BETTER BY SUNDAY
[ WITH PLANNING CENTER ONLINE - PART 4 | Doug Doppler with Dave Krysl ]
I first heard about Planning Center Online (PCO) [WM] What is the shortest period of time sight of why it is that you’re doing this. So we
from a friend serving on the Hillsong team at the between a notification and when someone is try to maintain a healthy perspective, which
Hills campus in Sydney. Every team I’ve served rostered? helps with having flexibility for last minute roster
on or lead in the past decade has used this
changes or set list changes.
fabulous application to manage rostering as [Dave] It could be as short as twelve hours. well as the distribution of lyric sheets, charts, That’s happened to me, where you get an We’ve also gotten used to the idea of
and audio files. email on Saturday night saying that I was doing whatever it takes. Each service is an
switched to play electric guitar for the Sunday opportunity. Instead of thinking, “I have to do
When I interviewed Dave Krysl, the Guitar morning service, and the call time was only 10 this,” we try to take the attitude of, “I get to do
Oversight for the Hillsong New York City hours away. Obviously, we try to be respectful this.” I have friends who don’t have a church to
campus I was pleased to hear that even with of people’s time so that they can prepare. serve in like I do here, and they would love to
some pretty sophisticated internal applications, But sometimes it’s just the reality of how life have an opportunity to be a part of something
Hillsong is still using PCO. So, it is with great goes, like living in New York City and dealing like what we’re doing here.
pleasure I get show how Hillsong New York City with everyone’s different schedules. As much uses my beloved PCO. planning as goes into our services, we try
[WM] What kinds of files do usually you share?
to also have an equal amount of necessary
[WM] Hillsong was the first place I heard about
flexibility.
[Dave] It’s usually just the demos or the
PCO. I love this resource, and in the last issue I album recordings. There is a master song list
mentioned that for me it is as much a pastoral that we have that gets updated from time to
care vehicle as it is an admin app. People are
busy, and PCO makes it easy to let everyone
know when they’re supposed to serve that is
user friendly for everyone. It also makes it easy
to distribute charts and audio files. I’m super
excited that you’re still using PCO after all these
[ Each service is time. When the songs are added to a set list we
an opportunity. musicians can practice along with the MP3’s
Instead of
years – can you tell us how you’re using it? [Dave Krysl] We do still use PCO every week to do this,” we
it to roster our services and also to upload
media, like demos that Chris Davenport has
made of songs that he’s written.
in the set list. Also, for the songs that haven’t
officially been recorded yet, but the musicians
thinking, “I have
for our musician and production team. We use
have the associated MP3 files with them so the
need access to be able to hear and learn them,
PCO is the most efficient platform for that.
With our Hillsong campuses, we try to keep
try to take the things as uniform as possible between all of
attitude of, “I get church, a global movement, and a global team.
to do this.” ]
our campuses. We see ourselves as a global
I think Bobbie Houston says all the time that,
“God’s house is just one big house, and there’s
[WM] How far out do you schedule your many different rooms.” Hillsong NYC is just one
teams? room out of many, just like Hillsong Sydney is
too. So, we try to keep things pretty uniform, as
[Dave] We usually do it at the beginning of Sometimes it’s easy for things to become far as what resources we’re using, the training
every month for the coming month, and send routine, like follow-ups, or if you have played tools and software platforms.
out notifications the Monday before the first for too many services in a row and you’re tired Sunday of the month. from a long Sunday. It can become easy to lose 32 August 2017
[WM] Awesome, thanks again Dave!
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