In this episode, we chat with one of our Accelerator students, Lauren Pate. Lauren Pate had never been a worship leader before stepping into her part time role at her church and joining worship ministry school. She's got a full time job as a wife and mother of her wonderful kids, and she was passionate about stewarding the ministry well. We talk about how she navigated the unique season and walked through all the amazing results she was able to see as a result of her pursuing her own personal and professional development. If you want to pursue your own unique goals in your ministry context and have custom tailored coaching, you can join Worship Ministry School today by clicking the link below. www.worshipministryschool.com

If you've ever wanted a one stop shop where you can list checklists, training videos, pdf's, cheat sheets, walk throughs - you name it for your volunteers on your worship or tech teams, Zach Brown has created that very resource and is giving it away for free! Check out this episode where we do a deep dive on all the great possibilities when using Notion for your worship & tech ministry. You can find links to connect with Zach and his channel, as well as the Youtube walk throughs of his template and the actual template down below. https://www.churchmediatraining.com/ https://www.youtube.com/zachbrownmedia https://www.instagram.com/zach_wbrown/ https://www.tiktok.com/@zach_wbrown First Checklist Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZquk-gx98 Second Checklist Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swV8LazuPc8 Notion Template: https://www.churchmediatraining.com/checklist2022 www.worshipministryschool.com

Rob Brockman is one of 3 cohosts of the Worship God podcast and we are big fans of the Worship God podcast. They're supplying resources to worship leaders all over the world for how to think more theologically about the songs they plan, the methods they use to pastor their teams, and the way they engage with the people in their congregation. In this episode we talk about congregational singing, song selection, internships, favorite worship leader resources, and so much more. Below are some of the books we referenced and a link to their podcast if you want to check out the content Worship God is pushing out. Corporate Worship - Matt Merker Christ Centered Worship - Bryan Chapell Worship God Podcast www.worshipministryschool.com

Michael Curtis - systems engineer No one loves painting on a wet paper napkin nor does anyone enjoy mixing on a poorly designed PA system. Michael speaks to the key influences in the process of designing a PA system for a church.   If you want more training and resources, you can check out Michael's youtube channel where he puts out new trainings and videos every week.   If you want to check out the visual form of this interview and see some of Michael's presentation, you can check that out here www.worshipministryschool.com

What do guitars, mountain bikes and your worship team all have in common? Jason Houtsma speaks to it in today's episode.   Jason Houtsma runs a platform called Worship Artistry where the user experiences a private music teacher environment to learn the latest worship songs on drums, guitar, keys, and vocals. Your whole team can get access and they're adding to their catalogue daily. This is an incredible resource for worship teams to step up their musicianship and increase their excellence. Worship Artistry not only teaches you how to play the part but also how to get creative with making the sound your own!   You can use the link below to sign up for a 21 day free trial to check it out, and as Jason recommends, just try to learn one song, and you'll be hooked.   worshipartistry.com/churchfront jason@worshipartistry.com www.worshipministryschool.com

In this episode, Zac Hicks gives us tools to help us plan and improve the accuracy and effectiveness of what we say or pray between songs as worship leaders.   Zac dives into John 14:26-27 as well as John 16:13-14 to direct us to what Jesus says about the Holy Spirit and how that context might help us understand planning vs. spontaneous leadership during our worship services.   Don't forget to check out Zac Hick's book The Worship Pastor Daily Psalm Readings www.worshipministryschool.com

In this episode, we recapped Adam's trip to Hilton Head Presbyterian Church where he visited Josh Miles who is an Accelerator Pro student in Worship Ministry School. Accelerator Pro members get 4 onsite days with a Churchfront team member to optimize their systems, train their volunteer teams, and tweak systems that need attention to get the results of the Worship Ministry School student.   If you're interested in having one of our team members come to your church, you can hop on a free Strategy Session by filling out a form at worshipministryschool.com and hop on a call with one of our coaches to help you drill down into what the current problems are in your ministry, assess your goals and what the best course of action would be to get you to achieve those goals. Many of our students actually don't need a ton of new gear, sometimes an adapter here and there, or a new piece of software to streamline some systems, but most ministries don't need tens of thousands of dollars of new gear but rather a better understanding and education on how to use the current capable gear they already have on hand.   If you want to see some visuals of Adam's experience, you can checkout the youtube video where Adam recaps his time with Josh.   I hope you enjoy Adam's recap of his Worship Tech Makeover at Hilton Head Presbyterian Church.   www.worshipministryschool.com

Jonathan Malm, author of the Volunteer Effect, Unwelcome, and the Comeback Effect as well as the founder of Sunday Social and Churchstagedesignideas.com joins us to discuss 3 key ideas regarding volunteers in our churches. Jonathan Malm's Intagram Bulk Buy the Volunteer Effect on Baker House Publishing for Your Team The Volunteer Effect on Amazon churchstagedesignideas.com www.worshipministryschool.com

In today's episode Jake walks through 10 lighting tips to improve your lighting at your church. This doesn't even mean you have to buy new fixtures, you can use these tips with the lights you already have! The tips Jake brings will bring a ton of value and help you improve your in person experience and remove distraction as well as enhance the broadcast experience because your camera sensors will be getting better clarity in the image. Although we wanted to bring you this value packed podcast, we also have a corresponding youtube video that will show you visually every one of these tips in a practical setting so be sure to check out the video as well.   If you are interested in the step by step process and a much deeper dive into how to improve your lighting, you can check out Worship Ministry School where we have a brand new Lighting for Worship course that dives deep into fixtures, software control, and best practice for lighting for churches. You can find the link to check out Worship Ministry School in the show notes of this episode.   www.worshipministryschool.com

In this episode, the Churchfront team recaps Adam's trip to North Sound Church, one of our Accelerator Pro members and talked through how Adam was able to take the ministry to the next level and equip their team without purchasing new gear, but rather optimizing what they already had. Click on the link below to check out Chris & Casey's story in their testimonial Chris & Casey Testimonial www.worshipministryschool.com