The Exceptional Worship Podcast

Developing Your Worship Team, Part 3

Submission to authority is NOT a fun topic. But if you want a healthy worship ministry—you’ve got to deal with this issue head on. Because if you have team members who won’t submit to your authority or the church’s authority, your ministry will suffer.

In this training today, we are diving into the first 2 lessons from the Worship Workshop class, Healthy 201: Understanding Authority, Submission, Conflict And Confrontation.

Now, that's a big pile of "loaded topics" we stacked into one class. But all these hot button issues all related. And they can all destroy our teams if we aren't dealing with them appropriately.

In these first two lessons of Healthy Team 201, we get into what authority looks like on the team and what happens when we rebel against authority.

You can get these two audio lessons + slides to train your team down below at Tools And Resources.

TOOLS AND DOWNLOADS

To download the WorshipWorkshop.com training audios and slides for this episode, go here.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

The Beginners Guide To Using Pads in Worship

Click here to watch the training for free (no sign-up required).

Want to learn more about Coresound pads? Go here.

Use promo code COACH to get an additional 10% off your purchase.

BIG THANKS...

Big thanks to Mike Graff and Coresoundmusic.com for the music on the podcast today. Check them out for all your video soundtrack and other royalty-free music needs.

And also huge thanks to Chris Skelnick for editing the podcast.

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In today's podcast, I talk to you about the 10 tools (apps and such) that I love, and that make ministry easier/better.

1. EVERNOTE

I use Evernote for TONS of stuff....Sign up for Evernote for free

Sign up for Evernote for free

Evernote - you can scan copies in and store them...

You can have tons of notebooks to keep notes organized. Or just tag them...

Free is good...probably too good. You might like to have plus/premium features, too.

2. PLANNING CENTER ONLINE'S SERVICES ANDMUSIC STAND APPS

I’ve been using Planning Center Online since 2011. And I’ve never looked back. When I first started using PCO we just called it PCO and it was just for worship planning. Now it’s a collection of church apps that take care of everything from managing your rooms and resources to checking in your kids o collecting your offering. I think they’re working on a Potluck app next, too.

Learn more about Planning Center

I love that they base your costs on size and usage. To find out what your church would pay, here's a handy price calculator.

This screenshot of a service doesn't do it justice...it does SO much.

3. SONGSELECT

SongSelect is an add-on of CCLI (Christian Copyright License International). They offer lead sheets and chord sheets for (probably) 90% of the music your church is doing or will do.

If you already have CCLI for your licensing, you should go ahead and just get this service. It's the most economical way to provide good, reliable charts fort your team.

Learn more about SongSelect

4. PRAISECHARTS

PraiseCharts is SongSelect's hipper (and higher priced) cousin. But I like hanging out with him, too. When I want a specific arrangement of a song (like Paul Baloche’s version of God My Rock instead of Brenton Brown’s version), PraiseCharts is the way to go.

They offer a lot more options for each song, too:

Recently, I've been opting to spend a little more for better quality charts (and the click track) from PraiseCharts more often. But I always still start with SongSelect (since those charts are already paid for with my subscription). Then I go to PraiseCharts if I don’t like what I see there.

Learn more about PraiseCharts

5. SPOTIFY PREMIUM (AND ITUNES/AMAZON)

This combination of tools are my go-to source(s) for finding new and vetting new music (Spotify), then purchasing the mp3 to use as a reference recording with my team. In the podcast, I talk about WHY it's important to have a reference recording.

Here are a few other things I cover:

• Why you need a "Rehearsal License" if you're going to share mp3s/recordings.
• Reasons I'll choose iTunes over Amazon for buying mp3s (and vice-versa)
• A creative way we use Spotify to share our setlists with the congregation and encourage them to sing more.
• And how I messed with one of our youth interns with Spotify...

Learn more about Spotify

And here's a link to Amazon and iTunes, in case you've been living in a cave in Wisconsin since 2003. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

6. ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER

If you're going to have upload mp3s to PCO's Services or any other planning software, you're probably going to need a tool like Adobe Media Encoder. It's a great program, but you can’t buy it as a standalone app. So unless you have need of the whole Adobe Creative Suite, you probably won’t get this program.

But you need something like it. And I talk about why in the podcast.

Here's an online alternative I tried out and liked: Media.io

And here's a list of open source downloadable apps that are altternatives to Media Encoder: Alternatives (NOTE:

(NOTE: I have not tested any of these, nor am I endorsing. Do some research before you download or use any online tool.)