How we on-board volunteers on our worship teams // Worship Leader Wednesday
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this video, Fuller shares with us the process he's developed at our church to on-board volunteers. In other words, how do you go from knowing a person is interested in joining the worship team to actually serving on Sundays.
This process is highly organized and scale-able from very small to huge churches.
We mention a number of free resources in the video - here are the links to those:
Values and Vision for your worship team (this is the covenant that we ask people to sign): www.worshiptut...
Rehearsals: Why you should have them: • Why you should be havi...
Rehearsals: How to have effective rehearsals (video and free guide): www.worshiptut...
Auditions: How to audition people: • Auditions, Part 1: How...
Auditions: What to do if someone fails your audition: • Auditions, pt 2: What ...
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1. Call them
2. “Orientation” at run through/rehearsal
3. Audition
4. Shadow (learn songs, train on in ears, etc)
5. Serve
Good stuff. I sent this to my fellow staff members. I want to implement all of it! We need better onboarding processes in our churches!
I’m watching this 3 years later still very valuable
THANK YOU. This has been extremely helpful to me on many levels.
Love it. Thanks guys. I don’t even lead worship anymore but I just love how you sincerely want to help the church become a place of excellence and love and hope in all that it does.
I don't say this enough, but thank you guys for all your hard work over the years, I started following when I was just learning the guitar and now I'm the worship team leader and I'm still following and learning. Your persistence in your calling is a great support and strength to me and many others. Bless you guys ❤
I bless the Lord for your guy’s ministry and compassion. Thank you for all you’ve done to help me!
You guys are AWESOME! Thank you for this info, very helpful...
So meaningful! Thanks so much!
God doesn’t use you to complete the task, he uses the task to complete you... not sure if there are gold nuggets on your crown when you get to heaven, but you just lost one when you gave it to us, lol. Great info guys!!!
Super helpful! Thanks guys!
Thanks Guys. Hope to hear from you all this friday as well.
This is amazing thank you 🙏🏻
Anyone else feel like Fuller's hoody looks like a priest's collar?
Thanks for this vid! I'll be implementing these things for sure!
Connor Patterson yes it does!!! Lol
Another great video guys! God bless you!
Thank you for the tips...God bless...
You guys are the best resource out there! Thank you for inspiring excellennce in my church. I gotta ask when "See a Victory" is coming out on WT?!
2: 25 love the quote
Wow! Great video. Thank you!
Is the on-boarding process the same for student musicians, or do you alter it since they're young? For example, moving one up from the youth band to the main band.
this is brilliant!
Thanks for the input guys. I don't know what the onboarding process is in my fellowship but I often see the same musicians on stage every week (I know that's another video). I have talked to my worship leader about young people wanting to be on the team and his answer was "I can't find anyone who is interested; no one wants to."
Sometimes I wonder if it might be better to make an investment in people - to train them so they can succeed - rather than expect them to be a success when they show up I ran into this in a church that plays a lot of gospel-style music (Israel Houghton, etc., heavy on slap bass and tight musicianship) and probably should have stepped away when I wasn't up to the task.
I'm not sure I agree with expecting people to invest all the time, energy, money, and work it takes to become the kind of musician it sounds like you guys are looking for and then ask them to give that away. I have had family members who made their living from playing in church (and almost starved, btw) and I have studied under teachers who left the church because the gig was not serious and music is how they pay the bills. Interested to get your feedback.
David Byrd we definitely don’t expect Israel level musicians!!! Lol But we have some who are at that level. We also don’t have a problem with paying musicians if the budget allows! A man is worth his wages!!! But in our team, our folks gladly volunteer their time. They also usually only serve once per month which keeps them from burning out and it allows them to truly enjoy it when they play
Do you believe that making the exceptions for great musicians could create tension between them and musicians who went through the process of auditioning? My fear is that not sticking to some process even if it’s the core values night would feel jarring for those who go through that process. Just a thought I had listening to this.
Great content though guys, tons of great stuff I would love to apply with our ministry at Lifegate Denver.
Worship Guitar Sound most of the people on our team Are mature enough to understand that every now and then in life there are exceptions to the rules. But remember the audition process is not a part of our values it’s a part of our process. Whether you audition or not everyone is held to the same standard when it comes to our values and principles. And no one actually skipped the audition process it’s just that the audition for someone experienced may be different. It may be as simple as a seeing a UA-cam video of them somewhere. But either way we’re not gonna let anyone on the stage that we don’t know for sure can deliver.
Do you do the same for your production team? I’m on what you would call the production team and I have recently started to help out our worship leader by scheduling our people and training new people. Thank you guys for all you do!
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It would help if you guys let each other talk 😅
How do you handle the process when someone doesn’t have a great audition, or they are not a good fit? Is there a development team, or way for new singers and musicians to gain experience?
I don't know if this helps, and I'm not an expert. But I have a collection of video resources/blogs for people who do NOT make it on. Stuff for vocalists, pianists, guitarists.. everyone! And I send it to them in a follow up email and then let them know that they can re-audition in 2+ months. For people who are JUST shy of being a yes, I offer free coaching, weekly, for a max of 4 weeks. I have team members who make themselves available to be a part of those as well. Just an idea that's been really working well for our ministry, and also helping to build relationships early in the onboarding process.
When you were talking about being a “new” worship leader, would you recommend starting at a smaller church or should you just go ahead and focus on reaching the most people starting off on stage?
the Paul Thomas Music lead from wherever you can!!! No job to small or big
can you do a video of how to off-board a volunteer?
Oh no
Fuller and Brian, I have a question or two about instrumentation. (Perhaps a long time viewer will know an answer and direct me to one of their other videos.) 1st, I have been blessed by the few videos of yours that I have recently become aware of and watched. Thank you for your content. I have not seen any 'acoustic' (orchestral) instruments in your videos of worship songs, or heard you talk about them. I play trumpet and trombone. Would such instruments be welcome on your team? How about electric violin, soprano sax, flugel horn, cello? You're always (from what I've seen) talking about guitarists, drummers, and singers, but never (so far) horn players. With such a large congregation I would think you would have at least a small contingent of such instrumentalists...and a desire to use them (especially as you outline in this particular video). What if I came to you after one of your recruiting events and told you that my family of 4 just relocated from another state where we all served in music ministry...2 trumpets, 1 french horn, and 1 trombone. We would like to serve together with you. What would be your response?
Scott Ashley I actually started a small orchestra at newhope for this reason!! I actually love orchestral music and compose it for tv shows. So for me my answer would be YES AND PRAISE GOD!!! I would pair you up with a saxophone player we have and we would do some brass sections!!! I dream of a day when I have a full string and brass section available!!!
@@brianmichaelfuller Thank you for taking time to reply! I'm glad to hear you're so open.
So what does your devotional time look like and how does that work on a rehearsal night? Like time wise?
It's about 30 minutes during the middle of our rehearsals. Usually we have a short devotional led by one of our leaders and then the rest of the time is just sharing and praying together. We talk about it in the rehearsal guide video which is linked in the description of this video.
Do you require prospective guitarists to own a Gretsch?
good info but blue shirt guy really needs to stop butting in.... really hard to watch ..
Who is blue shirt guy? Fuller is in black, and Brian is wearing gray.
So.... When was the last time you paid Tasha (and her husband?) for lunch or dinner? ;)
Henry Van Weeren Tasha comes over to my house a lot for free dinners and fellowship with my wife... she’s pretty much a part of my family!!! Lol But we definitely try to bless her when we can. I love giving our unexpecting world changers gift cards and stuff! Gas cards too in some cases. Bless folks when you can!!
Can you do a cover and tutorial of In The City by kutless
Do you replicate "Core Tour" at your campuses? Or is it just at your broadcast campus?
I believe our campuses do a version of the Core Tour but scaled to their environment.
I hear, understand and agree as a leader that this admin person is a success maker/breaker. As a team member, I hate this person/role and its not their fault. They are often a barrier (or can be) because they are not musical in nature and are often standing in my way of the leadership or leadership team etc... I always want a direct line to the leadership. That may seem strange, but, Im not satisfied to just be "drummer number 8" on the depth chart or what have you. I always buck this trend. I know why it exists nnow, and I came up in the old system when none of this was needed. But, sadly, people arent all the same and dont communicate the same and reply quickly etc... The rules have had to adapt I get it. But, still, I prefer the simpler smaller church and ministry teams in general. I dont buy in to the larger is better and I never will. I dont see it in the Bible either. But, again, thats my opinion and is probably largely unwelcomed. I appreciate yall's weekly videos and I forward them to my team now as well. I dont know if they are being watched or are a benefit to them, but I make them available. Keep up the good work fellas.