You're thankful for the people who serve on your worship team right? They come to rehearsals. They put in work on their own time. They come early on Sunday mornings. There's a lot to thank them for. So why not let them know on Thanksgiving day?

Here's an easy way to thank your worship team this Thanksgiving: send them a text! Just a quick message can make all the difference…

It just feels right, doesn't it? To be constantly introducing new songs to your church. At least once a month. For some of us, multiple times a month…

Do you struggle with finding more volunteers for your worship team? Welcome to the club!

Every worship leader wishes they had more people who could serve on their worship team. If you just had a few more people... your band would sound fuller. If you just had a few more people... you could give your current members a week off every once in a while. If you just had a few more people... YOU could take a week off every once in a while…

Any time you're a leader of anything, there are going to be problems that you have to solve. Leaders are problem solvers.

And sometimes, solving those problems means having to have difficult conversations with worship team members. Conversations about not showing up to rehearsal on time. Conversations about not being prepared. Whatever it is, GOOD leaders are not problem AVOIDERS, they're problem SOLVERS…

Last Friday, we learned WHY you should be training up young worship leaders in your church. Maybe you're convinced and you know you should be training up young leaders in your church. But, you have no idea how to do it…

Do you currently have a system for training up young worship leaders at your church? Training up young worship leaders is one of the most important things you can do as part of your responsibility of leading worship at your church…

It's inevitable. There ARE going to be problems on your worship team. Anything from a member who consistently shows up late to interpersonal conflict to moral compromise. Whether it's big or small - there are going to be moments on your team where things are uncomfortable. There are going to be moments of conflict where you aren't sure what to do. You can't avoid them. The only thing you can do is prepare for how you are going to respond to it…

It seems like, if you could just find more people to join your worship team, it would solve your problems. Your team would sound fuller. You wouldn't have to worry about if you were going to have a full team on Sunday. And... maybe you could actually take a week off…

Summer break is over and school is back in session. For many churches, that means that they've started their midweek gatherings back up again. Youth group, small groups, bible studies - whatever you're doing at your church in the middle of the week is a great opportunity you can utilize to grow your worship ministry. A smaller environment affords you the ability to take risks and try new things out that you might not feel comfortable jumping head first into on a Sunday morning…

It's a common story: you start leading worship at your church. You lead a song here and there. Then, you start leading more regularly. Eventually you realize that you not only have the responsibility of leading your church in worship every Sunday, you also have inherited a worship TEAM that you get to lead as well. The problem is: you weren't expecting it. Maybe you don't even feel ready or equipped to lead that team. So, how can you lead them well?…

You know how it goes - you send out the song list and anxiously await your midweek rehearsal. The day of rehearsal you get there early and greet your team as they slowly filter in. Once everyone is there, you pray and go to run through your first song and you quickly realize: No one knows their part. So, what do you do? You spend the rest of rehearsal starting and stopping a million times trying to teach people their parts and giving them time to practice what they should have done before they came to rehearsal…

How's your worship team? Is it a team people actually want to join? Or every time you ask, do people seem to come up with an excuse why they can't be a part of it?

Most worship leaders are in pursuit of more worship team members. They'd love to grow their team. And one of the best ways to make that happen is to have a team that people actually want to join! How do you do it?…

Never have enough worship team members? Maybe you only have a few people on your team and the same people are leading every Sunday. Maybe you're leading worship by yourself! Most worship leaders wish they had MORE members on their worship team…

What kind of people do you have on your worship team? Do you only have the best of the best?

Ideally, you would have a team full of people who are ready to lead worship, right? But the truth is, if you only ever stack your team with those kinds of people, your ministry won't last for long. They'll be able to serve for a while but, eventually, they won't be around any more and you'll have no one left to lead…

Ever have someone leave your worship team? It hurts doesn't it? It feels like an attack on your leadership. It feels like you've failed. And while you can't make people stay, it is helpful to understand why someone might leave…

A bad worship team culture can not only hurt the team members, but also the church (the worship team is leading the church on Sundays after all)…

As a worship leader, you are often in front of other people. As much as you try to make yourself invisible and get out of the way, people are still watching you. And that time where you are leading people and modeling worship IS really important. But, sometimes, it's easy for that to become all we focus on.

3 simple words can have a profound effect on the people you're leading and on YOU personally. In ministry, it can be easy to get caught up in a performance, task-based mindset. Did this thing get done or did it not get done? Did this person come prepared to rehearsal or did they not? Did that person get me what I needed on time or am I still waiting for it?…

Here's a quick summary: the "church game" is a game that ministry leaders knowingly or unknowingly play which revolves around trying to make everyone in their church happy. That sounds like a noble goal at first but you quickly realize - it's impossible! You can't please everyone because everyone wants something different.

The question is: How do you stop?!…

If I mentioned the "church game," would you know what I'm talking about? It's that game that gets played in churches from time to time (and sometimes not just from time to time but ALL THE TIME). You'll never hear anyone talk about it. In fact, they might not even know that they're playing. Maybe YOU don't even know you're playing. But sure enough - there are those unspoken rules that you have to abide by to "win the game"... or at least not lose it…