Handbook for Multisensory Worship Volume 2

by Kim Miller

Overview

In Handbook for Multisensory Worship, Volume 2, Kim Miller and the worship team of Ginghamsburg Church—widely known for their innovative use of multimedia elements in worship—provide more practical guidance for planning and conducting dynamic worship celebrations. Through the skillful blending of contemporary media such as music, film, and drama with the timeless truths and stories of the Bible, these celebrations help postmodern persons—particularly those who have little or no experience with the Christian faith—experience God’s love and become faithful followers. Included in this second volume are 30 new and complete worship celebrations, each organized around a central metaphor and theme designed to articulate the needs of and connect with the life experiences of the congregation. The components of each celebration—suggestions for dramatic visuals, lively music, enlightening dramas, and inspiring prayers—all combine to powerfully embody themes for the worship celebration. For example, in the celebration “Navigating Rough Water,” the image of whitewater rafting illustrates the turbulent events that occur in all our lives, and the celebration focuses on God’s sustaining presence during these difficult times. “Real Followers” uses the juxtaposed images of a cross and a ladder to represent the competing claims of radical discipleship with worldly ambition and success. Kim Miller is Creative Director of Worship at Ginghamsburg Church where she and the worship team work to create an atmosphere where people can experience God. Kim draws on her background in theatre and visual arts to powerfully and creatively combine drama, graphics, music, and storytelling with preaching. Each week Kim and the worship team of Mike Slaughter (Senior Pastor), Todd Carter (Media Director), and Francis Wyatt (Music Director) plan and coordinate the four worship services for the growing Ginghamsburg community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780687052035
Publisher:	Abingdon Press
Publication date:	10/01/2001
Series:	Handbook for Multisensory Worhip , #2
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	8.54(w) x 11.06(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Kim Miller serves as Campus Designer at Ginghamsburg Church, in Tipp City Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. Kim creates experiences and environments for worship, events and community life on Ginghamsburg s multiple campuses. Her passion is connecting people to God on multiple levels—visually, artistically and theologically. This passion has fueled Ginghamsburg s signature multisensory worship celebrations, and continues to infuse her role as coach on the worship design team. Kim has ignited a movement to recruit, train and deploy teams of strong (unpaid) artist-builders to create engaging environments on a missional, mud n spit budget. She has crafted a new model for churches seeking to offer guest experiences that are current and meaningful.

Table of Contents

Churches all over North America are starting contemporary worship services or incorporating elements of contemporary worship in more traditional services. While many books have discussed why contemporary worship is necessary to reaching the unchurched, too few have provided solid, practical help for planning and executing this new style of worship. In Handbook for Multi-Sensory Worship, the worship team of Ginghamsburg Church-recognized as one of the most innovative congregations today in worship planning and development-offers just this kind of nuts-and-bolts guidance on how to prepare for and execute worship in a contemporary key. Included in the handbook are worship themes that are geared to felt needs in the congregation. This book explains how to choose appropriate themes, build a service around them, and identify lections that build on these themes. Congregations will learn how to identify and address the felt needs of the pre-Christian audience around the congregation. Worship aids are thematically based:

• music-which songs to use and where to get the music and permission to use it
• video clips-what to use, where and how to get them, and how to get permission to use them
• graphics and images-where to find images that support sermons
• dramas-the book includes sources of dramas and examples that can be used by congregations and guidance on how to draw people into drama and train them to participate in worship in this way
• contemporary calls to worship, prayers, offertory prayers, and sentences The handbook contains 30 complete contemporary worship services and detailed how-to instruction. The CD contains a large number of projection images linked to the text of the handbook, and to the Internet, for use in worship services.