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How do you design your summer in church ministry?
One of my favorite thinkers, Gretchen Rubin, talks about “designing your summer.” It’s a way of intentionally making the season distinct and special.
In this episode, Crawford and I talk about what we do that’s different in the summer—from the mundane “file all the choir music we haven’t for several months” to the wonderful leisure to play repertoire we wouldn’t normally have time for.
- Reset: put things away, take a vacation etc.
- Take Stock: what’s working in your program? what could be improved or changed?
- Plan: nothing like a quiet summer to plan all your preludes/postludes/hymns/anthems (hey, we can dream, right?!)
- Have Fun: of course, what “fun” is, is up to you! Check out our episode on “Playing Music for Fun” if you’d like some ideas.
The one thing making this summer especially special for me is that I will be beginning a new position as Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church of St. Louis!
This is the last episode of Season 1 of the Music and the Church podcast! Thank you for listening! We’ll be back in September for Season Two. Even though the podcast is on summer vacation, I will still be posting about once a week on the blog and publishing a monthly newsletter.
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