The Worship Leader Toolbox

By Tim Price | HarvestMusic

The Worship Leader Toolbox episodes

May 11, 2023 #91 What Is Life Like As A Worship Leader?
Here are five aspects of the life of a worship leader on a day-to-day basis:
1. Discipleship – self, others, team, church, prayer, scripture
2. Communication – with pastors and staff, team, tech ministry, and volunteers
3. Music – planning, finding, charting, files, creativity
4. Organizing – rehearsals, staging, teams, flow, Sundays
5. Recruiting – praying for new people, raising up the next generation, discovering volunteers
23 min
April 27, 2023 #90 Three Benefits To A Small Worship Setting/Situation...
It's great to learn from other churches, to be inspired by bigger and better, but what about the smaller settings? What if you are leading in a smaller church? What if your stage area is more traditional, without grand lighting or state of the art tech?
You may not have a huge budget, a large talent pool, incredible production, but Jesus is still the ultimate worship leader, the Holy Spirit is still present and you have these three advantages:
1. Relationally Driven
2. Less Commotion
3. Opportunities for Involvement

22 min
April 13, 2023 #89 Make The Summer An Investment For Your Ministry
Now is a great time to start thinking about the summer. You can use it to your advantage to strengthen, boost and recharge your ministry worship ministry. Here are some ideas for your life and ministry this summer…
1. Create a social event
2. Plan with your pastor
3. Plan your own ministry
4. Keep the music simple
5. Include others in leadership
6. Music themed Sundays
7. Highlight team members
8. Schedule your home time (and stick to it)
9. Serve at a kids event or outreach
10. Get the big blocks in for the fall
31 min
March 30, 2023#88 Incorporating Teams Is An Act Of Good Leadership
This you can do it all?
You can't, and you shouldn't.
Here are some random thoughts to encourage you, the leader, to invite, ask, and otherwise pull people into serving in ministry with you:
ASKING OTHERS TO SERVE
Don’t say “no” for others before asking.

Don’t rob people of the joy of using their gifts.

Don’t think you’re supposed to do all the ministry.

Work at getting over your perfectionist tendencies to allow others to begin, learn and grow into it.

Set up a small advisory board to work toward (and give you confidence) to ask others to serve.

There may some frontloaded time investment, but make a plan and get it rolling knowing of the time you’ll save in the future (and the way others will grow in it)!
WHAT DO WE ASK
Ask people to join you?

Ask people to take on responsibility.

Ask people to assist you in roles in which you are weak. Someone is gifted for the role. Too often, we think if we don’t like doing something, no one would, so we just buckle down doing things we don’t enjoy while someone else who would love to do it is missing out. I think about putting furniture together, creating certain chord charts, setting up the stage, etc. Don’t begrudgingly take on the burden, pray about the right person who may find it fulfilling and rewarding. Ask them to do it or join you in learning to do it.

Invite people to use their gifts in one time projects – like season stage design, painting, a video, sending thank you notes, writing music, etc. I have found that when people can see the light at the end of the tunnel for a project it’s much easier to be a part of it and jump in.

Ask your team to respond the kinds of things they would love to do. But most often, it’s the personal invitation that will make a difference in how a person responds. You ask a specific person to consider taking on a role of some kind, etc.

Ask people to join you in thinking of new ideas. Incorporating people into leadership is more fun, more effective and more clearly accomplishes your mission of equipping the saints.

EXAMPLES OF ASKING
put all the lyrics and graphics into the computer, operate it for rehearsals and services in each of our worship spaces and in many of our traveling events.

operate the sound board for services and well as set all the stuff up in advance

lead some of the songs and lead the whole service at times

take care of loading all the tracks, clicks and pads into the workstation

help come up with new songs for worship

take care of welcoming, greeting, prayers, etc.

welcome people into worship as a guest service team

take care of all the coffee and other hospitaly details on sundays

edit blog posts

send blog posts, emails and more
22 min
March 16, 2023 #87 Focus On Leading And Good Performance Will Follow
Place your focus on edifying the church, helping the congregation connect with God, and pointing toward Jesus in all you do and sing. As we do this, we will be focused on leading the church in worship. And you know what? Great performance will follow.
To lead is to be a servant. Here are some of the ways we serve from an angle of leading worship:
1. Invite and Involve Others To Develop Their Gifts
2. Care For Your Volunteer Team
3. Do The Hard Work Of Organizing
4. Humbly Assist And Partner With Your Pastor
5. Pray For Your Church
6. Sing The Songs That Connect With and Help The Congregation Engage
7. Stretch And Challenge Your People To Grow
30 min
March 02, 2023 #86 - The Revolutionary Question For Great Worship Flow
The question is for a great worship flow is, "What's Next?"
Today we talk about how to instill this question:
1. Write out the order with details
2. Teach them to ask the question
3. Remind them to ask the question
26 min
February 16, 2023 #85 - Teach The Church To Worship
In this episode we want to help you teach why it’s important for your church to learn to worship. Adding some training to the worship flow will open the doors to your congregation responding in new ways.
We're using some wisdom from Psalm 66:
1. Shout Joyful Praises To God
2. Sing About The Glory Of His Name
3. Say To God...
4. Come And See, Come And Listen...
5. Praise Our God, Everyone!

BLOG POST

33 min
February 02, 2023 #84 - How To Help Your People Grow In Skill
Part of the role of the worship leader is to help develop the church to grow in their ministry skills! Each of these ideas will help you as the leader equip others to grow in their own skill as leaders of worship:
1. Increase Expectation
2. Provide Resources
3. Plan In Advance
4. Instill Encouragement As A Culture
5. Generate Inspiration
6. Include Guests In Worship
7. Model Growth In Skill

34 min
January 19, 2023 #83 - Ten Simple Tools We Use
In this episode we'll be discussing ten simple tools we use for worship leading each weekend:
1. Guitar
2. Capo and Tuner
3. Bible
4. Phone
5. Planning Center
6. "Slack" software
7. Pro-Presenter
8. Songselect (CCLI)
9. iPad
10. Ableton
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35 min
December 22, 2022 #82 - The Benefits Of Sharing Dreams For The Ministry
Sharing dreams and visions with your worship team is important, and here are some benefits:
1. Builds A Culture Of Vision
2. Allows Other People To Add Their Gifts
3. Helps Uncover Passion In People
4. Helps Draw People To The Team
5. Gives Your Team And Leaders Hope
6. Helps You Stop Doing So Much Of The Ministry Yourself
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28 min