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How to Create a Sustainable Youth Worship Team Year to Year

August 17, 2011 By 13 Comments

One of the greatest challenges I face working with the youth band at our church is having a consistent team from year to year.

I have been extremely fortunate to have had a group of youth, all in the same grade, who have formed the core of our current youth band. They started in Jr. High and have moved up through the years. This is their Jr. year in high school though, and that means jobs, less time, more responsibilities, and eventually graduation.

Youth are only with us for limited amount of time. This means each year I will lose a few members. If I can’t find ways to engage more, younger members it’s only a short amount of time before the band is gone. So I thought I would share just a few of my thoughts on how to build a sustainable team. [Read more...]

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Rocking Seniors (Or Encouraging Senior Worshipers to Reinvent Themselves)

June 27, 2011 By 4 Comments

Mr. Jimmy (playing bass above) was a senior musician who constantly reinvented himself. Now he's rocking with Jesus!

Republished with permission from Don Chapman of WorshipIdeas.com.

Over the past few weeks as I’ve been teaching worship conference classes, I’ve been intrigued by the change I’ve been seeing lately. There seems to be a greater desire among churches to become more relevant and contemporary. I think this is the next phase of worship – ministries are discovering it’s not enough to merely plug praise songs into their traditional service order – they need to build contemporary worship from the ground up.

I’m also seeing more contemporary worship acceptance by older people. [Read more...]

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