2015 Workshop — Worship Band

Finding the right parts to play, using dynamics, and having chemistry can be tough, especially with a volunteer team of musicians. Calvary Monterey’s Worship Team will be playing live and explaining how Drums, Bass, Acoustic, Electric, Keys, and Vocals can use dynamics and parts to color a song. They’ll also show how to take songs and apply them to a smaller band setting.

2015 Workshop — Songwriting

Evan is a very talented and creative songwriter who has released multiple studio albums and written many worship songs being sung in the global church. In this workshop, he’ll share about his songwriting process and how you can grow as a songwriter.

2015 Workshop — Media In Worship

This workshop is taught by Calvary Monterey’s Tech Director Bernhard Klingenberg. In this workshop, you will learn about different worship lyric software solutions used for projecting lyrics during a worship service, utilizing video media in a service, as well as some design concepts to help ensure teaching and media slides are engaging and effective.

2015 Workshop — Church Sound

In this workshop, we’ll discuss how personal preparation coupled with the knowledge of using audio mixing tools can honor God in our Sunday services. Overviews of troubleshooting, EQ, soundcheck, and rehearsals will be provided in addition to Q&A.

2015 Workshop — Worship Ministry Planning and Organization

With so much to do, it can be overwhelming to plan ahead and stay organized. In this workshop Brenton Collyer, Calvary Monterey’s Worship Pastor and Creative Director, will share some tools to help you host auditions, care for volunteer teams, plan services, and choose set lists.

2015 Workshop — Acoustic Guitar

In this acoustic guitar workshop, Tim Brown will offer up ideas regarding dynamics, technique, and chord voicing that he hopes will challenge you to continue to grow and improve as a musician and as a worship leader. Originally from a small town 30 minutes north of Los Angeles, Tim has been involved in leading worship for several churches over the past 15 years, including 6 years here at Calvary Monterey. His experience will add value to both the beginner and intermediate level musician.

2015 Workshop — Confidence In Your Calling

Whether you’re a man or a woman, young or in a more mature season of life, on the front lines or serving behind the scenes, undereducated or inexperienced – your church needs confident, Spirit-filled leaders. If God’s called you to it, you can do it! We’ll look at finding confidence in and embracing what God’s called you to through Scripture, by learning to be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit and by investing in and honing your craft.

2015 Session 2 — Why Me?

To start off our 2015 Restore Worship Conference, Pastor Justin Richter from The Anchor in Gilroy spoke on Psalm 8 with a message perfectly titled “Why Me?”