What Happens Next Is Up To You
Each week, you receive this Fertilizer. It helps your thinking about worship. It equips your hands to play better. It helps you keep the main thing the main thing. It nourishes your life as a worshiper and team member.
That’s our hope in giving it to you!
And yet, maybe you’re a worship leader who is caught in the unrelenting cycle of leading weekly worship gatherings while managing songs, arrangements, schedules, teams, relationships, and life.
You feel the need for...
A deep walk with God (Intimate, Consecrated, Scripture-soaked)
A deep love for people (Shepherd, Launcher, Encourager, Leader)
A deep understanding of music (Listener, Craftsman, Fluent)
However, you’re plagued by hints of a superficial walk with God, a waning love of people, and an amateur understanding of music. Sometimes you feel like you’re a hypocrite, a professional Christian, needy, insecure, arrogant, unteachable, frenzied, angry, selfish, careless, carnal... It’s not just you. We can all get there if we walk alone.
When was the last time your prayers sounded like...
I need more/better team members
My church is in a rut
I get overwhelmed by details
I wonder if change can actually happen
I’ve been told to get training
I hate planning (but love it when a plan comes together)
Do I have what it takes?
Am I too old/young to be a leader?
We know what it feels like. Our Coaches are seasoned worship leaders with over 5,000 Sundays of combined leading experience. We know what it’s like...
To lead and shepherd people when you don’t feel that they like or respect you
To try to handle all 17 things that we handle while leading worship
To walk off the stage feeling like a total failure or a total fake
To wish like anything that you had just one good drummer
To collapse on the floor at the thought of planning yet another Sunday (or Christmas Eve service!)
To avoid having a difficult conversation with a team member for months and letting it gnaw away at your gut in the meantime
To feel all alone at your own church or as the lone worship leader
AND we have learned how to move forward and have helped many leaders overcome these common obstacles.
The next twelve months can be a breakthrough year for you and your team. We’ll meet with you each month to work through our Worship Leading framework and connect you with other leaders who are also being coached. We will break through the confusion and give you perspective and confidence through personalized Coaching and membership in a Worship Leader Group.
If you have an Ad Lib Coach walking alongside you, we believe you will...
Fulfill your calling
Serve fruitfully
Enjoy happier relationships
Experience your congregation singing with the veins bulging
Be energized and more alive
Have a flourishing relationship with God
Sadly, we’ve seen many worship leaders without a coach, experience...
Burnout
Isolation
Long, slow death
“If only...” and “should”
Stress
I wish I were somewhere else
Things sound terrible
The team keeps shrinking
People just stand there and don’t sing
Which story will be yours?
What happens next is up to you. You can start today with a free, no-strings 45-minute coaching call. Just sign up for a time by clicking here.
-Dave Helmuth
(purchase my book, "Worship Fertilizer: (the first hundred)" HERE)
What Happens Next Is Up To You (Nº 111)
Five Faders w/ Dave Helmuth
Don't be another passionate, unhealthy leader (who doesn't know they are unhealthy) who misses their calling, has a moral failure, burns out, or burns others. (dang, that's dark!)
Be a Five Faders leader who is the best version of yourself and helps your team to do the same!
We'll explore the motivations we each have:
Artists notice nuance.
Shepherds consider the individual.
Priests overflow with simple love and pure devotion to Jesus.
Educators bring out the best in others.
Producers plan, in order to exceed usual limits.
The Five Faders model is not just a tool, it's a game-changer. It will help you understand your motivations and those of your team, paving the way for healthier and more effective leadership. The good news is that a Five Faders team is fantastic! The bad news is that if we don't know what motivates us, our passion often blinds us and we are an unhealthy expression of our Fader.
In this small group, we'll not just learn about the Five Faders, but also put them into action. We'll explore how to apply the concepts to our teams in a practical way, and learn from each other, which is one of the best ways to grow in your lowest Fader.
DATES AND TIMES
Mondays from 9 to 10:30 AM Central, from January 6 to February 24 (8 weeks)
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WHO IS DAVE HELMUTH
I'm a coach who leads Ad Lib Music, the worship coaching organization I started in 2002. We have coaches in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Texas, and South Dakota. I'm the author of the Five Faders book. I serve as a missionary in Costa Rica, where my family of nine and I have lived since 2019.