There are all kinds of Worship Leaders, right? Extroverts, introverts, men, women, piano players, guitar players… Those who are pro-music stand and those who are anti-music stand. I have been a part of both kinds of teams and there are pros and cons to each side. You hear things like: “Stands are so distracting! How can the …
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 …
Sharing the Load // Worship Team Dynamics
Ricky brings his second installment of the “Share the Load” series.
The In-Between // Transitions in Worship
As a worship leader, leading within a song is a given… But what about the in-between? Transitions are a great way to help create a seamless time of worship and reduce potential awkwardness between songs. The truth is that we practice and plan so much when it comes to our songs that we sometimes neglect …
Bringing Worship and Media Together
John sheds light on understanding and leveraging your church’s culture.
I’m Playing at Someone Else’s Church!
Daniel brings us valuable insight about sitting in at other churches.
I Thought That Was My Role?!
A few years ago, I was on staff at a church in a small, college town in Virginia. Our membership was made up of both college students and townies, but our worship team was strictly college students. There was nothing intentional behind building a worship team that only had college students involved; but that’s just how it happened. Maybe …
I’ve Killed My Worship Rehearsal, Now What?
Over the past couple weeks we’ve looked at the things we’re doing to sabotage our rehearsal times. You can read the posts here and here. You may feel like your worship practice time is stagnant and are struggling to bring change. I want to challenge you to look over some of these steps and prayerfully …
Spontaneous Worship
Not too long ago my Pastor spoke to me after a service and said, “I felt you had a song in your heart. The next time the Lord gives you a song during worship, don’t keep it to yourself”. Of course, I immediately freaked out at the idea. Did he really want me to make …
More Ways to Kill Your Worship Rehearsal
I started this discussion last week with my post called “How to Kill Your Worship Rehearsal.” Be sure to check it out to see where we started. The truth is, as I have been working on these posts, there are a lot of ways we are killing our rehearsals without even knowing it. I hope …
Worship Team Building // The Audition
This is the second of a 3 part series that will take you through all 3 phases of the audition process: The Ask, The Audition, The Acclimation. Be sure to check out the first part here Part 2: The Audition So we’ve advertised, made announcements from stage and had our bands put the ask out …
Worship Team Building // The Ask
This is the first of a 3 part series that will take you through all 3 phases of the audition process: The Ask, The Audition, The Acclimation Part 1: The Ask “No, sorry. We don’t need any more singers or vocalists. As a matter of fact, we have too many amazingly talented volunteers in our …
Worship Team Building // Flattery vs. Praise
A few years ago, I read Tom Rath’s book ‘How Full is Your Bucket’ and it changed the way I showed appreciation to my team. The basic premise of the book is to fill your team, family and friend’s ‘Bucket’ (or need for acknowledgment for their works & what they mean to you) on a …