Purpose Statement:
Our worship team family exists to glorify God and edify His Church; serving and leading her into all things biblical "worship".
Core Values:
1. Passionate about His Word — people and songs that breathe God’s word, rooted and anchored within it.
2. Passionate about His Praise — the created adoring it’s Creator no matter what the platform; energetic and reverent
3. Committed to Community — family culture, relationships, servant leadership
4. Character over Mastery — We value faithfulness over technical skill in our worship team family
5. No less than our Best — “A - Game”, “First Fruits”, authentic and excellent, contagious, rehearsed, able to worship freely and lead the church
Desired Qualifications
- Have and maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.
- Regularly attend Lazy Mountain Bible Church (not just when serving).
- Attend rehearsals/services.
- Band: able to read chord charts (minimum)
- Vocalists: able to sing harmony, melody, and memorize lyrics.
- Media: have a basic understanding of computer software, hardware and quality audio/visual material.
Weekly Preparation
What you can expect from us:
- Consistent communication regarding duties.
- All equipment powered on and assistance with setup prior to starting.
What's expected of you:
- Commit time to listen to provided demos, practice at home and come to rehearsal prepared.
- Practicing with each song demo is expected as it best prepares you to mesh with the rest of the team at rehearsal.
- Work to become familiar and comfortable with the set list before scheduled rehearsal date.
- This ensures that you respect everyone else’s time and effort.
- If you are in need of extra practice, clarification or assistance, reach out to your team leader before rehearsal day.
- Strive to commit songs to memory so you won’t be completely dependent on sheet music during services. (Tech failures —> eyes glued to charts)
- This makes our time worshipping with the Church much more genuine, effective and less distracting.
- Come spiritually prepared to rehearsals, sound checks, and services.
What should you wear?
- Dress in a style you’re comfortable in.
- Make sure your clothes are neat, clean, in good repair, and appropriate for the environment.
What should you bring when serving?
- Food and water (We usually finish around lunchtime on Sunday.)
- Your instrument/equipment necessary
- A joyful heart!
How involved should you be at LMBC?
- Our goal is for the stage to be a reflection of the congregation and the congregation to be a reflection of the stage.
- Volunteers will be scheduled no more than half the services attended per month, allowing our team to worship amongst the congregation.
- Attend one full service on Sundays you lead.
- Livestream Volunteers only serve during 2nd service but are encouraged to attend first service. This allows you to enjoy the service personally and prepares you to better serve everyone attending the livestream service.
Rehearsals and Arrival
What you can expect:
- Consistent communication from leadership about expectations and scheduling
- Hard work, a fun environment, relationship building, and discipleship
What's expected of you:
- Vocalists, band members, audio engineers, and projector operators are required to attend both Thursday rehearsal and Sunday run-through.
- Be set up, warmed up, and ready to begin by the scheduled start time.
- Come with a positive attitude and a heart to serve!
Scheduling
- All scheduling is done online on Planning Center and will be communicated via email, text, and/or the Planning Center Services mobile app.
- Please check the schedule frequently in case an email doesn’t arrive.
- Block-out all dates you are unavailable to serve in Planning Center at least 4 weeks in advance.
- All team members will be scheduled according to their strengths and weaknesses.
- Our aim is for each team member to be scheduled one to two weeks a month.
- Positions and set lists assigned four weeks in advance.
- If you’re not available for rehearsal, consider yourself unavailable to serve that week.
- Communicate with your team leader consistently and honestly about needs, availability, and service.
- Notify your team leader immediately of emergency absences. If possible, try to find a replacement if something comes up.
Conflict Resolution (Matthew 23:24, Matthew 18:15)
- Graciously approach the person by which the problem or hurt was imposed.
- If further problems ensue, please contact Robbie or Elijah.
- Remember: We are a family and there will be conflict. Although conflict is nearly impossible to eradicate, we can approach it with humble hearts and level heads.
- This ensures a positive outcome that builds up our family and team chemistry.
Monday-Thursday
Band and Vocalists: Practice your parts on your own with recordings
Sound Team: Listen to the recordings of each song to understand the mix
Visual Team: Read and listen through song recordings to pin down slide order
Live Stream Team: Listen to the songs for Sunday in order to plan shots
Thursday night Rehearsal: 7 pm - 9 pm
Band and Vocals: Sound check and rehearse parts as a full team. Run through songs and plan transitions.
Sound Team: 6:30 - Set up necessary inputs on stage based on scheduled
personnel
Visual Team: Check for Proclaim/presentation errors while advancing slides for vocalists
*Live Stream Team: Test live stream and trouble shoot problems. Practice camera shots and hone your craft.
Sunday Morning
7:30 - 8:45 am: Sound check, Full run-through (Songs and Transitions)
8:45 am: Prayer time with Elders
8:55 & 10:55am: On stage, in sound booth, at cameras, etc... ready to roll!
10:30am: Begin prepping for live stream