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Be Prepared: Build Your Dream Ministry Gear List Before You Need It

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Building a dream ministry gear list starts with this reality: “Most people don’t plan to fail, they just fail to plan.” ~ John L. Beckley

One day a guitarist at my church, someone that I had only met a few weeks prior, showed up to my office and said he had something for [the] church. I went to his car and behold… a beautiful 88-key Mark 1 Rhodes Electric Piano! I asked him how he knew this was a dream of mine for the church stage. He told me he overheard me talking about it with someone else, he saw it in a store and bought it for us. Mind: blown!

A couple of years later an older gentleman who was new to the church asked me about the needs of the church in the area of sound and worship gear. I stuttered. I knew we needed things, but at the moment, I couldn’t think of anything. We had been getting away with what we had for so long it was hard to think on the spot. This guy ended up buying some high-end items for the church in other areas like children’s ministry and hospitality. From that moment on, I decided I was going to be ready for the next philanthropist conversation.

Build Your Dream Ministry Gear List Before You Need It

I suggest every ministry tech leader, at every size, have an ongoing list of technical ministry gear that they need, want and dream of. Is there something that if the church had, could better disciple people, increase the effectiveness of its mission, bring joy to the heart of everyone who sees it?