I’m at the Integrity Seminars 4 Worship conference in Houston today through Friday. I was really excited about getting to go to this. I usually try to go to one of these type of things every year and most of them are in the summer or middle of the year. This year none of those worked for me because Emmy was due at the end of July/beginning of August. I found this one many months ago and planned to go because the timing was good, the location was close and it was just a few days, not a week long.
Worship seminars like this are great for a couple of reasons.
1) Refresh and renew. As worship leaders in the church leading every week, we spend a lot of time leading in corporate worship but don’t get many opportunities to worship in this environment without the pressures of leading. Personal worship is important and helpful in refilling, but it is a whole other thing to gather with a group and be led by someone else.
2) Knowlege and insights. No matter how much experience, knowledge and skill you have in the craft of worship leading, it is always good to hear fresh, new and different thoughts and instruction in leading people into the presence of God. Especially from seasoned and successful worship leaders and pastors but even from other attendees who are in the trenches just like us.
3) Resources. Even with the easy access we have through the internet to discovering new songs, tools and study/training materials, it seems I always come away from these events with something that I wasn’t familiar with before.
I’ll try to post my experiences from this week and share some of these nuggets.
