Educator

EDUCATION LEADER

  • Assist church leaders, worship committees, and music directors to evaluate existing worship arts programs
  • Share tools and concepts for enhancing the existing worship arts in traditional, blended, and contemporary service formats and designing vital worship
  • Provide insight on how to engage and move a congregation forward in worship when transitioning from different service formats and adding new services through convergence worship.
  • Convergence worship is the combining of the historical and the contemporary at every level of worship to create maximum opportunities for engaging worshipers with the presence of God.

Experience

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WORSHIP MUSIC AND ARTS DIRECTOR/ WORSHIP LEADER

  • Traditional, blended, contemporary, and convergent services
  • Well-versed with traditional to contemporary hymnody
  • Oversee, train, recruit new members, shepherd and rehearse the choral and instrumental ensembles and worship bands

EDUCATION

  • Bachelor of Science: Double major in Music (emphasis in Piano and Composition) and Business (emphasis in Finance)
  • Certificate in Worship Leadership Studies
  • Mastor of Arts: Music and Worship

CHORAL CONDUCTOR

  • Adult Choir
  • Youth Choir
  • Children's Choir

INSTRUMENTAL CONDUCTOR

  • Orchestra
  • Handbells
  • Instrumental ensembles and chamber groups

TECHNICAL ARTS MINISTRIES

  • Oversee, develop, train, and guide the sound, media, video, and lighting tech teams
  • Use technology to open up more opportunities to engage in worship, such as podcasting services, video-enabled lyric presentations, and digital multi-media art
  • Proficient in all aspects of live streaming, production, and virtual music with vocal and instrumental ensembles

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

  • Cultivate a worship music and arts community by developing relationships with community groups, arts and music organizations, other churches, local high schools, colleges and universities to create innovative music and worship opportunities

COMPOSER AND ARRANGER

  • Extensive choral and instrumental conducting experience
  • Compose and arrange traditional, blended, and contemporary music for worship and special events
  • Compose new choral music, worship songs, and orchestrations based on lectionary, service themes, and church seasons

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

  • Finale music writing software
  • Logic music production software
  • Planning Center Online
  • Renewed Vision-ProPresenter
  • ProPresenter
  • MainStage
  • iMovie
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • MSOffice Suite

PIANIST/ ORGANIST/ KEYBOARDIST/ ACCOMPANIST

  • Accomplished pianist and experienced organist
  • Various styles of worship services
  • Vocal team and Worship band rehearsals
  • Thematic material for special events
  • Various musical genres

ADMINISTRATION

  • Oversee all aspects of worship music and arts including planning, coordinating, communicating for worship services and special events
  • Participate in weekly planning sessions for multiple, diverse worship services
  • Share in the leadership rotation for church services
  • Communicate plans for musical activities to the organist, accompanists, pastor, church officers, music directors, and others
  • Responsible for the budget formation and expenditures for Worship Bands, Orchestra and Technical Teams for Worship Services
  • Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports
  • Arrange for maintenance of all church pianos, and work with the organist and other church leadership for maintenance of the organ
  • Supervise the organization and storage of all church music
  • Oversee the care of the choir robes including cleaning and storage