Streaming your worship services legally | Everything you need to know

Here at Musicademy and Worship Backing Band, we’ve had calls and emails daily about the legality of using worship songs in online services. People are very confused about the different licenses, and the new Streaming Plus License that CCLI has created. I decided to chat to our friends at CCLI and asked them to point […]

Free Christmas resources for churches

Here we have pulled together a helpful list of Christmas resources. Please feel free to add in your own finds to the comments at the bottom. Free Christmas resources for churches Christmas story narrations – Fantastic set of narrations of the Christmas story re-written for a variety of contexts. Also a fun story behind the development […]

DIY Worship Team Workshops (and Band Skills course): Half Price Offer

Getting the band back again only to find you are all a bit out of practice? Kick-start your post lockdown band skills with our half price DIY Worship Team Workshops. Churches across the world are gearing up to return to face-to-face services which means that in many cases musicians are playing together again for the […]

8 ideas to encourage more participation in worship

I recently read a book which chronicled the rise of the evangelical church in England from the 1950s onwards. This reported a clear link between high levels of participation in worship and personal spiritual growth and communal church renewal. The book, controversially called ‘Selling Worship’ (by Pete Ward), also observes that in sung worship in […]

28 Do’s and Don’ts of Christmas service planning

Planning a Christmas service? Read this first DO plan well in advance and lock everything down in good time with the leaders DO choose and circulate your music/key choice well ahead of rehearsals. Christmas is often the one time of year when you have orchestral and brass instruments joining the band. They tend to prefer a […]