"Music in the Smaller Church" booklet from TWIST - available to order
Just got back from TWIST Music Conference in Sydney. It was an awesome time to gather with fellow church musicians from all over the country for some excellent teaching and hands-on music training. Mike Raiter - preach it how it is, brother! I’m sure his message will be available to order soon at the TWIST site.
I was greatly blessed with some lively and encouraging dialogue in my Music in the Smaller Church workshop, and I took away a lot of wisdom from people who have lived in smaller churches far longer that me. Thanks guys! I plan to post on a few of the topics we discussed in the coming days. If any of you who attended the workshop have questions / comments / feedback please feel free to email me.
I printed a 90-page booklet for the seminar which contains all the music training material here at www.reason.mu, bundled together in one handy reference. If you’d like more copies for your church, we’re more than happy to mail you some. Details for ordering are here.
Hi Alex, just wanted to say thanks for a helpful and thought-provoking seminar at TWIST! Praise God for the thought you’ve put into this issue and the effort you’ve gone to to collate the material and put this site together. It’s really challenged me to stop whinging about not having enough musos, and to get on and do as much as we can with what we have - rather than settle into ‘maintainance mode’ and think that it’s no use aiming for more… It’s made me think about re-evaluating the ministries I do at church, and maybe needing to focus on one thing rather than trying to do everything
Comment by Catherine Turnbull — August 30, 2007 @ 6:39 pm
Hey here’s a question…the song survey is a great idea, but it started me thinking - should the song choice and musical culture of a church be driven by the congregation, or by the music team/senior minister etc? ie how much should we be responding to what the congregation wants, and how much should we be be trying to lead and grow what and how the church sings? I guess it’s a mixture of both - what do other people think? I’d be interested to hear where people think the balance should lie…
Also for anyone addicted to facebook as much as I am… there’s a group called Christian Music Australia, might be worth joining - not that much happening on it at the moment but it might be another good forum for discussion, sharing songs and so on
Comment by Catherine Turnbull — September 1, 2007 @ 10:41 am
Hey Catherine - thanks for the question. Just posted a response above. Alex
Comment by Alex — September 5, 2007 @ 11:58 pm