Worship
Lead with Passion: Creating Powerful Worship Experiences
Strengthen your worship team and create powerful services with our Worship track. Discover practical strategies for effective team communication, building a cohesive worship culture, and refining technical elements like sound and lighting. Learn to streamline administrative tasks using planning tools, ensuring smoother rehearsals and well-organized services. This track equips you with insights to cultivate meaningful worship moments that inspire deeper engagement within your church.
Masterclasses
The 5 Love Languages of Worship
Johnny Burkhalter
Worship isn’t just music. It’s a language. Someone once said, “Worship is a language, and we are teaching people how to speak.” Just like learning Spanish, you don’t become fluent overnight. You learn words. You practice. You immerse yourself. In the same way, worship is how we express our love to God. Jesus gives us the foundation in Matthew 22:37 (NKJV): “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” The greatest commandment isn’t simply obedience, it’s love. And love always expresses itself.
Using the framework of the Five Love Languages, this workshop explores how worship becomes an expression of loving God in multiple ways:
Words of Affirmation Praise, thanksgiving, declaring who He is (Hebrews 13:15)
Quality Time - Drawing near in prayer and presence (James 4:8)
Acts of Service - Living obedient, surrendered lives (Romans 12:1)
Receiving Gifts - Offering generosity, sacrifice, and honor
Physical Expression - Kneeling, lifting hands, bowing in reverence
All of it flows from loving God with everything.
Key Takeaways
Worship Is Love Expressed Worship is not just singing, it is loving God with your heart, soul, and mind. If love is real, it will show up somewhere.
Worship Is More Than Music It’s your words, your time, your obedience, your generosity, and your surrender. Your whole life becomes the offering.
Grace Fuels Extravagant Worship People who understand what they’ve been forgiven from worship differently. When you know what He saved you from, holding back becomes harder.
Real Worship Costs Something Your pride. Your control. Your comfort. Your reputation. The question isn’t, “Do I believe in God?” The question is, “What box am I willing to break?”
Purpose, Pressure, and the Inner Life of a Worship Leader
Brian Taylor
Leadership has a public side and a private side. For worship leaders, the public side gets a lot of attention. The private side determines what you bring to it and how long you'll last. Purpose is what gets you started. Your inner life is what keeps you going. Whether you're coming back from a hard season or running well and trying to keep it that way, the work is the same. This session will help you develop a foundation that holds up under the weight of leadership and deal with the pressure that will try to erode it.
Key Takeaways
Learn the key to longevity in leadership
Identify the hidden deficits that will try to sabotage you
Navigate the pressure that accompanies the platform
Cultivate a deep personal spiritual life (moving beyond generic "quiet times")
Dance Like David: Moving from Passive to Participatory Worship
Sarah Benibo
In Scripture, we don’t read about a people merely thinking about God. We read about a people physically interacting with Him: offering sacrifices, dancing in celebration, and crying out in dependence. Worship has never just been a spiritual experience; it has always been embodied.
In this session, we’ll explore how practices like standing, singing, lifting hands, bowing, and dancing not only express our worship but also form us and how to thoughtfully lead others into a fuller, more embodied response.
Key Takeaways
Understand the why behind bodily engagement in worship
Gain practical methods for teaching embodied worship in ways that feel accessible, not intimidating
Learn how to empower your congregation to engage in worship with freedom, not just out of obligation or routine
Building a Worship Team On-Boarding Process That Develops People, Not Just Musicians
Claudia Oliver
A healthy worship ministry is built on more than musical talent—it requires intentional development of people. This workshop will provide worship leaders with practical tools for creating an audition and onboarding process that identifies, equips, and develops volunteers for long-term ministry effectiveness. Participants will learn how to evaluate both musical readiness and spiritual maturity, establish clear expectations, and create pathways for growth from the first audition through active team involvement. The goal is not simply to grow a worship team, but to develop spiritually healthy volunteers who steward their gifts well and serve with excellence.
Key Takeaways
Learn how to structure an audition process that evaluates both musical competency and spiritual readiness.
Develop a clear onboarding pathway that helps new volunteers understand culture, expectations, and opportunities for growth.
Create practical systems for ongoing development, coaching, and leadership formation that strengthen volunteer retention and team health.
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Building a Strong Worship Culture
Foster unity, vision, and purpose within your worship team for more effective leadership.
Efficient Planning & Execution
Learn how to use tools and processes to streamline rehearsals, scheduling, and service preparation.
Training the Next Generation of Leaders
Grow in your discipleship skills to spot, train and grow the next generation of worship leaders.