7 Steps to a Perfect Music Ministry Budget

by vernsanders on March 20, 2013

Pleased to announce that by the time you read this (if anybody is still reading this..) my new EBook is available at the Creator Store. It’s not a long book – about 20 pages or so – but I think it is an important resource for the head church musician and/or worship leader. The title is 7 Steps to a Perfect Music Ministry Budget. In the book I take you through a sequential set of questions which, when answered will lead you to drafting the perfect budget for your music (or other) ministry. You can get more details here.

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This Blog is Temporarily Closed to New Subscribers

by vernsanders on January 29, 2013

Once again, I have been under attack by spambots registering hundreds of fake names at a time. Until I figure out how to fix this, I’m shutting down the subscriber process. Please use the RSS feed  at the top of this page to get new posts in your blog reader  if you are not already a subscriber. 

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Moderation…again

by vernsanders on January 11, 2013

I’ve had to put all subscription requests to this site in moderation again…I seem to be a favorite target of some SEO class in Europe or Chine…or both… sigh…

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Wait…it’s 2013?

January 11, 2013

How did this happen? Oh…I know…my head has been down redesigning the Creator website, implementing a new store at the website, learning Evernote (good resource, by the way…) and using Evernote to transfer a myriad of accumulated paper notes into one place. Oh…and did I mention getting used to Dropbox? Yes…and there was that little [...]

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2012/2013

December 30, 2012

I think that today’s ipod shuffle tune says it all…except perhaps that most everybody I know is looking forward to 2013 being better than 2012… Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. Happy New Year everybody… Ipod shuffle status (What is this?): 4509 (Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray)  of 7875 … [...]

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RIP Dave Brubeck

December 5, 2012

This is getting to be a bad habit…or perhaps it is because I’m getting old… Dave Brubeck was kind of a legend in my hometown. He had gone to the (then) College of the Pacific and on to bigger things. While I was in high school, the quartet came and played a free gig. It [...]

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RIP Paul Oakley

November 27, 2012

Church music, choral music, and Creator magazine in particular, lost a good friend and valued colleague over the weekend. Paul Oakley was, to be sure, one of a kind. As founding publisher Marshall Sanders said to me recently, “without Paul, Creator magazine wouldn’t exist as we know it.” I can vividly remember meeting Paul at a [...]

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Visions of Johanna

November 21, 2012

A live cut from 1966 on tour in Australia.. Added bonus…you get to hear Dylan tuning a “….music guitar…” Plus, in those days he was really careful to pronounce the words so that you could understand them…no so much anymore…and in this cut, not so square as the recorded version…more like the folk singer tradition. [...]

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The Speed of Trust

November 19, 2012

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve had the chance to do some much needed reading lately. I say much needed because I’ve found that if I don’t read something in addition to all the “business” reading that I have to do (new books to review, blogs, articles for the magazine and website, etc.), [...]

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Co-opetition

November 15, 2012

If the title seems to be wrong, it’s not…I’m currently reading a book by the same name. It’s not a new book, but it is new to me (thanks, Mark Lawson for steering me to it…). The ideas espoused in the book are not new either, per se, because people who are competitive have been [...]

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