreciated the insights from your podcast since I discovered it a few months ago.
Do you have any ideas about getting a creative team off the ground initially? To this point my churches worship ministry has solely consisted of music, but I want to branch out and begin engaging other art forms as well.
Hey Dustin, thanks for the kind words. What I’d probably do is start connecting with creative people in your church. Start to hang together, create together, and dream about what it could become. Do you know of people like this in your church?
Great podcast David. Really great info that a lot of Church teams can benefit from. Stephen is one of my favs!
Brandon! Thanks man for the kind words. Stephen definitely killed it.