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Crafting A Hymn Tune: "Tricks Of The Trade", Alfred Fedak Jan 2011

Crafting A Hymn Tune: "Tricks Of The Trade", Alfred Fedak

Symposium on Worship Archive

A good congregational hymn tune is simple enough for untrained singers to learn quickly and sing well. It should also be fresh, memorable, and sturdy enough to withstand repetition. Finally, it must fit its text like a glove. How does one write such a tune? Come hear this widely-published composer describe his own process and offer advice on how to write your own good tunes. You are also invited to bring along a dozen copies of a tune or two you have composed, to share and to have the opportunity for an encouraging critique.

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"Alleluias" Concentrated: Enabling Expansive Worship In Small Membership Congregations, Paul Detterman Jan 2011

"Alleluias" Concentrated: Enabling Expansive Worship In Small Membership Congregations, Paul Detterman

Symposium on Worship Archive

“If we only had / could…” can become too common a phrase in smaller congregations. God invites us to worship as we can, not as we can’t. Paul Detterman spends the vast majority of his time working with “wee kirks” (under 70 in worship). This session will equip and encourage even the smallest congregation (or small group within a larger community) to design and experience deep, joy-filled worship using everything God has given them and requiring nothing more.

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Worship And Human Emotion, Syd Hielema Jan 2011

Worship And Human Emotion, Syd Hielema

Symposium on Worship Archive

Human emotion plays a profound role in Christian worship, but this role is very complex and easily misunderstood. What is the role of human emotion in our walk with God, and how do we as worship leaders obediently honour that role? What temptations to abuse emotion do we experience? How might we guide congregations to both emotional freedom and emotional maturity?

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Glocal Worship! Finding The Local Congregation's Global Voice, Michael Hawn Jan 2011

Glocal Worship! Finding The Local Congregation's Global Voice, Michael Hawn

Symposium on Worship Archive

Glocal (no, this is not misspelled!) worship assumes that the Holy Spirit empowers local congregations as part of the body of Christ to connect with, pray for, and learn from the global church. This session will explore strategies for encouraging Glocal worship wherever you are.

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Leading With Light: Using Video Projectors Wisely, Steven Koster Jan 2011

Leading With Light: Using Video Projectors Wisely, Steven Koster

Symposium on Worship Archive

What is the screen supposed to do? How do you create media that fits what worship is all about? Using illustrations, techniques, and tools from the field we’ll explore models for using the screen and a process for creating media that helps lead worship rather than distract from it.

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Fresh Encounters With Your Grace: New Expressions Of The Psalms, Rawn Harbor, Martin Tel, Eelco Vos, Konstantin Zhigulun Jan 2011

Fresh Encounters With Your Grace: New Expressions Of The Psalms, Rawn Harbor, Martin Tel, Eelco Vos, Konstantin Zhigulun

Symposium on Worship Archive

Recording and outline of a vesper service featuring the Psalms.

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Rich And Varied Responses To The Word, Constance Cherry Jan 2011

Rich And Varied Responses To The Word, Constance Cherry

Symposium on Worship Archive

If worship is a dialogue of revelation/response between God and people, what happens when the primary avenue of revelation (the sermon) ends without a thoughtful, intentional response from the community? This session helps worship leaders envision rich possibilities for developing responses to the Word so that the conversation with God is sustained, especially when the Eucharist is not offered.

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Leading Worship With The Guitar, Andrew Donaldson, Robert Keeley Jan 2011

Leading Worship With The Guitar, Andrew Donaldson, Robert Keeley

Symposium on Worship Archive

Sometimes a guitarist is the lead musician in a band, or perhaps the guitarist is the only musician leading the congregation in song. Does leading with guitar also mean leading with your voice? Can the guitar take the keyboard role? This session will explore the needed skills and the challenges of encouraging congregational singing led by guitar

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Scripture Comes Alive, Betty Grit Jan 2011

Scripture Comes Alive, Betty Grit

Symposium on Worship Archive

Grant recipients will describe how their congregations became engaged through sermons, music and visual arts to bring Scripture to life.

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Worship And Mission After Christendom, Alan Kreider, Eleanor Kreider Jan 2011

Worship And Mission After Christendom, Alan Kreider, Eleanor Kreider

Symposium on Worship Archive

As Christendom wanes, worship and mission can be integrated anew. Worship glorifies God and forms the worshippers to participate in the missio Dei. This session examines worship practices that embody God’s mission, forming intriguing Christians and hospitably receiving inquirers whom the Christians attract.

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What Role For Historic (Or Recent) Confessions In Worship?, James C. Dekker, Eleazar Merriweather, Jerry Pillay, Lester Ruth, Joyce Ann Zimmerman Jan 2011

What Role For Historic (Or Recent) Confessions In Worship?, James C. Dekker, Eleazar Merriweather, Jerry Pillay, Lester Ruth, Joyce Ann Zimmerman

Symposium on Worship Archive

Does what we say we believe affect how we worship? With the rise of recent statements like the Accra and Belhar Confessions, many church leaders are dusting off historic confessions, wondering what role they could or should still play in the worship, life and thought of church members. This seminar will consider the educational and liturgical use of confessions from several different denominational perspectives.

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Lessons From Sodom, Scott Vander Ploeg Jan 2011

Lessons From Sodom, Scott Vander Ploeg

Symposium on Worship Archive

Many in today’s society have only a vague notion of sin and its consequences. Yet, the gospel of Jesus Christ stands out most brilliantly only when understood against the destructive backdrop of human sin. Utilizing the Old Testament story of Lot in Sodom, Scott Vander Ploeg will explore how to effectively communicate the bad news/good news of the gospel in a mission context.

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Remembering Our Baptisms, Howard Vanderwell Jan 2011

Remembering Our Baptisms, Howard Vanderwell

Symposium on Worship Archive

Churches and families which practice infant baptism face a significant challenge for the formation of faith. How can a one-time baptism of long ago continue to be a shaping influence in the lives of children and youth? How can we be sure that it won’t be “long forgotten”? We’ll examine the role of parents in keeping the idea of baptism alive. We’ll also share our best practices as congregations in liturgical actions that effectively remember baptism.

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Learning To Maintain Stamina As A Spiritual Leader, Dale Cooper Jan 2011

Learning To Maintain Stamina As A Spiritual Leader, Dale Cooper

Symposium on Worship Archive

The burnout rate among church leaders is high. Take pastors as an example: One of every two quits within two years of seminary graduation. In this sectional we’ll identify factors which lead to loss of resiliency, and consider how church leaders can maintain their stamina and flourish both personally and professionally

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Leading Worship Renewal, Betty Grit Jan 2011

Leading Worship Renewal, Betty Grit

Symposium on Worship Archive

Effective projection imagery can enhance worship by bringing people into God’s time and space, reaching them pastorally and freeing them for awe-filled praise. In this workshop we will share some best and worst practices and some foundational principles for the use of media in worship.

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Projection Imagery: Creating Sacred Space, Wendy De Jong Jan 2011

Projection Imagery: Creating Sacred Space, Wendy De Jong

Symposium on Worship Archive

Effective projection imagery can enhance worship by bringing people into God’s time and space, reaching them pastorally and freeing them for awe-filled praise. In this workshop we will share some best and worst practices and some foundational principles for the use of media in worship.

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Asian Christian Worship Practices Worth Adopting Or Adapting, Greg Scheer, Swee Hong Lim Jan 2011

Asian Christian Worship Practices Worth Adopting Or Adapting, Greg Scheer, Swee Hong Lim

Symposium on Worship Archive

This session will introduce a variety of worship expressions from Asian cultures—songs and prayers, gestures that can sometime speak with more eloquence than words, and visual ways to bring beauty to your worship space—all gifts for your congregation to consider.

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Medleys Of Praise: Creating Flow Within A Medley Of Congregational Songs, Robert Nordling Jan 2011

Medleys Of Praise: Creating Flow Within A Medley Of Congregational Songs, Robert Nordling

Symposium on Worship Archive

In this session we will use the Thursday Vespers Service (led by Robert Nordling) and walk through the design, planning and preparation involved using various instruments. Q/A time will follow, with time to explore options for instrumentation, transitions, copyrights, etc. Full packets of the medleyscore and parts will be distributed to those who attend.

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Learning Reconciliation Through Worship Music And Community, David Bailey Jan 2011

Learning Reconciliation Through Worship Music And Community, David Bailey

Symposium on Worship Archive

Forty years ago Dr. Martin Luther King stated, “11 o’clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America.” Forty years later, the racial segregation has not changed a lot, and the segregation has spread to other areas such as age and class. In this workshop, we will discuss practical methods to use worship music as a tool in the ministry of reconciliation within a local church context.

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Beauty At The Cross(Roads): Quotations And Concepts, Bruce Herman Jan 2011

Beauty At The Cross(Roads): Quotations And Concepts, Bruce Herman

Symposium on Worship Archive

Is the Beautiful relevant to the life of faith? Is it mere window dressing/distraction or is it somehow crucial for our life together? Moreover, does beauty require anything of us besides personal assent? Is there anything like a transcendent or true beauty that requires commitment as much as perceptual apprehension? These and other questions surrounding the beautiful will be explored and discussed in this session.

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Re-Tuning The Lyre, Karen Campbell Jan 2011

Re-Tuning The Lyre, Karen Campbell

Symposium on Worship Archive

Psalms have been part of personal and public worship in Ireland since the times of St. Patrick. Yet, today some react against the tradition of metrical psalm singing. The Worship Panel of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland was tasked to examine, revise and refresh the use of psalms in corporate worship. This workshop will demonstrate some newer Irish psalm settings for worship and suggest ways for creative use of the Psalms in worship so that the next generation will come to know God, ‘even the children yet to be born so that they in turn will tell their children’ (Psalm …

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Moving Worship: Encouragement To Engage Our Bodies In Worship, Julia Start Jan 2011

Moving Worship: Encouragement To Engage Our Bodies In Worship, Julia Start

Symposium on Worship Archive

We will study together how dance and movement can enhance worship—whether in the pews or in an open space. We will address the issues of congregational movement as well as dance ministry settings.

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Fresh And New, Tried And True Ii: A Session On Hymn-Based Piano Collections For Worship, Norma De Waal Malefyt Jan 2011

Fresh And New, Tried And True Ii: A Session On Hymn-Based Piano Collections For Worship, Norma De Waal Malefyt

Symposium on Worship Archive

“If we only had / could…” can become too common a phrase in smaller congregations. God invites us to worship as we can, not as we can’t. Paul Detterman spends the vast majority of his time working with “wee kirks” (under 70 in worship). This session will equip and encourage even the smallest congregation (or small group within a larger community) to design and experience deep, joy-filled worship using everything God has given them and requiring nothing more.

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Someday You'll Be A Good Preacher, Stanley Mast Jan 2011

Someday You'll Be A Good Preacher, Stanley Mast

Symposium on Worship Archive

The journey to good preaching is as filled with twists and turns as a Rocky Mountain highway. Stan Mast is a veteran road warrior who will share hard won insights into what it takes to become a good preacher. Special attention will be paid to the sharp tongued critics who can drive aspiring preachers off the road.

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A Gospel Medley: African-American And Beyond, Kenneth Wallace Jan 2011

A Gospel Medley: African-American And Beyond, Kenneth Wallace

Symposium on Worship Archive

The word “medley” has multiple layers of meaning; we can speak of a gospel medley of songs, then there is the fact that African Americans are themselves a medley of cultures, We will sing and reflect on the multiple meanings, experiences, techniques, and values offered in African American and other cultures and music.

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Creative Ideas For Using The Psalms With People With Intellectual Disabilities, Joyce Borger, Nella Uitvlugt Jan 2011

Creative Ideas For Using The Psalms With People With Intellectual Disabilities, Joyce Borger, Nella Uitvlugt

Symposium on Worship Archive

The psalms are the prayer book for all Christians and have as much to say to the person with the Ph.D. as the person with intellectual disabilities. The psalms give voice to both the praise and lament of all God’s children. In this session we will look at ways to assist people with intellectual disabilities to enter into the psalms and make them their own, using a multisensory method of music, drama, and visual ideas. This study of Psalms has a broad use within the Christian community.

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Just Worship, Ruth Padilla Deborst, Scott Hoezee, Mary Mikhael, Jerry Pillay Jan 2011

Just Worship, Ruth Padilla Deborst, Scott Hoezee, Mary Mikhael, Jerry Pillay

Symposium on Worship Archive

We will listen to the cry of the prophet Isaiah, voicing God’s call to God’s people regarding the true nature of worship and the inextricable bond between our relationship with God and our relationship with one another, and particularly with the most downtrodden among us.

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Hymn Fest: Seasons Of Praise, Alfred V. Fedak Jan 2011

Hymn Fest: Seasons Of Praise, Alfred V. Fedak

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Outline and recording of a hymn festival with Al Fedak, organist.

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Surpassing Knowledge, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Paul Ryan, Denise Kingdom-Grier Jan 2011

Surpassing Knowledge, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Paul Ryan, Denise Kingdom-Grier

Symposium on Worship Archive

Outline and recording from a worship service based on Philippians 3:1-11 and the theme of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus.

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Intentionally Inclusive Worship, Mark Stephenson, Bill Vanden Bosch, Lyn Vanden Bosch Jan 2011

Intentionally Inclusive Worship, Mark Stephenson, Bill Vanden Bosch, Lyn Vanden Bosch

Symposium on Worship Archive

When Rev. Bill and Lyn Vanden Bosch came to Oakdale Park Church in Grand Rapids they decided that they would stay long enough for the church to become an inclusive community. They stayed 30 years. They will help participants understand what an intentionally inclusive church looks like. It’s not about creating programs, but creating a mindset which says to each individual, “You belong.” That same mindset avoids paternalism by also telling each person, “You have something to contribute.” Workshop leaders will touch on issues relating to inclusiveness and worship, pastoral care, outreach, and fellowship.

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