You Won’t Relent

I love this song. The first time I heard it, I fell in love with it. The words are just so astounding. There are 4 different parts to the song and they are all amazing.
This is one of my favorites to do with the youth because it is such an emotional song. I could do this song every single Wednesday because it’s that good but most Wednesday’s we don’t have a drummer. My boyfriend says that this song needs drums or else it won’t have the dynamics it needs to sound phenomenal. This song has a lot of quiet and an equal amount of loud parts to it. There are a lot of builds and a lot of drops. So if you’re going to do this song, drums are recommended.

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Set A Fire by Will Reagan

Set a fire is another one of our go to songs. It’s a song we have done a bunch of times. The thing about doing songs like this over and over is sometimes people can become numb to what they are saying. They will just sing it and not think about the words coming out of their mouths.

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About two years ago, I remember getting a phone call informing me that my grandpa was in the hospital. We drove thousands of miles to make sure we got there before things exaberated. When things were going in the opposite direction of what we were anticipating, different family members began asking me to pray with them.

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You’ve gotten kids that are interested… now what?

• Plan a practice

  (Preferably two per week ) that coordinates to your time as well as theirs. We do ours on Sundays at 1:30 p.m. and Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Once you are with them, have them take a seat.

•  Tell them a little about yourself and maybe even your testimony

  Let them know that you take this very seriously and it’s not something to be in if you aren’t serious in leading people in worship. If they don’t know what worship is, give them your definition with some scripture to back you up. Tell them what they will be doing and what to be expecting. Basically just an introduction to worship.

• Figure out what instrument everyone is playing

  Then, set up so you can have the first practice.

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So you want to start a youth worship band?

Starting a worship band can be tough so you have to make sure you really want to move forward with it. If you think you want to start one, I’d start with going through these three simple points.

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Open on your birthday

Here is the letter I wrote. Which you can put his age and change it up a bunch.

Happy Birthday Hottie!!!

You are 20!! What an old man… Oh my… I’m only 18. You are at least 1/8th cougar. I hope your birthday is as amazing as you are. If I am funny, I’ll get you a box of tools. Get it, because you’re a tool. I hope you like whatever I decided to really get you. If not, just lie, tell me you like it, and then give me hints of what you want next time I have to get you a gift and maybe you will like my gift next time lol. I love you!

-C.J.

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Open When you are crying

We all have bad days… sometimes we just can’t hold back the tears. Make a letter for your loved one to open when they are bawling their eyes out. Sometimes, an uplifting letter can help!

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Open When You are missing me a lot

In this letter, I put quite a few things inside. I write poems; in the envelope, I had a laminated poem I wrote for him. Also, I made a video of me redaing the poem to him, so he could literally here it from me while he is missing me. I put a song cover in this one also. (If you sing, just pick a song you would like).

I printed out pictures of me because for some reason, he thinks I am pretty lol. And the last thing I added was candy! I put in those extreme sour punch strips and put a paper on it that said “I miss you ‘extremely’ much. But thats optional. I love puns and stuff, so you will see a lot of that in these letters. And if you add candy, be sure to make sure it doesn’t go out of date for quite a long time so that you dont give him food that has expired by the time he opens it.

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He is Faithful by Jesus Culture

This is one of my absolute favorite fast worship songs. The words are so powerful. It has great harmonies and it’s fairly easy to play. This is definitly one of the easier fast songs to play.

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Tip of my toes by Steffany Gretzinger

If you are looking for a slow song to play in your worship band, have a listen. This song is so simple, yet the words are so deep. Take a moment to relax and listen to the song. Listen to the words and let it sink in. Understand what you are proffessing with your mouth before singing it.

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