Managing your “schedule”
I have a great team of volunteers who help to run our visuals. But with volunteers often comes unique management challenges. For instance, someone can understand how to use our system and can be very good at it, but they just don’t have a knack for choosing relevant backgrounds for a service.
I’m not sure if anyone else has this problem, but very quickly I learned that you can’t leave church worship background selection up to the individual running the program on a particular Sunday. Why? I’ve seen everything from Winter background graphics on hymns in Spring to Christmas background graphics in June (ok, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration). And now that we’ve moved to widescreen format, choosing the right worship backgrounds is even more difficult. That’s why I decided to review and approve each Sunday’s schedule. There are a few ways to do this:
- Fortunately, EasyWorship allows you to load their software on other computers for a single church’s use. Thanks to technology, I can get emailed the schedule half done, select the backgrounds, and send it to whoever does the next Sunday – all from the comfort of my house. But then I have to rely on someone remembering to email me the schedule.
- My preference is remote access to the PC running EasyWorship. On Friday or Saturday, I can access the PC quickly (we use LogMeIn) and review the backgrounds for Sunday.
- The least tech-savvy method would be to check it Sunday morning before church. Probably the easiest, too. But it’s more fun to try to use technology, right?
How do you manage your “schedule”?
