One of the phrases I use a lot to speak about our worship ministry is that It’s about ‘people over programme’. I really believe we need to be building healthy teams of people who know they are valued and will be invested in – not just there to fill a slot/role. Here are a few practical ways we implement this at St G’s. (as always, forgive my writing/punctuation ...

Ok this is a really quick, ‘quick tip’ For those involved in leading occasional worship with young kids, learn from my mistake! Always use lower case for the projection words! I was asked to lead worship in our church for a kids event and I designed a beautiful all singing all dancing powerpoint for the words and did it in caps because the font was awesome. Little did I think that with...

I thought it may be helpful to do a new ‘Quick Tip’ feature starting with a tip around ‘tempo’. A lot of leaders I come across struggle with setting the tempo of songs – (mostly with going too fast!) A classic example is ‘Our God is greater’ (water you turned into wine) where people start too fast and when they get to the tag ‘and if our God is for u...

  After recommendation from a mate (Pat again! – mate you should get blogging!) I decided to check out this app for idevices. It’s called OnSong http://www.onsongapp.com/ It’s only a few quid on the app store and is designed for worship teams, artists and bands. (all be it ones with Apple devices!) It’s basically an all in one chord sheet and projection solution. I&...

Hands up who leads worship teams and loves administration!? If you are one of those rare beautiful people then God bless you – please help the rest of us! At St G’s I help oversee a worship team of over 70 people which is an incredible blessing but can, as you probably imagine, be pretty hard work Rota’s wise. Here is a tool I am using that has been a massive help in collating a...

Stuart Townend will be joining us at St George’s for an evening of worship and teaching! Stuart is a complete legend and has written so many quality songs that have blessed the Church worldwide (inc, In Christ alone, How deep the Father’s love, Beautiful Saviour, See what a morning) Date: 12 March Time: 7.30pm (church o’clock!) Venue: St G’s, Great George Street, Leeds, L...

Hi guys Just a quick update, sharing a few adventures I’m going to be involved in outside of my local church context this year! Firstly, I will be leading worship at Spring Harvest (Skegness week 1) with a team of friends from St George’s! We will be leading at the 11-14′s ‘Distinctive’ venue – I’m so excited about serving such an important age group. For ...