random things like trashcans. I was one of their [WM] You serve at Church of the City in [WM] I mentioned the “pool” of gifted worship
only friends they had here in the States at the Franklin, Tennessee, and have a wonderful leaders in your church. How is the decision
time, so they called me up and said, “Hey, we senior pastor in Darren Whitehead, and an made to rotate so many folks into the schedule?
have this showcase but we don’t have a trash incredible roster of gifted worship leaders within can, so we don’t know how we’re going to do your congregation. Do the worship leading [Chris] That’s a great question, and I don’t
our show.” (laughs) I thought, “Oh, I’ll just go teams gather as a community, and if so, what know if we’ve fully got it down yet. I think the
get them a trashcan”. So how I actually ended does that look like? way that I approach it from my end is trying to
up at that thing was because I had to bring a
form teams of people. When I lead I typically
trashcan for the Rend guys. I think Rend and [Chris] Right now we have what we call have the same members if possible, and
maybe City Harmonic played for that showcase. “immersion nights”, and we try to do them once then I’ll sub in, because inevitably somebody
a month. It’s just our worship team and some is traveling. So, I’ll substitute people in. The
Over the past decade, all of what I write, the way leaders and people who play instruments, but reason why I like to do it that way is because I
that I write, and the reasons why I write, are all in addition to that we have our whole team think there is something beautiful about when
based around the local church. I’m a worship of people who run lyrics and do video stuff. you learn to lead with each other and play with
pastor at a church in Franklin, Tennessee, They’re all invited to come and we just worship each other. We’ve been doing it that for a while
and have been in full time ministry since I was together on our own. Typically, those worship now, and as people grew to know each other
eighteen. Here in the Franklin area I’ve been of times are a little more “free flowing” because and figured out how each other played, for
staff at the church I’m at now, Church of the we don’t have the schedule of two services, lack of a better word, we “jammed” together.
City, for about six years leading worship, and trying to get through everything. So, we can And that’s part of what we do. Lately we’ve
before that I was at another church for ten just kind of jump into worship together, maybe been able to expand from that A-team B-team
years. So all of the songs that I wrote were kind one person leads a song and then someone thinking, and we’ve expanded into having a
of for our community, based on what I felt like else has a song. But you’re right, we really are little broader expression of being able to plug
my congregation needed to sing and what the blessed. We’ve got some of the best worship in different people on any given week now that
Lord was doing in my own life. leaders that I know of. everybody kind of knows each other. The way
January 2020
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