Beyond Sunday Worship

Worship Podcast

#320: Kim Walker-Smith On The Worship Industry, Our Inner Life, & Protecting Our Children’s Innocence

Topics Covered:

  • Kim’s journey to become a worship leader
  • The truth about calling
  • Why our internal world needs to be cultivated
  • Influential leaders
  • The story behind the song, “Mama”

Resources Mentioned:

Show Sponsor #1: Beyond Sunday Backstage (Coaching Community)

The Beyond Sunday Worship Coaching Community is now open! I’ve wanted to create a group coaching community for a while and that time is now!

Beyond Sunday Backstage is a low-cost coaching community designed to give you year-round support as a worship leader.

For $49/month, here’s what’s included:

  • Bi-Weekly LIVE coaching calls focused on your specific challenges/questions (no need for perfect attendance…make it work for you)
  • Monthly MASTER CLASSES that dive deep into specific tools, strategies, and tactics for your worship ministry (taught by me and other special guests).
  • Exclusive guest Q&A’s/hangouts with guests from the Beyond Sunday Podcast
  • Full access to my beginner keys video course, Learn Worship Keys (plus full access to all future courses).
  • Downloads of The Worship Songwriter & Beyond Sunday eBooks
  • Access to an exclusive “Off Facebook” private community of worship leaders
  • Songwriting training throughout the year and group co-writes with me and others in the community
  • Exclusive LIVE access to Beyond Sunday Podcast interviews to ask questions (via chat) in real time.

No long term contracts. Cancel anytime. But I know you’re going to love it. Join us backstage!

Show Sponsor #2:

My goal in this podcast is to help you grow as a worship leader. Of course that includes your formation, but it isn’t limited to that—it’s also with practical tools to help you in your ministry.

It’s hard to talk about being a worship leader without mentioning Planning Center. As you know, I’m a huge fan. A lot of you are already using Planning Center Services to schedule your volunteers, plan your worship services, and give your team the tools they need to learn their music. But with Planning Center People, you can stay even more engaged with your volunteers and anyone looking for how to get plugged in.

First, some good news: People is completely free with any Planning Center subscription. No, you didn’t hear me wrong—it’s free. Second, some better news: you can use People to add new volunteers to your teams quickly and automatically.

In People, you can make forms for anyone interested in volunteering, put them in a step-by-step training workflow, and then automatically add them to Services to schedule them for the right team. And that’s just one way you can use People. From sending automated emails and seeing church-wide engagement to organizing your member database and keeping information up-to-date, there’s tons you can do.

So go to planningcenter.com to use People for free.

#301: Jason Kichline on The Founding of OnSong, Building a Company, & Serving Worship Leaders

Show Sponsor: Planning Center

So let’s talk about Planning Center. For those of you who are old enough, we often refer to worship leading eras as the pre-Planning Center days and the Planning Center days. It’s that game-changing and that important.

I talk about Planning Center pretty often on here, and if you’re a worship pastor, you might be wondering what more there is to Planning Center for you beyond worship planning and scheduling.

And there is.

Did you know that with a subscription to Planning Center Services you also have free access to another incredibly powerful product People?

With People, you can do things like create a volunteer pipeline to get new volunteers through their application process and then assigned to a team!

In People you can create an online form to get new volunteers, a workflow to help you walk them step-by-step through the training process, and then automatically add them to Services so you can get them scheduled!

And that’s just one way you use Planning Center People, so give it a try! Learn more at planningcenter.com/pipeline

And remember, if your church is looking for tools to help with things like giving, small group chat, event signups, live-streaming, and custom reporting, Planning Center has tools for that too, so let your church administrator know!

Resources Mentioned

Topics Covered:

  • The founding of OnSong
  • How to build a company
  • Why OnSong decided to initially create a paid app
  • What OnSong makes possible for Worship Leaders
  • When the company had to scale and start to hire employees

#300: Mack Brock on Sports, Songwriting, & Creative Process [Podcast]

Show Sponsor: Planning Center

So let’s talk about Planning Center. For those of you who are old enough, we often refer to worship leading eras as the pre-Planning Center days and the Planning Center days. It’s that game-changing and that important.

I talk about Planning Center pretty often on here, and if you’re a worship pastor, you might be wondering what more there is to Planning Center for you beyond worship planning and scheduling.

And there is.

Did you know that with a subscription to Planning Center Services you also have free access to another incredibly powerful product People?

With People, you can do things like create a volunteer pipeline to get new volunteers through their application process and then assigned to a team!

In People you can create an online form to get new volunteers, a workflow to help you walk them step-by-step through the training process, and then automatically add them to Services so you can get them scheduled!

And that’s just one way you use Planning Center People, so give it a try! Learn more at planningcenter.com/pipeline

And remember, if your church is looking for tools to help with things like giving, small group chat, event signups, live-streaming, and custom reporting, Planning Center has tools for that too, so let your church administrator know!

Topics Covered

  • Outdated NFL takes
  • The sad Carolina Panthers season
  • Creative process for starting a song
  • The story behind “O Come to the Altar”

Resources Mentioned