Starting New

New to this site. New to Google+. New to a lot of things. But what I will be talking about here is being "new" to a parish. Starting a ministry from scratch, with a fresh beginning.  My name is Alex Navas and I am a music director in Tucson, AZ currently working at St. Christopher's Parish. Recently my life was rocked by a job change that I thought was otherwise stable and I ended up in a brand new parish. A parish that hasn't had music in their liturgies, community, life teen or any of their events for a good time. This parish community seems to truly understand the benefit of music and what it adds to the Mass and Parish life.

This transition has put me in a unique situation, however, that I haven't experienced before. It has given me the chance to build the music program from the floor up. I am not inheriting a ministry, choirs, repertoire and traditions from a previous leader. I am set with the challenge of building these up. Instead of buying a furnished home I get to pick out the drapes and decide which furniture best suits this families needs.

In this blog I will try to explain the joys and struggles of what that entails in real time. I began this position on the 1st of 2012 and will continue to update this as new things occur.

Hope this helps other music ministers and leaders and if you have any specific questions let me know and I will try to address them here.

God Bless,
Alex Navas