As Dr. Marcia McFee, a well-known creative scholar of worship simply puts it, "The worship team is a group of people who contribute i
deas and help carry out tasks related to worship. This is a process that requires all hands on deck." The question is "who are these people?"
They are musicians, artists, poets, dancers, those who know media and technology, sound, lights, puppetry, drama, ushers, and greeters.
Almost all of us can be one of these "people." Each of us has life experiences and a perspective on our faith journeys that can enhance
our worship team. From the smallest thing you do or contribute, to the biggest, Dr. McFee calls everyone on the team a worship leader.
Our visionary and spiritual leaders, Pastor Jerome and Pastor Rebecca, help to set the spiritual tone like our worship series. Then the team
helps through verbal, musical, visual, dramatic, media and communications arts. When all these are put together during worship we find
ourselves drawn into a deeper faith journey with God and our senses become alive with the leading of the Holy Spirit. What a joy to worship!
Recently our worship team signed up with Dr. McFee for a year to guide us and help us discern our own process as a worship team.
That is truly exciting. We have begun cleaning out our closets and trying to organize and label where everything goes. I believe that the
worship team can be a vibrant and vital discipleship group in our congregation. On this team one will learn theology, artistry, mission,
commitment, spiritual direction, and fellowship.
I would love for this group to be multigenerational. We all value the spiritual life of our church family. Please prayerfully consider
becoming part of this team. Together we can create meaningful and memorable worship.
