Four ways to promote relationships within worship teams

Written by Bryan Nelson | posted in behind the scenes, church, tip, worship | 3 Comments

Worship teams work hard each week. Every seven days a new set of music and creative element to lead people to a deeper life in Christ. These efforts are quality of music, organization, communication, calendar, and even getting the music charts to the musicians in advance.

But what do you think worship teams rarely work hard at?

For me, the answer is clear. Relationships. I tend to think that the relationships will be a natural by-product as we work on everything else. The funny thing is, when we get to our deathbed – relationships are about the only thing that matters. And most importantly our relationship with God.

In the coming months we are going to make some efforts to make relationships and connecting with each other even more of a priority. Here are four ways we are going to promote relationships within our worship arts family this fall.

1. We will provide dinner and a time to simply hang with each other before some of our largest rehearsals.  This means dinner on our vocal team (worship choir) nights. And this means lunch after our Saturday orchestra rehearsals.
2. Promote the same breakfast location when people eat between worship gatherings.
3. The entire worship arts family will gather once annually for a time of fun and vision casting. Last year the theme was OLYMPICS. This year the theme is a FIESTA (cue mariachi band).  While at this event
4. Gather everyone together for team devos before every rehearsal. Make sure we introduce the techs who are serving “behind-the-scenes.”

These are things that we don’t necessarily have to do. It isn’t necessarily urgent. However the payoff is what is more important than the other seemingly “more important” things like music, execution, creativity, etc.

What do you think worship teams rarely work hard at?

What could we do to promote more healthy relationships in the worship arts family?