When working with my youth worship team I often find myself emphasizing rehearsing the songs. After all, we generally have one event or another to prepare for so that means creating a songlist, and working up that music to perform or lead with.
I have realized, however, that there is a huge benefit to teaching, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Team’
The Importance of Teaching
December 9th, 2009
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Words of Encouragement
December 1st, 2009
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When I was in college I was part of a ministry leadership team for a student ministry group. Each week we had a memory verse that we had to memorize and recite at our weekly meeting. These scriptures, ingrained in my head, have been helpful in different situations to offer comfort and encouragement.
Here is one I recited [...]
Help Me Save a Life
November 15th, 2009
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For the past two years I have been supporting the “Nothing But Nets” campaign. The campaign raises money to provide mosquito nets that protect from Malaria with the goal of wiping out the disease on the continent of Africa.
Between now and Christmas I want to raise enough money to buy 1000 nets. At $10 each [...]
Appreciating Your Worship Team- Ask for Feedback
November 3rd, 2009
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I encourage you to find some way where you can receive honest feedback from those you work with on a weekly basis.
People Vs Perfection
October 29th, 2009
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Relating to worship teams and the services we lead what does the following mean to you:
People vs Perfection
Participation vs Performance
Working With Youth Bands: Point and Play
March 27th, 2009
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Here is a little exercise we use with our youth band to work on playing together, keeping rhythm, following a leader and learning to listen to other parts. We took a repetitive section of a song, in our case we used the first part of “Undiginified” and we made sure everyone knew it. Then I [...]
Appreciating Your Worship Team: Social Media
March 15th, 2009
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There are many ways to let your worship team know you appreciate them. Some of these include sharing a meal together, or even giving a CD as a gift. One more I way I thought of today is to use social media.
The beauty, and sometimes curse, of social media is that whatever you put up, [...]
Appreciating Your Band- Today is the Day
March 4th, 2009
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Today I passed out a rehearsal CD to our band. I spent some money and purchased everyone in the band a copy of Lincoln Brewster’s Cd “Today is the Day”. The songs are great, different from what we have traditionally done, and the style fits our group. Plus I have a sophomore kid playing guitar [...]
Appreciating Your Band-Take a Break and Break Some Bread
March 4th, 2009
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I became the worship leader at my church over 2 years ago. After a while I felt like we were getting into a rut and stale in our music and our rehearsals. What I began to realize is that all we did was practice and lead. I decided that what we needed was a chance [...]
