Comments on: Working With Youth Worship Bands: Back to Basics http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2008/08/working-with-youth-worship-bands-back-to-basics/ My thoughts on life, worship, communcation, church, and more Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:13:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jason Huffman http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2008/08/working-with-youth-worship-bands-back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-860 Jason Huffman Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:34:40 +0000 http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/?p=177#comment-860 We took the summer off. It was a good break. Our worship team is me and two kids who play. So retreats, bonfires, and all that lose their mystique with the small number. We are currently working to build the worship team up, but we have a small youth group. Thanks for your input. We took the summer off. It was a good break. Our worship team is me and two kids who play. So retreats, bonfires, and all that lose their mystique with the small number. We are currently working to build the worship team up, but we have a small youth group. Thanks for your input.

]]> By: Diamond DeYampert http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2008/08/working-with-youth-worship-bands-back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Diamond DeYampert Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:53:22 +0000 http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/?p=177#comment-851 Jason, my suggestion to you would be to encourage a bit of a break during the summer for your team members (especially if you have a large number of kids participating) and then come back strong a couple weeks before school starts with a few weekend practices, devotion times, maybe a bonfire, or an extensive worship workshop. Don't come back with business as usual, but with a new vision for the spiritual and musical excellence of the team, new tangible goals (like maybe playing events outside of the youth group or hosting a worship outreach) or even committing to learn more difficult songs or committing songs to memory. Give them new reasons to commit to the worship team and expand the heart of the team by requiring them to reach new heights with their worship. If you can't tell, I'm pretty pumped up about all this. I'm coming off of a six week worship "break" with my worship team and I'm headed to meet with my youth pastor in an hour to talk and dream about what we'll expect out of the kids this next year. We plan to come back strong with many of the above ideas that I mentioned. After all, if you're doing it for God, then you gotta do it big :) Jason, my suggestion to you would be to encourage a bit of a break during the summer for your team members (especially if you have a large number of kids participating) and then come back strong a couple weeks before school starts with a few weekend practices, devotion times, maybe a bonfire, or an extensive worship workshop. Don’t come back with business as usual, but with a new vision for the spiritual and musical excellence of the team, new tangible goals (like maybe playing events outside of the youth group or hosting a worship outreach) or even committing to learn more difficult songs or committing songs to memory. Give them new reasons to commit to the worship team and expand the heart of the team by requiring them to reach new heights with their worship. If you can’t tell, I’m pretty pumped up about all this. I’m coming off of a six week worship “break” with my worship team and I’m headed to meet with my youth pastor in an hour to talk and dream about what we’ll expect out of the kids this next year. We plan to come back strong with many of the above ideas that I mentioned. After all, if you’re doing it for God, then you gotta do it big :)

]]> By: Jason Huffman http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/2008/08/working-with-youth-worship-bands-back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Jason Huffman Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:26:04 +0000 http://www.forkintheroadmusic.org/?p=177#comment-73 What do you do in the summer time with your youth worship bands? Does it just depend on how many of your kids are going to be gone a lot or do you take the summer off? We wound up taking the month of August off because after a busy summer, I needed some recovery time, and we had some kids that were not going to be here. I've heard some say we should take the whole summer off since kids are often gone on vacations and it's hard to get everyone there. My concern is that we lose too much of what we've learned and after 2-3 months off we will be rebuilding the band rather than picking up where we left off. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas? What do you do in your church? What do you do in the summer time with your youth worship bands? Does it just depend on how many of your kids are going to be gone a lot or do you take the summer off? We wound up taking the month of August off because after a busy summer, I needed some recovery time, and we had some kids that were not going to be here. I’ve heard some say we should take the whole summer off since kids are often gone on vacations and it’s hard to get everyone there.

My concern is that we lose too much of what we’ve learned and after 2-3 months off we will be rebuilding the band rather than picking up where we left off. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas? What do you do in your church?

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