Altars
I found out about a recent conference called “ALTARS.” When I read the description on its website, something in my heart leaped!
Does yours as you read it?
We don’t need more stages and studios.
We need ALTARS.
Our hope is not in platforms and pulpits.
Our moment calls for ALTARS.
Altars are what we as worship leaders have been called by God to build for His people. And that’s a vocation too holy, too challenging, to be done in isolation.
Bound together by a desire to faithfully lead worship toward an awakening, you are invited to this inaugural retreat of The Fellowship of Worship Leaders.
Join us in a place of encounter and prayer, in a context of fire and communion. Altars will initiate a friend group that redefines the meaning of “worship band.” This will be a fellowship founded in trust, courage, and empathy, a community of banded discipleship in which all generations and styles are welcome.
ALTARS will be a crossroads of new relationships and theological vision, a gathering of thirsty Christians who desire to cultivate that thirst in our great Redeemer’s praise. We’re after a kind of sacramental life and consecration in worship that God could inhabit for a great awakening.
Be a part of this launch event with us.
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Does your heart leap too?
Part of Ad Lib Music’s mission is building relationships that strengthen the Church. We walk alongside worship leaders, teams, pastors, and techs to grow together.
I love the idea of redefining “worship bands” as friend groups of worship leaders. We “need” excuses to get together. You’re welcome to join any of the Ad Lib groups (https://www.adlibmusic.com/groups) or start one of your own.
But today, I invite you to consider and pray about joining us for a few days in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania in May at Spruce Lake Retreat. We’re calling it a conference since there are main sessions, breakouts, and times of worship. But it will be intimate and retreat-like, where, like the ALTARS conference, we’ll have to opportunity to walk alongside fellow worship leaders. I’ll speak about the Five Faders, our identity, the relational nature of worship, and what God is commissioning us into next.
And it’s dirt cheap – (starting at) $60 includes the conference AND meals and lodging. It’s Spruce Lake’s generous gift to churches and worship leaders. (love!) It’s Monday evening through Wednesday noon, so you’d have to take off from your job (unless you’re on staff at a church).
It’s not limited to worship leaders. You could invite your whole team! Would you at least pray about it? The dates are May 22-24, 2023.
You can register here: https://www.sprucelake.org/events/worship-leaders-conference/
-Dave Helmuth
(purchase my book, "Worship Fertilizer: (the first hundred)" HERE)
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