God Bless You, Pastor. It's actually a brave thing to be able to tell someone that they're not up to snuff for the church choir and I think most in your position aren't willing to say it. My church is a great example. The person who leads the music herself is extremely talented, and quite trained (even if her style veers a bit too much "You Light Up My Life"), but she seems to have this attitude that if anyone wants to be in there, go for it. And, quite frankly, it's become incredibly distracting. Throwing in an acoustic guitar player who stumbles through every song like he's playing it for the first time, the over the hill opera singer whose voice has now morphed into Mrs. Miller, and so on and so forth. It's painful and, as someone whose ear is particularly sensitive to this stuff, it really detracts from the service. And that's not even counting that most of the songs themselves are absolutely horrible…
And if I had the $10,000 to invest, I would, but funny enough, I'm actually getting ready to piss away my money, err, "invest" heavily in upgrading my home studio. My MacBook is from 2008 and my iMac is from 2006, and they're still fine for very basic internet usage, but they're basically the Julio Franco of computing at this point. So I'm starting over again, and am waiting to bite on a new iMac whenever Apple announces them, and I want to upgrade my software to the latest version of Logic, upgrade my interface to the new Apogee Element, and want to get a high end microphone (looking at some Neumanns). I want to start fresh, get more professional, and I really want to get serious about all this, for once, and finish my album this year. I've been doing the home recording thing since the 1990s, but it was fairly primitive at the time in what you could do. The early-mid 2000s offered more, but my mixing skills were fairly bad, but, now, I think the timing is right. So hopefully it works out.
And if you liked the depth of GarageBand when you wrote that post, you should absolutely love it, now. Huge update to it this week, which I think will really help you out.