Worship Musician Magazine September 2020 | Page 55

minutes. One of my favorite books is Death by
Meeting by Patrick Lencioni. You ought to read
that book, because if you want to be successful
at meetings, you’ve got to get cheat codes
and great practices, that move you out of the
meetings that suck and into meetings that are
effective.
[WM] You wrap the book with the statement
that as leaders - we need to serve and lead
well - and to continue learning as we grow. Plus
- people need leaders. Final thoughts on this
for us?
[Chad] One of my favorite lines, “A mentor
walks through the door when a student is
ready to learn.” So I can’t get the leader I need
and the help I need until I position myself as
a learner. That’s why all of us need to be lifelong
learners. We’ve got to make that a value
because we can’t learn and grow until we
position ourselves that way. The opportunity to
grow is always going to be there, what matters
is our position and our posture of learning that
will release the growth.
[WM] Tell us about Zoe’s worship, and how
you’ve got your own songs coming out. Do you
council the songwriters and are you involved in
that? Tell us what you’re doing there?
[Chad] It’s so fun, we’re releasing our third EP
in September. The first one went really well, the
second one did okay, this third one though we
are really excited for. We’ve released one song
from it already. I’ve gotten to write a number of
songs with our group.
But my involvement, we do a writing retreat and
take a bunch of our writers, and we break up
into different groups for two hours at a time. So
I’d be with a group, and because I play church
piano and used to write songs in Puyallup I’m
Be Okay
a little bit used to writing songs. But the guys
here are unbelievable, so are the producers
in our church. In fact, when we wrote our first
EP the song that’s done the best for us was a
song called “Be Okay.” Its got over three million
streams on Spotify which for us as a little church
plant is a big deal. Everybody says, “Man, that
song sounds like Drake, you guys sound like
Drake!” I said, well, the guy who produced that
song in our church also produces for Drake, so
yes, it sounds like Drake because that’s Drake’s
producer (laughs). So, its kind of cool to be in
LA and have cool stuff happen like that, but
we’re just trying to write songs that capture
the heart and the spirit… and the sound of
our church.
Interview
September 2020
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