How do you keep the Technical Ministry Team healthy from a Spiritual perspective? Having prayer time before each worship team is one part of this. Pause together and pray for the service. This has a way of calming anxieties, bringing focus, and helping the team members get into the spirit of worship. There may be technical glitches that remain unsolvable after rehearsal, but you don’t need to let those sidetrack the team. If the pastor is available, they can lead the prayer – or close it after a season of praying.

My experience is that most technical people get focused on troubleshooting. They want to solve every last problem, no matter how small. In a commercial event, problems affecting quality have to be resolved. The show must go on, but it can’t if the sound system isn’t working. Or if the video projection equipment is failing. Or if the musical equipment is broken. Actually, a lot of commercial event companies will have backup systems available for just such problems. You swap out the broken equipment with something that you know will work. Then the show goes on as planned. But worship is a different type of event. What counts is having the Holy Spirit present. If that is the case, then you can worship with people even in the dark with no sound system. The technology is there to enhance the experience, not replace it. So worship can still happen. And most of the time, people will understand.

Outside of worship events, you can keep your technical ministry team healthy by fellowshipping together on a regular basis. Plan a Christmas party. Meet together for a meal. Do a service project together. All of these will help the team develop their relationships to each other. The more they get to know each other, the more they will care about each other. And you will find that they will also help one another during times of trouble. This is the nature of the Church.