Close The Exits!
I have a theory that Worship Leading should not be difficult!
Directing the focus of believers to Jesus isn’t the hardest thing we have to do. But the challenge for worship leaders is leaving the focus where it should be. We’ve all been in gatherings when an awkward silence, poorly executed transition or musical error snap our attention away from the Lord and back to focusing on the band. Sometimes, even unknowingly, worship teams steal back the focus from the very person they are working so hard to direct attention towards.
Skillful worship teams minimize exits.
Until recently, the worship and tech teams had to carry burdensome tasks in order to fight these distractions during worship on their shoulders. Now with service automation, those high visibility but mistake-prone jobs required during a worship service can performed by your tools, releasing your ministry volunteers to engage more in worship
Here are 3 Worship Exits you can minimize with service automation:
Your volunteers have to stay focused on the spacebar, not on the moment.
A shift in church worship engagement needs to start with the leaders. If your tech team is glued to the space bar for changing lyric slides during a worship song or cuing the lighting scenes for each song, how much less are they able to actually focus on the power of what’s happening in the room? By automatically driving the lyrics, lights, and so much more with the band, you can take the monotonous burden out of your tech team members’ roles, emphasize the value of their position, and free them to fully engage in worship during the music.
2. Lyric slide mistakes distract your congregation from worshipping.
When it comes to live worship, there is one production element that small intimate gatherings, large high-production churches, and everyone in between has in common: your congregation needs the correct lyrics at the right time. Nothing distracts a congregation like late lyrics. By automating your lyrics, you can lead your congregation with greater confidence knowing that they’ll always be singing along with you in perfect time (and you can always trust your stage display monitor!).
3. You have to spend your week building resources instead of prepping to lead.
Automating lyrics, lights, and more is a powerful tool for increasing church worship engagement and minimizing exits during service for your ministry and congregation, but what about your engagement?
One myth about controlling live production is that it requires lots of money, time, and equipment. If you choose to deploy service automation for the sake of minimizing exists for your team and church, it comes at a cost of increasing exits for you as the leader during the week as you have to spend extra time building the lyric slides and matching MIDI Cues to control them, and learning how it all works.
This is why service automation has been largely exclusive to teams with ample experience, budget, and resources... until now.
You can now automate everything from your iOS device.
Every lyrics automation setup requires 3 matching resources: lyrics slides, MIDI Cues that match the slide numbers, and Tracks that follow the exact arrangement of the slides. We know how much of a distraction it is for a worship leader during the week to build these resources for every new song, so we went to work to build an ecosystem that makes sure you never have to build another lyric slide, MIDI Cue, or click track again.
Accurate ProPresenter lyric templates
There’s no use in sugar coating the truth, putting together slides for Sunday morning is a pain. You can now purchase ProPresenter templates for nearly every song in our catalog, automation ready.
MIDI Cues that match the slides
We took the infamous MIDI learning curve completely out of the equation by building Production Cues that match the ProPresenter templates for you. Simply download the song in Playback, connect it to ProPresenter, and press play.
Tracks that establish the Original Arrangement
Every song resource at MultiTracks.com is built to match the Tracks, available from the Original Artists. Whether you choose to purchase individual songs or have access to the entire catalog with a Rentals subscription, the Tracks you use on Sunday will match your ProPresenter templates and MIDI Cues.
A complete solution that puts you in control of it all.
Say goodbye to the expensive computer solution, and download Playback for free on your iOS device. Every Track you’ve purchased is now available in Playback, which uses unique technology that makes sure you can still stay in a moment while the lyrics, lights, and other automation stay in the moment with you. Whether you choose to loop a section, change songs, or jump around an arrangement in the moment, your lyric slides will be there when you need them.
-Kristian Ponsford, Head of Product
