How to Start a Praise Band in Your Church
From time to time, we are asked how to start a praise team to lead music during worship services in churches. Below are seven lessons Dwayne has learned from several years of leading praise teams in the churches where he has served. He has been involved with starting two successful praise teams from scratch as well as four choirs. He has also recruited and led several traveling praise bands that he has taken on the road with him to his many intinerant events across the country. Please note that the methods and approaches Dwayne has...
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Thanks to all 1300 people from every continent, over 50 countries, and all 50 US states who downloaded Pure Praise during the 10-week introductory period! You can still download a sample chapter of Pure Praise: A Heart-focused Bible Study on Worship! This study has been endorsed by Darlene Zschech (Hillsong), Mark Hall (Casting Crowns), Rick Muchow (Saddleback), Julie Reid (Worship Leader Magazine), and many more! All you need to do is complete the following form and submit it. It’s that simple! The book, Pure Praise, released in...
read moreAwesome Report of On-going Revival!
Imagine your church leaders saying you don’t need a traditional series of meetings because your church is already IN revival! That’s exactly what happened this past Sunday to a pastor friend of mine. Listen to what he wrote me: Revival Already Happening! We had a great service with many responding to the altar this morning and one profession of faith! I asked the deacons this morning in deacon’s meeting about their thoughts on a fall revival and all of them agreed that they felt the church was already in revival and...
read moreNext Level Worship Invited to Lead in AL State Conference
Our good friend, Keith Hibbs, has invited us to help lead a worship leader state-wide conference in May. Part of Alabama Southern Baptists’ Leader Connect emphasis, this conference at Shocco Springs Conference Center near Talledega, AL is for all the associational music directors across the state. I will be leading worship conferences in Botswana, Africa during this time. Thus, John Martin, our VP of Development for Next Level Worship, will be speaking at the AL conference, which is May 8-9, 2008. He will be teaching from our...
read more“Worship Leader” Is Still a Good Title
Of late, the term worship leader has come upon hard times. ‘Seems that titles like “lead worshiper” or “worship facilitator” or even “song leader” are more in vogue. I appreciate the careful thought and articulation of my colleagues who want to better define what we do each week when we stand in front of other believers — as well as non-believers — and sing to/with them. While I like and often use many of these newer titles myself, I still most often use the simple name, “worship...
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