Worship Leaders Conferences
January 3, 2009 2 Comments
- Worship Together.com “LIVE” (One day event) $55.00
- National worship Leader Conference 2009 (3 day event) $400.00 (on avg.)
- Worship Summit (1 day event) ?
- Enter 09 Worship Conference (3 day event) $85.00
- Hillsong United Encounter 09 (2day event) $139.00 (at door)
- Integrity Music Seminar 4 Worship (2 day Event) $300.00 (At door)
So I received my latest issue of Worship Leader Magazine today. I was just flippin’ through and there’s alot of good stuff. I really like the magazine. But something I just couldn’t wrap my mind around. Do we need all these worship conferences? Just curious. And the biggest thing is they all tend to happen in the same areas of the world. None of them seem to be coming to my neck of the woods. Even if they did, I couldn’t afford it.
I guess it kinda irks me cause mostly those who will be attending these events are “full time” worship leaders. In the words of Napoleon Dynamite, “LUCKY!” I wished I could do worship full time. But I don’t reckon that’s gonna happen anytime soon. But I digress.
I would tend to think full time worship leaders don’t need conferences telling them how to lead worship. Hello! They are full time. Meaning their churches are already packing the tithing pockets of the church. So that means that if there are enough people in the church to pay a full time worship leader, then the ones that hired the worship leader thought they were competent enough to do the job. They don’t need the conference.
I do! Ha ha ha. I would like to know more. Because I would say I am bi-vocational. But I’m not getting paid at all for leading worship. So I have to prepare for it in my spare time. So basically what I’m trying to shout out is, if there is going to be this many conferences in America, then spread them out and give the poor man a chance by lowering the prices and do them on the stinkin weekend, so we don’t have to take off of work, please!
