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Previous Fertilizers
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Did you miss a previous delivery of fertilizer? Click here to catch up!
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Free Seminar with Dan Wilt, April 27th
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Don't miss this! Click here for details.
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Save 10% by using code: "adlib" when you register for The National Worship Leader Conference on May 13-15
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May 2nd at noon
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Each month, worship leaders in Ephrata gather for lunch and to encourage each other. Join us in May at the La Borimex.
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May 11th 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.
Visit us on Facebook!
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Worship Fertilizer Podcast
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Sometimes reading takes too long. Listen.
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Practical, common-sense answers to your questions. You'll like it!
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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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Going it alone really, really stinks! Oh, it can kill you too. More on how to help your team become friends, but first, here are three ways you can be around some worship friends soon:
ONE: This Saturday, April 27, Dan Wilt will be sharing with us at the Inspire Worship event, from 9:00 AM to noon at the Mechanicsburg BIC. Register for free here.
TWO: Mondays at Prince Street Cafe. Maybe you just led worship and you need to debrief. Maybe you want to talk to other worship leaders about a question you've been having. Maybe you just need to not be alone or want to get to know other worship leaders. Meet me/us at Prince Street Cafe in Lancaster City from 6:30-7:30 AM on Monday mornings. Just show up.
THREE: Big conferences are great, especially if they're in our own backyard. If you haven't yet registered for the National Worship Leader Conference held at Calvary Church on May 13-15, you can get 10% off by using the code "adlib" when you do. I'll be there! And come sit with me at the "Choirs in Worship"pre-conference!
(what to do if you don't live close to Lancaster, PA: click)
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I'm stunned whenever I meet with a worship team that only does music together. Conversations are warm but shallow, we carry our own burdens in...and then out, we hear scripture in the songs but don't open the Book together, there's learning that's happening but we don't share it with each other, and we've never shared a meal or been in each other's homes.
That's so, so sad.
Maybe you're experience isn't that bad, but I bet you can be more intentional to go deeper, grow spiritually, learn intentionally, and experience human community. Every week, I'm helping bands to play better together, so I certainly value creating fantastic music. The tragedy comes when that's all we do. And I get that it's a musical rehearsal, but if we're intentional, we can build so much more than great music. There's this unspoken sentiment that says "well, we have to get the music down...if something else happens, it's a bonus." So often, there's no bonus. Sad face.
How can you be more intentional?
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Go Deeper
If I've led your team, you've probably heard me say "I have a rule. I don't lead worship with strangers." And then I break out the (dreaded) question: "What do you wish I knew about you? And you should probably share the first thing that comes to your mind." All it takes is a little question to give people the chance to begin sharing themselves. Be interested in each other...ask curious questions.
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Grow Spiritually
We are to take great pains until... Christ is formed in each other. Have a different band member lead a five-minute devotional each time. Take your bible and open it up and read a psalm together. Subscribe to Worship Team Devotions. Pray for each other. Stop taking so long doing inefficient sound checks and making copies of chord charts so you carve out space for this. |
Learn Intentionally
I believe that we're learning all the time...a little here, a little there. It's one of the reasons I share on Twitter and Facebook. I reflect on an experience and find a nugget of learning and share it. How did you get that part of the song down? What made those voices work well on that song? What is going through your head/heart when you sing this song? As a leader, you can simply ask "What are you learning with this music tonight?"
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Experience Human Community
Be Italian already! Eat! (together) There's a church whose worship team eats a meal before each rehearsal. Every week, a different team member brings a simple meal to share together the thirty minutes before they play. Get this: the band, the tech, and sometimes even the pastors eat and talk together. Hey start doing this even once a month and see where it goes.
So let me ask you this: Are you friends with the people on your team?
(and that sounds like a pretty good definition for a friend: a person you go deeper, grow spiritually, learn intentionally, and experience human community with.)
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 So you don't live nearby? Bummer. Well, here's the point. Do this where you live. Find conferences, hang out with other worship leaders, and make your acquaintances into friends. :)
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Worship Team Retreat
"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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Coaching Moments
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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Rehearsal Coaching
Whether it's your worship band, garage band, or touring band, you can have Ad Lib Music come to a rehearsal and help you get to the next level!
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Ánimo!
Dave Helmuth
Ad Lib Music...in simple love and pure devotion to Jesus, we are eradicating isolation and burnout so that leaders bear much fruit!
Email: dave@adlibmusic.com
962 East Orange Street, Lancaster, PA 17602
Phone - 717.468.6428
www.AdLibMusic.com
Ánimo: courage, refresh, transform, bring to life, encourage,
inspire, intentionally cheer up, come on, it's not far now, animate!
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