Schedule (tentative)
Thursday Night 5-9:15pm - Volunteer/Bivocational Track
Thursday Night 9:30-10:15, OPEN JAM SESSION (NOT REQUIRED, Lead sheets will be available)
Friday 10am-12pm - Advanced Track (All Breakout - All 2 hour classes)
Friday Afternoon 1-2:45 - Open to all
Friday Afternoon 3-5 - (All Breakout - All 2 hour classes)
Friday Evening - 6-8:30
Friday Night 8:30-9:15, OPEN JAM SESSION (NOT REQUIRED, Lead sheets will be available)
Saturday Morning 8-10
Saturday Morning 10-12
Saturday Afternoon 1pm - CONCERT
Saturday Afternoon 2pm - COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS/GRADUATION
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Basic Worship Planning - 1 hr - John Francis
Description: John talks about how to plan worship, in a Biblical and relational fashion. In this class, you will be able to see Biblical example, and look at your worship planning to make it more fresh and inviting.
Basic Guitar - 2 hr - Rich Lee
Description: Rich teaches you, hands on, 5 easy chords, that will help you be able to play 80% of the songs you hear in worship. Everything from tuning, to strumming to capos.
Basic Piano - 2 hr - Steve Howell
Description: The participants of this class will be taught how to accompany worship at the piano using chord charts or basic lead sheets. Given a chord chart or lead sheet, the participants will recognize what the chord symbols mean and how to play them on the piano
Choir Basics - 2hr - Brad Newbold, Dan McLaughlin
Description: Dan and Brad will discuss how to put together, rehearse and get a choir ready for performance.
Praise Team Basics - 2 hr - Steve Francis
Description: Steve will discuss how to put together, rehearse and get a praise team ready for performance.
Basic Audio/Visual - 2 hr - Jeremy Duren
Description: This course will cover connections, cable types, microphone types, basic system set up and basic mixer functions. It is a very q and a friendly environment and lots of participation is encouraged. This course will teach the proper use and placement of microphones for different applications, which knobs on a mixer do what and how to hook up a system as a whole. You will learn how to trouble shoot buzzes, hums and other quarky annoyances found in most sound and video systems.
Record Keeping - 1 hr - Wayne Garrison
Description: Wayne teaches how you can use software that you may already have with to keep records of what's been sung, to CCLI reporting and much more.
Handbell Basics - 2 hr - Ken Litton
Description: An intensive introduction to the English handbell, practical ringing technique and basic music reading of handbell notation. Additional material on starting and maintaining a viable worship-oriented handbell ensemble in the local church will be taught as needed/desired. This course will help prepare both ringers and directors for the task of ringing in and/or starting and maintaining a viable worship-oriented handbell ensemble in the local church.
Children's Choir 1 - 2 hr - Tanya McMillan, Virginia Harper
Description: Are you starting children’s choir from scratch or have you been doing it a while and need some new ideas? Either way, this conference is for you. Find out what you need to have a successful children’s choir ministry and ways to boost what you already have. Learn to use the curriculum as well as some tried and true activities. Tanya and Virginia, together have decades of experience in Children's Choir, come and let them help you learn to teach your children to become worship leaders.
Using Loops in Worship - 2 hr - Chris Rhodes
Description: Have you ever heard a live concert and wondered how the singers could push their voice that hard every night without ever loosing their voice? Or have you ever been sitting in the concert listening to the instruments only to realize the instrument you’re hearing isn’t even on the stage? This class will teach you the tricks of the trade that professional musicians have been using for years! We will start with the basics...using a click track with a praise band...and will go from there into multi-instrument recording and playback. We will also give you hands-on experience with in-ear monitors, allowing you to listen to the click track, different instruments and voices. We will equip you with the knowledge needed to begin the process of using loops, and will give you resources for future help and purchases.
Starting (Any) Instrumental Ensemble in Your Church - 2 hr - John Francis
Description: Do you shutdown if anyone mentions 'a church orchestra'?
An avid instrumentalist, John teaches how you can start with a lonely flute player, or a drummer, or a tuba player (you'd be surprised, your church probably has one) - and help them to celebrate the Lord's goodness in worship with their instrument. Again a very q and a friendly environment and lots of participation is encouraged.
Choir Rehearsal/Handbell Rehearsal
Description: This is an opportunity to sing or play for enjoyment, and to perhaps present a time of worship at the concert. If you do handbells, either take the basic course, or you need some experience.
Platform Basics - 2 hr - John Francis
Description: What can you do to be a more inviting worship leader. Bring some music that you know - this will be more than a lecture environment. We will do hands on worship leading, to become better communicators.
Advanced A/V - 2 hr - Jeremy Duren and Chris Rhodes
Description: This course will go in depth on the use of outboard processing gear and equalization of a room and the eq section on a mixing console. This course will teach the proper use of the ever complicated eq section on a mixing console, and the graphic eq on the system outputs. You will also learn how to hook up and when to use compression and multi effects. This course will also cover the effective use of monitors, both traditional wedges and personal in ears.
Leading Worship with Guitar - 2 hr - Rich Lee
Description: This is an advanced course on leading worship with guitar. Bring your 'axes' and allow iron to sharpen iron.
Praise Team Building and Training Workshop - 2 hr - Steve Francis and Praise Team
Description: Steve Francis will show you rehearsal techniques, and some of the tricks of making a Praise Team perform for the Lord at it's best. This is a DON'T MISS. You watch first hand.
