Reflections on Worship Renewal Grants Advisory Board ‘06
We’ve just concluded two days of consultations with our Worship Renewal Grants Advisory Board—a hand-picked group of top-notch liturgical leaders and scholars from a variety of backgrounds around the country. After reading each proposal and evaluating it according to the guidelines of the grant brochure, the board members met here at Calvin to go through each of the more than 180 proposals, assign them rankings based on those guidelines, and make a recommendation about whether or not the proposal is fundable.
Sitting in on much of these discussions, I was struck first of all by the commitment of these board members to not only read each proposal, but really try to understand the vision for worship renewal behind each proposal. I was also struck by their sharp insights into the strengths and weaknesses, limitations and potential, of the proposals.
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