Creative Chaos @ Ragamuffin Soul
OK ladies and Gentlemen. The time has come. It is time to step up our game. Yes. This means you. You have done an UNBELIEVABLE job creating community here. Healthy debates. Healthy laughter. Healthy wasting of time. Healthy crying. We are going to try to take our community a step further and I NEED you to help me out. Listen up…
Every Thursday we are going to make THIS place the epicenter for all things creative in this corner of the web. The launching point for creativity. The launching point for trading secrets. How? Well I am taking this straight from my new blog hero Shannon and her “Works For Me Wednesdays“. Shannon uses her blog to get lots of mom bloggers together and they trade mom type secrets that are working for them on her blog every Wednesday. Over 300 people participate every week and EVERYONE gets the traffic from Shannons blog while ALL Shannon’s readers get hundreds of ideas. I got to thinking… This has to happen in my creative/music/video/arts world. A place where we all share.
A few years ago I started this little trend called Worship Confessionals. In it’s heyday, I think there was upwards of 30 or so of you doing it. Where I still think there is a place for those…a typed out post on the creativity in your place of worship can be done by anyone. Attenders, volunteers, and staff alike.
So how about it?
Every Thursday YOU write a post on your blog as to what creative element, secret, process, whatever took place at your church the past week or the week coming up. Let’s try and limit it to a large group gathering of some sort.
Music, Art, Video, Production, Scripts, Sermon Illustrations ect. You get the vibe.
And then we will circle up here and you will get to link to your blog on the front page of Ragamuffin Soul and not the comment section so all the readers can get ideas. It will be like a creative conference on steroids every week that you don’t have to pay 300 dollars for and take vacation to attend.
What do you say?
We will give it a few weeks and see what kinds of legs it gets under it.
So you want like official rules as to how this thing can work the best?
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You want to jump in?
Here we go…
My Creative Chaos contribution today is a fun creative element we are putting in the front of our service at Buckhead Church this week.
We have a 5 screen setup right now…
We are in the middle of a series called I Want To Be Great where Andy and Clay are speaking to the desires inside each one of us to achieve greatness.
What better pop culture example to pull out then Rock Band on the XBox. So yes. This Sunday we are going to let some people from the crowd become GREAT on stage and play Dead or Alive with the Fee band on virtual instruments. It is going to be AWESOME!!!
So that is my contribution to Creative Chaos at Ragamuffin Soul this Thursday. See how simple that was? No filming. No video. Just you and your fingers. Time for you guys to post on your blogs about something you are doing or have done at your local place of likeminded people gathering. I say that so those of you who want to participate but don’t go to church can tell us about what is going on in your worlds too.
Get it?
Got it?
Post…Then fill out the widget on the bottom of this post linking to your post. Then link back to this post.
Let me know if you have any questions as we figure this out together.
I think this could be rad.
Los
nice.
I’ve added a Kids Creative Element for our Easter Service. We’re working on it for the next few weeks.
-Travis Spencer
http://www.callmetravis.com
seems to work fine. great idea los.
Real solid idea, i’m behind it.
sounds awesome! I’m for it.
I wish I could post about Easter but that secret can’t leap out of the box yet… several people might kill me.
Well I’m gonna post about Easter ’cause I don’t think anyone from RPC that saw it would tattle. We’re doing a series called “Squeaky Clean” talking about Sanctification (which we all had to whip out a thesaurus for haha). Anyway, we’re going to have teams out washing people’s car windows during the service. At the end the guests will get a little rubber duckie that says, “Your car windows are now Squeaky Clean, courtesy of RPC.”
Cheap. Surprising. They’ll talk about it.
I can’t put that on my blog though. So maybe I didn’t follow the rules correctly. I’ve never been good at that.
This is a great idea…I’ve been tossing it around too. It makes a lot more sense for someone with a lot of traffic though. I posted about forcing people to shred their credit cards. Always a fun time.
great idea los.
You keep me thinking baby…
Yea. This is already rad. I’m stealing (sharing) all your ideas.
I’m in … great idea, Los .. thanks for pioneering once again.
Fred
Great deal, man. Happy to share. Happy to glean. Peezout.
Great idea, Los. Good to see you are finally getting caught up on technological gadgets.
LOVE the window washing comment here. I’ll have to check out the other links. Thanks for setting this up and giving me a heads up. ~Mags
Hey…special blog post dedicated to you and Heather on my blog…enjoy yooo self.
-Dana
I mean, you should check it out…because your daughter MIGHT have something to do with it. Maybe…
great idea Los! I love stealing ideas from other people – this just fuels the fire…
There are some great ideas out there. Super way to share!
dangit. I guess I didn’t fully understand the instructions. Mine is #21 it is just a simple reminder or our sins and that Jesus covered them. We used it a few weeks ago and it was really powerful for our student ministry.
Excellent idea Los. Add me to the stealing list!
(and sharing list, #23)
Sounds fun man – I like the idea of having links to the other sites on one page. That way you can skim through the post titles and think “ooo big lego stage, that looks interesting.”
Great idea! I just found your blog today via Julie Belle (she’s a fenom musician). I’m excited to join in on this!
Shared some stuff from my blog and checking in at lucky number 27. Very cool idea, Los.
This is timely, Los…I’m starting up in a new worship band as we speak. Are you ok with us using your Creative Chaos @ Ragamuffin Soul logo on our own blogs?
I’m no worship leader, but I sing and praise God with my one year old and twin 6 month olds each day. I hope to be able to contribute something… =0)
Thanks for letting us share with each other thru you.
http://technicalcreativity.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/creative-chaos-middle-school-worship/
Getting middle schools to worship more.
This is awesome! Very cool idea. I look forward to getting involved.
thanks for the post. i hope to read some more.
Best regards from Sebbi
dope idea!
I am so glad this is here. Look forward to gemaking some new friends and sharing.
I am so glad this is here. Look forward to making some new friends and sharing.
This will be a great help for all of us! Very exciting!
Check it out:
http://chainsastambourines.blogspot.com/2008/08/keyano.html
great idea carlos…..i’m in!
This is awesome… We have another site that dedicated to sharing ideas about ministry called iDEA NATION. I hope idea sharing becomes a huge trend among Christian Internet communities.
http://www.goideanation.org