Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast, Episode 229: Christi Stills, Worship Ministry as a Pianist and Her Journey as a Composer.
Worship ministry has changed drastically over the last 25 years, and for pianists, that change hasn’t always been easy. Today, we hear from Christi Stills who has been a pianist in a traditional, piano and organ worship ministry and has also spent the last 10 years playing with a worship band. Christi also shares with us about her journey as a composer, her success at getting her music out on Spotify, including one song,...
228 Preparing Worship Ministry For The Post-Covid Summer Ahead
A lot of people are speculating about what summer 2021 is going to look like for the church. I think it’s safe to say we should anticipate people taking a lot of time to rest and recuperate over the next few months. In fact, it might be what’s needed. Still, we’ll have services to plan and lead, when people may not be available, we might even be gone. How are we going to thoughtfully lead worship this...
Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast 227: Spiritual Preparation For Leading Worship, Taize, Promises & The Blessing
As worship leaders we tend to spend the vast amount of our time on musical preparation and leave the spiritual preparation for leading worship until the last minute. We hope that God will “show up” in our corporate worship without having spent time in with Him personally. Today, David & Joe talk about some of the practical things we need to be doing in our personal walk with God to be ready to lead our congregations...
Building Healthy Worship Teams Post Covid, Alex Enfiedjian, Worship Ministry Training (WMC-226)
Are you working to rebuild your team after the pandemic? Have you had to deal with someone on the team who is bringing everyone down? How do we build healthy teams? Also in this episode we talk about the importance of developing our leadership skills along with our musical skills. Today, we are joined by Alex Enfiedjian of Worship Ministry Training to share a little bit with us about building healthy teams in worship ministry. This is...
Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast, Episode 225: Learning From Our Mistakes And Dealing With The Loss Of Mentorship In Worship
You know that time you really messed up the song in the service? Or the time you forgot to put on your capo, or you went to start a track and it was on the wrong song, or you weren’t on the right Main Stage patch? Yeah, me neither. Okay. Maybe that happened this Sunday. But how do we handle the mistakes? We also talk about the catastrophic loss of mentorship in too many churches across the country and what we can do to...
WMC, 224: Branon Dempsey of Worship Team Training
Looking for some good training tools to train your worship team and worship leaders? We’d love to introduce you to Branon Dempsey or Worship Team Training and Worship Team Training...
WMC 223: Catching up with Joe, David’s Peaceful Piano Hymns Album & New Fangled Techology
In this episode we spend some time catching up with Joe and hearing about his experience in the ice storm, being without power for 10 days. We also talk about David’s new album available on Spotify, iTunes and all digital platforms, “Peaceful Piano Hymns”. To find out more about David’s album, visit his website: http://davidlindner.net/2021/03/peaceful-piano-hymns-volume-1-now-available-online/ And of course,...
WMC, 222: Distractions
Since we got distracted last time when we intended to talk about distractions, we’re going to talk about distractions today.
WMC, 221: Art and Influence
In todays’ episode we talk about the idea of worship arts ministry, supporting arts of all kinds in the church and building the influence of the church in society at large.
WMC, 220: Ian Evans Guthrie
In today’s episode we have the privilege of hearing from Composer Ian Evans Guthrie as he shares some selections from his Christmas Album “Good Tidings In Covid.”
WMC, 219: All Things Christmas, Alternative Covid Ideas.
David & Joe talk about anything related to Christmas and planning Christmas services in the pandemic.
WMC, 218: Crucial Conversations, Speaking the Truth In Love
In this episode David & Joe talk about having the hard, but crucial conversations.
Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast, Episode 0217: Christmas 2020
What are we going to do for Christmas in 2020 with a pandemic going on? Joe & David are joined by Dan Thompson to talk about Christmas ideas as well as more talk on tech during the pandemic.
Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast, Episode 0215: Rich Kirkpatrick
He’s been on the show before and one of the few people that’s been in the worship blogging & podcasting gig longer than us! We have a great conversation with Rich about his Covid worship experience, talk about his music writing with his daughter Emile and the new journey he’s on. We record the podcast live on Facebook on the 1st & 3rd Mondays of the month. If you’d like to participate, join us...
Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast, Episode 214: The One Where David & Joe Talk About Stuff
Joe & David talk about a variety of topics in this episode of the podcast, many of them pertaining to worship, but in good WMC style, plenty that do not as well. We record the podcasts live on Facebook on the 1st & 3rd Mondays of the month at 10am Pacific Time. If you would like to join us live or even be a part of the discussion, that’s where you will find...
Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast, Episode 213 – David Introduces Joe to Loops and Multitracks
In this episode David spends some time introducing Joe to the idea of using loops and multitracks with the worship team. Due to the tutorial nature of this episode, you may want to be sure to watch the video version on Facebook. This episode was recorded live on Facebook on Monday, August 10th at 10am Pacific Time. We would love to have you join and participate with the discussion mondays at 10am! Standard Podcast [ 1:06:13 ] Play Now...