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4 Best Practices For Recruiting New Team Members

Building a strong worship team takes careful recruitment. When it’s time to fill open positions, where do you start? How do you find people with the right talents and spiritual maturity? Dan Wilt offers four best practices to help identify and onboard suitable team members. He explains where to look…

Get Ready To Lead Worship: Tips for Praying with Confidence

Do you struggle with leading public prayer? You’re not alone. Many worship leaders feel intimidated praying aloud. But prayer is an essential worship leading skill that you can master. Worshipscores shares tips to pray with boldness and authenticity. When your public prayers overflow from private worship, you’ll lead with ease.…

4 Reasons for Churches to Host Harvest Festivals

This fall, reach your community through a fun harvest festival outreach event. These family-friendly festivals are a creative way to engage people outside of Sunday services. Learn how to host an impactful harvest festival at your church with tips from ShareFaith on getting volunteers, including enjoyable activities, collecting donated food,…

3 Keys to Effectively Connect with New Guests

Hooking first-timers so they come back – easier said than done, right? But nailing that first impression is everything. The Unstuck Group have seen what works (and what doesn’t) at churches nationwide. Forget info gathering. Make it about hospitality. When you make people feel genuinely welcomed and understood that first…

Quintuple Wide: A 5-Screen Wonder

Get inspired by this innovative 5-screen projection mapping stage design for Planet Wisdom’s youth conference tour. Camron Ware and Tim Pike teamed up to create a one-of-a-kind mosaic set using Coroplast panels, Renewed Vision software, and strategic lighting and projection. Learn how they configured twenty white panels on portable fencing…

Familiar Favorites: The Allure of Throwback Worship Songs

Nostalgic Classics Provide Familiarity Across the country, worship leaders are finding that so-called “evergreen” tracks with proven longevity can provide a port in the storm of endless new releases. With over 1 million Christian and gospel songs emerging every year, many pastors are retreating to the security of tried-and-true favorites…

Popular Worship Songs From The Early 2000s

Let’s take a nostalgic walk down memory lane to revisit some of the most impactful worship anthems that shaped many Christians’ early faith journeys. Songs like “The Stand,” “Here I Am to Worship,” and “Revelation Song” anchored countless youth groups and church services in the early 2000s. Beyond just remembering…

The Benefits of Custom In-Ear Monitors

Custom in-ear monitors have revolutionized the worship experience, allowing teams to hear a personalized mix and connect with each other and the congregation. Let’s explore the evolution of CIEMs and how a company called Bellos Audio is making cutting-edge in-ear monitoring accessible, with features like supreme comfort, removable faceplates, and…

Why Your Church Is Larger Than You Realize

A church’s average weekly attendance doesn’t tell the whole story of its size and reach. When you factor in total membership, attendance frequency, and ministry demands from less frequent attendees, the scope of a pastor’s congregation is much larger. Though worship services may appear smaller, this reality of decreased attendance…

3 Powerful Ways To Cheer Your Team Members On

Uplifting and affirming your worship team members is key to building strong relationships and unity. Look for opportunities to celebrate their gifts and character through verbal encouragement tailored to their personality, meaningful gifts that align with their interests, and standing up for them in public and in prayer. Investing in…

Best Online Worship Leader Training Programs

With the wealth of affordable online training options now available, worship leaders have an array of courses and academies to choose from to develop their skills. From YouTube tutorials to structured programs, there are tailored offerings to match every leader’s needs and budget. This article explores the diverse world of…

10 Ways for Your Worship Team to Succeed

Worship leader Jordan Holt offers practical wisdom for strengthening your worship lifestyle. He advocates that worshipers must make an intentional commitment to spiritual and creative growth. Holt suggests beginning by inviting God’s voice into your daily routine through journaling and listening prayer. He advises worship leaders to take risks, step…

8 Steps Toward Next Level Worship

Looking to strengthen your music ministry’s impact? Mark Cole imparts time-tested wisdom to take your team’s offering to the next level. He shares insider tips on curating powerful song sets that connect, rehearsals that gel, and sound that soars. Most importantly, Cole reminds leaders to keep cultivating personal worship as…

Why Your Church Will Die within Five Years

After 30 years consulting churches, Thom Rainer observes an unprecedented number of congregations on the brink of death post-COVID. Rainer outlines five commonalities of dying churches: abandoned evangelism, majoring on minutiae, gossip/conflict, lack of urgency, and blaming pastors. He notes dying churches fail to reach people for Christ or engage…

8 Things To Do When Depression Hits Your Pastor

Chuck Lawless offers guidance for churches dealing with a pastor facing depression. Warning not to be shocked or assume lack of faith, he outlines eight practical steps congregations can take. Lawless advises praying for patient understanding and pastoral healing, offering counseling assistance, finding one’s own ministry role, and encouraging the…

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