How do churches develop worship team members from scratch?
The State Convention of Baptists in Ohio is launching its next major worship resource to address this issue with Practice to Platform (PTP) — eight online worship courses that are designed to take new musicians from the beginning stage to their first worship audition and prepare them to be ideal worship team members.
Practice to Platform offers courses for acoustic, electric, bass guitars, piano, drums and vocals, as well as music theory. The program also features an introduction to leading teams in a way they will love and the theology undergirding effective leadership, incorporating the fruit of the Spirit.
PTP has video lessons, summaries below the videos, quizzes and critical thinking questions. However, there are no song tutorials, it is all skill-based, so it can apply to a variety of contexts — even ethnic/international churches using Google Translate. This resource has been vetted, winning an award from Next Level Worship in 2019, as well as testimonials to read on practicetoplatform.com.
These courses are normally available for $79/apiece or a subscription fee, but SCBO has partnered with PTP to make these available for free to Ohio churches.
Ways you can use PTP:
— Make an announcement in your church offering this resource using the slide provided. You might be surprised who is willing to learn instruments if they know there are resources to help them.
— Give access to your youth worship teams. This has already proven to be beneficial at large churches like Spring Hills Baptist, Granville.
—Give access to your Sunday worship team and have them skip the content they already know. There are eight modules per course, and the last three are perfect for team members already serving.
To learn more, visit the partnership landing page at scbo.org/PTP or reach out to Zac directly at zjames@scbo.org.
EDITOR’S NOTE — The full story was written by Zac James and originally published by the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio.
