Vineyard East Worship

Calling all songwriters and graphic artists. Once again we are producing a CD that will be given away at our regional conference this July.

Details will be coming shortly but for now start writing and recording songs that you want to submit for this project.

This year we are asking graphic artists to submit art work that will be chosen for the cover of the CD.

Please get the word out to all the folks in your church communities that might be interested.

Any thoughts on this?

We’ve been doing a very informal worship leaders’ training at NJV, and I recently sent out this article for everyone to discuss.  I try to look through this article every year to make sure that I continue to lead according to our Vineyard values and to remind myself to be more intentional about the way I lead worship and love the church.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Registration for the VINEYARD WORSHIP LEADERS RETREAT WEST in Cannon Beach, Oregon is still open!! There are a lot of folks who are planning to join us so if you are a worship leader, worship pastor, worship coordinator, music director, youth worship leader, or anyone else in leadership of a worship ministry you won’t want to miss this special time of worship, community, prayer, encouragement and rest.

The retreat is just around the corner so follow the link below and sign up today! SPACE IS LIMITED!!!

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS:
Vineyard Worship Leaders Retreat – WEST
Cannon Beach, OR

Below are quotes from a forum of well known, veteran worship leaders held at the Vineyard National Worship Leaders Retreat (NWLR) EAST in October. Originally posted on the NWLR web app.

Doug Anderson, Raymond McDonald, Terry Butler,
David Ruis, Marie & John Barnett.

• “You have to pastor the new forms of worship being started at your church, otherwise you invite conflict and disunity.” – John Barnett

• “Know a person’s values and worship life before you invite them onto the worship team.” – Terry Butler

• “If the character is not there, the gift is useless.” – Raymond McDonald

• “It’s not about us it’s about the church. We play matchmaker between the bride and the Bridegroom.” – John Barnett

• “Mercy is embedded in the music of the Vineyard. That’s our sound.” – David Ruis

• “Repent. Come back to the cross and deal with your crap.” – Marie Barnett

• “Experience others’ pain. Be with the poor.” – David Ruis

• “You grow as a leader when you hit a wall. Seek God in those times.” – Raymond McDonald

• “Be grateful. Lead worship like it’s your last time ever.” – John Barnett

Thanks to Patrick Steed (@patricksteed) for tweeting these great quotes from Thursday’s forum of veteran worship leaders.

Cutting Edge, the church planting magazine for the Vineyard, dedicated it’s Spring 2011 issue to issues of worship, both practical & theoretical.

We thought it was a great read addressing the very real issues worship leaders are facing today from leadership, to staying relevant to our culture to the spaces in which we worship.

Here’s a run down of articles…

• Worth-ship Reports from the Field, a conversation with Kate Umbaugh (Mile High Vineyard), Ryan Delmore (Five Cities Vineyard), Jim Zartman (Vineyard Cincinatti) & Matt Turrigiano (Vineyard North Phoenix)
• Key Values in Worship: A conversation with Casey Corum,  leader of the National Vineyard Worship Task Force
• How Leaders Grow Worship, by Dan Wilt, Learning Community Director of WorshipTraining.com
• Worship Basics for Church Planters: A conversation with Steve Nicholson, pastor of Evanston Vineyard
• Global Worship: An interview with David Ruis, well known worship leader, songwriter & pastor of the Basilia Community in LA
• Creating a Place for People, by Nicole McAdoo-Popovich of the Mile High Vineyard in Denver

Download the issue here: Cutting Edge Spring 2011 – Worth-ship Reports from the Field (PDF)

As always, tell us your thoughts!

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The Vineyard National Conference happened in the beginning of May in Phoenix, AZ. It was fantastic time of re-focusing the movement on what’s ahead.

For those of you who weren’t able to make it, we highly recommend  listening in to the main session talks (all were great, but if we (I) had to suggest only 3, I’d suggest Bert Waggoner’s,Ken Wilson’s & Brian Anderson’s).

In addition many of the workshops were recorded & are available (free), including roundtables with Casey Corum about worship.

Listen to Main Sessions Online (free) >

Listen to Workshop Talks Online (free) >

Purchase Main Session 6 DVD Boxset >

Tell us what you think (or if you were there, tell us what you thought)!

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Our good friend Seth has released a new record produced by worship vetern Kevin Prosch called When He Reigns.

Find free downloads, song charts, getting your hands on the whole record & more about what Seth has been up to on his new website here.

Here’s a little teaser for you…

The first week of November the national worship task force met in Houston at the Vineyard Music recording studio.