If you’re not careful, your greatest strengths as an artist can become your gravest weaknesses. Join us as we discuss how to prevent those strengths from sabotaging your life, your marriage, and your ministry.
Embrace the exciting challenge of teaching children to pursue excellence in the arts while cultivating a true understanding of worship as a lifelong practice not a once-a-week musical experience.
This workshop will seek to answer the question, "How do you, as a worship leader, bring a distracted person into an intimate encounter with the Holy God?" Explore how to lay out a clear path that allows for celebration, illumination, response and service. Bring examples of your current worship services for comparative discussions.
In this workshop, Carl will cover set-up, tuning, groove and fill development, playing with loops, flowing with different leaders, ministering to the people, and more.
Got dreams? God is the “Dream Giver.” Come if you want to be encouraged, empowered, and enabled to fuel the dream God has given you. Biblical, practical, spiritual, and innovative ideas to help you see your dreams come to fruition. Be challenged. Laugh out loud. Get excited ... you’re closer to a dream come true than you think you are.
Effective worship leading through music isn’t about how well you sing; it’s about how well you can get others to sing with all their hearts. Come and learn the hundreds of practical ways you can help people do what God is looking for in this fun and interactive class.
We will discuss the basic concepts of live streaming, equipment, and bandwidth requirements, as well as hardware and software setup and configuration, live recording, and embedding players in your own website. We will also cover adaptive bitrate streaming and what to look for when selecting a streaming vendor. We will conclude with an open forum to answer questions and discuss your specific needs.
How and why to bring the richness of our Christian musical heritage into the 21st century. Tips on how to arrange, write melodies for, and adapt the hymn, for your service of worship.
Mentoring is more about a relationship rather than a process.
The kingdom of God is multicultural. It is God's design. This greatly affects the way we should approach kingdom activities, and corporate worship is no exception. We will be learning from Scripture, contemporary culture, and philosophical thought to try and discern God's truths and wisdom in aiming at this ever-moving target of creating multicultural worship environments. This will contain theological, practical, and musical takeaways.
Let’s explore the space in between the Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs our congregations sing. What are the ties that bind? The peace we often forfeit? What is the word my hope secures? Participants will work together in this laboratory of learning, exploring perspective, purposes, and theological intent.
This workshop we will explore training students in worship ministry, and how student-led worship can bring diversity and passion to your youth, as well as your church as a whole. We will discuss the unique challenges as well as the rewards. Both adults and students are welcome to come join the conversation!
Want to learn how you can have a positive effect on the congregational worship experience at your church? According to Scripture, our relationship with one another will impact our worship. This class will challenge and equip you with practical tools to help bring these proven concepts back to your congregation.
Never get over the wonder of grace. You’re the only person who can keep the fire in your heart from burning out. We’ll talk about how to do that in this session.
Learn the basics of room acoustics and how to solve common acoustical problems in simple and affordable ways. Do-it-yourself and commercial solutions will be discussed, with plenty of time for Q&A.
The word “liturgy” means “the work of the people.” However, when it comes to church/ worship visuals, it usually feels like "the work of one person.” But what if there could be more? What does it look like for a community to come together to create a unique visual expression of worship?
In this session we will look at the singer as an athlete. You will gain a greater understanding of nutrition, hydration, and sleep, along with appropriate warm-ups, good technique, and vocal maintenance for breathing—and how traditional breathing techniques may actually have an adverse effect. We will also debunk vocal health myths and discuss how to avoid potentially traumatic voice production.
