22 September 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Will Your Worship Ministry Die with You?

Recently I heard the story of a lady who worked as a volunteer in a church.  She had the keys to the kitchen.  She was the “kitchen master” you might say.  She would offer to prepare food for many church events and the kitchen was hers. It came time for God to take her home.  [...]

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01 July 2008 ~ 6 Comments

What Do You Do When…The Wrong Song is on the Screen and the Projection Volunteer can’t Find the Right One?

This past Sunday at Living Word we had a bit of a minor technical difficulty where the wrong song was put into the schedule for the day and we didn’t have a backup of the correct one.  Although it was humorous and everything else went well, there was a bit of an awkward moment and [...]

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07 February 2008 ~ 1 Comment

A Great Learning Experience

Today and tomorrow Abiding Savior has the privilege to host three staff members from Faith Free Lutheran in Kalispell Montana. We’re going to have an opportunity to show how God is blessing us here, a little bit of how we do things during the work day/week, and perhaps more importantly to learn from them as [...]

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27 November 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Raising Up New Worship Leaders Helps Deal with Burnout (5 of 5)

So what happens when we think we don’t have the right people in place to raise up?  It’s time to ask some questions: Are you praying?  If you aren’t praying for a person to train and raise up, chances are that God’s not going to give you one.  It’s possible that He would, but much [...]

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26 November 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Raising Up New Worship Leaders Helps Deal with Burnout (4 of 5)

This week we’ll finish looking at some reasons why we might be afraid to raise up new worship leaders, which eventually causes us to burn ourselves out. One of the reason that we don’t want to raise up new worship leaders is that we don’t know how.  This is a very valid reason with some [...]

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