by admin | Sep 24, 2012 | Church, Church Programming, Creative, Creativity, Uncategorized
It is not easy to stay creative. We get busy. We have responsibilities. Life gets fast and intense. We want to create our best stuff, all the time, but it is not easy. Sometimes we need a little jump-start. Other times, we need to intentionally create just to...
by admin | Sep 17, 2012 | Church, Church Programming, Creative, Creativity
Creativity is not a department. Creativity is an action. Creativity solves problems, serves others, innovates, and dreams up new ideas. The lie we start to believe is that creativity is a department that does creative “things.” In my experience, great...
by admin | Sep 13, 2012 | Church, Church Programming, Creative, Creativity
In February, I ran across a great post from my new friend Andrew Zahn entitled “The 10 Commandments of Creativity.” It was so inspirational that I reposted the commandments with a little commentary. It was fun to learn that Andrew is an actor,...
by admin | Sep 11, 2012 | Church, Church Programming, Creative, Creativity
“Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.” ― Ann Voskamp Practice is not easy. Training is hard. Both of these places, however, are where we work out the kinks and quirks of our talent. Practice and training allows...
by admin | Sep 10, 2012 | Church, Church Programming, Creative, Creativity, Uncategorized
Photo Props: “Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” – Anais Nin We all have excess of something in our lives. Be it stress or peace, work or...
by admin | Sep 6, 2012 | Church, Church Programming, Creative, Creativity, Uncategorized
Leading our teams can be difficult. As creative teams develop, especially when our teams include volunteers, there are a few things that we have to remember. It is as important for us to LEAD as it is to CREATE. The funny thing is, we are artists to and we still have...