Worship Consulting

I've been leading congregational singing since 1997, and I was Director of Musical Worship at City Church Philadelphia (now Resurrection Philadelphia) from 2010 until I moved to Prague in mid-2020. I still help to craft the weekly liturgy for that church. Here are online services that I helped to put together for Good Friday and Easter of 2020. 

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As worship director, my passions are:

• viewing congregational singing as an avenue for pastoral care;

• using old and new texts set to old and new music, from a variety of traditions;

• harnessing the gifts of actively performing musicians of all genres;

• inviting visual artists to bring their work and their voices into the center of congregational worship;

• leading congregations in conversations about worship that help them to consider their own preferences with thoughtfulness and in the light of love of neighbor.

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I've been in worshiping communities of many traditions, from Mennonite to Presbyterian, Messianic to Reformed, and Baptist to Anglican, among others. I regularly spend time in international ecumenical settings. 

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If you are looking for someone to help your worship leader think through musical or theological ideas, someone to compile your weekly service orders, someone to speak at a conference of pastors about arts in the church, someone to speak to your congregation about singing songs they don't immediately like, or someone to do a worship residency at your church, let's talk.

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