1. Call them 2. “Orientation” at run through/rehearsal 3. Audition 4. Shadow (learn songs, train on in ears, etc) 5. Serve

Good stuff. I sent this to my fellow staff members. I want to implement all of it! We need better onboarding processes in our churches!

THANK YOU. This has been extremely helpful to me on many levels.

Love it. Thanks guys. I don’t even lead worship anymore but I just love how you sincerely want to help the church become a place of excellence and love and hope in all that it does.

I’m watching this 3 years later still very valuable

I don't say this enough, but thank you guys for all your hard work over the years, I started following when I was just learning the guitar and now I'm the worship team leader and I'm still following and learning. Your persistence in your calling is a great support and strength to me and many others. Bless you guys ❤

I bless the Lord for your guy’s ministry and compassion. Thank you for all you’ve done to help me!

You guys are AWESOME! Thank you for this info, very helpful...

God doesn’t use you to complete the task, he uses the task to complete you... not sure if there are gold nuggets on your crown when you get to heaven, but you just lost one when you gave it to us, lol. Great info guys!!!

Thanks Guys. Hope to hear from you all this friday as well.

So meaningful! Thanks so much!

Super helpful! Thanks guys!

Another great video guys! God bless you!

2: 25 love the quote

This is amazing thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you for the tips...God bless...

Wow! Great video. Thank you!

Anyone else feel like Fuller's hoody looks like a priest's collar? Thanks for this vid! I'll be implementing these things for sure!

You guys are the best resource out there! Thank you for inspiring excellennce in my church. I gotta ask when "See a Victory" is coming out on WT?!

this is brilliant!

Is the on-boarding process the same for student musicians, or do you alter it since they're young? For example, moving one up from the youth band to the main band.

How do you handle the process when someone doesn’t have a great audition, or they are not a good fit? Is there a development team, or way for new singers and musicians to gain experience?

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Do you do the same for your production team? I’m on what you would call the production team and I have recently started to help out our worship leader by scheduling our people and training new people. Thank you guys for all you do!

Thanks for the input guys. I don't know what the onboarding process is in my fellowship but I often see the same musicians on stage every week (I know that's another video). I have talked to my worship leader about young people wanting to be on the team and his answer was "I can't find anyone who is interested; no one wants to." Sometimes I wonder if it might be better to make an investment in people - to train them so they can succeed - rather than expect them to be a success when they show up I ran into this in a church that plays a lot of gospel-style music (Israel Houghton, etc., heavy on slap bass and tight musicianship) and probably should have stepped away when I wasn't up to the task. I'm not sure I agree with expecting people to invest all the time, energy, money, and work it takes to become the kind of musician it sounds like you guys are looking for and then ask them to give that away. I have had family members who made their living from playing in church (and almost starved, btw) and I have studied under teachers who left the church because the gig was not serious and music is how they pay the bills. Interested to get your feedback.

Do you believe that making the exceptions for great musicians could create tension between them and musicians who went through the process of auditioning? My fear is that not sticking to some process even if it’s the core values night would feel jarring for those who go through that process. Just a thought I had listening to this. Great content though guys, tons of great stuff I would love to apply with our ministry at Lifegate Denver.

can you do a video of how to off-board a volunteer?

When you were talking about being a “new” worship leader, would you recommend starting at a smaller church or should you just go ahead and focus on reaching the most people starting off on stage?

It would help if you guys let each other talk 😅

So what does your devotional time look like and how does that work on a rehearsal night? Like time wise?

Do you require prospective guitarists to own a Gretsch?

Fuller and Brian, I have a question or two about instrumentation. (Perhaps a long time viewer will know an answer and direct me to one of their other videos.) 1st, I have been blessed by the few videos of yours that I have recently become aware of and watched. Thank you for your content. I have not seen any 'acoustic' (orchestral) instruments in your videos of worship songs, or heard you talk about them. I play trumpet and trombone. Would such instruments be welcome on your team? How about electric violin, soprano sax, flugel horn, cello? You're always (from what I've seen) talking about guitarists, drummers, and singers, but never (so far) horn players. With such a large congregation I would think you would have at least a small contingent of such instrumentalists...and a desire to use them (especially as you outline in this particular video). What if I came to you after one of your recruiting events and told you that my family of 4 just relocated from another state where we all served in music ministry...2 trumpets, 1 french horn, and 1 trombone. We would like to serve together with you. What would be your response?

Can you do a cover and tutorial of In The City by kutless

So.... When was the last time you paid Tasha (and her husband?) for lunch or dinner? ;)

good info but blue shirt guy really needs to stop butting in.... really hard to watch ..

Do you replicate "Core Tour" at your campuses? Or is it just at your broadcast campus?

I hear, understand and agree as a leader that this admin person is a success maker/breaker. As a team member, I hate this person/role and its not their fault. They are often a barrier (or can be) because they are not musical in nature and are often standing in my way of the leadership or leadership team etc... I always want a direct line to the leadership. That may seem strange, but, Im not satisfied to just be "drummer number 8" on the depth chart or what have you. I always buck this trend. I know why it exists nnow, and I came up in the old system when none of this was needed. But, sadly, people arent all the same and dont communicate the same and reply quickly etc... The rules have had to adapt I get it. But, still, I prefer the simpler smaller church and ministry teams in general. I dont buy in to the larger is better and I never will. I dont see it in the Bible either. But, again, thats my opinion and is probably largely unwelcomed. I appreciate yall's weekly videos and I forward them to my team now as well. I dont know if they are being watched or are a benefit to them, but I make them available. Keep up the good work fellas.