The Institute of Contemporary and Emerging Worship Studies is conducting a series of online worship training courses. The next course available is titled “Essentials Green” and takes place in March. Here’s some info from their site.
Lead from the soul.
THE ESSENTIALS COURSE is a unique, 15 week online learning experience. Study the arts of worship theology, history, creativity, spiritual formation and leadership with internationally respected worship leader Dan Wilt, M.Min., with media from N.T. Wright, Robert Webber, Matt Redman, Brian Doerksen and others. LEARN MORE or CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
ESSENTIALS GREEN is a 5 week module that makes up 1/3 of The FULL ESSENTIALS COURSE (Blue, Red and Green). GREEN is the study of foundational worship values, leadership and spiritual formation.
HOW WILL GREEN BENEFIT ME?
- Renew your understanding of timeless worship values.
- Gain spiritual formation ideas that will shape your life.
- Serve your worship community with fresh leadership wisdom.
WHEN
Mar. 30-May 1, 2009 (5 weeks)
Register by Mar. 16
WHO
Worship Pastors, worship leaders, worship musicians, pastors, artists and worshippers
HOW MUCH TIME IT WILL TAKE
Approx. 1 hr./day (Approx. 6 hrs. or less per wk.!), for 5 weeks
TUITION (with WM.com code)
Non-university credit
Essentials GREEN (5 week module only): $99 USD
FULL ESSENTIALS SEMINAR (15 weeks, Blue/Red/Green): only $149 USD
For university credit
Essentials GREEN (5 week module for university credit): $249 USD
FULL ESSENTIALS COURSE (15 weeks, Blue/Red/Green for univ. credit): only $599 USD
HOW DO I REGISTER?
Click below, fill in the form, and then pay via PayPal.
In ESSENTIALS GREEN, you’ll explore values in worship leadership and the creative leader’s spiritual formation – refreshing values and habits essential to every 21st century worship leader and spiritual influencer.
The color green speaks of growth (plants and fields) and vitality (depth and devotion). In our minds, worship leadership is meant to be a living vocation, strengthened by skills and values, yet also enacted by a heart being formed by the Spirit of God.
Worship leadership is all about God and the people who have gathered to worship. We can learn the arts of effective worship leadership by listening to the wisdom of others who have gone before us, and by reflecting on the reasons we lead people in the worship experience. Values such as intimacy, integrity, accessibility, cultural relevance and Kingdom expectation must mark the effective lead worshipper’s activity in the world. These values flow out of a heart that has been spiritually formed; a life that has learned to listen, act and serve out of a blossoming interior life with God.
ESSENTIALS GREEN is a life-changing, online, 5 week module course for contemporary and emerging worship leaders with Dan Wilt, M.Min., studying the history of worship and its impact across the ages. Packed with media from N. T. Wright and others via iTunes U, Facebook, Blogs, readings and more, the course only takes 6-8 hours a week, connecting with an international class of peers. GREEN is the study of worship leadership values and the spiritual formation of the leader - giving tools for growth and influence.
WHAT FRIENDS ARE SAYING:
“I love Dan’s passion for worship and enthusiasm to train and equip others. He is a gifted communicator and has inspired many worship leaders over the years. Here is a man who is living to make God’s praise glorious.” Tim Hughes (Here I Am To Worship)
“Dan Wilt has a clear vision of what the church needs to recapture and deepen in worship. He is a gifted communicator and leader. I have known Dan for over ten years and I heartily recommend Dan and his Worship Institute to you!” Brian Doerksen (Come, Now Is The Time)
“It should be illegal to be a worship leader without doing this course! I wish I could have had this exposure 20 years ago!” Jamie Appleton (Essentials Blue, WL, Texas, USA)
COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK 1
Essential Worship Leadership: The Values Of Intimacy and Integrity
Effective worship leadership is marked by one’s capacity to lead others into a rich engagement with the God we worship. Intimacy is a posturing of one heart toward another, in full disclosure and vulnerability. Integrity speaks of how connected the songs we sing are with the lives that we lead. How should the values of intimacy and integrity in worship leadership form how we lead worship in our local community?
WEEK 2
Essential Worship Leadership: The Values Of Accessibility And Cultural Relevance
From the early Church through to the 21st century, most forms of corporate worship have ventured to be accessible to the widest demographic of those who have gathered to worship. To work toward some level of accessibility in corporate worship is to serve the “we” that is a diverse family approaching God as one. Additionally, Christian worship has always been done in context – in a culture, a time and a place. How should the values of accessibility and cultural relevance guide our thinking about how to lead worship in our local church?
WEEK 3
Essential Worship Leadership: The Value Of Kingdom Expectation
To be an effective worship leader is to be an expectant leader – expectant that God can and will move in our midst as we set our focus on our highest calling. As worship leaders, we also bring spiritual guidance to our unique community, calling us all toward participating as missional people offering the love of God to the world. How can we lead worship from a place of enthusiasm and hopeful joy, looking toward the age to come as we influence our community week after week?
WEEK 4
Essential Worship Leadership: The Spiritual Formation Of The Worship Leader
Both ancient and contemporary writers have much to teach us about the cultivation of an interior life of devotion. Worship leaders today have a high responsibility to make sure that our exterior life of activity does not dominate – and even replace – our interior life of devotion. Draw from the wisdom of Christians who have gone before in this journey of growing in friendship with God.
WEEK 5
Essential Worship Leadership: Creative Projects
Our final week of the course will involve the creative expression of some of the key themes in our leadership learning into a final project that will serve one’s local worshipping community. This is a favorite part of each course for Essentials participants.
Join us for a season of transformation, in GREEN only or in the FULL ESSENTIALS COURSE.
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