Local Worship Training Events
Selah...Building Friendship with God
Take advantage of the $199 price for your whole team, including lunch!
Elmer Flores, Dave Helmuth’s pastor from Costa Rica, will share the main session on Friendship with God.
BREAKOUTS
The closing session with the Ad Lib coaches, band, and breakout teachers on: Skills needed to improvise musically and sing spontaneously
The Worship Vocalist Workshop
The Worship Vocalist Workshop
(Tools and training for worship vocalists)
Date: May 9
Time: 8:30–11:00am
Location: Southwest Community Church
4001 S Wadsworth Blvd, Littleton, CO 80123
Cost:
• $75 individual
• $200 per church (up to 5 people)
• $250 per church (6+ people)
The masterclass portion will be limited to 6 vocalists (no extra cost), and ideally we’d like to spread those spots across multiple churches rather than having them all filled by one group. To sign up for the masterclass, email Kevin@adlibmusic.com. If you’re not familiar with a masterclass, it’s where one person gets individualized attention to work on their voice while the rest of the group learn by observation.
Adrea LaRoche was just four years old when she first stepped onto a stage at church and surprised everyone with her big voice. Growing up in a corner of Kentucky along the Ohio River, she found herself at home behind the microphone. Those early experiences would become a strong thread in the fabric of Adrea's story. Raised by parents who had taught dance together, music, and dancing around the house made lasting memories. Her mother had once been a professional dancer, and her father was a steelworker, so the arts were woven together with values of education and generosity through her childhood. Now hers has been the voice of many weddings, evenings in the vineyard, worship services, retreats, commercials, and events throughout the past 15 years. Truly, one can see she feels the music and the Spirit of it whenever she sings. She draws you into the song with her, and it is an honest journey. "Mean what you sing and sing what you mean," she says with a smile. Her heart for a greater purpose in her music drew her to serve as an advocate for underserved kids around the world through World Vision. In recent years, while songwriting in Nashville, Adrea has recorded an EP and a full-length CD and has been a guest vocalist on a worship compilation by Club Dream Lab. She is an intelligent songwriter whose lyrics are neither trite nor predictable, and a passionate worship leader. But she is more than that, and if you talk with her, you will quickly learn that she is also a wife and mother who enjoys being with her family and spending time outdoors. Most people have seen her smile but have yet to hear about the difficult challenges she has faced, which give her a rich appreciation for life and health. As I have come to learn, if you sit down across the table with a cup of coffee, Adrea will gladly share with you how those times that seem so broken, mundane, or challenging are often where life is found. That was much of the inspiration for her latest CD title, "Spaces In Between".
Worship on Purpose
Notes from sessions here.
The recordings from the sessions are here!
MAIN SESSION
Worship On Purpose
We were created to worship God. Both why we worship and how we worship matter. Our approach to worship, especially as we serve His church, speaks volumes about the posture of our hearts. Let’s strive to honor Jesus with our gifts in every aspect.
BREAKOUT DESCRIPTIONS
Multiply: Making Disciples in Worship
Jesus tells us that all Christians are called not only to be disciples, but to make disciples, which means investing in others. This workshop will explore how creating a culture of multiplication in our ministry will lead to greater health, greater fruit, and greater glory to God.
How To Deal With Difficult People offers practical guidance for worship leaders and ministry teams facing relational challenges in church life. Grounded in Scripture and filled with relatable insights, this session equips you to lead with curiosity, compassion, and confidence when tensions arise.
Healthy Relationships and Healing from Spiritual Abuse
In this breakout, we will talk about the importance of cultivating healthy communication and relationships in ministry. We will discuss what spiritual abuse is, how to experience healing and get back to leading well.
How to Pursue Excellence in a Volunteer Society
Because we have clear examples of God's Excellence, it's our goal to be excellent in glorifying him. At the same time, we recognize we are working with volunteers who are heroically giving their time to serve. How do we build a culture where we our encouraging our teams to aim higher without punishing them for their shortcomings? We will look at practical strategies to be more purposeful in growing our skills without leaving a trail of burnout.
Integrating Non-Traditional Instruments
Have you ever wanted to involve that middle school flute player but feel clueless about how you’d do it? You’re not alone! Many worship leaders and teams have never been trained in reading music and only play by chord charts. As a Church, we're overlooking great resources that are under our noses; we just don't often know how to work them in. Here you’ll learn how to approach giving these instrumentalists what they need and how to make them a meaningful part of your worship team’s sound.
Five Faders + Reading Past the Chords
First, you’ll learn how understanding what motivates is the roadmap to having the most fun and being the most effective individually and as a team. Whether you know the Five Faders or it’s brand new to you, you’ll take steps toward becoming the best version of yourself and help your team grow in confidence and effectiveness.
Then, you’ll get to apply those principles to learning how to elevate your music in an interactive guided discussion time.
Have you ever stared at a chord chart, unsure how to make music from it? Or have you ever been stumped in helping your team sound… a little more like the recording or a little more musical? We’ll discuss how to read chord charts more effectively, learn ideas that explore music theory beyond the written chords, learn tricks for understanding all keys, and learn how to listen for and add what your band is missing.
Our schedule for the morning:
8:45 Coffee and donuts fellowship
9:15 Worship
9:45 Interactive teaching and guided discussion
12:00 Lunch (with discussion questions based on the teaching)
1:00 End
