You’re going to get some ‘push-back.’ And it’s possible someone might leave the worship team. But in the end, you’ll be convinced it was the right decision. Editor’s note: In my experience I used an electric drum set in the smaller church where I worked and the drummers either hated them or tolerated them, but I don’t think in our small venue we could have kept our sound under control without them.
POLL: Does Your Contemporary Service (Ever) Have A Choir?
Let’s find out the state of the choir in 2019! If your church has both a traditional service and a contemporary service, but only your traditional service has a choir, your answer is NO – this poll is gauging how many specifically contemporary services/churches currently have a choir.
Loading ...How to Achieve Great Sound in a Small Church
Simply put, bad church sound boils down to one thing: no one is stepping up to the plate. Maybe the sound tech is set in their ways and not willing to learn new things. Or, the worship leader is frustrated with it all and therefore ignores what is going on.
Perry Noble Launches New Church After Leaving Newspring
Perry Noble Launches New Church After Leaving Newspring
Second Chance Church is exactly what the names says, another shot for Noble. The Anderson pastor launched the state’s largest church, NewSpring, nearly 20 years ago with a handful of people in his apartment.
Noble was ousted from the church, which grew to one of the nation’s largest, in 2016 as NewSpring leaders cited his “posture toward his marriage and increased reliance on alcohol and other behaviors.” He and his wife have since divorced.
Q And A With Perry Noble: Millennials, Clemson, His Biggest Mistakes And President Trump
Perry Noble sat down with the Independent Mail this week to answer questions ahead of launching his new Second Chance Church on Jan. 27.
Church Growth: Choirs Aren’t Such a Bad Idea
Once upon a time a Megachurch hired a Rock Star Worship Leader (because that’s what Megachurches do.) Of course, the RSWL promptly canned the 200 voice choir.
Naturally, a lot of the choir members were upset and quite a few left the church.
Let’s say 75 people left. But that’s not just 75 people. Multiply those 75 by 4:
- Each person who left was probably married, so around 75 spouses.
- Each person who left had, on average, 2 kids.
So about 300 people, give or take, left the Megachurch. And let’s say that Megachurch ran roughly 3,000 a week.
Opps. How would you like to come to the sudden realization that 10% of your congregation has vanished overnight? (Yes, they fired the RSWL after about a year.)
For just a minute, let’s look beyond the obvious spiritual/musical/community benefits of a choir and focus on the bare bones fact that a choir guarantees warm bodies will occupy your worship space.
Back when I was the music director of a young contemporary church plant I could amass about 18 people for a small praise choir at Christmas and Easter. Most of those people were in the 30-40 year old range, were married and had between 2-4 kids each. Those who sang typically hauled their spouse and kids to church with them.
So multiply the people you have involved in your worship ministry by 4 and you can see how quickly the numbers add up.
If you’re a church of 100 people and have a praise team of drums, bass, guitar, keys, male worship leader and female background vocal, multiply those 6 people by 4 and you have roughly 24 people involved. You now have a guarantee that about 24% of your congregation will show up that Sunday.
If that 100-sized church can build a small choir of only 10 people, plus the 6 praise team people, you now have a guarantee that about 64 people will show up on a Sunday. That’s 64% of your congregation. More bodies fill your room, and bigger crowds seem to bring about bigger crowds.
Church planters, you might consider hiring a worship leader who is musically competent enough to not only rock with a praise band but also maintain a choir (Liberty University is a great place to start looking.) Will a small choir help grow a small church? This is all theory dreamed up in my pin head, but the numbers do add up, don’t they?
3 Ways To Be a Worship Leader Off Stage
In this video, Marcus Dawes shares 3 ways to be a worship leader off stage. Read transcript.
Introducing the Baroque Theorbo
Wouldn’t you just LOVE to see some hipster worship leader strut out on stage with one of these?
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“People complain a lot about the space that I take up”.
Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny explains how and why the theorbo was developed in the 17th century, what it was used for, and what it’s like to carry it around on the train.
Where Each Instrument Fits in the Mix
As a sound tech at church, you not only have to possess a wide array of technical knowledge, but you also need an understanding of where each instrument fits in the mix.