Christian Review Magazine Issue 4 - April 2015 | Page 36

an article by Melissa Riddle Chalos

W

hat happens when
there’s no agenda, no
ego, no limits and no
expectations? When a disparate
bunch of burned-out singers and
musicians whose souls are sucked
bone-dry by week-in, week-out
service simply show up for no other
reason but to see what God has up
His sleeve?
Sure, there’s talent in the room, and
plenty of it. But there’s something so
healing about laying down the
individual to become part of a mob.
WorshIpMob began in Colorado
Springs, CO, in 2011 for the sole
purpose of ministering to worship
leaders, empowering them to

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minister to each other and
experience worship together beyond
church walls. To simply allow space
for God to move, for these musicians
to respond and to, eventually, share
the result for free with people all over
the world.
“Originally, the idea was to capture
as close to a live worship experience
as possible,” explains Sean
Mulholland, a worship musician who
started WorshipMob in his home
studio. “I was quite jaded at the time,
and the worship experience I was part
of every week didn’t seem real to me.
It felt like a musical performance with
a few, select people. I wanted to
know what it would feel like to get a

bunch of people like me, mostly
singers and musicians of a similar
caliber, and go for something more
free, to see where the Holy Spirit
might lead.”
Within a year, word started getting
out, and it was standing room only in
this little “hospital for worship
leaders.” But the numbers belied the
most significant growth. “A year in, it
started developing in a way we could
not have imagined,” Garrett
Chynoweth, who serves as a lead
pastor for WorshipMob, says. “It
began to explode… in expression,
heart and spirit…we didn’t try to
impose a particular style or sound on