One of the great things about following Worship Ministry Catalyst is that you get free stuff from time to time. This happens to be one of those times. What is the NAB Show you may ask…Here’s a little info from http://www.nabshow.com

Where Content Comes to Life

For more than 80 years, there’s been only one global event for people passionate about content.

A place that fosters the convergence of industries the world turns to for information and entertainment.

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From broadcasting to broader-casting®, the NAB Show™ has evolved over the last eight decades to continually lead this ever-changing industry. And while the solutions at your fingertips have changed to keep pace with consumer habits and technologies, your aspirations to produce and deliver memorable content have remained constant. From conception through distribution, the NAB Show proudly serves as the incubator for excellence – helping to breathe life into content everywhere.

The Technologies for Worship Pavilion offers comprehensive training for house of worship staff and technical volunteers and is the focal point for all things related to worship technology at the NAB Show. In addition, you may be interested in Destination Broadband – the newest broadband-centric exhibit at the 2010 NAB Show. It will be featuring technologies like online video platforms, streaming video, mobile video distribution, and much more.

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NAB Show Fast Facts

More than 85,000 audio, video and film content professionals

157 countries represented

$30 billion in purchasing power

500+ conference and training sessions

1,500+ exhibiting companies and 800,000+ net square feet of exhibit space

1,300+ members of the press

82 years of industry leadership

I just  came across this amazing resource yesterday, and absolutely must share it with you.

As we’ve been going through the book “God songs” by Jimmy & Carol Owens & Paul Baloche on our podcast, this resource is extremely useful. There are a ton of great resources on the site, like songwriting tools links; songwriting resources; artist resources; etc.

By far, the thing I am loving the best is the forum. They have a very extensive forum for songwriters which includes a tiered critique. (Even at the highest level of critique they are extremely friendly in their feedback.) They also have many other things to discuss in the forum, it’s very extensive.

I’d strongly recommend you head over there and check it out, get a membership and start sharing your input on the forum. Tell them we sent you!

So it’s happened to me yet again. Well, it happens more often than not. Someone came up to me after our service on Sunday morning and complained about the sound being too loud. The week before I had about 15 people come up to me and express that the sound was too quiet and that they didn’t want to sing out because they didn’t want the people around them to hear them singing. Believe it or not, people are just as emotional on the quiet side as they are on the loud side of the fence.

It’s a very tight rail we walk in terms of volume. Some churches have a harder time than others. Some churches have problems caused by the building they are in, others have problems because of the large age range they serve on a weekly basis. Still others have problems because musicians like it loud, and the guitarist’s amp just doesn’t sound as warm unless it’s turned up. It’s a battle I’ve been a part of pretty much my whole life.

I’ve learned a lot over the course of my time in worship ministry about sound pressure levels, decibels and what not (to be quite honest, far more than I ever wanted to know). Today I thought I’d share a resource with you that I came across as this battle was thrust into the forefront of my mind once again. It’s called “Dangerous Decibels.” Here’s the link: http://www.dangerousdecibels.org/hearingloss.cfm

This link is particularly helpful as it has a chart on this page about hearing damage. Not that we need to be able to win our side of the argument, but this is an issue we need to have thought through clearly. As churches, we cannot be responsible for people losing their hearing. At the same time, contemporary worship music is loud. So, I’d recommend you take a minute or two and familiarize yourself with the info on Dangerous Decibels so that you can be leading your people in this way.

I came upon this awesome resource this week. RESOUNDworship.org is an exciting free resource for churches worldwide. Our aim is to provide local churches with fresh worship songs containing strong, Biblical lyrics supported by singable, contemporary music.

RESOUNDworship.org is a group of British based worship songwriters, seeking to resource the church with heartfelt, crafted, accessible worship songs.

It’s a really great resource, definitely worth your time checking out. They have a lot of songs they have written and they are all available for your use.

They also have a very thorough writing process that’s worth noting. You can see that here.

I just found this great resource I wanted to share with you all. Bob Kauflin over at “Worship Matters” has posted some free recordings from the Worship God 09 conference.

Here’s the link:

http://www.worshipmatters.com/2009/09/08/twenty-four-free-mp3s-from-worshipgod09-now-available/

Hey everyone, I thought I’d pass on a resource for you. I found it over on www.worshiply.com. It looks kind of cool. From my understanding, it’s an online devotional/journal/God-tracking tool.

It looks like it would be a really cool resource that you could pass on to your worship team, I’m going to pass it on to mine.

I found this resource earlier this week from Jordan over at worship trench and wanted to pass it on to you. It’s a really cool description of what Jordan calls Isaiah 6 worship. Here’s a little section of it.

God reveals-takes initiative reveals presence (smoke filled Temple)

• scripture reading on the presence of God
• lone soloist on stage sings
• video focusing on “God in His Temple”
• etc.

we, as created ones, adore (angels Holy Holy Holy)

• corporate worship adoration
• poetry of adoration
• beauty scripture reading
• dance or other adorational art form etc.

For the rest of this framework, go check it out on worship trench.

I found a free resource I wanted to pass along to you all today. This will be especially great for those of you who are wanting to help move your bands into the direction of learning more music theory &/or the Nashville Numbering system.

It’s called Discipline of the Groove.

He’s got a great, short explanation of why to use numbers. As well as some example song charts using numbers. He’s also got a few articles that go over Chords, Keys, Intervals & Scales.

I hope this helps you in your desire to improve worship in your church.

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