We are excited to release the All About Worship Collective 3 today!
The All About Worship Collective is a collection of worship songs written for The Church by various worship leaders/songwriters, made available for free. The vision for the Collective is to be a resource of quality, top-notch, corporate worship songs for local churches all over the world…AT NO COST TO YOU!…thanks to the generous artists, songwriters, and record labels!
Volume 3 Includes:
1. Oh Our Lord (feat. All Sons & Daughters) - Paul Baloche
2. Highest Praise – Sean Hill
3. Running into Your Name - Ben Woodward
4. All Praise Be (feat. Jennie Mahood) - Matthew Reed
5. Awakening (feat. Michael Farren) – Wisdom Moon
6. Shine / We Wait (feat. Brian Johnson) – Dave Fitzgerald
7. At The Name (feat. Katherine Castro, Kennedy Goins) - Sean Hill
8. Belongs to You (All the Glory) (feat. Melody Francis) - Harvest Worship
9. Light of the World – Sean Carter
10. Greatly to be Praised – Mike Kim
11. Can’t Get Enough of You (feat. Emily Riddle, Sarah Reeves) – Jennie Lee Riddle
Go to our Collective page to download the free album, as well as the free chord charts to all the songs! It’s only available for 90 days!!
Recently, Wisdom Moon had a chance to interview worship leader/songwriter, Mike Kim, about an exciting worship conference coming up, that he is coordinating…
How did Outloud Conference get started?
Outloud was a natural progression from several regional worship nights we hosted. I felt we could culminate these nights with a conference and launched Outloud in 2011 with a desire to impact and equip churches in deep worship. By deep worship, I don’t mean a particular style or sound but moving from running a service to hosting God’s presence.
When we host someone either at our house, restaurant, event etc. everything is about that person. Further, we wanted to make an impact in churches across the Northeast U.S. Church can be a different animal in this part of the country, and we wanted Outloud to be a place where we can all learn more about stewarding a move of God in our respective ministries. There are 3 tenets the Outloud Conference is based on:
1. LOCAL CHURCH
We’ve enlisted the help of some people that will lend their expertise to particular ministry needs. Jesus Culture’s Bryan & Katie Torwalt, New Life Worship/Desperation Band’s Glenn Packiam, Joel Klampert, The Father’s House (church of 5,000+) in Rochester, NY…these folks all have proven track records both in their local churches and itinerant ministry. They are truly from the church and for the church.
2. PRIORITIZING THE PRESENCE OF GOD
We could all use “more God” in our worship gatherings. None of us are against programs, so you won’t hear any baby-out-with-the-bathwater rhetoric at Outloud Conference. But what we are after is a shift from running a church service to hosting God’s presence. We’ll talk about this during our teaching sessions, but most importantly we’ll do it together when we worship.
3. IMPARTATION
Conferences are often heavy on information but light on impartation. Outloud Conference is a time where God’s people can receive more than great teaching. We want to pray for new strength, anointing, and vision to come upon your life and ministry. And we’re all going to ask our good heavenly Father to make His church glorious through each of us.
What was the response your first year of doing the conference?
Tremendous. Our first night the sanctuary was so packed we had to seat people in the lobby. The response wasn’t just in the numbers, it was also in the quality of ministry that took place. Things went well enough that a day and a half felt short, so we extended the conference by one full day without a big price markup. In fact, Outloud Conference is one of the most inexpensive worship events out there, especially for length of the event and the caliber of guests we have coming to minister.
When and where will it be held this year?
May 10-12, 2012 hosted by Church of the Living God, 199 Deming St., Manchester, CT 06042. The site is just 10 minutes outside of Hartford, CT. You can find out more and register at www.outloudconference.com.
What can people expect from this year’s conference?
What makes Outloud Conference different is that we don’t offer things you can find on an instructional DVD or YouTube. We wanted to hit even closer to real life and ministry issues, like what to do when you’re trying to implement some order to a worship ministry in a small church, or how to balance ministry and family. Most of the challenges that arise in worship ministry aren’t on the platform, and those are the things we want to hit.
Our lineup of speakers was brought in with that in mind…Bryan & Katie Torwalt bring a prophetic edge in their worship leading. Glenn Packiam brings a tremendous theological bent as a teaching pastor and proven worship songwriter. The Father’s House team that has flourished (and survived!) their church growing from 500 people to 5,000 in about six years. Their church is incredibly diverse, so they’ve got tremendous cross-cultural and cross-generational experience. On top of that we’re going to have incredible worship, too!
How can our readers be praying for you and the conference?
That Outloud Conference would ultimately be a tool to initiate change and growth in the people that attend. I’ve never wanted to hold an event for the sake of holding an event, and even if this year’s conference is a blast, I wouldn’t be opposed to shutting it down if it became just another thing to do. We want to truly help impact churches in our area, so please pray the ministry would be rich, the worship refreshing, and that people and churches would be able to connect with each other well after the event is over!
I recently had the privilege of listening to A Greater Glimpse: Live Worship from Church of the Living God, a new release from worship leader Mike Kim. Mike is the worship pastor at Church of the Living God, in Manchester, CT. In addition, Mike is a songwriter, producer, and author. I first met Mike last May at the All About Worship Retreat. Mike was one of the worship leaders/workshop instructors there, and I really appreciated both his music and his heart as a pastor and worship leader!
A Greater Glimpse was recorded live at some regional nights of worship in Manchester, where hundreds of believers from across New England and the Northeast U.S. gathered to worship and contend for renewal, revival and restoration. The album features several area worship leaders including Mike Kim, Eric Peoples, Sarah Warner and special guest Kent Henry.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this recording, because I had not heard much of Mike’s music before. Needless to say, I was very pleasantly surprised! It’s a very professionally-sounding live recording, with a great mix of familiar worship songs and original songs written out of what God is doing in New England and the Northeast U.S. The project opens with a great rendition of the familiar song “All Because of Jesus” from the band Fee. Next are a couple of original worship songs written by Mike Kim, “Grace Fell Like Rain” and “The Great I AM”, both of which would be excellent songs for corporate worship! Mike describes the circumstances surrounding writing “The Great I Am” – “I tried to put into words some of the things I’d been meditating on regarding the greatness and awe of God … how impossible it is to truly describe him despite our best linguistic efforts. Wordy verses, easy chorus, but it was intentional and if I could just put ‘!!!!!!!!’ into a song to somehow express our inexpressible God I would have.”
There are also some powerful times of live prophetic worship and intercession on songs like “I Will Calm Every Raging Sea” and “Come Alive” with worship leader Kent Henry. Kent also sings his rendition of the IHOP song “Where I Belong”. The album ends with “Jesus You Are”, written by Nate Cronk, and Jessie Goodman’s celebratory song “There Is A River”.
I would definitely recommend checking this album out! You can easily tell that God was moving mightily during this live recording, and this album provides a glimpse at that event, while also allowing us to enter into worship as well each time we listen. It’s very well done with the quality sound of a studio recording, but yet obviously live with the response of those worshipping. Here’s the best part – you can actually listen to the entire album online before purchasing it at mikekim.bandcamp.com! Also, be sure to check out other resources from Mike, including books he’s authored and other recording at his website.
Packed show this week with updates and interviews. Wisdom and Ben catch up with Mike Kim, Phil Wickham and Tom Metz from WorshipPlanning.com. Stay tuned at the end of the show for a special announcement. We also have some great listener feedback from around the globe and Star Wars. Yes…see if you can count the number of Star Wars references in this episode. Check out the notes below:
All About Worship Retreat
Ben and Wisdom talk with our good friend and worship leader Mike Kim. You’ll hear about his breakout sessions that he’ll be teaching at the upcoming retreat. Learn more about Mike at his website www.MikeKimMusic.com. Follow Mike on Twitter here. If you haven’t registered yet for the retreat…GO NOW!!!! Visit www.WorshipRetreat.org Check out Mike’s latest release “In Our Day” on iTunes here. If you enjoyed the song “Greatly to be Praised”, you can pick it up on iTunes here.
One of the greatest challenges worship leaders face is managing the administrative side of leading. We talk with Tom Metz who created WorshipPlanning.com. A fantastic resource for team scheduling, song tracking, worship service planning and communicating. Huge thanks to Tom for taking time to talk with us about this great tool. You can try it out for 3o days free!
HUGE thanks to Phil for stopping by the show. Once again…we are extremely grateful for the love and support of YOU the listener. We’re thrilled and honored that you’re a part of the show. Thanks for listening and encouraging us to keep going! To our sponsors and friends….THANK YOU!!!
For your chance to win one of these all you have to do is send us an email with a comment or a tool suggestion for the Worship Leader Toolbox segment: podcast@allaboutworship.com OR leave a message on our hotline: 206-984-2441 and email us and let us know you left a message so that we have your email address as a way to get in contact with you if you win.
We will announce the three winners, picked at random, on our show on Wednesday, December 10th.
This is the NEW and IMPROVED All About Worship Podcast, with a new segment and a new co-host, Ben Abu Saada. Also, we recorded this show while we were live on Mogulus and had some folks watch us live on our webcam.
On this edition of the AAWP, we feature a special interview with worship pastor and songwriter, Mike Kim. He shares from his heart and challenges and encourages us to keep our focus on God.
We also give away two CDs by Mike Kim. To submit your name for the giveaway, email us your ideas or comments for the AAWP by Dec. 7th to podcast(at)allaboutworship.com.
