Words on Worship

Mark Your Calendar!  Print a Worship & Music calendar plus resources brochure 11x17

February 25 - Churches of Strength, Chatham

February 28 - Churches of Strength, Woodland, Peoria

March 17 - Technical Ministries Workshop, IBSA building

March 24 - Churches of Strength, Calvary, Monticello

April 19-20 - Singing Churchmen Retreat, Lincoln Avenue, Jacksonville

April 20-21 - Worship Leaders' Retreat, Lincoln Avenue, Jacksonville

April 21 - Churches of Strength, Effingham First

April 28-29 - All State Retreat, Heartland, Alton

May 5 - Churches of Strength, Maplewood, Cahokia

May 19 - Churches of Strength, Casey First

June 27-30 - Children's Music Camp, Hannibal-LaGrange University

July 9-12 - Summer Worship University, Hannibal-LaGrange University

July 13-20 - All State Youth Choir Tour, North & South Carolina

August 4 - Churches of Strength, Machesney Park First

August 18 - Churches of Strength, Pleasant Hill, Mt. Vernon

September 8- Churches of Strength, Marion First

September 22 - Churches of Strength, Broadview

October 6 - Churches of Strength, Joy

 To print this brochure, click here.

Registration form - If you are auditioning at one of the audition sites, you will need to fill out this form and click submit.

Recommendation form - Print out this form and fill it out then mail it in to us at the address on the bottom of the form with the $10 fee. This form is for both vocal and instrument auditions.

Brochure - Print it, post it, pass it around. This is where all the information is for now.

Music MP3 and Sheet Music for vocal auditions.

Schedule

January 28      Auditions 

April 28-29       Retreat, Heartland, Alton

July 9-12         Summer Worship University, Hannibal LaGrange University, Hannibal, MO

July 13-20        Tour to the Carolinas

 PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

•  Active attendee of an IBSA church
• Completed grades 9-12 during the 2011-2012 school year
• Successful audition
• Commitment to the All State rehearsal and performance schedule
• Recommendation by your pastor or music minister and parents

ESTIMATED COST

$650 per youth. We will offer a $100 discount to families with more than one youth participating or any youth who brings a friend who has never auditioned before and makes the choir and pay full price.

• Price includes tour, SWU, retreat, music, transportation in a tour bus, admission to events, lodging and accident insurance. Price does not include all meals while traveling.
• Additional expenses include a one-time uniform purchase ($70), choral folder ($20), and spending money. Transportation to the retreat, SWU and from the homecoming concert is the responsibility of the parents of the All-Stater.
• We will have opportunity to minster to various people groups through worship concerts and block parties as well as participate in other evangelistic and musical events in and outside of church walls.
• There will be plenty of sight-seeing including the beach and a mystery stop at some Carolina tourist traps. 
• The music will be a blend of traditional, gospel and contemporary.

To the praise of His Glorious Grace (Ephesians 1:6)

The purpose of the IBSA's Worship and Church Music Ministries is to equip and encourage individual leaders, churches, and associations to fulfill the God-given mandate to worship Him in spirit and in truth using a wide variety of worship arts including music, drama, visual art, and media in order to lead believers in worship and draw non-believers (seekers or lost) to salvation.

We are striving to strengthen children, youth and adults in vocal and instrumental music through conferences, regional and associational training events, camps, youth music mission trips, handbell, instrumental music and drama festivals.

The Church Strengthening Team will be coming to your area through 12 regional Churches of Strength Conferences.

Many of us are on facebook so we have made an Illinois Baptist Worship Leaders page for blogging and affinity. If you need more details about any event, please do not hesitate to call Debbie at (217) 391-3126 or Steve at (217) 391-3132.

We seek to train and encourage leaders to use music more effectively as a gospel tool to reach people for Christ and build more passionate disciples and worshippers. It is our zeal to teach that worship is not a style but an experience with God by establishing, enlarging, and improving the quality of worship and the music ministry in the local church.

To accomplish these ministry goals, we will offer worship leader's retreats which will train and encourage full-time, part-time, and volunteer worship leaders in available literature, worship trends, problem solving and team building. The Illinois Baptist Singing Men will serve as not only a performance organization designed to give Illinois church musicians an opportunity to sing together, but will offer a network for fellowship and skill building.

Future leaders will be trained via Children's Music Camp, Summer Worship University, All-State Choir and Mission tour, instrumental and vocal workshops. We want to serve and encourage you in accomplishing your God-given mandate to reach the lost and strengthen the church.
Blessings, Steve Hamrick

Director, Worship and Church Music Ministries
Church Strengthening Team
(217) 391-3132
SteveHamrick@IBSA.org

Ministry Assistant
Church Strengthening Team
(217) 391-3126
DebbieMuller@IBSA.org