Blending Workshop

I have a challenge for our music team - that challenge is for us to sing "...as with one voice..." - 2 Chronicles 5:13. I'd like for everyone on our team to watch this 2 part video and dwell on it in your hearts and minds so that we can focus on this challenge together. At the Music Team Retreat we watched, discussed and reflected on this video and felt that it should be viewed by the entire team!

As you are watching, please focus in on the following:

• Humility
• Blending with your neighbor
• Dialing in
• Singing is to speaking as speaking is to singing
• Awareness
• Conversational

Part 1

Part 2

Please offer your thoughts and inspirations!

To open the gates of trust in God, nothing can replace the beauty of human voices united in song - Taize community

Music Retreat News

I just want to say that our 2008 Music Retreat was a wonderful time of learning, communicating, worshipping, and growing!! We had the opportunity to deepen and refresh our relationships with one another and expand our Music Ministry as a whole.

Here's some lessons learned and takeaways:

• The entire music team should watch the 'Singing As A Group' section of the worship DVD we viewed - look for a future blog entry and link
• Blending is very important and we can improve in this area
• Can we purchase a monitor system so we can hear each other better and thus improve our blending?
• We'd really like to include more special music and musical offerings - let's think about how we can do this.
• How can we use music to make the Kids feel more a part of the service
• Zoe would love to do a Hymn study with the kids
• Let's use the Communion, Offertory and Prelude slots in the service to explore more creative musical offerings. Duets, Instrumentals, Kings Kids offering a song, changing up song arrangements, etc.
• We need to have a point person for leading each song - all other singers will use this song leader to follow

Quotables from the retreat:

• Worship is living in the Beauty of Holiness - great quote Nick!
• Leading is Serving
• Too many I and Me songs bug me!
• I like simple songs that the congregation really knows and can sing
• We are there not to entertain but to come along side
• Scott - I have a new found respect for what you do each week

If you're interested, here's a link to our original Retreat Agenda. BTW - You'll find a comments link below - give it a try!

Worship is living in the Beauty of Holiness - N. Kozel