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Introduction to the Worship Profile Kit

Often, the church and staff have a ‘sense’ that their worship services are not up to expectations, but can’t put their finger on what needs to be changed. That’s where the Worship Profile Kit comes in. It actually guides church leaders through...

Table of Contents for each section - PDF file

Table of Contents for each section - Word file

This file contains the contents page from each section of the Worship Profile Kit. Each section contains materials for a different member of the evaluation team.

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First page of the Profile Planner

This planner is printed in section 1 for the facilitator to use in planning and carrying out the whole evaluation process. It's also provided as an Excel spreadsheet file on the CD. The facilitator can type in a beginning date and the computer recommends target dates and keeps up with progress.

Sample Worship profile worksheet

This sample worksheet may help you understand the profile concept. The heart on the sample signifies prayer at the heart of worship. In other words, this prayer is preceded and followed by worship.

© Sample spreadsheet

This is a picture of the sample spreadsheet included with the Profile Kit. This is the profile that produced the report to the right. Notice how each segment of the service is categorized. The actual spreadsheet automatically takes data from this sheet and produces the report on a separate sheet ready to be printed.

Sample profile report

This is a sample of the report created by the spreadsheet that comes with the Profile Kit.

It's an actual report from a very large protestant church with great pastor and music program. However, notice how their service is chopped up by six needless 'dead times' ranging from five to nineteen seconds.

Blank Worship profile worksheet

This is a worksheet for doing a profile of your worship service. It usually takes several pages to do one profile so make copies. This is not copyright material.

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Still not sure what a worship profile is? Here are instructions for doing a simple worship service profile.

Ask someone to video the entire service from five minutes before it begins to five minutes after it's over.

Ask them to video the entire pulpit area for the entire service.
No editing or zooming.
Ask them to set the video camera to show the time on the screen when the video is played back.

Watch the video and make a note of every transition in the worship service. (there's a free sample of the worksheet above) Have them write down the exact time (hour:minute:second) it begins and ends. Impress on them that you want as much detail as possible. (We'll do all this for you with the Worship Profile Kit - Plus ) I've profiled as many as seventy transitions in one service. Forty is more common, but be sure they understand that you want much more than the elements listed in the bulletin. Here's an example:

11:23:06 pastor ends morning prayer

11:23:15 assistant pastor begins welcoming the guests

11:24:13 everyone stands and begins shaking hands

11:25:01 worship leader announces hymn #548

11:25:11 organ introduction of hymn begins

11:25:23 singing begins

Get the idea. It's not easy, but if you don't get this kind of detail, you won't be able to identify some of the little things that can make a big difference in how your congregation experiences worship.

Using the categories listed in the sample church profile report above, calculate exactly how much time is given to each. (The spreadsheet included with the Kit will do this and we'll do all this for you with the Worship Profile Kit - Plus. It's really a bargain when you realize how much is involved.)

Then, using that information as a beginning point for discussion, determine whether you're giving the appropriate amounts of time to the things that are truly important to your church. The Kit directs you through a number of discussion topics beginning with:

Do your services habitually start late?
Is 'dead time' taking the life out of your services?
...

Here's the kind of helpful guidance you'll get with the Worship Profile Kit - For the first question above about the bad habit of starting late; here's some of the helpful discussion suggestions:

What does it say about our church to visitors?
What causes us to start late?
What three things can we do to change it?
What do we recommend be done?
What persons will have to change their actions?
Who should communicate with them and how?

The kit is full of this kind of insightful help so if you're ready to be proactive about positive changes to your worship services - Click Here.

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A Biblical, factual, non-confrontational evaluation of your worship service that can really make a difference.

A Biblical, factual, non-confrontational evaluation of your worship service that can really make a difference.

Front cover Back Cover Introduction Table of Contents Profile Planner Sample Profile Report Sample Spreadsheet © copyright material Satisfaction Guarantee	Evaluate and improve your worship service with the Worship Profile Kit It will not only help you see your worship service in ways you never have before; it will guide you through a process of evaluation and discussion that will result in an improved worship experience for your congregation.	Special Summer Discount Price available now! Click Here to see some of the helpful materials inside the Worship Profile Kit.
More help from prayer guide Lowell Snow: Bring your Pastoral Prayer to life. Lead an exciting mid-week prayer service. Transform your church into a House of Prayer. Have a world changing prayer ministry team. Guide life changing prayer times with your Bible study group. Authentic Public Prayer ______________ Visit our Archive for even more articles, audio, and materials	This is a better way to bring about change in worship. Not only will it alert you to deficiencies in the way your service is conducted; it gives you concrete information to discuss with church leaders, moving the discussion from likes and dislikes to facts and priorities. There are three steps in the evaluation process: Conducting a profile of the worship service, Evaluating the profile in light of church priorities and goals, Making recommendations for change. The kit comes in a binder that has everything you need to bring about meaningful change in your worship services: a planner for scheduling the whole process, 100 pages with detailed instructions for every stage of the evaluation, all the needed work sheets including samples, a CD with files and Excel spreadsheet to do the calculations, meeting agendas for the evaluation process, and suggestions for communicating the recommendations. Click Here to look inside the Profile Kit	*Prayer Guide - A Manual for Leading Prayer* Free shipping when you order with the Profile Kit. The chapters on prayer in worship will be well worth the $9.95 investment. (unbound book fits right in the Profile Kit binder)
Articles by Lowell Snow Worship Wars... God-centered worship... Prayer Guides ... ______________ Considered hosting a prayer conference in your church: Journey Into the Presence of God or Prayer In the Real World	Think about the difference this will make. Author Lowell Snow Let's say some of your folks wish you sang more of the old hymns. You can do a survey to try to get an idea of how the whole congregation feels, but than can cause conflict and then what do you do with all those 'opinions'? Who wins? By starting with the profile, you'll find out exactly what ratio your having between hymns and choruses. You'll look at how that ratio fits with your demographic and that's a start. But the great thing is that it doesn't become the main thing because in the evaluation process you will deal with many other aspects of worship. You will find areas of improvement that everyone can agree on. At the conclusion you'll have a broad spectrum of suggestions that really are about improving worship rather than who gets there way in song selection. To me that's a very big difference. Genesis of the Profile Kit While writing the book, Prayer Guide - A Manual for Leading Prayer, I studied worship in several denominations. I divided worship into twenty-three categories and developed a way to determine how much time was given to each. As the database grew, I began to see trends and comparisons. For instance, sermons in Baptist churches are more than twice as long as those in mainline Protestant churches. Roman Catholic and Pentecostal congregations spend about the same percentage of their worship time in corporate prayer. More importantly, I saw that the profile revealed weaknesses in the worship services that usually go unnoticed like unnecessary dead time and interruptions. I realized that the profile process could be very helpful to any church that wanted an informed method to improve their services. With that in mind, I developed the Worship Profile Kit.	Profile Kit CD This CD comes with the Worship Profile Kit and contains files for all the materials in the kit. Spreadsheet Planner Letters Worksheets
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regular price $50 Free Shipping	The Worship Profile Kit will guide you step by step through the whole process from doing the profile, to using the included computer spreadsheets, and finally making recommendations to church leadership.	Worship Profile Kit
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Worship Profile Kit - Plus (recommended) Back to top	The Worship Profile Kit - Plus is the same kit, but we'll do the profile from your video and give you a head start on the evaluation process by offering our thoughts on possible improvements to your service. You'll prepare the video according to the instructions in the kit and mail it to us. We'll do the profile from the video and input the profile statistics into the spreadsheet. We'll print out the profile report to be used in your evaluation process. We'll offer our thoughts on any issues that stand out to us as we prepare your profile report. Then we'll mail you the spreadsheets, reports, and return your video. Why we highly recommend that you purchase the 'Plus' profile kit because: You get professional suggestions about your worship service from an outsider's point of view. You get to skip the tedious computer work. You've nothing to loose. If you feel that the profile isn't helpful; you'll get your money back. For all that you get; the 'Plus' kit is really the bargain.	regular price $150 Free Shipping (on all orders over $25) To pay by check - Click Here
	If you're not sure weather to get the basic kit or the 'Plus' kit; you can buy the the basic kit and upgrade later. There's an 'upgrade' form included.

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