Here’s a short promo from David Nasser and Mack Powell for this month’s National Worship Leader Conference taking place in Kansas City.
Also, be sure to RSVP for the Meetup of worship leaders on the second night of the conference, hosted by All About Worship and TheWorshipCommunity, and sponsored by Planning Center. Join us for dessert, fellowship, and live podcasting. The first 50 people to show up at the Meetup will receive a free t-shirt.
The Kansas City Baptist Temple is hosting a worship night with Laura Story. I’m all about great live worship events…especially free ones! I wanted to pass this along. What better way to kick off the week of the upcoming National Worship Leader Conference on Sunday, July 19? You can visit the KCBT website here for more info.
-Ben
If you’ve listened to our interview with Carl Cartee on the latest episode, you may be interested in seeing the other side of Carl here:
This week Ben and Wisdom talk to Jeff Berg from PlanningCenterOnline about this administrative worship planning tool during our Toolbox segment. Special thanks once again to Jason Henderson (podcaster in training) for the entertaining intros and voices….keep working on that Sean Connery impersonation.
Our featured interview this month is with worship leader/songwriter Carl Cartee. You’ll hear about Carl’s heart to help other 
worship leaders along with his songwriting process.
Show Links
You can listen to this episode of the podcast online here. Or go subscribe here.
Bob Kauflin over at Worship Matters, shared some great thoughts on songwriting and credit:
My friend John Ripley, drummer for the band Generation Letter, recently emailed me some questions about how to figure out song writing credits. This is an area that can be sticky business because of miscommunication, no communication, ignorance, and indwelling sin.
After writing songs for 30+ years, I’ve seen songwriting from all sides. I’ve written by myself, written songs that others have edited, and edited songs written by others. I’ve also served as a songwriter and a publisher. To my shame, I used to be much more concerned about who got the credit on a song. I remember working on a project for GLAD years ago and writing up the song credits. I gave myself all the music credits and only shared the lyric credits. When one of the band members asked me about it, I felt justified in what I had done. I’d see it much differently now. At least I hope I would… (visit his blog to read the rest)
He finishes his article with some important thoughts…
Be more concerned about writing a great song, regardless of who gets the credit. Write for the glory of Jesus Christ, not your own. Write to serve, not to impress. Remember that every word we write, every lyric we craft, every tune we compose, every chord progression we come up with, has been made possible by the giver of all good gifts, who deserves all the credit and all the glory. Of course, if the song is bad, then we get the credit.
Here’s Darrell singing his best known song, “Trading My Sorrows”, on a Candian TV program. You can check out his two new worship albums recently released, Nothing Less Than Everything and Shade, here.
Thank you all for participating in our free scholarship giveaway for the National Worship Leader Conference. We are excited to announce the winner. As mentioned before, we used random.org to pick the winner at random.
The winner is: Rich Kirkpatrick
Congratulations, Rich! We look forward to seeing you at the conference.
Keith Green, a Christian music legend, performing “I Can’t Wait To Get To Heaven” live from The Daisy Club — LA (1982). He was such an amazing artist and songwriter.
If you enjoy listening to podcasts for worship leaders, like the All About Worship Podcast, you may like the Worship Central Podcast. It is hosted by fellow podcasters and worship leaders, Tim Hughes and Al Gordon, in the UK.
Tim (who was interviewed on our podcast) and Al provide some great resources, music, and practical training. Be sure to check them out and subscribe. They also feature some training videos on their podcast as well.
Recently we launched an online store to provide practial training resources for worship leaders and ministries. Whether you’re a guitarist, keyboardist, or vocalist, there is always room for growth. The DVDs at our online store provide practical training specifically for worship musicians.
Right now if you purchase one of the DVDs, you can download the Songwriting 101 Seminar by Darrell Evans for free. Just add it to your cart, then use the promo code: seminarmp3
The DVDs we carry at the All About Worship Store are produced by Musicademy and Paul Baloche. Here’s a sample of one of the DVDs, featuring Vicky Beeching, Tim Hughes, Matt Redman, and many others.
Just a reminder…the deadline to enter your name into this $450 value giveaway is this coming Monday (6/22). Go here to get all the details. It’s very simple.
Need it? Want it? Get it! Before it’s too late!
Glenn Packiam, of Desperation Band, performs the song “Burning In Me” from his new album Rumors and Revelations.
Awesome!
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