A teenage Media Ministry invasion?

[ffwbsoundman]

I love training up teens because they love the media side of the ministry. I do like to wait until they are 16 so that they can drive to the Church when I need them and they dont have to wait for parents or others to bring them. If you start them early and train them to do it with a worshipful attitude and not just because they can than I feel that it helps grow the future of my Church and other Church's where they may serve in the future. I personally started when I was 13 and now am in charge of the ministry because I have a passion for it that I learned early on.

[collinong]

the biggest problem with teens is that they go away to college after a few years, just as they become total masters of the media software and mixing hardware. you just have to keep the pipeline full with incoming kids.

i've found that media ministry is a great way to get nerdy kids involved in serving and it really brings them out of their shell and some go on to other leadership positions.

[jmarch]

Originally Posted by Paris MkVI

I may have added to this thread before. But it is so long now I have forgotten, so I will drop in some thoughts here. This is our way, our culture. I am not suggesting anyone should or must use the same approach...

This community has been a real blessing to me in the last few weeks and months as we prepare to 'upgrade' our worship--to bring it into relevancy both musically and technologically.

But I wanted to say a special thank you to Paris MkVI. You've posted on many team-building, training, and encouragement topics; and I must say that I have found absolutely every one of your posts to be Spirit-filled, insightful, and pragmatic all at once. Your approach of releasing trainees from apprenticeships with both "responsibility and authority" aligns closely with how I envision our ministry model working, and your contributions have been of great value to me as I begin to reshape my worship team and build a media team.

A big thank you to all of you who make this site such a blessing!

[meffoos]

I am the director of media and production at a church of 9000 members and we have a team of about 35 people. For any given service, a minimum of 10 people will be handling the different equipment positions. We incorporate usually 1-2 teens per service. One benefit is being able to build into their lives and train them early on equipment, and a negative that we have noticed is that they don't show up till the last minute, or back out often for other obligations without proper channeling of communication. Just a few things we have noticed at our church.

[JesseOrtiz]

Our media team has mostly teens running everything. I am the media director and I am only 21. I was brought unto media when I was 12 it was the greatest thing in my life. The same rules apply between teenage members and adult members if anything you have just be on top of them a little more in the talking area.

Media I feel is important for younger people mostly because they are so open to the idea of technology within church. That is what got me interested in originally and honestly its probably what kept me in church. It's something different and it helps you build teenagers up in the word of God through something they actually find fun.

We have a good amount of adults in our team but majority of it is teenagers (30 member team right now). Usually they are more open to the idea of working and have a great time doing it.