A media team member can serve everyone in the room. Let’s start by recognizing that these song lyrics and scripture texts you display are the most audacious elements in the room: you display the most precise, explicit-disciple making pronouncements of the day. These lyrics bring resurrection pronouncements! So church media team: thank you for serving. Thank you for being part of the most one of the most important teams in the church. You are valued!
Church Media Team – You Are Part of the Worship Team!
Not only is your role is important; it’s also true that you live in obscurity—unless something goes wrong! As a church media team member, here are three things you can think about the next time you sit down to run slides or other media for the worship experience:
1. This task is for their comfort, not mine.
I can’t count the number of times that a media team member has rushed me at the stage to demand that I play the music exactly as written, or the number of times someone demands that I don’t repeat a chorus, or that I don’t improvise in worship. Oftentimes it’s like the media person wants me to serve them instead of us serving the congregation together. We must serve the preacher and the musicians and be flexible (within reason). Serve them and even allow for their mistakes: Miles Davis, the jazz trumpeter, would often hear the mistakes of his other players and he would build their mistakes into his playing so it sounded like it was all actually intentional. In other words, serve your leaders, and serve those who are in those high-pressure places by being flexible and working for their comfort, not your own.
