The Creative Ministry serves the purpose of God’s Church. We are to visually express God’s heart and enhance the church’s vision of the G12. Whether it be designing posters for events or building websites and blogs, this ministry is fulfilling its God giving destiny. Amen.
Team Building
Seek out people, don’t let the system do the work. This means take action and don’t sit back. If God gives you a vision for the church, draw/write do something to remember it. Then take action and lock yourself to that vision. Be a leader in the environment. People’s time is precious - give them a defining role. Know what to bring out of the team - encourage them. Have a listening ear, help members with problems. Get a strong relationship with your team!
Connecting to senior Pastors
Your not an island. Release the vision of the church, rather than your own vision. Ask yourself repeatedly “Does this serve the purpose/event which the pastor has asked for?” Listen to their language - should give you a vision (G12 vision). Our Pastor may have weaknesses in expressing their ideas visually - compensate for them. Get options/plans ready. Make all your decisions (church building). Vision is first. Creativity is Second.
Clear Vision
Where can you apply creativity to the vision of NLCC? Learn to enhance the elements and freshness. Don’t go over budget, but don’t be limited in your ideas either. Brainstorm ideas with the team, or ask others their opinion. Most important is to submit to the Pastoral team. Pick 1 person to coordinate the whole thing. This person should then decide who does what, their context, time frame, and budget.
Brain Storming
Ideas can come from anywhere! With so many people in our family, it is easy to ask others their ideas and come up with something really inventive and inspiring. Don’t be limited in your brain storming either! Go wild! And never throw away your ideas. Keep them for another time. The best thing about brain storming is that a team can achieve much more than an individual. Learn to utilise the ideas of others and mould them into your own.
Learning how to present ideas (Design proposal)
Sketches or scale drawings (scale if necessary)
Time required to make design
Amount of people needed to make design
Materials required
Suppliers used
Total cost
Scheduling time/ working ahead of time
Set your deadline before the actual deadline. Plans never go 100% exactly to how you planned, so in your schedule, make room for errors or delays.
Safe work practices
If doing stage production, use gloves, eye goggles etc. Never assume your under complete control of all your equipment. If your on the computer, take breaks every hour.
Your creativity
Invent into creativity (Time/Money/Thought). Have a creative day. Keep brain storming ideas.
Especially with design, it is okay to copy another designers idea and make it your own. This includes patterns, colours, theme. It does not include ripping images! or directly cutting and pasting.
Your capacity
Ask yourself “How can we do this?” “Is it feasible?” “Does it fit the vision of the church?” “What are you feeding yourself with? ” Make little daily improvements if that helps your design process. Ask different people each time for their opinions, as if you keep asking your best friend if this or that looks good, your only audience becomes your best friend.
Learn from your mistakes
Build it into the culture of the team. How to tell people their ideas is not good? - Speak in love and be honest “this is not personnel”. Tell them why it doesn’t work. Communication - clear briefs. Commit to a direction and give it all your heart. Don’t over expose your team to the other people’s frustrations. Don’t communicate out your frustrations. Commitment to excellence.