Check out our Leader Training Resources Page (shown to the right on this landing page) It’s our new one stop shop for Band Leader’s in Training media. Included is all the audio content from the Continuous Worship Conference as well as the ‘08 syllabus.

Larry Norman, the singer/songwriter often referred to as “the father of Christian rock,” died Sunday at age 60 after years of declining health. 

This week Mars Hill is hosting the largest conference we have ever been a part of, the Resurgence Text & Context conference. We are hosting 1100 people from 46 states and 11 nations (including England, Denmark, Australia, Japan and Texas).

This morning I had the privilege to host a session, along with Joel Brown, on building missional worship bands. As promised, here are the resources I mentioned in my session…

Here are the slides I used.

Here are the notes.

Here is the syllabus for our band development process.

Here is a link to Bob Kauflin’s blog, Worship Matters, where you can find his job description for a worship leader. We have found this as a very helpful start for developing our own descriptions.

The audio from this session will be posted as soon as we can get it edited. Probably later this week.It is one of the great joys of my work and ministry to have discussions like what we had today. If we have been helpful please subscribe to this site as it is our heart to do anything we can to encourage and challenge others as we build the Church. Feel free to continue to ask questions here and continue the conversation.

Pastor Tim

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Written by Brian “E-Pop” Eichelberger

On the advent of our first studio release since Mars Hill Christmas (2006), those of us that constitute the collective brains of the Mars Hill Recording Squadron have come to an all-too-familiar fork in the self-produced musician road.  Will we put out the Rain City Hymnal ourselves, or should we pursue heavier streams of distribution? (more…)

After months of production and a few stalled attempts at an actual release, we are pleased to announce that we are finally going to have a CD release show for our Mars Hill Music Rain City Hymnal on March 7 at 7:30 pm at the Downtown campus. This is a free event so there is no cover charge at the door.  Ex Nihilo, E-Pop and The Northern Conspiracy will be rocking the Mic.

This project has been by far the most ambitious of all the other MH recordings. It features re-worked arrangements of old hymns as interpreted by BCG, Ex-Nihilo, The Northern Conspiracy, E-Pop and vintage era Team Strike Force. We did most of the tracking at the old Ironwood studios (now known as Avast! II) with the help of our own Brian Eichelberger and Joel Brown both of whom are talented and nimble control-booth-knob-turners for Christ. After JB and Eichelpop did their audio geek magic, the recording was sent off to Jacquire King (Modest Mouse, No Doubt, Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, Be Your Own Pet, Mute Math, Switchfoot) to be mixed and the result is a fantastic sounding recording.

 Please come join us and let the Flock be Rocked!