WorshipVJ has announced the release of his Guidebook for Visual Worship:
This guidebook is a training resource designed to cast vision & to equip. It’s designed not only for the one person who does everything but for team environments as well.
Use this tool to start the Visual Worship conversation at your church, to set a standard for vision and purpose, and to introduce a fresh language for your tech and creative worship ministries.
It’s a 21 page ebook that sells for $10 for individual copies and $25 for a group copy. Here’s what you can expect:
This guidebook for Visual Worship is a training resource designed to cast vision to & equip media/tech directors, creative team leaders, worship pastors & volunteers. It’s designed not only for the one person who does everything but for team environments as well. Use this tool to start the Visual Worship conversation at your church, to set a standard for vision and purpose, and to introduce a fresh language and approach for your tech and creative worship ministries.
It contains an overview of Visual Worship philosophy as well as practical advice and guidelines to follow when designing media slides and curating worship. Topics covered include: the history of Visual Worship, an introduction to worship curation, visual silence, leading Visual Worship, building stronger relationships on your team, things to consider when designing visual media, reasons not to use visual media, typography and design basics, fonts, color theory, resources, media organization and more!
We think this is pretty neat so we’ll be giving 2 copies away! Just comment below about how you’ve seen “visual worship” change in the last few years and you’ll be entered in to win!
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Drew Palko says
Visual Worship has come so far! I remember setting up powerpoints on an old sony laptop for the youth ministry I volunteered for on Sunday mornings. Now with a job as Graphic Designer/In-Charge-of-Everything-Visual at the same church, things have changed. We’re looking into environmental projection, stage design, and more intricate lighting setups. But it’s still hard to stay relevant beyond what goes up on the screen. This book would help our ministry soo much!
You guys do awesome! Keep it up 🙂
Becky says
Visual worship is a good discussion. We’re still on PowerPoint 2003 at my home church but outside of there I’ve seen it grow in huge ways over the last couple years. Going from pictures to moving backgrounds to using cameras and showing the worship team live on stage, etc along with all the options we have out there now for presentation software. It’s amazing. I can’t wait to see what will take place with visual worship over the next several years as well.
Jon Manna says
Visual worship is just as much worship as vocal worship is worship. I feel it has grown in leaps and bounds in the last 5 years and your average local church can have a professional look and atmosphere with something like ProPresenter (what the pros use on tour).
Phillip Gibb says
oh wow, where does one begin.
Back in the day there was the OHP and churchs’ auditoriums were flooded with a sea of cold fluorescent lighting – usually flickering. I felt naked and vulnerable.
And now with subdued lighting and effects, I feel safer and am able to be guided by the band and not what the oaks next to me are doing or what they think I am doing.
The videos and background visuals on the big screen help to keep me engaged and not distracted.
There is of course a tight balance between being distracted by too much visuals and being helped to worship by them, or the balance between feeling claustrophobic in a darkened auditorium or liberated by it.
Also I find that nowadays the band plays a greater role in their stage presence – in that they are delivering a professional performance that not only is entertaining but also engaging to the point that you feel that you are no long just going through the motions of worship but also enjoying it.
Phill tran says
Visual worship has stepped up from the back seat. Or back of the sevice planners mind. I think it’s great that churches are creating holistic experiences to move people.
Pioneers really pushed the limits of church and make tools easily accessible to the masses. Once expense audio visual tech can be had for cheaper and websites sell pre made vide
Randy Boyd says
I’ve noticed a greater acceptance of screens in worship. I work in a very traditional setting, and when we started with visual worship they stood out like a sore thumb. But children especially have a special relationship with screens and it is fascinating to watch how their attention is engaged when something is put on a screen.
David Hart says
In the UK we watch a lot of the USA web services with envy as we are restricted in space and money to achieve similar effects.
Visual aids in worship and the message have always been part of church – from stained glass windows depicting scenes from the Bible and the 10 commandments in large print on the walls, through visual preaching aids to OHP and now projectors. The key thing now is for more co-ordination between preacher/pastor, music leader and the tech/visual person to share their knowledge and experience and work together to make the worship experience as accessible and relevant as possible.
I would love to see more of our churches in the UK utilising technology in all its forms more effectively to reach those who would not darken the door of the more traditional church. I hope the Guidebook for Visual Worship will give us the guidance and ideas to kick-start a new development for us here.
re/enchanted says
In a very visually-driven culture, I see how visual worship will become more and more crucial to more fully engage the people of God in the worship of God.
Shelby Becker says
As Altar Guild president of a very traditional church, the addition of our new facility – a contemporary and temporary worship area – has been a challenge. The larger churches incorporate theatrical lighting and stages into their worship services and the more progressive and state of the art, the more popular it seems.
The approach is more about the edgy, contemporary visual appeal as opposed to the “comforts” of the traditional ambiance. I am out of my league in this territory and woudl love help on creating a visual worship area.