I love music! Always have... when we started HPC we looked high and low for a rock'n Musician... We wanted a great worship leader who felt called to the local church and had a pastors heart. We Nailed it when we found Courtney or as she would put it she found us.
Pastor Courtney is more than worship leader... She is a leader of Worship leaders. That is a mark of a great leader. She doesn't need to be the one hogging the mike or making a name for herself... She sees the infinite value in recruiting, raising up and giving people opportunities to lead.
I meet people all the time who say... "If you need a worship leader to come lead let me know." Thats cool... I like to ask where they are currently plugged in. A lot of musicians float... they don't stay plugged in... they think that there called to make albums and be big names...
Your music talents should be first used in your local church. Let who you are flow out of the place you are planted. Find a leader of leaders to release you to lead people into worship and let your music flow from that. If you have songs about your girl... write them. If you have songs about your dog sign it out... But let your talents and abilities be honed by your outflow of worship to the lord and your leading of the people.
We have an amazing group of leaders at HPC... Dave, Kyle, Courtney, Orion, Mandi, Dustin... and then we have the back up leaders... WOW! our band is stacked... people who have played their instrument for years... Others who graduated with a degree in their instrument... God has blessed us...
The best part about our team and the volume of awesome musicians is that we are going to be a church that produces great worship and sends out awesome musicians to lead the church into worship and to effect the world with it. As we pray about our next steps and as we help people live their potential I am confident we will have more musicians come in and grow up in the HPC house. I am also confident that we will send out worship leaders that make n impact. Some will be big others will just make a big impact. We will send people out to help church plants, send people out to lead stadiums and we Have an Awesome House Band!
Pastor Courtney is more than worship leader... She is a leader of Worship leaders. That is a mark of a great leader. She doesn't need to be the one hogging the mike or making a name for herself... She sees the infinite value in recruiting, raising up and giving people opportunities to lead.
I meet people all the time who say... "If you need a worship leader to come lead let me know." Thats cool... I like to ask where they are currently plugged in. A lot of musicians float... they don't stay plugged in... they think that there called to make albums and be big names...
Your music talents should be first used in your local church. Let who you are flow out of the place you are planted. Find a leader of leaders to release you to lead people into worship and let your music flow from that. If you have songs about your girl... write them. If you have songs about your dog sign it out... But let your talents and abilities be honed by your outflow of worship to the lord and your leading of the people.
We have an amazing group of leaders at HPC... Dave, Kyle, Courtney, Orion, Mandi, Dustin... and then we have the back up leaders... WOW! our band is stacked... people who have played their instrument for years... Others who graduated with a degree in their instrument... God has blessed us...
The best part about our team and the volume of awesome musicians is that we are going to be a church that produces great worship and sends out awesome musicians to lead the church into worship and to effect the world with it. As we pray about our next steps and as we help people live their potential I am confident we will have more musicians come in and grow up in the HPC house. I am also confident that we will send out worship leaders that make n impact. Some will be big others will just make a big impact. We will send people out to help church plants, send people out to lead stadiums and we Have an Awesome House Band!
Like the new look : )
Posted by: Matt Brown | May 30, 2008 at 10:56 PM