This is a conference for worship teams: pastors, leaders and volunteers. If you serve the church on the music or tech side in worship ministry, this will be a time of encouragement, equipping and connection to send you back to your local church inspired and energized for more!
Conference October 19, 2024
Early Bird Until September 30!
Main Session Speakers
Dave Siverns is the Executive Pastor of Weekend Experience and Creative Arts at Compass Point Church in Burlington, Ontario. He is a singer/songwriter with several releases on streaming: link here.
Cliff Cline is the founder of eyesUP worship, a worship ministry with a vision to unite worship leaders from across Canada to encourage, equip and strengthen the church. He is a singer/songwriter and worship leader.
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Workshops
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Worship Keys
Trevor Hewer
Topic: Developing sounds and playing techniques for worship.
Trevor is a composer, teacher and producer residing in Milton, ON. With a heart to serve through the medium of music, he finds joy in helping equip others to do the same.
Spiritual Formation
Chris Heise
Topic: Developing a “Rule of Life”
Chris is the Executive Pastor of Spiritual Formation at Compass Point Church in Burlington, ON.
Guitar
Patrick Anderson
Topic: Using Electric Guitar in Worship
Patrick is the Worship Pastor at Living Hope in Georgetown. He brings a wealth of experience, including playing on several Sovereign Grace albums.
Songwriting
Dave Siverns
Topic: Taking a song from idea to release.
Dave is an accomplished songwriter with many releases, including most recently a Christmas album, and a song for the church co-written with Jake Fretz and produced in collaboration with the PAC worship collective called Your Song.
Worship Vocals
Cliff Cline
Topic: Taking your vocal leadership to the next level.
Cliff has been leading worship in the church for decades and launched an online vocal lesson site called eyesUP vocal. In this session he will teach the foundations of singing and teach how to lead with passion, power, and skill.
Visual Design
Rachel Siverns
Topic: Creating lighting and projection for the church
Rachel Siverns is a graphic designer, non-profit leader, event producer, and long-time church volunteer. She loves to serve behind the scenes and make people and things look their best, with a keen eye for seeing how all of the details come together to serve the big picture. She also did an amazing job creating our conference graphics for Compelled.
Leading Bands
Levi Pike
Topic: Leading and Arranging Worship Bands
Having fallen in love with the way he found connection to God through music, Levi pursued studying ministry leader ship and music at Hillsong College. His passion for the church and the joyful noise we get to make continues to grow through the years, and he serves in many different volunteer worship positions, including music director.
Mixing for Worship
Justin Colyn
Topic: Mixing live sound for worship.
As Principal Owner and Team Lead for AVLI, Justin brings years of exprience in both live sound production, and church AVL installations. You don’t want to miss the breadth and depth of knowledge Justin will bring to this session.
Video Panel Hosted by Cheryle Dueck
Sharing Your Music Broadly: Strategies for Canadian Artists on CCLI and PraiseCharts
Facilitator: Cheryle Dueck
Panelist: Ryan Dahl, Founder PraiseCharts
Panelist: Nate Scott, SVP, CCLI
Budgeting for AVL
Topic: Resourcing & Budgeting for Your AVL Ministry
Russ Shouldice is on the worship faculty at Heritage College and Seminary teaching AVL.
Church Livestreaming
Topic: Livestream Production
Jacob Nussbaum works for AVLI and is an expert on Livestream Production.
Music Recording
Topic: Recording in Logic
Brady Anderson will take you through tips and tricks for tracking and producing in logic.
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