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When does your church start planning for the Christmas season, and what do you determine first?

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Mike Sherwood (Guest)

Posted: December 18, 2007

We begin Christmas programming at the end of each January with a team of department leaders involved in the programming. The previous Christmas is reviewed and lessons to be learned or ideas which occured are recorded. The meeting ends with theme ideas for the next Christmas. Those themes are considered between meetings. We then meet every six weeks firming the theme and strapline by March/April. Subsequent meetings consider the technical, music, drama, childrens departments, advertising and decor etc. All advertising info is to be ready for early September to be set and approved and ready for end October. We work well and have a lot of fun at the same time.

nina (Guest)

Posted: December 19, 2006

I start looking for Christmas music for next year right after this Christmas is over. Because the new Christmas music doesn't come out in time for us to learn it. I'd love it if the new worship songs for Christmas and Sunday school would come out in Sept or Oct so we'd have time to incorporate them into that Christmas year. But with the band members being all volunteers it's hard to learn several new songs to perform next Sunday..

Heather (Guest)

Posted: December 04, 2006

We've had a lot of change in leadership over the past few years, so our strategy has changed along with it. One music minister had us starting on a Christmas musical in September! It felt really strange to be singing Christmas songs before Halloween, but the program went off so well and was a lot of fun. And although we had our share of glitches, it felt professional. Last year, we started talking about Christmas towards the end of November. The minister at that time threw something together in two weeks. It felt very rushed and not well put together. There was a lot of confusion and frustration. This year, we began talking about ideas in October. With a staff of one senior pastor and all the rest volunteers, we started with two goals: keep things simple and do a lot with the kids. So we spread the responsibility amongst the teams and have put together a simple service full of specials by the kids (singing, band, puppets, dance, etc).

Molly D. (Guest)

Posted: December 04, 2006

Though we begin talking about it in December, it doesn't really come together until early November--and that, unfortunately, is much too late. It kind of creates a general sense of panic among the staff as well as a sense of disconnectedness.

Trevor Lee (Guest)

Posted: November 29, 2006

Our church has pretty set programming, decorating, etc. for the Christmas season. While the details of what we do vary year to year the general programs don't so there's not a lot of large scale planning that needs to be done.

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