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--- emerson:stone-soup [2025/04/12 17:20] – [The In Order Part] split my needs into their own page naptastic
+++ emerson:stone-soup [2025/04/19 03:23] (current) – [Ministries] naptastic
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   * A timeline, or an order of operations, remains unaddressed as a problem. Some items have explicit interdependencies listed but it needs to be more fleshed out. These initiatives support each other and that is getting lost.
   * Emerson needs some work before it's ready to evangelize about itself
-  * If we don't have a worship calendar that commits us to specific services for each of the faith traditions we're supposed to represent, we should make one
+  * We don't do post-mortems and we need to start doing them for most everything
+  * If we don't have a worship calendar that commits us to specific services for each of the faith traditions we're supposed to represent, we should make one.
+  * Rather than trying to **grow** the worship **committee**, **build** a worship **ministry**.
+    * Growing the committee a person at a time is likely to continue failing. We need to train a batch of people on our workflow and get good at it together, so we've got people in all parts of the church who can get a service across the finish line.
+    * The word "committee" has a connotation. "Ministry" reminds us that worship is a core mission of the church.
+    * The word "team" also gets used in places; I'd rather use "team" to describe a group responsible for a given service.
   * We need to grapple with the bougie, the out-of-touch, the icky...
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 We need to elevate the quality of our worship programming. The music is great but the music program has some constraints we need to lift, and the rest of the programming... we'll talk about it. But basically, we need more barn-burners. Sunday services have to be good or a church will fail no matter what else it's doing.
-We need a full-time music director. We also need at least four part-time musicians. (That includes Ariel.) Where possible, we should try to hire instrumentalists who can also be section leaders. Emerson is **heavy** into instrumental music; we need to leverage that.
+Julia needs to be full-time. We also need at least four part-time musicians. (That includes Ariel.) Where possible, we should try to hire instrumentalists who can also be section leaders. Emerson is **heavy** into instrumental music; we need to leverage that.
 Proposal: **We need to pay our music director enough that this can be her only job.**
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 [[emerson:stone-soup:acoustics|Acoustic Treatment]]
-Policy recommendation: Storage space is a resource around which we need to set boundaries. It's great that Emerson Players is self-funded, but how much storage unit space did you not have to pay for because we subsidized it by misusing our buildings? (Ok that sounds resentful, sorry)
 [[emerson:stone-soup:control-room|Control Room]] - Convert one the offices upstairs in Westwood hall into an A/V booth.
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 =====What I am asking (and not asking) of YOU=====
-====What I Need====
-I'm just putting this up top so it doesn't get lost.
-This is a lot of plates to spin. There are some large parts that I simply have to do myself. I can't do it from Cypress.
-I need a place of my own that is close enough to church I can get myself back and forth, preferably via a single bus ride on a high-frequency route. I need enough room that I don't have to have a storage unit anymore. I need enough room to set up two desks, one for audio work.
-I need enough money that I can pay my bills, buy groceries, pay for medications. I'm not that expensive to keep around.
-How it gets structured matters. I have serious trust issues right now. Something needs to be in place that says the church can't change its mind and abandon me.
 [[emerson:stone-soup:block-schedule|Sunday Block Schedule]]