Worship ministry has changed drastically over the last 25 years, and for pianists, that change hasn’t always been easy. Today, we hear from Christi Stills who has been a pianist in a traditional, piano and organ worship ministry and has also spent the last 10 years playing with a worship band. Christi also shares with […] The post Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast, Episode 229: Christi Stills, Worship Ministry as a Pianist and Her Journey as a Composer. first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

A lot of people are speculating about what summer 2021 is going to look like for the church. I think it’s safe to say we should anticipate people taking a lot of time to rest and recuperate over the next few months. In fact, it might be what’s needed. Still, we’ll have services to plan […] The post 228 Preparing Worship Ministry For The Post-Covid Summer Ahead first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

As worship leaders we tend to spend the vast amount of our time on musical preparation and leave the spiritual preparation for leading worship until the last minute. We hope that God will “show up” in our corporate worship without having spent time in with Him personally. Today, David & Joe talk about some of […] The post Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast 227: Spiritual Preparation For Leading Worship, Taize, Promises & The Blessing first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

Are you working to rebuild your team after the pandemic? Have you had to deal with someone on the team who is bringing everyone down? How do we build healthy teams? Also in this episode we talk about the importance of developing our leadership skills along with our musical skills. Today, we are joined by […] The post Building Healthy Worship Teams Post Covid, Alex Enfiedjian, Worship Ministry Training (WMC-226) first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

You know that time you really messed up the song in the service? Or the time you forgot to put on your capo, or you went to start a track and it was on the wrong song, or you weren’t on the right Main Stage patch? Yeah, me neither. Okay. Maybe that happened this Sunday. […] The post Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast, Episode 225: Learning From Our Mistakes And Dealing With The Loss Of Mentorship In Worship first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

Looking for some good training tools to train your worship team and worship leaders? We’d love to introduce you to Branon Dempsey or Worship Team Training and Worship Team Training University! The post WMC, 224: Branon Dempsey of Worship Team Training first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

In this episode we spend some time catching up with Joe and hearing about his experience in the ice storm, being without power for 10 days. We also talk about David’s new album available on Spotify, iTunes and all digital platforms, “Peaceful Piano Hymns”.  To find out more about David’s album, visit his website: http://davidlindner.net/2021/03/peaceful-piano-hymns-volume-1-now-available-online/ […] The post WMC 223: Catching up with Joe, David’s Peaceful Piano Hymns Album & New Fangled Techology first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

Since we got distracted last time when we intended to talk about distractions, we’re going to talk about distractions today. The post WMC, 222: Distractions first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

In todays’ episode we talk about the idea of worship arts ministry, supporting arts of all kinds in the church and building the influence of the church in society at large.  The post WMC, 221: Art and Influence first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more

In today’s episode we have the privilege of hearing from Composer Ian Evans Guthrie as he shares some selections from his Christmas Album “Good Tidings In Covid.”  The post WMC, 220: Ian Evans Guthrie first appeared on Worship Ministry Catalyst ..read more