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Making Your Worship Services an
Experience Where Lives are Changed
The worship service is the point of entry into your church, and the heart beat of your vision. What people experience will determine the life of your church. PCC will evaluate the overall effectiveness of each component in your worship service, and will assist your leadership in developing a strategy to present your message and vision with excellence.
This involves a PCC consultant leading you in:
- Developing a feel to your service that reflects your vision
The most important thing to remember is that the service begins when the doors open into the worship center. The experience begins then, and you need to take advantage of every moment. Most churches do a service a certain way because they have seen it done that way before. Your service should be unique to your vision, not someone else’s. PCC will sit down with your Leadership team and develop guidelines to design services that represent who you are, and in turn you will attract members that are on board with your vision.
- Evaluating your current effectiveness and needs:
- The look of your worship center
When you walk into a place of business your first impression affects how you feel and if you want to do business there. It is the same for a church. Churches can make the mistake that this is the room’s aesthetics, but it is so much more. PCC will assess the positive and negative aspects to the look and feel of your worship center, and advise you of changes that will make your room more appealing.
- The flow of your service
The flow directly affects participation and retention. You can have the greatest content but put in the wrong order or spaced between bad transitions the result is an ineffective service. PCC will give you guidelines to having a successful flow to your service.
- Communication with the congregation
Communication is more than giving information. It is getting people to retain the information. PCC will review the various ways you communicate: verbal, graphics, video, or printed documents, and instruct you on how best to get the message across.
- Lay Personnel Performance
Volunteers are the lifeblood to most worship services, but a volunteer in the wrong position can put a damper on any service. PCC will evaluate the skill level of your volunteers and help you fit people into positions where they can excel.
- Use of creativity
Creativity when used properly will enhance a service, but when it is there for the sake of having creativity it becomes a distraction. PCC will help you determine what creative elements will take your service to a new level.
- How well the service relates to the message
Have you ever been to a service where it felt like the Pastor and the worship leader didn’t communicate with each other? They didn’t connect so you didn’t connect. PCC will show you steps to make the service be one instead of fragmented.
- Come back appeal
The bottom line at the end of every service is did we give the congregation something to make them want to come back. We hear many churches say they do a good job of getting people to come to their events. It’s not that good of a job if they don’t come back to your services. PCC will work with the structure of your service to increase the appeal to make people want to come again.
- Website
The biggest question is who is the website for, the member or the visitor? Then is the information easy to access and find. PCC will help you set priorities for your website to best meet your needs.
- Service leadership
Just like volunteers can be in the wrong positions, so can your leadership. PCC will work with your leaders to determine their strengths and help you place them in the areas the best fit your service.
- Preparation process
You are only as good as your preparation. Most people can come up with ideas they just can’t make them happen. PCC will help arrange your schedule to allow time to create the service you want. We will help you put together a creative process and team to aid you in making your vision happen.
- Writing policies and procedures for your volunteer teams
PCC will help you design schedules and guidelines for your different volunteer teams that reflect your vision and meet your needs.
- Developing an effective strategy for planning and implementing a service
PCC will work with your creative team to produce the steps needed to produce a service and help put deadlines in place to make sure it happens. We will also review the effectiveness of your rehearsal to pull off the service.
- Training your leadership team
PCC will evaluate your team and help you place them in the roles they are gifted for, as well as train them to execute the roles they are placed in.
- Develop strategies to change the structure of your service to improve communication
Remember your service begins when the doors open, that’s also when the communication should begin. PCC will help you explore the different ways to communicate with your congregation before and during the service to best get the information across.
The Process is available in 3 different options:
- Option 1 – Weekend Evaluation
- Meet with Pastor and Worship Leader prior to service
- Attend and evaluate total worship experience
- Present oral evaluation to Leadership Team
- Option 2 – 4 Week Evaluation
- Week 1: Meet with Leadership Team to learn history, philosophy, and objectives
- Week 2: Attend weekend services for evaluation
- Week 3: Provide evaluation to Leadership Team
- Week 4: Onsite review of evaluation and present strategy to address challenges
- Option 3 – 4-6 Month Relationship
- Total of 8-12 visits
- Begins with all aspects of Option 2 (4 week evaluation)
- Lead in implementing strategies to address challenges
- Assist in developing and training a “creative team” for service planning and preparation
- Lead in planning a 4-6 week sermon series using the “creative team”.
- Conduct a rehearsal retreat with vocals and band to prepare music for series
- Phone and email consultation for 12 months
