Items Tagged with "Music Director"
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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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They Need Me, They Really Need Me...
They need me every hour, most gracious LordTo lose talent like mine, the team can't affordThey need me, O they need meEvery service they need meI'll bless them with my presenceUntil eternityI think this bastardized hymn sings in the brain of every worship leader - full-time, part-time, volunteer - i
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Author: Jon NicolTags: worship teams,
worship planning,
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #17 - 20
Segues #17 - 20: The Pre-Service, Part 1I look at the pre-service time as one big segue: it's a sequence of elements used to transition people into corporate worship. The issue with most churches in American culture is this: the majority of people don't actually come into the service until right at
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Author: Jon NicolTags: worship training,
worship teams,
worship planning,
worship musicians,
worship leading,
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video,
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #16
Vision and mission are two big buzz words that keep buzzing. They sometimes take on new forms or variation, like "missional" and "purpose." And they all get attached to a "statement." At worst, a church's vision/mission/purpose statement is ripped off from another church and then slapped on a banner
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Author: Jon NicolTags: worship training,
worship planning,
worship leading,
vision,
segues,
planning worship services,
music director,
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How To Dump Your Worship Pastor
Six Options for Quitting the Worship Teamthe new WorshipMinistry.com article...How to break up with your worship pastor/leader:1. Stop showing up. I'll eventually get the hint. And let all my phone calls go to voice-mail and emails go unanswered. The longer we delay the follow-up conversation, the
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Unless Chris Tomlin's Your Worship Leader...
...you probably need to lower the key on Chris Tomlin's songs.You may have one singer who can nail those notes. But most of your team can't. And your congregation REALLY can't.So you go to Song Select and print out a more congregationally-friendly key. Voila, done! Right?It's all good till your elec
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Try (Tri) Leadership, Part 2
Try (Tri) LeadershipDeveloping a Workable Model for Co-Leadership In Worship, Part 2(read part 1)So what if you’ve got a good vocalist with a dynamic presence that draws people to worship God, but she can’t lead the band out of a paper bag. That’s OK. This is where the lead musician comes in:
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