A Musical Director is a voice of leadership on the platform that helps to run the rehearsals, navigates the band through musical transitions, and fuels the worship leader with clear ideas that can create a moment where people can interact freely with God. A Musical Director adds unity and strength to the team on platform, …
Creating A Safe Worship Environment
“How can I, as a leader, create a safe worship environment?” This is a significant question that draws at the heart of what it means to be a worship leader. I remember what it felt like to me when I first encountered a safe worship zone! The atmosphere in the room felt electric. The sense …
Stop Trying to Impress
I know that playing music or singing can be an extremely vulnerable thing. I mean, essentially, you are putting yourself out there for others to make some kind of judgement. Will they like my playing? Does he like my voice? Do I sing better than she does? Do they like my leading better than his? Do they think I …
Worship = Power
Our churches are filled with broken people that have real hurts. Others keep coming through the doors in denial, thinking that everything is well and that they can just “phone in” their worship by showing up at church once a week, usually right before the teaching. How can we, as leaders, facilitate worship that breaks through great pain …
The Importance of Leading Students – An Interview with Nathan Del Turco
Over the weekend, I had an opportunity to reconnect with my friend and mentor, Nathan Del Turco. Nathan is the Pastor of Student Worship at Central Christian Church, which has a total of five campuses across the greater Phoenix metro in Arizona. His years of experience, knowledge and wisdom as a worship leader and Pastor …
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The Importance of Leading Students
Coming from a Christian home with a father who was a worship leader at a small church, it goes without saying that worship has always been a part of my life. I remember watching my dad lead the congregation musically, and watching him be fully engaged in the art of worship spiritually, emotionally, and physically. For …
Getting the Most Out of Volunteers – Part Two: Training and Equipping
In this second installment of Getting the Most Out of Volunteers, Fox takes us through the different tiers of effective volunteer training.
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Getting the Most Out of Volunteers – Part 1
Part 1: Understanding and Recruiting Lately, I have seen a lot of emails and posts from social media and other forums regarding volunteers, and effectively recruiting, training, managing, retaining, equipping and getting positive results from them. Over the next couple of weeks, we will tackle this subject, and with any luck, help your teams grow …
I Pushed a Guy off a Cliff!
When I was in middle school, my family took a week-long trip out west. I remember being so surprised when I actually saw the Grand Canyon with my own eyes. I’d seen it in pictures and movies, but it’s a completely different thing to see it in real life. There’s this little spot there where all the tourists …
Admitting You’re Wrong is Easy… It’s the Realizing That’s Hard
Be sure to also check out Chris on the podcast. Admitting you’re wrong is easy. Well, not easy if you’re a pride monkey like me. But… saying “I am/was wrong” is actually pretty easy to do, once you’ve realized you’re actually wrong. Now… realizing you’re wrong is WAY harder. Figuring out all the ways you …
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Sharing the Load
I serve as both an Executive Pastor (XP) and Music Pastor at my church in upstate New York. The XP side of me loves practicality, and thus out of that comes this blog series on practical ideas to implement in your bands. I believe the principles offered over these next couple blogs are as relevant …
Create Day
“Go home, do all these things, become a greater ministry, see you next year!” … is exactly what you hear at the end every single conference you go to. So that’s what I do. I’m on the plane going home, I pull out my notebook from the conference, full of ideas, new equipment to buy, …
The Accidental Worship Leader
Find yourself in a ministry position that’s a poor fit? Adam brings us some perspective. The Accidental Worship Leader.
Is Ministry More Important than Family?
I’ve learned a few things over the years I’ve been in ministry. I’ve learned how to interact with difficult people, how to plan for huge events, how to raise support for new endeavors, and how to neglect my family. Yeah, you weren’t expecting that last one. A great post from Jesse about the balance of family and ministry.
It’s Too Loud!
Our latest installment in The Worship Wars series. “It’s Too Loud” tackles the delicate balance of volume in our churches and gives some great insight into how we handle this within our congregations.