Our Band Rocks

As many of you know, our Team Church band is in a fun competition with two other church bands from the area. This competition is sponsored by Christian radio station 91.9 You can go vote by clicking here

Get out and rock the vote!

While talking about our band I wanted to share some things that is very cool and many times unique to our church band.

KC Clark is our Worship Pastor and does an incredible job of leading this amazing band. He is the only paid person who plays or sings in our incredible band. We value excellence in our band but we also have a greater church value of serving in ones gifts and passions to help Team Church obtain our One Purpose. We each must share in the responsibility of the One Purpose as volunteers. Therefore, we have incredibly gifted musicians who play each week....however, they are not paid. A few of them are "professional" in the fact that they are paid other places to play....but not here. They are volunteers just like the people running the lights, parking cars, teaching 5th grade and wiping baby butts in the nursery. I couldn't imagine paying someone to come play in our band knowing that the only reason they are here is to collect a pay check. I have often wondered....if we paid someone to be here...then another church or organization offered more....would they leave us for that place because the money was better?

The same is true for any volunteer aspect of Sunday morning. Paying nursery workers? Paying to have a parking team? Paying to have someone work in the cafe? Serving is too much of what it means to be a fully devoted follower of Christ and if done correctly, it is one of the greatest joys a person can experience in the local church.


Now of course, in order to keep the high quality and commitment in our band we don't burn them out by asking them to play every week. With the amount of time they put in each week practicing for each service.....that would be unfair to ask. So we have many people who rotate through each week as they play. This means that each week our band has different people playing with each other. This shows how truly gifted they are....as a group of about 15 band members...they get to know each other but on any given week only 4-7 may be playing. They get the music one week, they come together on Monday night to practice and by Sunday morning it is incredible. Moreover, many of the songs we sing on Sunday are written and produced by the people in our band. This is how we are in the competition.......the song you vote for must be original to that church band. So go vote.....

One more thing...for those who may be wondering! Serving and volunteering in a our church does not have to happen on Sunday. We have opportunities all during the week. (We even have a clean team that comes in and cleans the bathrooms and the entire building as volunteers.) These volunteering opportunities through out the week enable the staff to also be volunteers at Team Church. That is right.....me and our staff are not above anyone else at Team Church. There are no superstars here that only work when they are getting paid. Each staff members gives extra time during the week in serving that may not be in their job description and enables us to experience the joy of Serving and Sharing in the Responsibility of the church. From day one a staff member is told that if we expect people to work full-time and also volunteer at the church.....then we do the same thing. As I have said before, what I do on Sunday is no greater in God's eyes than what the band does and what a nursery work does. We all have been given gifts, passion and a role to play.

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is a process; working together is success!" Henry Ford!

"When your organization operates like a strong family, you can't be knocked out by one punch!" Coach K