TEN (10) LEADERSHIP TIPS ON COMMUNICATION WITHIN A WORSHIP TEAM

1.         Have a weekly communication between leader and team members

The worship leader/minister should strive to have a one on one with members of the team; this can be deliberately setting out to talk with different members of the team on different days of the week. This creates a sense of well being as the members feel that they belong and are cared for.  The leader will also use this opportunity to bond with the team members and minister to the members on a personal level

2.         Blog:  maintain a blog or a social media page open only to members of the team.  Items that can be posted on this are:

Upcoming events

Housekeeping issues

Rosters for different activites, e.g uniform roster, song leaders for the month, musicians for the month, schedule of leaders for the different services,

Contacts for team members,

Code of conduct for members of the team

Any announcements e.g newborn births, birthdays, anniversaries of members etc

3.         Have a weekly devotional for the worship team members which can be posted on the blog

4.         Develop a manual detailing expectations and duties responsibilities of worship team members

Manual can contain, entry and exit of members, purchase of uniforms, code of conduct for members, practice dates, management of resources and otputs of worship team among others

5.         Have a library of materials, accessable to your team members with literature/music that will grow the team members.  This will help your members quickly become on the same page on many issues.  Hebs 10: 3 …By the  renewal of your mind’  What we put in we speak out, as a man thinks so is he.  Influence your members readership by availing to them Godly resources.  

6.         Have a worship team secretariat that maintains a diary of birthdays of members and have surprise cards or a note send to the members on their birthdays and anniversaries.

7.         Have a list of upcoming songs that the members are expected to know and play (for musicians) available on a monthly basis.  This will help minimize on surprises on stage.  Remember practice makes perfect.

8.         Develop a forum where members share their prayer requests with the  team members.  There are several ways this can be done. 

Group the members into prayer teams  

Have the members have a prayer partner from the team

Have a place where the team puts their prayer requests which are then randomly picked and distributed to team members for prayer during the week.

9.         Have a way of receiving feedback from the team members and from the congregation as well, on how to become better worshippers.

10.       The leadership team should create an opportunity for review of the immediate past service.  This will act as a capture basket for small issues which can easily become mountains, and, it also acts as an instant feedback for input for the next service

JOSEPH'S UPGRADE YOUR UPGRADE

Joseph’s upgrade: Your upgrade

Genesis 40, 41

The above chapters show a portion of the life of Joseph. Joseph was a man who was loved, by his parents, a dreamer, but he landed into slavery sold by his blood brothers.  (May your brothers not sell you into slavery)

The life of Joseph in slavery is a depiction of many lives today.  Many have great dreams, some have even heard the voice of God in their lives, some have been prophesied to by men of God, but their lives are far from what has been spoken.  this is a caption of the life of Joseph in slavery and how he was delivered from the jaws of the enemy, when he was brought before the king

These are 16 things that happened to Joseph during his transition from prison to the palace

1.                  V33 and now let pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt.  He had unquestionable favor in the eyes of pharaoh and the rulers in pharoah. 

Lord let me have unquestionable favor in the eyes of the leaders of the nation in the name of Jesus

2.                  The cupbearer/ chief butler remembered him: the chief butler was the man that had the ear of pharaoh who was the leader of the greatest nation in the earth then.  May God cause your cupbearer to remember you?  The person who has the ear of the king.

Let my divine helpers remember me in the name of Jesus

3.                  The Lord gave him ideas that were beyond his time.  His plan on how Egypt was to come out of the famine was divine and inspired of God.  He provided solutions that were 14 years ahead of its time.

God give me ideas that are way ahead of my time in the name of Jesus.  Ideas that are decades beyond my time

4.                  He was brought hastily before the king

Bring me hastily/quickly  before the king

5.                  The king called him.

Let the king call for me

6.                  The king revealed to him his secrets. Confided in him. Dreams are not issues you go discussing all over with everyone you met.  You must be close to the person who is telling you or revealing to you his dreams

Let the king confide in me in Jesus name

7.                   Joseph’s counsel was acceptable to the king and to his servants. 

Let my counsel be acceptable to the rulers of nations in the name of Jesus.  Let my counsel be acceptable to the people in authority in my place of work in the name of Jesus

 

8.                  When the famine was at its peak People came from all over the world to seek for grain from Egypt from Joseph.  He was renowned internationally and his name mentioned all over the world. 

May my name be mentioned internationally in the name of Jesus

 Give me an international anointing in the name of Jesus.

May I provide solutions to the world in the name of Jesus

9.              When the king gave him authority, only the king was over him in terms of the throne.  He actually became the ruler of Egypt by default, overnight on the day he was taken from prison.  He did not have to go through special exams, lengthy preparations, and special courses.  He came from prison to ruler ship. 

May I become a ruler in my time in the name of Jesus

10.              He was given new raiment’s to wear.  Kingly garments.  This was before he came before the king.  His garments had changed.  What he had was removed from him before he set sight to the king.

May my garments change, let my glory become kingly in the name of Jesus

Let my garments become kingly in the name of Jesus

11.              He had a new ride.  After he was given the rulership, he rode in the 2^nd chariot of the king.   If he was walking he now rode the chariot of the king.  He was no longer in the junkies, or hoving, or those that got rides.  He had his own limousine 

12.              He married into the correct family.  Is there someone who is looking to be married. 

May I marry into the correct family

13.              He was fruitful had children in the marriage.  His marriage was not a barren marriage.

let my life be fruitful

14.              He was given wisdom above his peers.  The king used to surround himself with people who were superior in knowledge in their various fields.  Yet none had a solution to the king’s problem.  They did not know the dream; neither did they know its interpretation. 

15.              There was relocation.  He moved into the leafy suburbs of the nation.  He overnight moved from the prison to the palace.  In the nation or the world over you will find that there are different levels of doing business, different living standards.  You may think it okay to live in the estates and do business of hundreds on a daily basis.  But there are men and women who do businesses of millions and billions in a single transaction.  Some people are okay if they earn 1,000USD- per deal, but other people that is what they spend over the weekend or at a seating.  Prior to that Joseph had been in charge of the prisons. ( Genesis39: 22,23)  These are the lowest and the dirtiest places to be in ( if you take Kenyan prisons as an example)  he moved from prison business to national and international business of multi millions.

 Relocate me oh lord.  In the name of Jesus. 

Relocate my house into the leafy suburbs of this city.

Relocate my business into the high realms of doing business in this land and the world over in the name of Jesus

Let me begin to do business worth billions in a single deal in the name of Jesus

16.              What he ate changed even before he came before the king.  He could not be brought before the king hungry dirty, and smelling with the old garments of the prison.  He had to be feed, changed and had to smell good.

May you be upgraded in your life in the name of Jesus