Worship Leader Life Podcast

On today's episode I chat with Seth Shelley from Maple Park Alliance Church in Quesnel BC. Seth does creative work in speaking and storytelling and has been featured as a TEDx Talk Speaker with over 370,000 views on the TED Talk platform, and on YouTube as well. He's also the Lead Pastor at Maple Park. Seth and his congregation have spent the last 10 months figuring out how to film and record their teams, as well as Livestream using their existing A/V equipment and some new gear. It's been both challenging and rewarding, and it continues to be a work in progress. You'll hear Seth's heart and philosophy surrounding their choice to go to Video and Live Streaming, as well as what that means for his time and work, as well as his team's. There's some more great stuff in here too, so sit back and have a listen. LATEST WORKSHOP from WLL: Interested to learn more about Compression, EQ and Reverb? Are you like so many leaders and churches these days, struggling to get a good Livestream sound, cause these common tools still seem so difficult to master? Let me make it easy for you and your team to get a handle on. Go to worshipleaderlife.com to sign up for our new workshop, coming this month! UNDERSTANDING COMPRESSION, EQ, & REVERB

On today's episode we talk to our good friend, worship leader, songwriter, filmmaker and storyteller, Luke Vandevert from the Arctic. Check out his awesome work at thearctic.co ! Interested to learn more about Compression, EQ and Reverb? Are you like so many leaders and churches these days, struggling to get a good Livestream sound, cause these common tools still seem so difficult to master? Let me make it easy for you and your team to get a handle on. Go to worshipleaderlife.com to sign up for our new workshop, coming this month! UNDERSTANDING COMPRESSION, EQ, & REVERB

We're back!! Here's some thoughts to kick off our second season... Stephen's new fave show Multi Level Marketing Pedro the Lion Don't be lukewarm Let go and lead worship! Download or Read the Transcript HERE

SO HONOURED THAT Stacey would come on our show!! Be sure to read and subscribe to her BLOG: THINKING WORSHIP And also be sure to check out the amazing Columbia Bible College, where she teaches and mentors our future church leaders.

Stephen Toon makes music with his wife, Lisa. Their band is called badgentina and they have a new record out. To get a behind the scenes look at the songs on Dead Reckon, here is a Preview of their Podcast. To finish listening, look for Toonmade on your fave Podcast platform or listen on Anchor HERE. For more on Toonmade, head to TOONMADE.COM

Sign up for our waiting list at worshipleaderlife.com Get Lisa and Stephen's music at toonmade.com Song Let You Down by badgentina

So pleased to have interviewed two of our very own Worship Leaders! Andrea Lester and Julia Fernandes from Oliver Alliance Church – you rock!! Thanks for taking the time to support us all on the journey! Show transcription at worshipleaderlife.com

In this third of a 3 part series, Stephen summarizes Day 3 of the WLL Mini Bootcamp. Head to worshipleaderlife.com and join our email list so you can find out when our next Bootcamp is. Fin our Episode transcript at worshipleaderlife.com/blog

Today we are talking about Day 2 of Worship Leader Life's Bootcamp. An Overview of the Worship Leading Checklist. Let us know what you think! Kiss kiss and hug hug. Today's links – Stuff we talked about: 6 Minute Music Business Podcast by Rocket to the Stars, hosted by Wade Sutton Richard Rohr’s Podcast - Another Name for Everything from the Centre for Action and Contemplation Phillip Reilly - some amazing thoughts on racism and today's social commentary and action on the topic of racism Jon Coutts - @JonRCoutts Colin Toffelmire - @colintoffelmire Andy Park - andypark.ca

1) Intro - toonmade.com news 2) Worship Leading Bootcamp Overview of Day 1 3) 4 Pillars of an Awesome Worship Leader: i) Worship and Prayer ii) Honing your craft iii) Community iv) Discipleship Next Episode - Day 2 Summary The Worship Leading Checklist TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE WORSHIPLEADERLIFE.COM

In today's episode I am sharing one of my classes I teach to worship teams and leaders. Part of my top Golden Rules of Music, these 3 I like to call "Mastering the Song", "Sum of One" (full credit to Brian Doerksen for that one!) and "Rhythm and Blues...and Swing and Funk". I will be providing a full transcript and some more fun stuff at worshipleaderlife.com/worship-leader-life-podcast-episode-11-golden-rules-1

Since we are here to disciple worship leaders, it's fitting to interview worship leaders! Two of the best around, Cam and Chad from my home church talk to us about how they prep, how we work as a team and how they got into this work in the first place. Enjoy! And remember, Subscribe on your fave podcast platform, leave us a review or a comment, and head over to worshipleaderlife.com to join our list and take advantage of our free resources, like this podcast and the Worship Leading Checklist.

This is the second in our Tech Tools series, where we briefly discuss tools that are helpful for Ministry. Today we talk about 3 different options for Service and Worship Planning. We don't get into too much detail, since most of you are aware of what's needed to plan a service and organize a band/rehearsal etc. We give the old school method, the cloud based software subscription method, and the free or almost free cloud based method. In today's episode we referenced these platforms: * G-Suite (or just plain free Google, you can access their Apps from your Email account) * Planning Center * Worship Trac * Worship Planning Head to worshipleaderlife.com to find more resources on the Worship Leader's Life.

The first in our Tech series, discussing tools that are helpful for Ministry. Today's episode is about email communication to your group - what to use to make sure your emails get to their inbox. I highly recommend Active Campaign as a tool for this. Keep your email subscribers sorted and managed in one place, and create email campaigns/series to get your message to the right people. Head to ACTIVE CAMPAIGN today to get your Team and Congregation Emails working for you!!

Pleased to bring you Part 2 of the Casey Corum Interview. Be sure to check out the Ferment Podcast (mentioned by Casey in this episode). The following was from our notes last week. If you missed it, listen to Part 1 before you listen to this episode. –––––– It was my pleasure to get on a call with one of my favourite songwriters and worship leaders, Casey Corum. Casey's songs have gone with us through thick and thin, ups and downs, they have helped me to process junk, hear from the Lord, and lead so many others in precious worship. His songs have even become favourites for my kids! When they've had a long and rough day, they often request that I play Peace for them as they fall asleep. Beautiful moments of worship with my family. In my early days of leading worship, I would listen to and use Casey's songs in our church, and read interviews, watched videos, and did all I could to find out about this humble guy who seemed so far away from where I was. Turns out, he wasn't that far away after all! In fact, he grew up just across the border from where my wife grew up and where we live now, something I discovered in our pre-chat before the interview. Years after finding his music, I realized we had a number of mutual friends, and one winter we both ended up at an intimate gathering of fellow worship leaders and songwriters. In my nervousness (meeting one of my "idols"!) I did my best to be crazy, boisterous and loud, in an effort to find out if I could make this guy laugh. You see, this is always my go-to when I am trying to get in with others. Weak and silly, I know, but very human, wouldn't you agree? Haha. One night we all headed over to a local pub, Casey and a few others had got there first. I burst in, ripped my shirt off and proceeded to loudly proclaim something in song about Casey and his burger. Well, it musta made just enough of an impression, cause over the next few years we would see each other again at this annual event, and when I asked him if he'd be on the podcast, he said yes. I kept my shirt on for the interview. We grabbed this from Casey's own site, caseycorum.net Casey Corum is a songwriter, worship leader, record producer, and creative catalyst based in the greater Los Angeles, California area. Casey is best known for his work with Vineyard Music having served as Chief Creative Officer for over 10 years. Casey's songs have been sung in thousands churches all over the world in numerous languages. Some of his best known songs include "Dwell", "Form Us", No Longer Strangers", and "You Have Set Me Free". Casey also travels extensively working with artists, churches, and creative leaders on the stage and in the studio. Living life as an act of improvisation, Casey has given his life to unlocking creative potential in others and breaking through creative roadblocks. Casey is married to his high school sweetheart, Angie. They have four daughters and live in Fullerton, California. Meyers-Briggs: ENFP Enneagram: 3w4 The worshipleaderlife.com podcast is brought to you by toonmade.com

It was my pleasure to get on a call with one of my favourite songwriters and worship leaders, Casey Corum. Casey's songs have gone with us through thick and thin, ups and downs, they have helped me to process junk, hear from the Lord, and lead so many others in precious worship. His songs have even become favourites for my kids! When they've had a long and rough day, they often request that I play Peace for them as they fall asleep. Beautiful moments of worship with my family. In my early days of leading worship, I would listen to and use Casey's songs in our church, and read interviews, watched videos, and did all I could to find out about this humble guy who seemed so far away from where I was. Turns out, he wasn't that far away after all! In fact, he grew up just across the border from where my wife grew up and where we live now, something I discovered in our pre-chat before the interview. Years after finding his music, I realized we had a number of mutual friends, and one winter we both ended up at an intimate gathering of fellow worship leaders and songwriters. In my nervousness (meeting one of my "idols"!) I did my best to be crazy, boisterous and loud, in an effort to find out if I could make this guy laugh. You see, this is always my go-to when I am trying to get in with others. Weak and silly, I know, but very human, wouldn't you agree? Haha. One night we all headed over to a local pub, Casey and a few others had got there first. I burst in, ripped my shirt off and proceeded to loudly proclaim something in song about Casey and his burger. Well, it musta made just enough of an impression, cause over the next few years we would see each other again at this annual event, and when I asked him if he'd be on the podcast, he said yes. I kept my shirt on for the interview. We grabbed this from Casey's own site, caseycorum.net Casey Corum is a songwriter, worship leader, record producer, and creative catalyst based in the greater Los Angeles, California area. Casey is best known for his work with Vineyard Music having served as Chief Creative Officer for over 10 years. Casey's songs have been sung in thousands churches all over the world in numerous languages. Some of his best known songs include "Dwell", "Form Us", No Longer Strangers", and "You Have Set Me Free". Casey also travels extensively working with artists, churches, and creative leaders on the stage and in the studio. Living life as an act of improvisation, Casey has given his life to unlocking creative potential in others and breaking through creative roadblocks. Casey is married to his high school sweetheart, Angie. They have four daughters and live in Fullerton, California. Meyers-Briggs: ENFP Enneagram: 3w4 The worshipleaderlife.com podcast is brought to you by toonmade.com

Preparing for Leading Worship? Here are some of the challenges you might experience. Let's talk about them. See the full transcript at worshipleaderlife.com/worship-leader-life-podcast-episode-5

The wonderful Luke Vandevert from The Arctic joins us for the first of hopefully many great conversations on worship and discipleship. Be sure to check out The Arctic and Luke HERE In this episode we talk about nude worship leading (haha, you gotta listen to find out what that's about!), Star Wars namesakes, Twilight namesakes, and then some real stuff about worship, leading and calling. The transcript for this podcast will be available in the next couple days. Head over to worshipleaderlife.com and find the latest episode info in the blog. Sign up to our newsletter for updates and awesome news!

Hi! We're back...err...I'm back, with an Episode featuring music from our first 3 Guests. Andy Park, Luke Vandevert (The Arctic) and Jon Buller. I've got some GREAT guests coming up, including my Part 1 with Luke from The Arctic, which is coming next. STAY TOOOOOOONED!

An interview with Jon Buller from LEVITE SUMMIT This was such a joy to make...Jon has a bunch of great thoughts, ideas and stories. Seriously, so good. Enjoy!

Stephen Toon talks with Andy Park about Andy's journey as a worship leader. The point of this Podcast is not just about how to be a good worship leader, or even how to be a better worship leader, but our desire is to DISCIPLE WORSHIP LEADERS. Learn more at worshipleaderlife.com You can also find the full transcription of this interview with Andy Park at worshipleaderlife.com.