Engaging the Heart Worship Collective
with Joe Horness
Engaging Hearts, Transforming Worship
Why we exist.
Engaging our hearts in worship changes everything!
We believe that God created worship to transform our hearts, to encourage our faith, and to enable us to authentically encounter Him. For this to happen God longs for us to worship Him from our hearts, and not just with our lips (Isaiah 29:13, Matthew 15)!!! Jesus is adamant about this! He longs for worship to change us, not to just fill space in our services.
To that end, the Engaging the Heart Worship Collective exists to help churches and worship teams move from leading services filled with ‘song times’ and ‘programming elements’ to offering times of creative, engaging and authentic worship each week. God longs for genuine, creative communities of artists to bring their gifts to our churches each week in ways that help us to deeply connect with Him. The Engaging the Heart Worship Collective can help you transform your services from church meetings into ‘can’t miss’ times of meeting with our Father. Our goal is to see every church bring God a richer offering of worship each week that changes us and more deeply honors Him! “
What it looks like.
INTERVIEWS:
We begin each month with a live interview with someone who can simply help us lead our teams, our services, and worship more effectively. In the last year we had powerful discussions about worship with world-renowned leaders like Darlene Zschech, Tommy Walker, Rory Noland, Nancy Beach and Todd Elliott from FILO and many others.
Each of these leaders humbly and graciously taught us ways that we could bring God a richer offering of worship each week, whether as singers, instrumentalists, speakers, or tech team members! See an example of what some of these leaders shared with us on the Learn More page!
Community
The Worship Collective is designed for community! Join a family of Worship Leaders from around the world to learn from each other and lift each other up!
Your membership in the Worship Collective’ includes your entire worship, tech and leadership teams. Get everyone on the same page and learning the same things
Q and A:
Q and A sessions allow us to talk about and receive coaching on the common and specific issues we face in our ministries, on our staff, and in our services.
Creativity:
As a community, we are able to share what’s moving our congregations these days! Innovative ideas keep worship fresh! New songs that are changing hearts, creative approaches for holiday services, and out-of-the box ways to engage people’s hearts.
Best Practices:
We share what’s working and what’s not working, ways to grow in our roles, and team building strategies. It’s the place to find out what is working for other leaders from around the country and around the world!
Skill Development
At Engaging the Heart we pay special attention to helping our leaders and teams, in every position, develop their God-given gifts. Here is just a taste of the subjects we’ll teach on throughout the year:
How to Make Worship the “Can’t Miss” Part of Your Service
Crafting Worship Orders that Facilitate Encounters with God
Choosing and Leading Great Songs Well
Reflection through Worship - the Art of Asking a Question
Getting Creative: Fresh Approaches to Worship Lead to Fresh Experiences of God
Finding, Recruiting, and Retaining a Great Community of Artists
What to Say - Crafting your Comments: Using Illustrations, Scripture, Reflection and Prayer
Leading Musically - Key Changes, Underscoring, Tempos, Great Rehearsals
Communicating from the Stage - Empowering Your Musicians to Model True Worship
Life on the Tech Team - Producing Your Service!
Mentoring
Mentoring happens in every group training, special guest session, and private one-on-one coaching calls with Joe Horness. Additional mentoring opportunities with Joe are available to all members.
We prioritize spiritual development in the life of your worship team. Get the guidance and support you’ve been looking for!
· Problem-Solving - helping you deal with issues in your service, on your teams, or with your staff.
· Growth - learn how to lead better and bring God a richer offering each week!
· Wisdom - help for real-world issues, next steps, and ministry challenges.
· Review and Learn - Review services orders together and make changes that transform your congregation’s worship!
· Discipleship for the Worship Leader - Transform your worship leading through intentional spiritual development.
· Skill Development - Receive practical coaching on specific skills to help you elevate the way you lead.
· Encouragement - You’re not alone! Find genuine support, friendship, and wisdom in times of weariness or when things feel hard, stressful, or overwhelming.
· Keeping God the Center of All We Do!
When We Meet:
The Engaging the Heart Worship Collective meets for teaching and community on Thursday mornings from 11am to 12pm EST. Weeks 2 & 4 are optional gathering times for those who have the interest and ability to dive deep.
Week One: Live Guest Interviews with Experts from Around The World
Week Two (optional): Open Q&A Session and Community Time with Joe Horness and other worship leaders
Week Three: Live Worship Ministry Training with Joe Horness
Week Four (optional): One-on-One Sessions can be scheduled with Joe throughout the week and are ideal for reviewing services together, problem solving, idea development, one-on-one coaching and personal and professional mentoring
The Annual Worship Collective Membership meets every month except for a summer break in July and August. (We also break in select weeks around key holidays such as Christmas and Easter so worship ministries have the time they require to focus on those events.)
*Additional Offerings Available at a Discount to Members
Testimonials
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"For decades we’ve known Joe to be a man of profound integrity and a leader after God’s own heart. God has anointed Joe to teach, mentor and shepherd worship leaders to bring deep worship experiences that invite genuine and transformative encounters with God."
-Greg and Corinne Ferguson
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“Very few people are anointed to both lead worship and lead others how to lead worship like Joe. He not only knows how to bring people into the presence of Jesus, he knows how to teach others to do that as well.”
-Chris Conrad
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"When Joe Horness came to our church to work with our worship team it was a GAME-CHANGER! His teaching, his worship and his heart have left a profound impact on our team and our people. "
-Pat Quinn
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“Joe has changed my life as a church musician. My whole approach to planning and leading worship was forever altered after working with him.”
-Paul Langford
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"I consider Joe to be one of the most gracious and humble servants of God I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. If I were launching a ministry from scratch or taking over the largest ministry in the world, there is no one I would want by my side more than Joe Horness.”
-Matt Shepardson
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"Joe selflessly guides and leads, and encourages ceaselessly. He offers invaluable perspective and a tender-hearted, Christ centered approach to every situation. Joe’s guidance and teaching are the foundation of all that I do in my worship leading career.”
-Victoria Hughes
