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365 Days of Worship Leadership Growth
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Your growth requires intentional investment. Instead of "Shady Mapling" your training by going to the next big conference in Texas, spread the training out over the whole year and grow like never before.
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Coaching Moments
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A moment in time with a seasoned coach who will listen well, speak into your situation and life, and give you new energy to tackle your challenge can make all the difference.
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Worship Team Retreat
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"What Dave presented was practical, timely, and God-inspired - we are still talking about what an awesome time we had together!"
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Communicate!
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How does your church communicate? Use the same affordable tool we use and we both get 30 bucks!
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Feed my Sheep!
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Strengthen the people in your worship ministry with these great weekly devotions
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Practical, common-sense answers to your questions. You'll like it!
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June 30 at 9 AM
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Every other month, worship leaders in Harrisburg and the surrounding areas gather to enrich, educate, and encourage each other.
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 Greetings!
Every worship leader needs tools...
To keep growing
To be inspired
To develop the band
To pastor the team
To find new songs
To lead well
In some ways, the Fertilizer is a toolbox containing many such tools - articles, resources, training events, etc. I wanted to share with you a few of my favorite tools. I'd love for you to share your tools with me. (Especially folks like Chad Fisher - he's a tool nut!)
After you read through this, would you go to the blog and post a comment to let the rest of us know what your favorite tools are?
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David Santistevan's blog is very practical and well-written.
Rob Rash gives really great advice, training, and thought leadership.
Jon Nicol over at WorshipTeamCoach.com give provocative, compelling, and informative stuff!
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Books
Dan Wilt's book How To Lead Worship is an excellent all-in-one tool to develop your worship leadership. I've never met a leader with the breadth and heart of Dan Wilt. I want every worship ministry to be influenced by his teaching. Scholarly ideas, everyday language. It's brilliant, really.
Tom Kraeuter is a long-time worship teacher and seminar presenter. His stuff is biblical and simple. Often funny. I know churches that use his book, Becoming a True Worshiper, as required reading as part of the application process to serve in the worship ministry. He also has a worship ministry devotional service for the whole team and a free video series. (he's prolific!)
 Bob Kaufflin's book Worship Matters (and his blog) focuses readers on the essentials of God-honoring worship, combining biblical foundations with practical application in a way that works in the real world.
The Heart of the Artist by Rory Noland is a classic dealing with... (as the title says). Some chapters include: *Servanthood Versus Stardom *Excellence Versus Perfectionism *The Spiritual Disciplines of the Artist *The Artist in Community.
3 Word Lessons For Worship Leaders and teams is a collection of simple (and often humorous) ideas meant to inspire you, make you laugh, give you food for thought, and generally help you get better at what you do. Super short, these would be great to use as discussion starters at your weekly rehearsals.
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Training
Gateway Worship Trainer is the training program that Gateway Church created to train their leaders. It's free and there is a whole video curriculum to develop your CORE, CHARACTER, and CRAFT. Wow!
WorshipTraining.com is fantastic! Just check out the wealth of courses and training videos available. The deal is that for $299 per year, the whole church gets access to unlimited everything! It's very, very worth it. (you can even get limited, but worthwhile, access for free!)
Rehearsal Coaching. I bet your band is in a rut. Your keyboard player hogs the middle, acoustic player beats the guitar at one volume, bass player is bored, drummer doesn't signal the sections, electric player noodles, singers all sing melody all the time. And everybody overplays. Well, maybe it's not that bad. You may not know how to fix what ailing your band, or you may know, but you're in that spot where you're so used to a certain player's bad habits that you feel weird addressing it. We've all been there. Whether it's your worship band, garage band, or touring band, you can have Ad Lib Music come to a rehearsal and get you unstuck! We'll be gentle.
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New Songs
WorshipTogether.com is a great resource for new songs. They created the "New Song Café" that shows videos of the songwriters teaching their song. Subscribe to get a new one about every week.
CCLItv is a free source for new songs and training. Browse three Channels: OpenMic - Fresh new worship songs...straight from the churches themselves. Instruct - Brief video workshops covering worship leading, worship teams and musicianship. FirstTake - Great new worship songs from the worship artists, songwriters and companies you trust.
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Websites (subscribe for regular updates)
ChurchLeaders.com has lots of regular articles for worship leaders.
MinistryMatters.com is a site dedicated to supporting Christian ministry with resources, community and inspiration.
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Upcoming Training Events in order of occurrence
(click each title for more info)
Kari Jobe
When: Friday, July 20 at 7:00 PM
Where: Petra Christian Fellowship in New Holland
What: Dove-award-winning musician Kari Jobe will be in concert. Tickets are only $6 for general admission and $25 for limited premium seating (which includes a half hour meet and greet time with Kari after the concert).
Summer on the Hill
When: Wednesday, July 25 at 7:00 PM
Where: Life Center Ministries International - Harrisburg
What: Worship Pastor Ricardo White will be teaching on "Not Just a Worship Leader." Ricardo is one of the best, most anointed worship leaders and he'll share his heart and some of the treasures he has found through years of being lit up in the presence of God.
Clear Conference
When: Friday, September 28 - Saturday, September 29
Where: Manheim Brethren in Christ Church
What: Developing a collective toolbox for worship and tech! Come together with other worship leaders, pastors, designers and techs for hands-on training you can put directly to use in your own worship environment. Learn how to think, plan, process and dream together, improve your communication with and understanding of each other, hear from local and national instructors and make connections with others who share your passion! Because we are called to make the message CLEAR. Follow on Twitter @ClearConference and on Facebook.
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Come join us in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: July 1-28
Life Center Ministries in Partnership with Fire and Fragrance (a ministry of Youth With A Mission) and Burn 24/7 present the Hillside Intensive. A month long worship school for psalmist missionaries (muscianaries!) who want to see the house of prayer raised up in every nation of the earth.
Hillside Intensive birthed from a series of words from the Lord that God is raising up His house of prayer all over the earth in this hour. It is a 10 year dream in the hearts of our leaders to see a house of prayer expression birthed in Harrisburg, PA that would be regional, national, and international in its focus! We believe that all of life is to be centered around His presence and that is the place of communion with His heart and commissioning into His assignments! As part of Hillside Intensive we are opening 30 nights of vertical worship to the community to gather together and enthrone Jesus on our praise! Our speakers will be sharing and imparting, as well as long times in vertical worship, contending prayer and prophetic ministry. We believe that from these 30 nights, God is going to birth a long term musician and intercessor community in Harrisburg that will become a fiery, passionate, creative, sustainable House of Prayer.
1.) These evenings will be 7-9pm from July 1st-28th
2.) These evenings will be free
3.) If you are interested in the long term vision of planting a house of prayer in Harrisburg PA please email: hillsideintensive@gmail.com
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