Worship Planner Training

Worship Planners-in-training are asked to do the following:

Month 1 Worship is Biblical:

• Be reading the Bible
• Read “The Worship Sourcebook”, Prologue, section 1, pages 15-28
• Be familiar with our worship template

Month 2 Worship is Reformed:

•  Getting Started with Worship Planning
•  So You’ve Been Asked To Plan Worship

Month 3 Worship is corporate

• So You’ve Been Asked To Lead Congregational Singing (copies in the work room at church)
• So You've Been Asked To Lead A Worship Service (copies in the work room at church)

• Visit another church and notice how their worship differs from what you are used to
• Meet with Pastor Gary or a worship planner to compare and contrast and think about the why and how.

Month 4 Worship is contextual

• Practice writing transition statements between:
  • Prelude and Call To Worship
  • A song of praise and a prayer of confession
  • Assurance of forgiveness and the offering
• Practice what happens if you don't have anything scripted in front of you and have to lead a prayer of confession on the fly. 

Month 5 Sacraments

• Plan a communion portion of the worship service, based on Galatians 3:23-29 as a preaching text
• Write a prayer of requests
• Lead the prayer of requests in a worship service

Month 6 Worship in Real Life

• Plan a worship based on one of the following themes:

• Practice running a praise team rehearsal. 
• Role play a conversation with Pastor Gary or a worship planner where someone complains about the worship service
• Ask God to lead you to someone else you can train