Why you should be having rehearsals at your church // Worship Leader Wednesday

[@catherineabbott6249]

Yes....we have rehearsal at church. Church is our common ground. We are a very new group and need to learn EVERYTHING.

[@bobcastelline8960]

Thursday evening and Sunday morning sound check and run-through. Absolutely.

[@robertwood344]

We have a Wednesday evening rehearsal and again Sunday morning before the service. I’ve been playing guitar for almost 40 years and I still remain a firm believer in the importance of personal and group practice.

[@Anonymous99997]

Having played in worship bands for over 40 years, I have had times where we were unable to do our regular rehearsal due to a holiday or other event. We would show up an hour and a half earlier to get the same rehearsal time in, but it just isn’t the same. There is so much to be said for being able to rehearse and then “sleep on it.” It always turns out better. Another thing that helps me arrive prepared is to practice along with the track in the same key. I have subscribed to MultiTracks and have invested in all the track of the songs we do in order to be able to pull the songs up at home and practice to the very same track we use on Sunday.

[@jackdavis98]

So full confession: I thought this video was going to be about the location of rehearsals, and not the need for rehearsals at all. I’m stunned that people not rehearsing is a large enough thing to need a video.

[@theJOYmudgeon]

Yes, Thursday evening from 6:30 to 8:00, and Sunday mornings 1-1/2 hrs. before the 1st service. Feel free to stop by. Newton Iowa Church of The Way.

[@meafigueroa2849]

Well, I'm 2 years in with the same 5 people! 2 acoustics, 1 piano, 3 vocals. NO DRUMMER (tears streaming down my cheeks) We practice Tuesday nights and Sunday Mornings before service.

[@lowercase3635]

Hey guys. I just wanted you to know that through the past 5 years of watching your videos, I have become both a better musician and a better worship leader. What you guys are doing is awesome. Keep it up!

[@sarahhunt3310]

Definitely agree with what y’all are talking about. I’m a worship leader at a smaller church and have the same four to five musicians every Sunday. We started having longer practices on Saturdays instead because just an hour before service wasn’t really cutting it and I’m so glad we did! Our team is way more confident when playing together now. Anyway, great content! Love your videos!

[@isaacstoryy]

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[@RyanChu45]

Thanks a lot, even though I am not a worship leader but you guys have given me an idea how to treat people right.

[@johnnolan4312]

We have a Thursday evening rehearsal, we also have a devotional time and pray through the Sanctuary for our Sunday service

[@jazzdaneclarke4614]

Definitely we have rehearsals! One rehearsal on Thursday nights for 1 1/2 hours and then a soundcheck on Sunday mornings.

[@steveccase]

Yes - we have a rehearsal the afternoon of our first weekend worship gathering

[@jabezrbrain]

As far as scheduling goes - people LOVE to make excuses as to why they cant be there for rehearsal. Ill say that to this, if its important to you, you will make time for it. However, on church service times, everyone is already there. I've learned to take advantage of this time by having rehearsal after/later in the same days on Sundays due to this. I dont get paid to fulfill my role as the Worship Leader and I make it there every week 2 times a week and I have a full-time job and have kids and also my wife died 5 months ago. I dont have the luxury of having multiple people so they can rotate. If my team values being on the praise team, then they show-up. Its very simple. I hope this helps anyone who just happens along and reads it.

[@rickycarter6433]

We "rehearse" Wednesday nights after church. My goal is people "practice" at home so we can work on transitions, and relationship building. We use to practice on Thursday nights but I believe in honoring peoples time, so instead of asking for 2 nights a week for church stuff we knock it out in one night. Our practices last about an hour and a half, we go through the whole service 2 times. Great job guys keep it up.

[@pamyates77]

We have a small team of 4. Rehearsals on Wednesday evening and run through Sunday morning. After the run through we have a Bible study and prayer time with the team.

[@Jonathan_Bradford]

we've branded ours as run through's and use them just to hang out really. we run through our set, work out any kinks and talk about the songs and life.

[@Wells306]

We have some-people-get-together-and-try-and-figure-out-songs-because-most-don't-prepare-ahead-of-time time

[@MrDrumer4life]

We practice thursday evening for our friday service and friday after service we reherse for sunday morning service and also do a run through sunday before service after the run thru we have a 30 min devotional with all of the worship team like, Band, dancers, tech team. Before service.

[@小牛-o5f]

I used to play in a church where we went from rehearsals on Saturday evening to just prolonged soundchecks on Sunday morning. Often Saturday rehearsals were incomplete because someone could not come for one reason or another, happend to me, too. Plus we got quite some pressure from the neighbours, threatening to send us the police. The transition worked because at a certain point the whole team was so tight in playing together we didn't have a major problem with it. Still in my opinion it would have been better to rehearse, even if not complete. Gives the whole team more security, no bad surprises like guitarist (me) practiced in a different key than the rest of the team... Now I'm in a different place where I lead the small worship team. We rehearse on Wednesdays or Thursdays and if we feel the need, repeat on Saturday. The experience is totally different, because here I started with some total beginners and could watch them grow into their position over time. The lord sometimes does real miracles through rehearsals, so don't miss the chance.

[@EtOHman]

Yes, we rehearse at church on Thursday night, then run through on Sunday morning.

[@grant.m.ball0603]

At my youth group the members of the worship team who is scheduled to play that Wednesday night will meet at the church in Monday far a hour and a half to run through and learn the set list and then we meet at 3:45 on Wednesday for sound check and run through before service later that night

[@shantemoore6265]

No we don't. For choir pieces yes but for worship team only on Sundays before the service and that is not sufficient or good. I agree with this video

[@bassplayerjosh]

I play at a multi-site church, all but one of the campuses has a mid-week rehearsal on Thursdays. The one campus that hosts a Monday evening service does an early Sunday morning rehearsal to avoid a 3 day commitment from volunteers. They're essential imo unless you're playing a set with pros that's identical to the recording.

[@Jules4Hymn]

Rehearsal for Sunday’s songs and learn new songs on Wednesday night and a quick practice and sound check Sunday morning.

[@jabezrbrain]

Sunday Morning for roughly one hour and Wednesdays before service for maybe 45 minutes. Thats about all we get.

[@Cadet44642]

We have rehearsals on Wednesday evening and a sound check and rehearsal Sunday morning.

[@aarondedominicis7116]

I’m the youth worship leader at my church and I try to plan songs and teams out a month in advanced and I have midweek rehearsals every week because teenagers normally need the extra help and it gets everyone on the same general page. I also get to challenge them with a small group question based on the foundations of worship.

[@rockstardr]

We show up Sunday mornings and wonder what songs were gonna do.... and who's gonna run sound today. Then we practice without a real sound check cause the sound guy wasn't there. . ... then the sound guy shows up and turns down the house volume because Sunday school is happening and we're "too loud". So the second half of practice feels wrong cause it's mostly just our in ear monitors...... we might get through each song twice.... then live..... here goes nothing.....

[@jabezrbrain]

Sounds very realistic and like most places I've been. Thank for your honesty. Possibly you are in a Baptist church too my friend?

[@rockstardr]

Assembly of God

[@saucydanny6140]

Yes! Amen

[@KitchenFamilyHomestead]

This is all great information. You have already done this topic before. Tho reading the comments I can see why u did it again.. so many excuses! When I was the worship leader before I moved, rehearsals were mandatory. If u didn’t make it u probably weren’t gonna okay Sunday. It was a start up church so not a lot of musicians available. so guess what, sometimes it was just me because nobody could make it to rehearsal. The congregation didn’t care, the music was still sung with the same passion. They would say things like “it felt more intimate”

[@RyanWright]

We usually rehearse at the church on Thursday nights, then meet up early on Sunday for a final "runthrough/ rehearsal"

[@realrayza7171]

We do Thursday and Saturday(run-through).

[@seancca]

We rehearse Thursday Nights and then have another run-through on Sunday morning.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

This came up on my feed and I watched it because I have strong feelings about this subject. I know you won’t understand this, but I hate the idea of having rehearsals for worship service. Most churches have moved so far away from Spirit-led worship, you probably have never seen it. I remember back when I got saved the musicians(and we had some very talented ones) never practiced, but they were all in unison and moved with the Spirit of God. It worked and I remember my father-in-law, who is a musician, unable to understand how it all flowed so beautifully and everyone, even though we might sing a chorus over and over, all knew when to end because they were following the leading of the Spirit. I guess if you don’t have that, rehearsing comes into play. So sad to me. I never heard you say once anything about seeking God in this video. I think it would be great, if instead of rehearsals, you spent that time in earnest prayer seeking God. That’s how you lead in worship. Its way more important to the worshippers you are trying to lead than rehearsing. Just my two cents, this probably sounds very foreign to all here, just giving you food for thought, not hating.

[@DeeRok35]

At my church we’re unable to rehearse for the sole fact everyone has families and there careers outside of church. It’s just really hard to get/find days we are able to do it.

[@robertcrespo8253]

We haven’t found a permanent building yet so we meet in our studio each week

[@bow4me1]

We try to meet on Thursday evening. As work allows I keep them on a group text to notify in advance If I cant make it.

[@ifyouhavetohidesomething7031]

@bow4me1 People should be bowing to Jesus, not you.

[@rivkeg7599]

We have a one-hour rehearsal before our service. we'd love to have weekly rehearsals, but the situation of our church (we don't have a place of our own, we're currently in a party salon and we have a certain hour when we have to arrive/leave) makes it almost impossible to have those rehearsals

[@freemandiaz5123]

Sound person perspective and possible rant: Worship team practice is at pastor's house thu night. No sound guy needed. Special practice at church bldg last Thu, no sound guy scheduled. I get a call three hours before, Hey, can you make it? Fail to see sound guy as part of worship team. Meh, I signed up to avoid the Greet your Neighbor part. 😁

[@Giokaypal]

No rehearsal sadly just a run though Sunday 🥺

[@slugsgomoo]

I definitely agree with rehearsals, but your perspective here is *strongly* colored by being in a large church. You have more people on your worship team, than we have attending weekly. Not having the same people playing every week isn't even an option, unless we simply don't want to have that instrument. For me, due to working late hours, and a ridiculous commute (be in an area where commuting is 1-3 hours each way, extra fun), weeknights are out, because most of the team isn't able to do a practice that starts at 7:30-8pm, so we do rehearsals once a month on Saturday, and Sunday mornings. It's not perfect, but there's no better solution. I'd love to see a video that talks about the challenges leaders have who don't have a roster of dozens of pro level musicians, multiple campuses, etc- and how to address those.

[@edwintorres7655]

Most of the time No rehearsal And randomly Uses Persons from Church Data are not In the worship band And never know what to expect Sometimes even we have to improvise

[@henryvanweeren7233]

No matter when they happen, reinforce that rehearsals be done with the same intensity/passion as an actual service. Sound engineers will be much happier and more effective for the team. On-the-fly adjustments during the service are brutal. Case in point: a young worship leader recently had a very "mousy" soft voice during a rehearsal. I asked her to increase her vocal intensity (presence/volume) so others could hear her in the monitors and mix better for FOH. She politely declined and said it would be louder during the service. Sigh.... It was hard to take this worship leader seriously when she tried to encourage the people gathered to sing joyfully before the Lord (plus I spent the first few minutes adjusting settings for monitors, FOH and live stream). There is only one standard to worshiping God: with all your heart.

[@markinthemix6055]

You both are breaking a lot of hearts with this video. Sadly there’s way too much laziness in the church. You have musicians that want high production and ya have ppl that show up. It’s been a frustrating issue for years with many many churches.

[@KitchenFamilyHomestead]

Also there may be a slight disconnect between the two of you & a minority of church music leaders. The average church size in America is 75 in attendance. That doesn’t leave a lot of room for multiple musicians. We’re talking multi tracks for years before you see someone with some experience. I know from experience. We were a plant of 5 other surrounding large churches they were more than willing to help. Train in tech, tune the board, but just didn’t have any musicians looking to leave their church to play for us. 🤷‍♂️

[@KitchenFamilyHomestead]

I wrote minority. Was supposed to be MAJORITY.