About Me
- Joe Garrison
- Fishers, IN, United States
Director of Contemporary Worship and Assistant Director of Student Ministries at Castleton United Methodist Church in Indianapols, IN. Husband,Guitarist,and Drummer
Showing posts with label Garrison Law Firm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garrison Law Firm. Show all posts
Friday, July 9, 2010
A New Beginning
Those of you that have been following my blog or Twitter posts know that I have long felt called to work at a church doing something in the areas of either Contemporary Worship or Youth Ministry. Both are areas of ministry I have had a passion for and been working toward since just after high school.I am happy to say that beginning on August 1, 2010 I will have a chance to do BOTH full time! Next month I begin working at Castleton United Methodist Church splitting my time between contemporary worship and youth ministry.
I will spend part of my time working with the worship teams and contemporary worship services, much like I have been for a while, just more of the same. I will spend the rest of my time working along side Castleton's new Director of Student Ministries.
While I'm not entirely sure what exactly my role will be within student ministries, I am excited to get started. The new Director of Student Min starts the same day I do and will likely decide what she wants my role to be.
While I have enjoyed my jobs for the most part the past couple of years working at The Elms Holiday Inn and Garrison Law Firm , neither were what I wanted to do or felt called to do. It will be a great change of pace to do something that I have worked hard to get and actually went to school for.
I'm sure there will be many posts to come covering my adventures in music and ministry.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Let the Craziness Continue
It has been a crazy spring season so far. It seems that life has hit light speed and shows no signs of stopping. As difficult and crazy as that makes it, I have to say I am loving it.
Some background...
In January of this year I took over the reigns for Castleton United Methodist's contemporary/blended service on Sunday mornings at 11:00am (in addition to my fulltime job at Garrison Law Firm). My charge was to turn it from a "blended" service into a full blown "contemporary" service in terms of music. At the beginning of March my wife (@courtgarr) and I closed on our first house. We began looking for a home in early January and found a great house in Fishers. Soon after that our church began a capital campaign to retire the debt associated with building our current sanctuary. On the same day that was started, Matt Lipan (@mattlipan) and I were given the green light to start a brand new Saturday Night Contemporary service on our Castleton campus. Immediately we went to work on advertising for musicians, interviewing worship leaders and developing the service. All the while participating in hours of meetings regarding the capital campaign and all of the tasks involved in making that a successful venture for our church.
On May 14th Court and I took possession (finally) of our house. Immediately began the work of packing to move along with preparing our new home for our arrival. We spent the following week painting, cleaning, replacing things, adding new things until the house was ready for us to move in this last weekend.
On top of all that we started a new discussion group on Tuesday night at George's Neighborhood Grill for the '20 somethings' group in our area.
With all the craziness that has gone along with all of the things I've been involved in and doing lately I have to say that I haven't had this much fun in a long time. It has been a blast searching for, buying, and moving into a new home with my wife. Starting this new service (even though it technically hasn't started) has been a great experience and a lot of fun as I've put together a completely new band with new faces and talents. Even the capital campaign, as boring as that may sound, has had it's moments.
I am completely looking forward to the following months and years as I continue to lead some great bands and services and get to finally live in our new home and experience life as a home owner.
Although at times I may complain...It has been a great few months and promises to only get better.
Some background...
In January of this year I took over the reigns for Castleton United Methodist's contemporary/blended service on Sunday mornings at 11:00am (in addition to my fulltime job at Garrison Law Firm). My charge was to turn it from a "blended" service into a full blown "contemporary" service in terms of music. At the beginning of March my wife (@courtgarr) and I closed on our first house. We began looking for a home in early January and found a great house in Fishers. Soon after that our church began a capital campaign to retire the debt associated with building our current sanctuary. On the same day that was started, Matt Lipan (@mattlipan) and I were given the green light to start a brand new Saturday Night Contemporary service on our Castleton campus. Immediately we went to work on advertising for musicians, interviewing worship leaders and developing the service. All the while participating in hours of meetings regarding the capital campaign and all of the tasks involved in making that a successful venture for our church.
On May 14th Court and I took possession (finally) of our house. Immediately began the work of packing to move along with preparing our new home for our arrival. We spent the following week painting, cleaning, replacing things, adding new things until the house was ready for us to move in this last weekend.
On top of all that we started a new discussion group on Tuesday night at George's Neighborhood Grill for the '20 somethings' group in our area.
With all the craziness that has gone along with all of the things I've been involved in and doing lately I have to say that I haven't had this much fun in a long time. It has been a blast searching for, buying, and moving into a new home with my wife. Starting this new service (even though it technically hasn't started) has been a great experience and a lot of fun as I've put together a completely new band with new faces and talents. Even the capital campaign, as boring as that may sound, has had it's moments.
I am completely looking forward to the following months and years as I continue to lead some great bands and services and get to finally live in our new home and experience life as a home owner.
Although at times I may complain...It has been a great few months and promises to only get better.
Monday, April 5, 2010
From Different Worlds - Social Media
It's amazing how fast technology moves these days. It's almost impossible to keep up with. I was just discussing with a friend the other day about how five or six years ago almost no one used text messages or even had the option on their phone. Now, it's almost the main form of communication for a lot of people. I got my first computer in high school about eight years ago and only used it for school work and listening to music. Now we use our computers for absolutely everything.
One thing that has caught my eye lately has been the Social Media trend. Even just a month ago I was sitting in my kitchen with a group of friends thinking that things like Twitter and Blogs were kind of nuts. I'm only 25 years old but sometimes I can act like I'm way older. In the last month or so I have embraced twitter and picked up blogging again.
A couple of weeks ago I convinced my family's business Garrison Law Firm (where I work) to embrace it as well and create a Facebook page for the business and to start a blog. When I first suggested it you would have thought I was from Mars or something. After a little explanation of how things like Facebook and a blog could really help advance the company's name my dad (the managing partner) agreed to it and I created the Garrison Law Firm facebook page. I am also in the process of creating a blog for the firm as well.
One thing that has caught my eye lately has been the Social Media trend. Even just a month ago I was sitting in my kitchen with a group of friends thinking that things like Twitter and Blogs were kind of nuts. I'm only 25 years old but sometimes I can act like I'm way older. In the last month or so I have embraced twitter and picked up blogging again.
A couple of weeks ago I convinced my family's business Garrison Law Firm (where I work) to embrace it as well and create a Facebook page for the business and to start a blog. When I first suggested it you would have thought I was from Mars or something. After a little explanation of how things like Facebook and a blog could really help advance the company's name my dad (the managing partner) agreed to it and I created the Garrison Law Firm facebook page. I am also in the process of creating a blog for the firm as well.
Social Media is obviously the future of promotion and advertising. In fact, it's probably not only the future but the present. So many companies focus on television ads and print ads. It seems to me that Social Media like facebook would be a no brainer. It is completely FREE to set up a fan page and it isn't very expensive at all to buy some ads on facebook.
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