Planning Tool #3: iTunes Playlists

I love listening to new music and digging through albums to find those gold nuggets that really resonate with our Church community and help them engage in musical worship. I’m constantly going to newreleasetuesday.com and checking to see what music is set to be released in the coming months. Then on the Tuesday it comes out, first thing as soon as I’m in the office, I typically fire up iTunes and purchase the album.

One of my biggest problems though is my music library is now over 30-40 gig and it’s hard for me to keep track of albums that I have purchased in the last year, let alone the songs that I think could be great for our Church.

Planning Tool #2 PLANNINGCENTERONLINE.COM

I know this is no surprise to anyone. It seems like they have the corner on 90% of the Churches in the US. I actually have nightmares of  Planning Center going bankrupt and losing the hundreds of hours I’ve spent over the years putting charts, mp3’s and other resources I’ve meticulously uploaded. There are so many features to this monthly paid service that a single blog post couldn’t do it justice but I thought that I would share some of the biggest time killers and savers I’ve learned. (Check Out the Video Tutorial)