Music Audition Form

 

Worship Team

Statement of Faith & Commitment

Are You Ready to Answer The Call?


If so, we are actively seeking those individuals who are ready to serve in the area of Praise and Worship. Simply complete the form below and someone from our team will contact you soon.

YOUR INFO

First Name:             Last Name:    

Email:                      Phone:           

Address:                  City:               

State:                       Zip:                 

Vocal Part/Instrument

To be considered for Worship Team we ask that you regularly attend our church.

Are you a regular attender?

How long have you attended?

Are you a member?

Please note, Moses Lake Alliance Church understands the importance of protecting your contact information.  We will never share or sell your private contact information with a third party.

Spiritual Inventory 

Short Answers:

1. Please briefly summarize God’s plan of salvation.

 

 2. Can you identify a point in your life when you were without Christ? Are there personal areas of your life in which you have experienced a change since coming to Christ?

 3. No one is perfect, yet Psalm 24:4 teaches us to come before the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart. Titus 2:11-14 tells us that we who acknowledge God’s grace should live lives of holiness and self-control, and Colossians 3:12-17 instructs us to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience and to be in the Word of God. Do these scriptural principles describe you?

  4. What has prompted you to want to be a part of this team?

5. Are you willing to be stretched and challenged musically and spiritually?

6. What other ministry groups, if any, are you involved in at MLAC?

Musical Inventory

1. List three of your best musical experiences (could be a single event, an ensemble, lessons, etc).

2. List three of your worst musical experiences (if you’ve had that many!).

3. What one or two factors made the differences for you between your best and worst musical experiences?

 4. Scale of 1-10 (10 as best) rate yourself:

Sight Reading

Reading Lead Sheet charts

Playing written parts

Singing by Ear

Creating Drum Loops

Using music notation software

Recording and studio tracking

Learning a song by ear alone

Adjusting what you’re singing to what you hear from others

Being on time

Counting rhythms, or tapping them

Singing or playing to a click (metronome)

Access to and using the internet (yes, it’s relevant!)

Comfortable with In Ear Monitors (IEMs)

Improvising or ad libbing a solo

5. What is your favorite style of music to sing/play?

 

6. Please list your top 5 favorite artists and/or groups of all time (secular/Christian).

 Time and Commitment

Currently, rehearsals are weekly on Wednesdays 8:00 p.m. – 9:15 p.m. in the sanctuary (6:30-8:00 p.m. during the summer). We always work to complete our rehearsals as soon as we can, aware of kids, work, concentration, etc. We are caught in the tension of realizing that many of us have families and the obligation to prepare for Sundays to the best of our abilities. Effort is made each week to keep rehearsal time as short as possible, but we usually end our rehearsal time around 9:15 p.m. with the exception of occasional preparations for special services or elements particular to a specific service (seasonal).

The exact rehearsal schedule varies, but we do our best to communicate where and when everyone needs to be in the rehearsal time. This is accomplished through email and the Planning Center Online website.

By auditioning for worship team, you are also making a commitment to the worship ministry overall, part of which involves being a part of the choir (vocals) when you are not scheduled to be on the worship team. We expect more from our worship team members than we do our choir members by nature of the worship team role, and in addition, involvement in the choir helps to promote a spirit of teamwork within the ministry.

The key to worship team rehearsals and to Sunday services is preparation. We strive to provide you with everything you will need in order to prepare: your schedule, song lists for each service, recordings of songs (when available) and charts for our ensembles. All these things are available to our volunteers through the Planning Center Online website. Our rehearsal times are important, but equally important is your own personal practice time and preparation. We believe strongly that worship team vocalists and the rhythm section, just like the main worship leader, along with the choir, are leading the congregation in worship. As such, it is very important that you are musically and spiritually prepared to do that kind of leading!

Teams are typically scheduled on an every-other-week rotation, but we also ask for flexibility in helping to cover parts when team members are unavailable.

Wednesday night schedule:

6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Choir – Sanctuary (child care provided, please sign up)

8:00 – 9:15 p.m. Worship Team – Sanctuary (child care provided, please sign up)

 Sunday morning schedule: All 3 Services 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 a.m.

7:30 a.m. – Rhythm & vocalists sound check and run thru

     • Rhythm – plugged in, tuned and ready to go

     • Vocalists – on stage singing off mic to warm up and then on mic after rhythm is set

8:00 a.m. – clear stage, misc. sound checks (video, choir, special)

8:10 a.m. – Preaching Pastor/Guest Speaker sound check

8:15 a.m. – tech sheet review, prayer

8:25 a.m. – ready to go

8:30, 10:00, 11:30 (be ready to go 5 minutes before each service)

Rhythm & Vocals Close ALL services unless otherwise noted.

 

Are you willing to commit to the schedule of the worship team?  If no, please explain.

  

We ask for our volunteers to commit to one year of service, barring unforeseen major life circumstances. Can you agree to these commitments? By clicking the “Submit” button below, you are saying “Yes.” Thank you for your prayerful consideration.