ProSam Music

This Christmas, this New Year, this season—give yourself permission to stop.

Not forever. Not irresponsibly. But intentionally.

- Your music career will not collapse if you take a day off.
- Your opportunities will not disappear if you rest.
- God's work will not fail if you sleep.

But your career will collapse if you never rest.
You are not a machine.
You're a human being made in the image of a God who rested.
Honor that design.

You're free to take the gig, you're also free not to take it too this season.
You've worked hard, you deserve to rest hard.

Because the best music comes from artists who are healthy, whole, and rested - not exhausted, burned out, and empty.

Let's see Part 03: What Rest Looks Like 👇

A symptom of a structureless choir is when SPONTANEITY by "the spirit" is instituted over ADEQUATE PREPARATION.

One of the things that can make you grow as a choir is PROACTIVENESS.

Now, I see a lot of choirs where the song that's supposed to be sung on Sunday is being made known on the Saturday. It sometimes gets so bad that some do that on Sunday morning, and you see them running around with an earpiece. No choir who is serious about growth grew like that.

Whilst it is not easy to be a music director in this time and era, you can delegate and bring out songs at least two weeks ahead of time. Everyone in the choir should be able to know the song you are doing, two weeks ahead of time.

Praise/worship leaders, should also have line-ups ready. I recommend that you get different line-ups for yourself as a praise worship leader because can be called upon to take praise/worship at any time. So don't say, "Oh, I was not told." No, it doesn't work like that. If you are always on a DEFENSIVE and that's to say, you are not ready for growth. As a praise/worship leader you should be looking for OPPORTUNITIES to showcase what you've been working on except you've not been working. That's the truth.

So you have to get your setlist ready. Get praise worship line-ups. Get line-ups of up to seven songs that talk about the THEME. For example, get line-up about deliverance, salvation, praise or it could have similar key words like thanksgiving on what God has done or the goodness of God, different themes, I believe you get the point. This once you are called upon you are already prepared.

When a theme of your church program or service falls into that category that you have arranged, you will see how EASY it will be for you and you'll end up delivering better and bless God's people. It is easier to just pull the lineups send to your musicians instead of racking your mind or fall into ANXIETY for lack of preparedness. Your musicians will have more time to work on it and create some ORIGINAL arrangements and put a lot of creativity into it. That's how to GROW.

We're already close to the end of the year, hope your Christmas Carol setlist is ready? I just said I should ask