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* Great for specific or group use * Includes provocative talk questions and sensible action steps * Features four-color art plates and literary insurance quotes It isn't easy being an Designer in the church. But whatever your passion---music, visible art, drama, dance, writing, complex arts---you will not only survive, but prosper. As well as the rewards far outweigh the pressures of every week services, artistic differences, and relational conflicts. After all, where else would you consistently contribute of eternal significance, experience deep community with other performers, and grow closer to God because of this? Thriving as an Designer in the Cathedral is a sensible guide, full of intelligence and pastoral advice, that will help you surmount the road blocks and flourish in your ministry. It's filled with examples, talk questions, personal action steps, and mega-doses of encouragement. Most significant, it tackles the real-life issues every musician in the church has to deal with: * Sustaining interest * Producing key relational skills * Dealing with rejection and failure * Cultivating self-assurance * Resolving creative differences * Plus much more! Written by an musician for performers, this book will help make your ministry experience ecological and life-giving so you can fall in love with the church yet again. Rory Noland is director of Heart of the Designer Ministries (www.heartoftheartist.org), an organization dedicated to turning clubs of church performers into areas of elegance. A composer, songwriter, creator, and presenter, Rory is a graduate of the Chicago Musical College or university at Roosevelt University or college and served for two decades as music director at Willow Creek Community Cathedral.
