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...

Here are some quick pointers for people who lead musical worship in small groups. Be Prepared Pray about preparing your set, be asking what does God want to say to the group and how can you help people respond? Try and communicate with the speaker and find out what the topic is, this may help you in choosing and shaping songs. Worship God with the songs you have chosen, we cannot lead people t...