Storyboarding is a practice from the world of filmmaking that involves creating rough sketches of scenes to illustrate the progression of a story. Each frame in the storyboard represents the development of an idea that is critical to the overarching journey. Popularized by Walt Disney Studios in the 1930s within the context of producing animated films, storyboarding is used today in many industries to help map out project plans using visual snapshots. Dr. McFee has long explored the art of worship design through the lens of filmmaking, a metaphor that extends to this planning-retreat-on-a-page focused on discerning powerful themes for the year to come. Get a storyboard going for your community’s unique context!
Intentional spiritual journeys can offer your congregation a reason to keep coming back each week. Consider the messages your community most needs to hear over the coming year, and develop a structure for how the story will unfold.
Planning ahead will help draw your worship staff and volunteers into the process, ensuring they have more lead time to prepare and implement creative ideas. Your team will have less stress, more clarity, and more time to experiment with ideas!
Identifying your series themes ahead of time can help foster opportunities for ministry collaborations outside of worship, strengthening local partnerships and making a wider impact by extending the experience beyond Sunday morning worship.
Intentional spiritual journeys can offer your congregation a reason to keep coming back each week. Consider the messages your community most needs to hear over the coming year, and develop a structure for how the story will unfold.
Planning ahead will help draw your worship staff and volunteers into the process, ensuring they have more lead time to prepare and implement creative ideas. Your team will have less stress, more clarity, and more time to experiment with ideas!
Identifying your series themes ahead of time can help foster opportunities for ministry collaborations outside of worship, strengthening local partnerships and making a wider impact by extending the experience beyond Sunday morning worship.
YOU ARE NEVER ALONE.
YOU NEVER HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH.
Tried-and-true processes
Dr. Marcia has been teaching the creative process of designing worship for over 30 years. These videos will equip you with a step-by-step process to keep the worship planning moving all year long:
- Discern the spiritual needs of your community’s journey based on your context so you can plan worship series that address these in the year to come.
- Get a “gut check” around theological directions related to your context as Dr. Marcia offers the rich theology of the liturgical seasons.
- Take the opportunity to see the whole year from 30,000 feet in a storyboard process that can give you ways to integrate all aspects of your mission, education, small group life, and spiritual direction that are aligned with the messages of Sunday mornings.
- WDS Subscribers who have access to our 40+ fully-scripted worship series (plus 30+ DIY series) will be able to get more familiar with their choices, download materials, and give worship staff and volunteers a head start with a plan for the year.
YOU ARE NEVER ALONE.
YOU NEVER HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH.
Tried-and-true processes
Dr. Marcia has been teaching the creative process of designing worship for over 30 years. These videos will equip you with a step-by-step process to keep the worship planning moving all year long:
- Discern the spiritual needs of your community’s journey based on your context so you can plan worship series that address these in the year to come.
- Get a “gut check” around theological directions related to your context as Dr. Marcia offers the rich theology of the liturgical seasons.
- Take the opportunity to see the whole year from 30,000 feet in a storyboard process that can give you ways to integrate all aspects of your mission, education, small group life, and spiritual direction that are aligned with the messages of Sunday mornings.
- WDS Subscribers who have access to our 40+ fully-scripted worship series (plus 30+ DIY series) will be able to get more familiar with their choices, download materials, and give worship staff and volunteers a head start with a plan for the year.
Testimonials
Here’s what other pastors and worship leaders have said about WDS worship planning events and workshops:
The team is excited!
“Awesome! We’ve already got a year’s worth of new development that everyone’s excited about.”
— D.N., past planning event participant
Engaging presentation
“Marcia’s presentation was outstanding. I can’t wait to work with my worship team to implement some of the ideas.”
— P.C., past planning event participant
Long-term plans
“We have series planned out through August of next year and each of us are thrilled to have that level of preparation done.“
— R.P., past planning event participant
Registration for a single church to access the recordings is just $50. That price covers anyone from your church who wants to watch the videos and access the planning materials.
WDS Subscribers are invited to access these materials for FREE as part of the benefits of their subscription! But wait…if you aren’t a Subscriber (yet), you can sign up for a membership at a $100 discount off the regular price. Use the promo code Story100 to get $100 off the price of your subscription at checkout! That discount covers double the amount you would spend on the planning materials, so it is the best deal for your dollar. Click the button below to purchase a WDS membership and use the Story100 code to get your discount.