Likewise, the worship team will be learning songs for both the Christmas production and the regular services. Either we're not having our usual New Years' Eve service this year, or someone forgot about it. Suggestions Most of what I've said here just chronicles how we do it. It works for us. I hope you'll try and implement it into your own projects.
Studies suggest that every fifteen minutes spent planning saves one hour at the actual task.
Yes, I too have often hoped that if we could just plan enough the production would produce itself. It hasn't worked yet. I'd like to mention that we didn't always generate these calendars in the past. It's a learned response. In fact, we used our first production schedule calendar for last year's Christmas production.