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I get to be a chazan (once)
Our cantor and our rabbi have discussed it, and they are both cool with me filling in for the former during that one service this summer. Woo hoo! So now the cantor and I will have a conversation about logistics.
I'm hoping that this will lead to qualified members of the congregation getting tapped to be substitutes all the time when a sub is needed. (Currently we hire subs.) I can think of a couple other people who are qualified and who, I suspect, are interested. I hope that once we've done it once they'll see that it's no harder than hiring a sub, as well as being cheaper.
(This may end up forcing a discussion of evaluating people. In other words, what do we do with the person who isn't qualified but who volunteers? Is it the cantor's call? Does she want that responsibility? But that's all in the future -- for now we're not calling for any volunteers; the chair of the worship committee, who is broadly considered to have a good voice and Hebrew competence, and who will be just back from the first session of the Sh'liach K'hilah program at the time, is doing it once. That should be enough qualifiers to keep other folks from getting grumpy.)
I'm hoping that this will lead to qualified members of the congregation getting tapped to be substitutes all the time when a sub is needed. (Currently we hire subs.) I can think of a couple other people who are qualified and who, I suspect, are interested. I hope that once we've done it once they'll see that it's no harder than hiring a sub, as well as being cheaper.
(This may end up forcing a discussion of evaluating people. In other words, what do we do with the person who isn't qualified but who volunteers? Is it the cantor's call? Does she want that responsibility? But that's all in the future -- for now we're not calling for any volunteers; the chair of the worship committee, who is broadly considered to have a good voice and Hebrew competence, and who will be just back from the first session of the Sh'liach K'hilah program at the time, is doing it once. That should be enough qualifiers to keep other folks from getting grumpy.)