The set-up

It's very rare that I meander around on the internet - mostly because I lose interest before I can get to anything good. However, today I found out that there's a whole convention especially for Worship Leaders. My mind was blown. What's more is that this convention takes place in 3 different cities across the U.S.

Now perhaps you think I should've assumed that there was something like this out there, but honestly, it never even crossed my mind. A little more searching and I found there's even a Worship magazine. Who knew?! Apparently not me.

Based on my experience, I know little about leading a Praise&Worship (P&W) team. I was thrown into the position by my pastor (who's also my mom) when the previous leaders (first my aunt and then my sister) went away for various reasons (marriage and school, respectively.) Since I was recently back home from school myself I was forced into landed the job. Thanks, mom! (In my sarcastic voice.) I've been doing it a few years now.

Our church is small and urban. Most of the people who attend aren't "church" people like most church-goer are. They weren't always in church all of their lives. They're people transitioning from street life to Christianity, so it's very different. As an all-my-life church goer myself, trust me when I say the vibe at my church is not traditional. That said, most of the audience grew familiar with the songs we sing for P&W from hearing our praise team sing them - not because they'd heard them before. In general, audience participation ranges from people giving us the side-eye to people singing in a drunken (and I do mean literally drunk from alcohol consumption) stupor. Which led me to start this blog.

You can expect updates on how Sunday's Praise and Worship portion of the service goes, updates on our rehearsals and how new songs go over, my Praise Team's dynamics, and what I've learned in general. I'm going to guess that 90% of this will be very funny. Hopefully it'll show that we're all in this together. (And by "we" I'm speaking in the future sense of the word because no one is following this blog right now.)

Welcome!