Items Tagged with "Recruiting Musicians"
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Six Lousy Methods to Get More Musicians, Part 2
Read part 1Photo: Kandyjaxx, FlickrThe third lousy way to get more musicians:3. Let Your Non-Musical Pastor do the Recruiting.Senior pastor to me, the worship leader: "Say, Jon, there's a new family that just started attending and I heard that the wife played piano and sang at their last church. Inc
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Six Lousy Methods to Get More Musicians, Part 1
Photo: Flickr, kanyjaxx//CCOne of the most often asked question I get as I talk with pastors, worship leaders and volunteers is "How do I grow my team?" What they usually mean is, "How do we find more musicians?" Here's six ways not to do it:1. Rely only on Sunday morning announcements.This is the "
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"Good Music--I Just Hate Looking at the Worship Team..."
I've been talking to my team, especially my vocalists, about stage presence. Team members from secular backgrounds (bar bands, musical theater, etc) bristle at the thought of infusing worship with the kind of "stage presence" they used in performance settings. My thoroughly 'churched' people just gi
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200 Words [or Less] About Being a Worship Musician: Key Elements >>Available
200 Words [or Less] About Being a Worship Musician:Key Elements >> AvailableRead previous Key Elements articles: Intro; Talent; Surrendered Part 1; Surrendered Part 2; Passionate; Teachable Part 1, Teachable Part 2)Available. As leaders in churches, we like to spiritually dress up a bas
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Recruiting on Craigslist
Recruiting on Craigslist:Using Craigslist to Find More MusiciansIf you’ve never heard of Craigslist, you either live near my parents in Iowa, or you’re living under a rock. It’s a place where anyone can post any ad to buy, sell, barter, trade, giveaway, meet, greet, scheme, scam, and so on. Go
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Develop Your Bench
Developing new techs and musicans takes time - especially when they’re complete novices. But the time is well invested. In one year, two years, three years, you’ll be happy you did. No. Downright ecstatic.Developing the bench isn’t just for leaders. Musicians and techs should be on
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The A-Word. Four Steps to Start...
A lot of churches avoid the A-word like a plague. And not the one we are allowed to sing in that one Christmas song and read about on Palm Sunday. I’m talking about auditions.Some churches avoid it semantically. Instead, they call it an interview, or an evaluation. Either way, the person being
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Unleash Your Sneezers
One of my drummers came to me after the service. “Did you know Lisa Jones* has really great voice? I was sitting in front of her during worship – she was harmonizing and everything.”No. I did not know that. Hmm…The best recruiters and promoters for your worship team are your
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When is it Time to Start Growing Quality Instead of Quantity? Part 1
I remember the conversation well. I was sitting in the car with Milo, a worship leader at a very large church in town. We'd had just gotten back from lunch. I'd been telling a sad story about the musician-void that was my worship team. Each week was a struggled to find musicians to cover the multi-c
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When is it Time to Start Growing Quality Instead of Quantity? Part 2
Yesterday we talked about shifting our focus from the numeric growth of our teams towards growing them in other areas: spiritual depth, relational health and musicianship. In other words, growing quality instead of quantity.Let's talk about two things when it comes to growing quality verses quantity
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Get More Musicians: Two Factors That Affect Growth
Every church has one of two problems.First problem: Finding enough musicians.Second problem:Choosing between too many musicians.You're probably wondering where you can sign up for the second problem.Since the majority of churches are dealing with the first problem, I'm beginning a series called "Get
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How to Use Training Events to Get More Musicians and Techs
Can I use a rather violent cliche? I'd like to talk about killing two birds with one stone. (Sorry to my international readers - this phrase might be completely American, but just hang with me.) An in-house training event (for techs or musicians) is the "one stone" that can kill "two birds." And whi
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If you’ve never heard of Craigslist, you either live near my parents in Iowa, or you’re livingunder a rock. It’s a place where anyone can post any ad to buy, sell, barter, trade, giveaway, meet, greet, scheme, scam, and so on. Good, bad and ugly all come with Craigslist. But if y
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