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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 Read More...

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 " Read More...

"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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

Worship Guitar Workshop

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