Workshop Track
Worship
Lead with Passion: Creating Powerful Worship Experiences
Strengthen your worship team and create powerful services with our Worship track. Discover practical strategies for effective team communication, building a cohesive worship culture, and refining technical elements like sound and lighting. Learn to streamline administrative tasks using planning tools, ensuring smoother rehearsals and well-organized services. This track equips you with insights to cultivate meaningful worship moments that inspire deeper engagement within your church.
Building a Strong Worship Culture
Foster unity, vision, and purpose within your worship team for more effective leadership.
Efficient Planning & Execution
Learn how to use tools and processes to streamline rehearsals, scheduling, and service preparation.
training the next generation of leaders
Grow in your discipleship skills to spot, train and grow the next generation of worship leaders.
WORKSHOPS
Producing & Publishing Worship in-House
Stephen Brewster
Does your church release music? Is that something that you would like to do in the future? This session will help you understand the purpose, strategy, and execution of improving what you are already doing or how to get started releasing music.
Key Takeaways:
1. You will learn about publishing, distribution, marketing, social media, radio, advertising, and how to talk about music with your leadership in a way they will understand.
Stephen helps Churches overcome being overwhelmed.
His unique path has allowed him to lead as an Executive and Creative Pastor in several local churches as well as an executive in the music business. Today, he helps churches create and release original music. Additionally, Stephen coaches Pastors, Executive leaders, and creatives on leadership and creative processes.
Stephen lives with his amazing wife, Jackie, and four awesome kids just outside of Nashville, TN.
God’s Design for Your Voice
Jeff mathena
Discover the connection between vocal transformation and spiritual formation. In this session, we’ll explore how the design of your voice reflects God’s intentionality—physically, spiritually, and prophetically. Using the framework of Revelation, Response, and Reign, we’ll uncover how belief shapes sound and how your voice is meant to carry both identity and authority.
Key Takeaways:
1. Your voice was intentionally designed by God to carry both identity and authority.
2. Most vocal struggles aren’t due to lack of talent, but a lack of clear, accurate understanding of how the voice actually works.
3. When you respond to God’s revelation with your voice, you partner with Him to release His reign on the earth.
Jeff Mathena is a vocal coach, speaker, and founder of The Unhindered Voice, a platform devoted to helping singers in the Church discover freedom in their sound and boldness in their calling. Known for his unique blend of technical mastery and spiritual insight, Jeff has coached many of today’s most influential artists, including Kari Jobe, Phil Wickham, Elevation Worship, Bethel Music, and For King & Country.
More than just a coach, Jeff is a prophetic voice to worshippers, equipping them not only to sing with excellence, but to carry the weight of God’s presence through their voice. He has served as vocal faculty for Bethel Music College and continues to partner with ministries that are raising up the next generation of anointed voices.
Whether leading a coaching session or speaking into identity and purpose, Jeff is passionate about helping believers sing with clarity, conviction, and joy. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife and children, where he leads a thriving online community of worshippers through The Unhindered Voice.
Why Your “Moments” Don’t Matter (…Unless They Lead to This)
Brian Taylor
Most of us were handed a ministry without a manual, just the pressure to produce. We all love a mountaintop experience, but it’s easy to confuse what looks powerful with what actually is powerful. You can plan the perfect set, create a soaring moment, and still miss the point. This session will help you cut through the noise, name what’s getting in the way, and step into what you’re truly called to lead and build.
Key Takeaways:
1. Clarify the deeper mission of a worship leader.
2. Identify four core disruptors that are silently sabotaging your leadership.
3. Learn practical solutions to stay grounded, focused, and effective.
Brian Taylor has served and equipped the local church for over 20 years. His background spans various denominations, cultures, and settings as he has led worship ministries in churches of a few hundred to over 30,000 across multiple locations. As a worship and creative pastor, he loves creating worship environments that are transformational and engaging. As a member of senior leadership teams, his mission has been to help clarify vision and strategy, cultivate healthy team culture, and develop strong leaders. As an executive coach and speaker, he is passionate about helping high-performing leaders ditch discontent, maximize potential, and align their performance with their purpose.
Brian and his wife, Lauren, live just north of Dallas, Texas, where they live with their two beautiful kids (five, if you count their two dogs and one cat, as Brian does). They’ve had the opportunity to lead worship and invest in teams together across the country. Brian also serves as Vice President of Slingshot Group’s Worship & Creative Arts division, leading a stellar team helping churches build healthy teams across the country in Worship, Production, and Digital/Communications.
Worship Leader in the Wild
Bella Taylor Smith
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Bella Taylor Smith is a worship leader, recording artist, and speaker with over 12 years of ministry experience. Known for her heart for the local church, Bella has served in worship leadership across Australia and beyond. Now residing in Nashville Tennessee with her husband Josh, Bella is committed to blending her love for community, leading people into a deeper understanding of God’s presence, and character and her love for expressing that through music.
After winning The Voice Australia, Bella’s journey opened doors in both mainstream music and Christian ministry, allowing her to share her story and songs with a wide audience.
Today, she leads worship, pastors the creative community at her local Church, writes songs, and speaks into the heart of worshippers and leaders navigating the blend of ministry and music — Bella always carries a passion to see people encounter Jesus and live out the commission they’ve been given as believers with a focusing on living sustainable lives of worship on and off the platform.
Multicultural Worship: Building Bridges, Not Barriers
Jordan McCullough
Every congregation represents a variety of cultures, and if we’re not mindful, our worship can
unintentionally exclude rather than invite. This session equips leaders to embrace the beauty
and tension of diversity in the Church. You’ll discover how excellence in preparation and
authenticity in posture work together to craft worship that honors God, disciples diverse teams,
and bridges cultural gaps with humility. Expect both practical tools and pastoral wisdom to help
you lead worship that unites God’s people and gives a glimpse of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Key Takeaways:
1. Discover step-by-step how to create a diverse worship set that both honors God and
reaches His people in a familiar place.
2. Learn pastoral strategies for uniting people beyond their preferences, pointing them to
presence over style.
3. Develop leadership rhythms that disciple diversity and empower authentic expressions.
Born and raised in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Jordan McCullough entered full-time vocational ministry at 23 and now serves as Worship Director at Zeal Church. Called at a young age, he has developed a strong ability to lead with confidence across generations. He oversees worship culture, creative programming execution, and the growth of worship leaders and teams. Passionate about cultivating environments where excellence and authenticity meet, Jordan finds his greatest joy in discipling leaders, building healthy teams, and equipping the next generation of worshippers to walk boldly in their calling.
Keys for Building Healthy and Effective Worship Teams
Brandon Premo
Too often, worship teams are built on borrowed models that don’t fit the unique culture, people, or pace of their local church. This workshop is for worship leaders who want to lead thriving, unified teams, not just musically excellent ones. Whether you’re navigating the demands of multiple ministries, leading volunteers with different levels of commitment, or trying to grow a team that’s spiritually deep and practically sharp. This session we will talk through and ask the right questions to help you reframe how you lead your teams. You’ll learn how to establish life-giving rhythms, define what truly matters for your team, and create systems that help you move forward and not just survive Sunday to Sunday.
Key Takeaways:
– Learn how to build weekly and monthly rhythms for rehearsal, planning, and spiritual growth that fit your church.
– Gain tools to help define what excellence and purpose look like for your specific context.
– Discover how to evaluate and grow your team (and yourself) in practical, healthy, and sustainable ways.
Brandon Premo serves as the Worship Pastor and leader of Bridge Worship in Spring Hill, TN. He oversees teams across Worship, Production, and Creative, helping unify and guide them toward a shared vision: creating meaningful experiences where people can encounter Jesus and grow to become more like Him—for the sake of the world.
A key part of Brandon’s role involves nurturing the “artist” side of Bridge Worship. He is currently focused on stewarding their existing catalog of music while also working on new projects that reflect and serve the heart of their church.
His heart is to pastor and mentor worship leaders who are navigating the challenges of leading multiple ministries, building healthy teams, unifying vision, and creating original music for their churches.
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