Kings Church Worship Blog

One of the things that we have come to value highly is simply the value of “team”.  Now when I say that I don’t mean by that the idea that creating a team is a better and more effective way of getting things done – although I do think that is true! What I mean is I really enjoy just being a part of this team – I like the people, I love their hearts and really enjoy their gifting – they are good to be around!

Now this kind of thing doesn’t happen just by chance – I think you have to build team. It means that we try to do things which encourage not only just good musicianship, but real connection. I’ve always believed that when you are involved in a “task” together (whatever it is)just be default you will produce a degree of community together – it just happens naturally. What we try to do is take advantage of that and encourage it.

What does that mean? It means that when we rehearse its really important that there are moments when we stop what we are doing and simply have some time to catch up, ask around the circle how things are and  hopefully pray together. It means that on a Sunday morning the team arrive earlier so we can take some time out to get breakfast together (when I asked the team what they thought were some of the things we do well together – breakfast was right up there!) It means that we talk with the team about the value of belonging to one another, of looking out for and taking responsibility for each other.

I remember talking to a friend of mine who used to be in our worship team who then moved to another part of the country – his comment to me when they had left was how much he missed “the team”. The worship team was where he had friends, where he felt at home, and where he got the buzz of doing something together which served people and pleased God – that’s what we are after!

Phil

Here goes – my 1st worship blog entry.

I think I’ll start off by giving you a basic overview of what I’m doing this year. I’m doing FP (Frontiers Project) Impact at Kings. This involves helping and serving in the church in a number of ways over a year, but I’m particularly working and helping with the worship and youth work aspects of  the church. I started my FP year in September and I’m loving it (So far)!

I’ve been serving in the worship team for a few years now playing the drums which has been great. But I sing as well and I find that a much easier way to express myself. So I fairly recently decided that I’d look into the idea of leading worship from the piano (which is my 2nd instrument). I’ve been given a few opportunities to lead over the last year which has been great and there’ll be more to come over the next. It’s also great to have people like Phil, Nathan Prime & Neal (who’s doing FP with me at Kings) along side to support and help me in this worship-leading journey

Every month, all the London FP’ers come together for a 3 day training base. We worship together, grow together, and find out more together about our God and His grace for us. If I’m honest, this is what I’m finding most exciting about the year – worship leading is great, but God is the one receiving my worship so the more I know about Him and see of Him, the more I’ll want to worship Him.

When I asked my friends what they thought about this they said that it reminded them of the Matt Redman song – King Of Wonders. Take a look if you get a chance.

God bless.

Sean

Well here you go our first ever post on the worship blog – we’ve talked about this for quite a while and finally we’ve got here!

Basically the idea of the blog is that we wanted a way of just journaling some of things we have learnt and are still learning about being worship team together in a growing multicultural church. We are going to be posting some very basic recordings of some of the new songs we are writing, pointing you towards some worship resources that we have found helpful, and generally putting anything up here that we think might be helpful if you are involved in worship in your local church.

Over the next few weeks and months myself along with Nathan Prime (worship and vocal team leader at Kings) will be writing about different aspects of building a worship team that we have come to value highly. At the same time we are unleashing Neal Glanville and Sean Nelson to journal some of the things they are learning about worship as they do a year of training with us.

Ok,  I think that’s about it – if you haven’t heard it yet please have a listen to Justin’s song “Worthy Is The Lamb” – its very strong!

We hope you find the blog helpful and it brings Glory to Him!

Cheers.

Phil

(Phil Varley is amongst other things the Worship pastor at Kings Church)

Here’s one of our new ‘home-grown’ songs which has recently been introduced at Kings. It was written by one of the pianists in our worship team – Justin Ashworth. Enjoy!

Worthy Is The Lamb
(Lyrics With Chords)