As you know it's our desire at MinistryHub to greatly reduce the time that it takes pastors each week to find creative service ideas for their services. But we don't want to stop there, another huge benefit of MinistryHub.com is that we want to eliminate the need for pastors to have to "wax up the ol' surfboard" (as one pastor put it during our survey) and surf the net for hours trying to find the product they need. When you become a member of MinistryHub, have signed in, selected your topic and then participated in a Virtual Brainstorming Session (TM) you will then have access to "The Results" section of the site. It's here you'll see your ideas, your groups ideas, and the top 100 ranked ideas for your topic. We've then linked those ideas to whatever product is available for each idea. To do this, first we've taken some broad strokes and have partnered with companies such as iTunes, Musicnotes.com and Amazon.com to make mp3's, charts, cd's and DVD's available to you. This alone will make a tremendous amount of product easily available, but we don't want to stop there! To give you even more of the product, that you need on a weekly basis, we have created MinistryHub Publishing and have been signing the best of music arrangers, drama writers, and graphic artists. Over the next couple of weeks we'll be introducing to you some of the talented people who have joined us in our endeavor to change the way you program your weekly services.
We want to kick off the introductions with a fantastic arranger, musician and... well just a great guy, Wally Brath. Wally hails from LaPorte, Indiana, went to school at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, was a worship leader at a couple of churches in the Chicago area. (One of them was named after a creek, even though there isn't a creek there?) and now resides in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, with his wife Shana (a wonderful musician herself) their son Graydon and daughter Karissa, as the Pastor of Music and Worhship at All Nations Christian Fellowship . Look for his arrangements in "The Results" area of MinistryHub for the top suggested songs. You won't regret it.
The MinistryHub Team
