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UN-Together-Ness: How to Cope When Your Worship Band ISN’T Your Small Group
June 29, 2009
In a previous “Together-ness” article I shared how great an experience it can be when your worship band is in essence your small group. In my opinion, the worship band can be one of the most closely knit group of friends within a church group because of their shared purpose, interests, and talents.
Saddleback Worship Conference - LIVE
June 22, 2009
TheWorshipCommunity.Com Presents:
Live Blog/Twitter Feed from the Saddleback Worship Conference
Saddleback Church, CA, June 24-26, 2009
Event is now closed. Checkout the conversations below: Read more
Worship Team Self Evaluation
June 17, 2009
An important part of improving individually and as a band is evaluating where you are, where you want to be, and how to bridge the gap. As a worship leader, not only are you leading worship for the body as a whole, but you are leading a band that requires attention, maintenance, and effort to make sure it’s playing well, relating well, operating well, and spiritually healthy. I thought I’d expose what this process looks like for me leading Our Rising Sound.
Together-ness: The Worship Band is my Small Group
June 8, 2009
For all of my adult life I’ve been a paid staffer in music ministry in small to medium sized growing churches. I love it.
One thing I continue to learn (you’d think I get it, right?) is that it’s impossible to have deep, meaningful friendships with every single person in the church. It just can’t happen. Whenever I’ve tried to go deep with more than about 8 other people, I’ve failed miserably. That doesn’t mean I don’t speak to anyone else or even hang out with anyone else. But it does mean that I am intentional about where I direct my friendship.
Ask Rick: Our Praise Team is “Fully Stocked”
May 25, 2009
Question from:
Kelly Gabriele serving in Little River, SC, published 3/19/2008
QUESTION: Our Praise Team Is Fully Stocked?
Our Praise Team is fully stocked at this time. What do I do about other musicians and singers who might be interested? While I want to reach out Read more
Confessions Of A One Time Worship Leader
May 18, 2009
I’m really not musical.
Not unless you count the four years I spent in Elementary school playing the flute. And even then I wasn’t very good. My exceptionally smart best friend was always one note better than me. And the irony was that right around the time I quit in 6th grade (It’s so not cool to be in Jr. High Band), my limited-income parents had finished paying off my instrument to the music store.
What You Should Look For In A Worship Leader
May 4, 2009
The quandary that churches without a worship leader often find themselves in is that they don’t always know what to look for. They might know what leadership qualities to look for given that the search committee will likely consist of leaders, but typically this group of leaders doesn’t have a musician or singer who is knowledgeable about music on their team. As a result, they won’t know what to look for in those areas.
Using Music To Serve Others
April 20, 2009
Growing up as a youth/worship pastor’s kid, I’ve been around “worship music” for most of my life. In fact, I think I’ve been in church just about my whole life.
Zero Tolerance
April 8, 2009
We have a policy at Crossroads that says the following; you may not be alone with a person of the opposite sex in a car, closed office or anywhere other people cannot see you at the church or while working for the church.
We installed windows in each of our Directors and Pastors doors, with the rest of the staff being in an open cubicle setting.
Extreme? I don’t think so.
A Key to Longevity: Reproduce Yourself
April 6, 2009
There is a necessary but painful truth that we in worship leadership must all face and eventually embrace. We must realize that we are not indispensable. To last in ministry and to further the work of the Kingdom of God we must reproduce ourselves.
