Worship Team Application Process

Worship Team Auditions
Questions? Email bannerj@hope.edu

If you are interested in auditioning for the worship team, please read through the application process document (below). Your application AND reference letters must be turned in together to the Keppel House by April 7. Auditions
will be held April 7 through 11. Know that we are praying for you and for wise discernment as we recruit new team members.

Peace to you,
Joshua Banner

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Participating in the worship team at Hope is both exciting and demanding. Because of the nature of the chapel ministry at a college campus, team members must possess commitment, responsibility, competent mastery of their instrument and the heart of a worshiper. The application process is intended to be thorough to ensure that students are released with confidence into the use of their gift. Each applicant is required to submit a written application that includes:

• 2-3 letters of recommendation. One of these needs to be from a pastor.
• A typed draft submitting all information requested on the worship team application form with thoughtful answers to the listed essay questions.

Upon review of applications, the Minister of Art and Worship, will request an audition if the applicant’s written application indicates a good fit for the vacant positions on the team. What to expect in the audition:

You should come prepared to lead a song that is familiar to our regular
chapel song rotation and you will also be expected to create a harmony part
for a song that you have never sung before. In some circumstances, if
current team members are available, you will be singing harmonies in two
parts.

Further personal interviews will also be necessary as well.

Worship team members will be expected to:

• Maintain and exemplify the life of a disciple of Christ.
• Regularly participate in some kind of spiritual accountability whether that is in a local church or a small group.
• Maintain their academic course load with integrity.
• Consider the worship team their main extra-curricular activity. Team members are discouraged from participating any other major extra-curricular activities.
• Rehearse and participate in at most two services per week (most likely be one chapel and one Gathering or two chapels).
• Be available for chapel rehearsals at 7am the morning of that chapel.
• Be available for Wednesday night rehearsals (8pm-10pm) for the next Sunday’s Gathering.
• Report to campus a week prior to the beginning of school in August.
• Regularly practice their instruments.
• Develop their understanding of worship and the theology of worship by engaging weekly one-page readings that are posted on the worship team moodle site.

The mission of the chapel worship ministry is two-fold: to glorify God through the ministry of worship on the Hope College campus and to reach the church at large both locally and globally.

The later part of this mission is accomplished by:
• providing Hope College students with mentoring, training and ministry experience that will build their ministry to the church upon graduation.
• writing and recording original worship music that is both spiritually invigorating and theologically sound.


Joshua Banner
Minister of Worship & Art
Campus Ministries
bannerj@hope.edu
616.395.7159