Unlocking The Mysteries Of Church Sound Systems,
2017
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Unlocking The Mysteries Of Church Sound Systems, Greg Scheer
Symposium on Worship Archive
Of the many hats worship musicians and pastors wear, “sound system purchaser and troubleshooter” may be the most uncomfortable. Nonetheless, your understanding of how a sound system works could have a huge impact on your congregation’s ability to hear the preaching and take part in singing. This session will teach you about microphones, channel strips, speaker placement, and a myriad of other subjects that likely weren’t included in your seminary or music education.
Hosanna!: Ecumenical Songs For Justice And Peace,
2017
World Council of Churches
Hosanna!: Ecumenical Songs For Justice And Peace, Ester P. Widiasih
Symposium on Worship Archive
This collection of music is gathered from five continents and many different cultural contexts. Each song carries with it a story that provides insights into the unique challenges and piety of worshiping communities around the world. Learning these songs and the stories, gestures, rhythms and instruments that accompany them is a wonderful way to pray for the church around the world and to stretch your community experience toward new empathy for the piety of others.
Limelight And Christian Leadership,
2017
Calvin College
Limelight And Christian Leadership, Rebecca K. Deyoung
Symposium on Worship Archive
Work in Christian ministry and worship leadership often brings a struggle with image, reputation, and audience-pleasing. In this workshop, we’ll learn about the vice of vainglory—both the patterns of its temptation to show off a false self and time-tested spiritual disciplines of resistance to this vice. In a world captivated with selfies and social media, we’ll explore virtuous practices that can help Christians handle the limelight well and show appreciation for each other in ways that glorify God.
Bringing Hymns To Life On Guitar,
2017
Calvin University
Bringing Hymns To Life On Guitar, Wendell Kimbrough
Symposium on Worship Archive
We’ve heard many of the great old hymns played beautifully with organs, pianos, and choirs, but their journey into the world of guitar-led worship can be awkward. Old tunes are often abandoned or significantly altered in the name of modernization, but such revision is not always necessary. This workshop will focus on demonstrating and discussing how to translate traditional hymns into a guitar-led band format while keeping the hymn’s soul intact.
Explaining Christian Worship To The Skeptical Or Questioning Seeker: Group Exercise,
2017
Newbigin House of Studies
Explaining Christian Worship To The Skeptical Or Questioning Seeker: Group Exercise, Kevin Adams
Symposium on Worship Archive
What are best practices for introducing people to the practices of Christian worship? How can we give an account of what we do in worship in warm, winsome, and convicting ways that move beyond surface level explanations to address the deepest spiritual hungers of our age?
Teenage Youth Worship Leaders: Wisdom For Teenagers And Those Who Mentor Them,
2017
Samford University
Teenage Youth Worship Leaders: Wisdom For Teenagers And Those Who Mentor Them, Eric L. Mathis
Symposium on Worship Archive
“Sometimes, it’s so awkward to stand in front of your friends and lead them in worship,” a teenager recently said. It may be awkward at times, but it’s also an unfathomable privilege that comes with much responsibility. This workshop, designed with teenagers and their mentors in mind, will focus on the task and responsibility of leading worship when those closest to us are present. More importantly, this workshop will remind us all of the ways God fits into the work of teenagers seeking to be an example in speech, behavior, love, life, and purity.
The Great Prayer Of Thanksgiving At Baptism And The Lord's Supper,
2017
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
The Great Prayer Of Thanksgiving At Baptism And The Lord's Supper, John D. Witvliet
Symposium on Worship Archive
In the past 40 years, many Protestant communions have recovered a robust, historically-oriented prayer of thanksgiving at celebrations of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Nearly every official denominational liturgical publication has featured strong examples of this practice. Yet thousands of local congregations do not practice this for a variety of reasons, including concern over the length of the service, and—quite likely—not really understanding the spiritually formative power of this practice for the daily life and faith of Christian believers. This session will feature a robust testimony about the value of this ancient practice, deeply rooted in the Psalms, and present …
Singing The Psalms In A Modern Worship Setting,
2017
Calvin University
Singing The Psalms In A Modern Worship Setting, Wendell Kimbrough
Symposium on Worship Archive
The Psalms were written to be sung. But if your church favors guitar-led modern worship, how do you sing the Psalms? Songwriter Wendell Kimbrough’s pastor answered this question by asking him to write short Psalms refrains that are singable and memorable for his congregation. For the past two years, their church has engaged the Psalm through music each week, following the Revised Common Lectionary. In this workshop, Wendell will share some of the best-loved of these refrains and talk about his church’s journey learning to sing and love the Psalms.
The Sun Rises In The East: New Congregational Songs From Asian Composers,
2017
Singapore Bible College's School of Church Music
The Sun Rises In The East: New Congregational Songs From Asian Composers, Joel Navarro
Symposium on Worship Archive
This session features new congregational songs and music for church choir from young composers in Southeast Asia whose works are currently making waves in many parts of the world. This session is recommended for choir directors and singers who are looking for fresh ideas for regular worship, intercultural worship, or church choir repertoire.
Worship: The Embodied Moment For Self And Church Community,
2017
St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church
Worship: The Embodied Moment For Self And Church Community, Kathleen S. Turner
Symposium on Worship Archive
The guiding question for this workshop is: How can movement gesture enhance the worship of God in ways that are whole, imaginative and fulfilling for both the individual and the collective church body? This workshop will explore the ways in which song, word, prayer, liturgical materials and movement gesture meet within the worship experience. It will pay particular attention to the use of the body as an expressive instrument that embodies and displays reflective thought and honest emotion during the worship moment. This workshop welcomes participants to wear comfortable clothing and shoes in order to explore various worship movements that …
Biblical Storytelling Masterclass,
2017
Calvin Theological Seminary
Biblical Storytelling Masterclass, Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence
Symposium on Worship Archive
How can dramatic arts and oral interpretation be used in worship? By applying skills from these art forms to scripture recitation! Bring your memorized Bible narrative to share and hone. Participants are welcome to observe, or to work with Joy in deepening their communication of God’s Word.
What Makes Christian Worship Trinitarian?,
2017
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
What Makes Christian Worship Trinitarian?, Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
Symposium on Worship Archive
The doctrine of the Trinity is old, deep, and mysterious. How should Christian trinitarianism manifest itself in worship—that is, beyond simple repetition of the trinitarian formula? How might deep trinitarian worship bless God and ourselves? How might it even affect the way we look at each other after worship is over?
Singing Psalms: An Outpouring Of Contemporary Song For Congregational Use,
2017
Baylor University
Singing Psalms: An Outpouring Of Contemporary Song For Congregational Use, Alison Adam, Alfredo Colman, Wendell Kimbrough, Greg Scheer, Isaac Wardell
Symposium on Worship Archive
Remarkably, even since the publication of Psalms for All Seasons just a few years ago, over 30 new Psalm-based songwriting and recording projects have emerged from a variety of contemporary worship leaders across North America and beyond. While some of these settings are designed for solo voices, many are well-suited to congregational use, and are worthy heirs to the legacy of congregation-based Psalms re-established by Luther and Calvin. Come to explore a variety of examples of this music, as well as the stories behind the songs. In addition, to consider new songs you might use in your context, come ready …
Faith Formation From Birth To Age 20: A Psychology Professor's Insights For Strengthening Congregational Ministry,
2017
Calvin College
Faith Formation From Birth To Age 20: A Psychology Professor's Insights For Strengthening Congregational Ministry, Marjorie L. Gunnoe
Symposium on Worship Archive
What are the most important things to know when working with kids ages 0–2, 3–6, 7–11, early adolescents, and late adolescents? This fast-paced session is a (really, really) condensed version of a course required for Calvin students minoring in Youth Ministry—without the homework. Helpful for parents, pastors, teachers, mentors and anyone who cares about the faith formation of the next generation.
Short Songs: Deepening Our Participation In Worship,
2017
Calvin University
Short Songs: Deepening Our Participation In Worship, Alison Adam
Symposium on Worship Archive
Short songs do something different: they deepen, with music, the responses a congregation makes in an act of worship. Often tied to liturgical moments in a service, short songs enable us to gather, to pray, to prepare to hear God’s Word, to affirm, to go forth, to move, to rejoice. They tap into the emotion of worship songs, and they draw on the ancient tradition of chant, but they are neither contemporary nor traditional. We’ll sing about 10 of these songs, gathered by the Iona Community from their own writers and from the world church. They are easily led, enable …
Inviting The Text To Direct The Service,
2017
Tyndale University College and Seminary
Inviting The Text To Direct The Service, Joan Devries
Symposium on Worship Archive
Biblical text is central to Christian worship gatherings. Generally, the most significant piece of scripture is the focus of the sermon or the message, and worship planners are happy when they can match that theme in other parts of the worship gathering. What if, however, we invited the text with its various parts and movements to shape the whole of our service more concretely rather than have it be packaged as the teaching contained in a sermon? What if we adopted the movements within a psalm as the separate movements of our worship gathering and we enacted the psalm together? …
Essential Worship: Introducing People To The Art Of Leading Worship,
2017
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Essential Worship: Introducing People To The Art Of Leading Worship, Greg Scheer
Symposium on Worship Archive
Greg will offer reflections on his new book. This is an ideal session for beginning worship leaders, anyone who mentors, teaches, or encourages them, or anyone who is preparing to lead brief training sessions for a worship team or worship committee in their context.
Innovation In Worship: Working With A Team To Make Healthy Changes,
2017
Fellowship Reformed Church
Innovation In Worship: Working With A Team To Make Healthy Changes, Jordan Clegg, Dawn B. Gibson, Kathy Smith, Jonathan Tamayo, Jeff Wong
Symposium on Worship Archive
Listen to a diverse group of panelists from various churches across North America describe how they envisioned and led their congregations through changes in worship. We will consider the value of empowering members’ gifts in worship, and wisdom for healthy change processes. This seminar will be valuable for any church considering changes in worship.
Universal Design, Responsive Design: Keys For Welcoming Persons With Varied Abilities,
2017
Western Theological Seminary
Universal Design, Responsive Design: Keys For Welcoming Persons With Varied Abilities, Benjamin T. Conner, Melissa Conner, Barbara J. Newman, Karen Roberts Phd, Reginald Smith
Symposium on Worship Archive
Worshipers and congregation members certainly do not come in a “one size fits all” wrapping! As you gather for worship you will notice an array of gifts, but you may also see the areas of struggle each one brings to the community. How do worship planners and pastors best weave in best practices for including each one in the conversation with God in worship? Join us as we highlight ideas to get your congregation launched in the right direction as you include members with disabilities.
Program - 2017 Worship Symposium,
2017
Calvin University
Program - 2017 Worship Symposium, 2017 Worship Symposium
Symposium on Worship Archive
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