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Coordinating and leading worship is a high calling, but it needn’t be daunting. We’ve found some things online that are both encouraging and practical. Have fun looking at some of these:

The Importance of Being a Worship Leader

“Hospitality” may seem a strange way to label the role of a worship team, but if worship is entering the throne room of God, then people on the worship team are “standing at the doorway,” inviting others in. Hospitality make perfect sense. This article will encourage you if you’re new to leading worship or if you’re having doubts about your expertise.

Enlarging Your Worship Culture

Are you ready to take some first steps toward true multicultural worship? It’s not easy, but it’s important. Kristy Dawn Kimsey writes, “It is our own ethnocentrism at work when we claim that our own cultural preferences are more appropriate for worship than those of others. When many people of different cultures come together in worship, one worship culture will not enable all people to praise their Maker authentically.” In this article, Krista-Dawn offers some pointers to expand the worship experience in your fellowship.

Shepherding Worship Leaders

Ever wonder just how to give feedback to the worship team? This is a simple Word document aimed at those to lead or shepherd worship leaders. This could include campus ministry staff, student presidents or chapter worship coordinators.

Large Group Worship Planning Worksheet

Here is another Word document that will walk the worship team through a large-group worship planning process. It assumes you will know what the speaker for any given meeting will be talking about, and it also includes some evaluation questions for use after the event.

Practical Insights into Christian Living (PICL): Worship

This is a PowerPoint presentation adapted by Danny Park from other sources (see the notes pane under the slides in Microsoft PowerPoint). It’s mostly a set of 10 tips about worshiping well. We’re not sure you’d want to just use it as it is, but it’s highly adaptable for prepping a talk or creating your own PowerPoint. The content is well worth pondering, even as a personal devotion, let alone as a presentation!

From the Large-Group Meeting Handbook

Did you know there is a handbook for large-group meetings? Hey, this is InterVarsity. Of course there would be a handbook. Knowing about it and finding it, well, that’s a different story. But here it is. And it has some good, solid, basic tips on worship. You can find ideas about what worship is (and isn’t), as well as thoughts about music and corporate prayer.

More articles on leading worship

We’re on the lookout for good stuff related to group worship, especially the “whole” of worship, going beyond singing and including use of space, Scripture, liturgy, corporate prayer, testimony and more. Feel free to post your best stuff to the Ministry Exchange, and then let us know about it Maybe you’ll see it featured in a future Editor’s Choice!