We hope you plan on joining us for “Shop, Sip and Sing” tonight! “Shop, Sip and Sing” is a one-night-only event for those who attended the Virtual Convention, and even for those who didn’t.
Tonight from 5:30-9 pm Eastern Time, our exhibitors are offering live sessions on various topics, from product demonstrations to guest speakers on all topics music and ministry. They are offering these live sessions via Zoom, every 30 minutes from 5:30-9 pm tonight, and all of these events are on the Virtual Convention platform. That means if you were a full or limited convention registration, you will get access to the platform tonight for these events! So grab your drink of choice and “Shop & Sip” with us tonight.
Didn’t attend the NPM Virtual Convention? Head over here to our YouTube channel, which is youtube.com/npmlivestream, to sing with us tonight! From 9-10:30 pm Eastern Time we are all singing along to our first-ever SUPER SHOWCASE of music. We’ve asked some of our partners and publishers to bring the best-of-the-best, their favorite music, for you to sing along. We’ve compiled these songs into one SUPER SHOWCASE, and you can sing along at home! Now, please note that this event is open to the public, and will be available on our YouTube channel, youtube.com/NPMlivestream.
So grab a drink tonight and Shop, Sip and Sing with us!
And lastly, I want to remind you of the new program we’re working on here at Ministry Monday.
We’re starting a new series on the podcast to feature you- yes you! NPM Spotlight is a new series for Ministry Monday that allows you to nominate yourself or others to be featured on the podcast. Are you or somebody you know ministering in a unique way? Maybe it’s a limitation due to budgetary constraints, or creative ways to engage a parish in light of the current pandemic. Or maybe you recently merged parishes and your ensemble director is engaging music ministers from both parishes in a very unique way. Or maybe you’ve heard of a local church that is live streaming their liturgies in a way that’s just inspiring!
Whatever it is, we want to hear from you. NPM Spotlight will feature pastoral musicians across our country- and our world. Email us to nominate a fellow pastoral musician to be interviewed. Our email address is ministrymonday@npm.org.
Today on the podcast we discuss The Nuts and Bolts of Ministry. All of us are encountering our ministerial responsibilities through a different lens at this time. Many of us are working from home, and have limited access to the liturgy planning committees- and physical resources- that we normally have. What’s more, our parishioners are experiencing our parish differently at this time as well. With our numbers drastically reduced in many places due to COVID-19, our parishioners are not experiencing ministry from the pews. And the ministers that are usually our anchors for ministry are unable to attend.
What do we do? How do we plan? Are there opportunities for growth at this time?
Today I speak with Patrick Nisbet and Patti Such, two people whom have great experience in the planning and digital sides of ministry.
First we start with Patrick: Patrick is the founder and CEO of LiturgyHelp. Patrick has 30 years of experience with liturgical planning in the digital sphere, developing a liturgical planning resource that 50% of Catholic churches in Australia currently depend upon. It is his liturgical and digital contexts that we draw upon today, with hopes that you find new ways to plan and engage in ministry.
Next on the episode is Patti Such. Patti is the onboarding specialist at Rotunda software. Many of you might know Patti, as she has been on the podcast before and attends NPM’s National Conventions on behalf of Ministry Scheduler Pro. But today Patti shares her experiences thus far in light of COVID-19, both as a member of Rotunda Software helping us all with ministry scheduler pro, as well as being a parishioner in the Archdiocese of Louisville, and a music minister in her own parish.
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Bio- Patrick Nisbet
A resident of Hobart in the island state of Tasmania, Australia, Patrick Nisbet is the founder and CEO of Creative Ministry Resources which publishes LiturgyHelp – an online liturgical resource for Catholic parishes and schools. Patrick’s ministry background is in the area of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, having been the Diocesan Youth Coordinator in the dioceses of Cairns, Melbourne and Hobart. On coming to Hobart to marry his wife Angela, Patrick worked in Catholic High Schools in teaching and faith formation roles.
A computer geek from his earliest days, Patrick saw the way in which technology could be a helping hand to all those involved in Church ministry. Starting in 1997, Patrick sort permission to digitally publish the Church’s liturgical texts. This evolved into LiturgyHelp which came online in 2000.
Since that time, apart from raising a family, Patrick and his team have overseen the development of an increasingly comprehensive and technologically advanced liturgical resources which has become an indispensable day-to-day tool for parishes and schools in Australia and the USA.
Patrick has a Bachelor of Theology from Melbourne College of Divinity and loves camping and bush walking in Tasmania's beautiful wilderness.
Bio- Patti Such
Patti Such - Onboarding Specialist for Rotunda Software makers of MSP, VSP and Unison.io.
Patti schedules the volunteers for her church in the Archdiocese of Louisville, serves as a Cantor, Choir member, Worship Committee member, and treasurer of the NPM-Louisville chapter. After learning about MSP's ability to make scheduling more efficient for the scheduler and her volunteers, she was excited to share that information with other schedulers and was hired at Rotunda in 2016.