The men and women on your worship/arts team have something big in common: Together you help create and pull off your Sunday services—arguably your church’s most important weekly ministry.

But, cookie cutter versions of one another? No way! On your team you likely have people with disparate gifts (and personalities to match) in areas like music, drama, video, production, tech, teaching, and more. That’s why towardwonder.com is much more than just resources you can use in your Sunday services. The site is also designed to provide tools and training that can draw your team together and also sharpen your individual skills.

Visit towardwonder.com today and click on Products and Training. Once there you’ll find a range of training resources. For example? The Team Edition Key Values series on DVD is a great way to envision your entire arts team on vital principles like creativity, authenticity, imagination, and collaboration. It even comes with downloadable questions for team discussion. Or, check out the hundreds of training sessions, most available as affordable CD or downloadable MP3s on topics on everything ranging from Video from Concept to Completion, to Thriving at the Front of House, to A Biblical Model for Worship and the Arts. We also have thousands of messages and series to inspire your teaching team—including John Ortberg’s acclaimed message on The Art of Teaching.

So, after you’ve found the service components and inspiration you need to create next Sunday’s service, take a few minutes today to browse through the training section of towardwonder.com. It has something for everyone—and is a great way to keep growing as an artist and as a member of your worship/arts team.

Adapted from Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson

Right now you have no sensation of motion. I’m guessing you’re sitting still as you read. But the reality is that you are sitting on a planet that is spinning around its axis at approximately one thousand miles per hour. Planet Earth will make one full rotation in the next twenty-four hours. Not only that, you are hurtling through space at approximately sixty-seven thousand miles per hour. And you didn’t have any big plans for today! Before the day is done, you will have traveled 1.3 million miles in your annual trek around the sun.

Now let me ask you a question: when was the last time you thanked God for keeping us in orbit? I’m guessing never! Lord, thanks for keeping us in orbit. And I was a little nervous about making the full rotation around our axis today, but you did it again. Most of us don’t pray that way. But isn’t it a little ironic? We have a hard time believing God for the little stuff while we take the big stuff for granted. Come on, if God can keep the planets in orbit don’t you think He can reorder your life when you feel like its spinning out of control?

Keeping the planets in orbit is a perpetual miracle of unparalleled proportions. So why aren’t we overwhelmed with awe over our annual orbit? Why don’t we ceaselessly praise God for our spinning globe? The reason is simple: we take constants for granted.

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