when we moved to rowlett, levi and i made a decision that i would begin doing a lot of the print and web media stuff in house, as well as video and music: an arts pastor. for this reason we purchased me a macbook pro as well as the adobe creative suite 3 (photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, flash, indesign). a few weeks ago, i got the software installed and began working with illustrator to create a doorhanger that we would use to advertise an event as well as our preview services. it was a lot of fun and in about 3hours i had created a look from scratch and i was very excited.
i am looking forward to learning more about these programs and finding a way to be more creative visually than i ever have before.
2. music
when going to an established church, a worship pastor usually has a group of musicians already in place, ready to play. when doing a church plant, i don't have that luxury. luckily, i have my good friend jonofink
here who can rock out some electric leads for us, and my wife who can tear up some keys. what about a bass? drums? solution: ableton live.levi and i went to cornerstone
church over in rockwall and the arts guy there, greg, used ableton live in the worship. he played guitar and sang, he had an electric guy playing rhythm and singing, as well as a girl on piano and singing. he used ableton to create the tracks for bass and drums. it sounded awesome! i decided then and there that i had to get this program and learn how to use it. last night i purchased the m-audio triggerfinger and i also downloaded the free trial of ableton live 6. now when i lead worship i can have the full sound of a band, even if its just me and my guitar.3. website(s)
in the 21st century, you cannot survive without a website. we have been working with will hill from delco designs on our website and it's close to being up and running. the key ingredient to our main website is going to be simplicity. also, our main website (catalystrowlett.org/com/info/net) will not be for our congregation but for our community. we want people in the community to able to jump on the website and find everything they need to about us as a church without being overwhelmed with the business of most church websites. we are very excited about the look and feel of our website and look forward to when we go live.
we realized in our discussion and development of the catalyst website that we were missing some key needs of our congregation. it was very simple but in order to be as simple as we wanted it we had to sacrifice functionality for things like online registration, podcasts, church calendar. in order to provide that information to our attenders we will be utilizing an entirely seperate system: thebeaker. thebeaker will be our informational center. anything that has to do with important info on happenings at catalyst will be provided through some from of thebeaker. weekly bulletin/program = thebeaker.mini, monthly newsletter = thebeaker.monthly, informational website = thebeaker.online.
we think this is a great way of communicating what needs to be communicated. for guests and community people that want to see what we're about, they can go to catalystrowlett.com/org/net/info and get all the basic need-to-knows. for our regular attenders who need a lot more, they can go to thebeakeronline.com and find everything they "need to know." [check out elevation
church and see how they have their websites set up, click on resources then blogs to see the informational websites.]- from CatalystMusic.blogspot.com
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