As East City Church transitions its worship service to a unified style of worship, they will need to equip their musician resources to handle contemporary styles of music in addition to the traditional styles that they do so well. Fortunately, ECC already has a worship band that leads worship in the contemporary early service. This will make the journey potentially much smoother than would be the case if all had to be developed from scratch.
Here are some of the points they need to consider:
Kenny Lamm, senior consultant for worship and music for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, is a frequent worship conference leader with a strong focus on equipping leaders in North Carolina (USA) and Southeast Asia. His blog, Renewing Worship, features posts that explore ways to renew–impart new life and vigor to–the worship in the local church.
Transitioning your church’s corporate worship – part 1
Technology improvement – part 2
Developing a worship leadership team – part 3
Helping the congregation learn new songs – part 5
You may also be interested in a Facebook post where we addressed the question: “What would your advice be about finding musicians for church? We currently use a cd for praise and worship.”