Calvary Church of the Fountains
The Worship Academy is about leading people through a course on biblical music, praise and worship in the context of history and contemporary church and also ‘building people’ taking them on a journey to experience their full worth and identity, discover their position and potential and release them into a full expression of wholesome gift and character into the whole worshipping life of the church, ministry, worship team and mission, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, affirmed, equipped and empowered, carrying a strong and true sense of God’s favour upon their lives.
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A team of significant and strategic tutors including Chris Bowater, Andy Bromley,
Kerry & Faith Wood, Paul Milligan, Johnny Markin, among others will form part of the faculty.
Worship Academy is an eight weekend modular learning programme which is spread over two years. The subjects covered are: Worship & fatherhood, Worship & the early church, worship & musicianship/songwriting, worship & the prophetic, team leadership-developing the next generation and much more.
Pastors Faith & Kerry Wood
Dates for USA Academy
10-12 October 08
13-15 February 09
12-14 June 09
A few of things that stood out to me are:
1 An awareness of how our context influences our worship, and yet, all of us, even from different cultures and contexts, are united by worshiping Jesus;
2 The realization that we are all part of a VERY LARGE family and that when we worship, we are all joined together, across the world, and with Heaven. The scripture "being surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses" has taken on a new meaning;
3 The awareness of how many of our brothers and sisters that are literally laying their life down for the Gospel.
To see the Lord using someone from the generation that is going before me gives me hope. Thank you Jesus and thank you Gerrit.
Stuart Burns is an excellent teacher and communicator - he stimulated our interest and broadened our understanding of the early church. His extensive understanding of the times and culture allowed him to bring out interesting facts that would not come up in a typical study - we could have spent days in his teachings.
Also, the thought of sacred space and that when we take communion we are not only taking it horizontally with those in the natural but also celebrating it vertically with those who have gone before us was a new perspective to me.
Ian, our visitor from Canada was likewise a true blessing. He mixed with us all and did not know a stranger in his presence. During his time of sharing he spoke that God loves being our Dad. We cannot hear enough of the loving ways of our Father.
Wow! God loves to seal our time given to Him with His love as only He can. Our worship is growing more in Him and in everything we do to glorify Him. We worship Him when we spend time with Him.
Worship Academy is a blessing to my life and I'm forever grateful for how it is enriching my life every time I attend. Some days I say, God I have so much to do today! But if I worship Him first, at the end of the day I say, God only you could have helped me accomplish what I had to get done today.
I am His child and I want to make Him a proud Dad and worship Him in every thing I do. He loves us with a love we could never earn and it's a love we can't lose. God has great things in store as we worship Him more.
(USA)
Worship Academy coordinator Edith Price
12410 Sugar Dale
Stafford
TX 77477
Tel: 281 634 0200
(UK)
Worship Academy Project Manager Matthew Key
85-87 Melton High Street
Wath Upon Dearne
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S70 1UP
UK
Tel: +44 1709 874318