Good Morning.

First, I once again apologize to those of you who have been having diffficulty with the links in these emails over the past two weeks. I thought we had it fixed last week, but alas, that was not the case. Some people still couldn't make the links work. Some of the problems were the result of AOL users not understanding that AOL "disables" the links for your "protection." But that wasn't all of it. Blame the rest on me. I was using a "more direct" method of constructing the links, and it turns out that it wasn't such a good idea. This week I'm going back to the "old" system, and I presume that will solve the problems. So, once again...If you missed the July 6 Monday Morning Email, Bob Burroughs had a lot of great content, including Mary McDonald's guest contribution "Tales from the Pit! (Organ Pit, That Is!)" and the description of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church's annual choir reunion. To read the July 6 MME ...just click here.

Last week Hugh Ballou featured guest contributions from Brandon Allen, David Stanley, and Franklin Gillis. To read last week's MME...just click here.

On the print side...

Here at Creator we're finishing up our annual Choir Members Issue. This is an issue specifically designed to be for choir members. The idea is that choir directors, ministers of music, worship leaders (or fill in your current title here) can order multiple copies for your choir to use at a choir retreat, or for motivational and educational use. Or just to say to your choir members: "You're important." This year's issue is titled The Choir in Modern Worship and features a title article, as well as 40 Things Every Choir Member Should Know and Growing Your Choir's Relevance. We also turn the Creator spotlight upon well-known composer Pepper Choplin. I know that the economy has become a factor in most churches, and so I've made the decision to offer our lowest price ever per copy. Ordinarily we would ask that you order at least 100 copies to get this price, but if you'll send me an email (click here), we'll ship you as many copies as you'd like for just $2.50 per copy. That's a savings of $3.50 per copy over our cover price. We'll even make it easy by sending you an invoice. Order your CMI copies now, though, so that you can get them when they come off the presses. Again, click here to order copies for your choir.

Now on to our regularly scheduled programming...

● (Almost) Free Gift! MME writer Hugh Ballou has just released his new training, and we've made arrangements so that you, as a CLN member, can get it almost free. Hugh's 3 week course is designed to turn any committee--even your church commitee--into a high performance team in just 3 weeks! I can't imagine any church that wouldn't benefit from this training, and you can get it almost free by just entering the code "Creator" (without the quotes).  Just go here and enter the code "Creator".

● Please take our survey before it goes away! Thanks to those who have taken it. If you haven't, please go to our home page and take the survey on how you get your music/worship ministry training.

● New articles on the site! Among our recently added articles is Ministry and Women: Ambassadors of the Spirit by Debbie Wohlgemuth. Go here to see all the new articles.

Remember...
● Article compilation CDs - We no have 3 collections of back articles in pdf format on CD Rom. The Choir and Leadership collections ($19.95 each) contain over 40 articles, while the Worship collection ($24.95) contains 60 articles--that is less than 50 cents per article, post paid in the US.

Here's some of what is included on each CD...

● Choir: 101 Great Choir Ideas/The Incarnational Work of the Adult Choir/Choir Committment: The "Real" Cost/Letter to the Singer in the 4th Row/Understanding Your Head Voice
● Leadership: Creating and Sustaining Healthy Teams on a Church Staff/Identifying Tensions over Musical Style/Ministry and Women: Ambassadors of the Spirit/Pastors and Church Musicians/The Church Musician as Transformational Leader
● Worship: A Theology of Worship/Don't Plan a Service...Create a Moment/Eight Common Elements of Worship Renewal/The Worship Driven Church/Worship Planning: What is the Foundation?  

You can order them by clicking here and looking in the left hand column for "Featured Products."

● NEW! Worship Blog List! Now you don't have to search for places to read about worship, because we've compiled.an extensive listing of worship blogs for our Creator Leadership Network members. These blogs are from people involved in thinking about and doing worship in a wide variety of environments: geographic as well as stylistically. It's easy: one click and read to your heart's content. Just click here and look in the left hand column.

● Please Help Us Grow to 3000! We want to the 3,000 Creator Leadership Network members, and we think you probably know people who would appreciate having this resource. Will you please tell your friends and colleagues, both at your church and across the country about CLN and MME? We're less than 30 new members away from our first 10 free Creator magazine subscription giveaway. Please just copy and paste the email below and send it to as many of your friends and colleagues as you can. Thanks in advance.

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I'm a member of the Creator Leadership Network, and I think you should be too. You'll get great benefits, like Monday Morning Email. You can join CLN by going to http://www.creatormagazine.com and registering.

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● Last week's blog posts at dotdotdotblog.com included: To sleep...perchance to dream... (in which we discuss four steps to success: learn...envision...deliver...engage)