Band, Leaders, Ministry Leadership, Players
Three Ways You’re Not Being Led (Show #30)
#BeTheTeam (Video Below)
You may be on the worship team, but you still lead worship when you’re off stage. The impact you make on others is a result of who made an impact on you. How is God using you to empower others, in which they are making an impact in the church and in the world? You didn’t get there by yourself. Think about those who led you into worship ministry. It was usually by someone who was there in your place. Life is a field of learning, ministry is no different.
When you do run into issues like making effective rehearsals, raising the bar of your team’s skill and dealing with personalities and staff challenges: Where do you go? Who can help you with the tough questions? Your responsibility as a team member is to share-out what God teaches you. The impact of your encouragement goes way beyond the stage and into the heart of your team members and church.
Practice
It seems in this day in age of “busy.” It is the new normal. Typically, all we have time for is a 3 second Youtube clip, a few quick webpages at 1-2 seconds and an iTunes preview of the music. This sums up our practice and development time for worship ministry. If that. Convenience has replaced quality.In other words, the things we really want to learn and dive deep into, we just don’t have time for. The problem? God has made us far too capable to learn and far too blessed to embrace our potential. When I began leading worship nearly twenty years ago as I started back in high school.
I’ve done music all my life, but when it came to church music, it was unfamiliar territory. I was challenged every week with how to make each week sound fresh, get musicians to show up on time and how to deal with the many differing personalities.
Having a person in my life to lean on became essential for my formative years. “Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me–put it into practice.” – Phil 4.9 Never underestimate the power of practice.
Development
We have a Three-Folded cord that enables worship leaders and teams to reach their summit.
Mentoring: involves primarily listening with empathy, sharing experience (usually mutually), a professional friendship of trust, developing insight through reflection. The mentor usually finds the mentee and helps guide them, not by giving them the right answers, but asking the right questions.
They helped you through the tough decisions, yet provided the encouraging feedback you needed. So where are you today and who is still pouring into you? It’s one thing to Google, troll through chats and blogs to gain ideas, but it’s another world and 60,000 ft deep impact when someone more experienced than you can come along-side to shepherd you on the path Prov. 13.20 “Walk with the wise and become wise,”.
Workshops & Hands-On Training: the purpose is to involve a group or an individual to take an active role of doing something. This is facilitated by an advisor to help another person implement a learned skill, rather than just watching someone else do it. The process is to move people from where they are, to where they want to be. This is accomplished through developing a discipline and aptitude for their craft in order to improve their skill.
WTT University: is an instructional program that brings participants up to date in a particular area of knowledge or skills. Having access to take music-worship courses where you want, when you want and on what device you desire only diversifies and expands your learning capability.
Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank. – Prov 22.29
If you want to be skilled you have to work for it.
Guidance
Ministry is for the long haul, not the short sprint. Proverbs 23.12 says: “Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.” Learning from books and other forms of reading material is great. However, there is nothing like having an experienced Obi-wan, to take you by the side and manually show you how to better work your instrument and/or voice. I am grateful for all my teachers to take their time, experience and care to invest into my development. Our Worship Team Training Programs custom-craft hands-on training to uniquely look like you and your team. We take you from start to finish with the leading of your team, to help you go to the next level.
A three-folded cord is not quickly broken (Eccl. 4.12). Simply, we provide solutions to help you uncover all the things they never taught you about leading worship or leading a worship ministry. We are team focused and ministry driven, here to take you to the next level.
“The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs…” – Isa. 58.11
Because you don’t know the end, doesn’t mean you’re not walking the path.
Our Mission: “to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.” – Eph. 4.12
Our Vision: to help inspire, create and transform the leading of worship. Navigating ministry takes vision. Learning new things by someone else can give you a better edge on your professional growth and ministry focus. We are committed to not only walk this journey with you, but to prepare you for the horizon ahead.
The Mentoring Program: headed by Branon Dempsey offers you personal training that is custom-tailored to fit your ministry needs. Explore what God can do through you, as we can help equip you for the upward calling in your leadership development through our Ministry Mentoring Program.
Weekend Workshops: Branon Dempsey is our Head Training Instructor, along with his fine training team of professionals. How would your entire worship ministry benefit from live customized training at your church?
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