r/worshipleaders

Not including Bible references. Which denomination do you affiliate with?

I think the Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday? Any suggestions for a good worship set / order of service based around the Trinitarian Benediction?
‘The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you evermore’.

I’m slowly transitioning into leading our “young adults” and I lead singing in the worship team at my church and man it’s getting difficult.

Our team members constantly being late which disrespects our other members arriving on time or just not showing up.

And the thing is, I can’t just kick them off the team because we don’t have replacements. Our youth (young adults) is already small as is and finding people willing to actually consecrate themselves to the Lord and faithfully serve in this ministry is more and more difficult

The whole attendance thing is constantly mentioned over and over again and then it feels like if we agree that there will be consequences for being constantly late or not showing up then a lot of them will just quit anyway.

I’ve been praying and fasting for our team and the whole of young adults in general and man I just truly desire that they would catch fire for the Lord but as time passes it’s like it’s only getting worse.

I don’t know if God is allowing this in order to lead me into stewarding faithfully despite these things or maybe it’s just not going to work out.

If there’s anyone here that has experienced similar things please let me know how you dealt with it

What songs have worked well for you during communion? We could really use some new ideas.

Apparently ai is used in many bible search programs and music creation and etc for the majority of Christians and pastors. Many people seem to think ai equals evil. However I think that, like anything else tools can be used for good or evil. Thoughts?

“They do this *every year*” — Sid the Slot, Iceage

Happy Sunday everyone! My lead pastor and the elders have given the go ahead to start bringing our church into the digital age. At the moment we have a hodgepodge of computers, a sound board, and a few ip cameras.

I'm not sure about every church, but it seems as though every church has an it infrastructure made up of good intentions and Band-Aid solutions. That and huge networking bottlenecks.

My plan is to get a new switch, a storage server, and a docker server to make things run more efficiently.

I'll be building our own knowledge base but if there are other super techs out there who want to help, we can make a central location to help all churches.

Let me know what you think

Hello! Does anyone know of a trusted database for the original keys of Christian worship music? Thanks in advance!

Sorry for a longish post. However, I’m trying to gage a situation. I have been a worship leader in my church for 8 years. About 3 years ago our senior pastor decided to retire and ushered in a new pastor. He is wonderful and has been making great strides in our local community. When he took over it brought new worshippers into our church and many joined the team. That was a wonderful move of God because for many months I was leading alone during the pastoral shift.

During this time we welcomed a few people who have been kind of problematic within the worship team. Let me say they have hearts for worship, however they are not at all observant of boundaries. They are from the Philippines and are fairly hard to work with. They are people who do task without asking and ask forgiveness later. While that initiative is welcomed in many things it has caused a significant overstep on many occasions even outside of worship.

This year it has slowly came to a head. Enough for me to step away for an undetermined amount of time. As I started to plan out the year in planning setlists I got quite a bit of backlash concerning new songs being added to the set 35ish songs we use throughout the year. Their reasonings were they didn’t like them and it’s too many new songs( 5 max btw). I caved and revamped the song list to accommodate their want for more older songs and familiar ones to them. I’m pretty staunch on spirit led worship and that every song can change based on what the spirit is doing in the room. The worship culture I’ve poured into reflects that. However, it had been a fight. If I was in the opposition then they threatened to leave. They had done this in the past year because “sloppy wet kiss.” Was in a song for an intimate worship night. Instead of compromise they are quick to threaten leaving.

I prayed into it for months asking for guidance from my pastor and we settled on taking time off. An undetermined amount of time. It’s was more of my pastor and I giving them an opportunity to lead because my pastor said it seems like they want to do it. After many meetings with them included so it wasn’t a surprise. Honestly I was just tired of fighting it so I agreed. However, not it’s just impossible for me. Since I’ve been out they have completely been as hypocritical as can been. They have introduced a new song each week, done songs that very few people know. And as most of you know your congregation will sing with songs they know. I’m going to church every week more to get fed but it’s tough. It’s irritating to see the congregation not singing along because they are so disconnected to worship. They’ve added people to lead songs that are not strong( on pitch) singers, adding new songs every week, just kind of doing it Willy nilly. It’s jarring and is grieving me terribly.

I guess what I’m saying is that I felt a little forced out so I left. This is a tough post because it’s an “I” post and I hate that my feelings are dead smack in the middle and I sound selfish. Anyway the skinny is do I go back? I’m wondering if the reason why I feel so grieved is because This isn’t Gods will for me to step away from my calling because I’m hurt. My husband has said this already and I’ve been stubborn on it. Thoughts?

I am in the midst of writing a video on the comparing and contrasting differences of Kristene DiMarco's "It is Well" and Horatio Spafford's "It is Well With my Soul"

Until breaking down this song, I was never struck by how odd the first lines of Kristene's version are.

"Grander Earth has quaked before, moved by the sound of His voice."

Without adding my opinion I want to know, how do you interpret these lyrics? Grand has three different meanings, each of us will approach it through a different lens. What is your interpretation of these lyrics and do they guide you into worshipping God for how much greater He is, or are they just words to you? Let me know?!

Worship leaders. If you publish your playlist, could you share it here please. It can be either on Spotify, your website, Apple Music or anywhere.

I'm creating a weekly top worship songs played based on playlists across churches in the US. It currently parses 150 churches across various denominations. It only factors in Sunday playlists, at churches.I'd like to get it up 1k for more interesting/revealing real-time data.

It's different from CCLI

1. CCLI list is "Top 100 songs CCLI can track"
2. Not every song is under CCLI
3. Church playlists is closer to the real setlist
4. Smaller sampling, but different and adds an interesting layer
5. Also, you can see which church played the song - useful data. See example below.
6. CCLI tracks a song played anytime. I track only if played on Sunday

https://preview.redd.it/nkybp0alwy0h1.png?width=2216&format=png&auto=webp&s=228a115a9956bba88d2a04afeefa5d6716cfc2c2

So - it's just different, with a smaller sampling, and with more interesting layers.

Share:

• Church website: <link to your church>
• Playlist link: <link to your playlist>

Also, let me know if you think this will be helpful and if you'd like to see any other data.

Hi. I’ve been doing a lot of research and can’t seem to find what I’m looking for. I play modern worship (Elevation, Wickam, Tomlin, etc). I want to easily edit EQ, filters, and layer volumes on the fly, want smooth transitions (often a 3-layer/split sound to another 3-layered sound) without any noticeable cutoffs, I want to easily concentrate on God without having to adjust too many different knobs/faders/buttons on the fly. So simple controls is important to me for worshipping. I’d like something that will serve as my Sunday Keys (or Mainstage) midi controller and also be good for other situations.

I‘d like to use it for a worship team setting with a sound system (likely as a midi controller), to lead the prayer team (10-20 people) in worship during their prayer meetings, occasionally at small group, occasionally at retreats, and special events like a Christmas party.

I’m open to the used market. I need something fully weighted, I’m not too fussy on the key bed. I’m not a big organ player and I find devices (computers/ipads) distracting.

I want a Nord Stage 3 or 4 that isn’t red and way cheaper. I think a Yamaha CK88 is almost perfect but doesn’t have smooth transitions between ”livesets“ and that’s important for me since transitions is usually my role. I want a Roland RD-2000 that is easier to move around, has onboard speakers, and is cheaper.

Am I just trying to find something that doesn’t exist?

Any recommendations or advice is appreciated! Thanks!

Hey everyone, long story short the Worship Leader at my church was let go and I was asked by the Senior Pastor to serve as an interim Worship Leader while we figure out what our next steps will be. I will likely be in this position for at least a year is what I’ve been told.

I’ve been playing on worship teams for the past 12 years with my main instruments being bass and acoustic. I am able to fill any gap in instruments that come up though.

I have led the team when worship leaders were on vacation or sick but this is my first time being the person solely leading a team. I am looking for advice on things that I may overlook or just advice that others have learned the hard way. Some questions I have are:

- How can I help prevent burnout for team members?
- What is the best way to try and get more volunteers for the team?
- What are things that I can do for the team to show that their volunteering is appreciated and I see the time and effort they put in?

Feel free to give me any other advice that may be helpful.

We have what I would call an average size worship team (about 23 volunteers total) but are limited in our electric guitar and drum areas.

I’m trying to get tracks for worship sets, multitracks are so expensive and I can’t afford them, if anyone could help me get a library going that would be awesome!

The church has to lug all the gear from a storage unit outside the high school into the auditorium and on to the stage every week. I don't want to use in-ears anymore because the packs malfunction.

Are there any recommendations for a budget floor monitor that could be used for personal monitoring or for the whole band? There are generally three singers, acoustic guitar, lead guitar, bass, keys, and an electronic drum kit.

Hey everyone!

I have been on the worship team now for 3 years at our church. It has been great! I have always wanted the opportunity to be in a worship group, and when my husband and I began attending our church, they only had a pianist and guitarist/singer. We fit right in, since I have a background in singing and my husband is a drummer. It definitely was meant to be.

Our band is larger now, with a bass player and his wife who sings. She is an alto, and I am a soprano so it's been really fun harmonizing together.

I have made the decision, however, to quit the team. It's for several reasons not having at all to do with band mates. 1. I am the mom to an 8 month old, and it's becoming more difficult being able to rehearse and have her entertained for an hour. I have tried several strategies like having her in a play pen while rehearsing, but that hasn't worked. Also, it's been rough waking her up early in the morning and disrupting her sleep cycles on Sunday (we rehearse two hours before church starts). 2. I have been feeling a calling for some time to get back into children's ministry. That has always been my favorite way to serve, and with baby now getting older, I want to be with her in the nursery and helping out, and also begin a new outreach program using my skills for working with children. (I have degrees in children's theater, literature, and children's librarianship). The children's ministry leader seems very excited to have me on board.

I am ready right now to stop. I am very decided. What would be a kind way to tell the worship leader? Should I tell him I'll keep singing until the end of the month? I want to still offer that I'll be able to lead if he is ever out of town, or a big holiday like Christmas or Easter when it's beneficial to have more singers. Would it be rude to just let him know out of the blue that tomorrow is my last day?

Thanks.

This is for the lighting tech leaders in Worship.

When using a program like lights vista we currently do halts at the end of each cue even if it is all within the same song. Would you suggest continuing to do it that way, or get an in ear monitor for the light tech to hear the count at the beginning for the song to know when to start the cue list, and have the whole song play with follow throughs?