Bio: Abram has served since 2001 as a vocational youth minister, working at small, mid-sized, and large churches in Illinois, Virginia, and Massachusetts.  He has also led in other church ministry capacities, including leading worship music and preaching.

Session: Raising Up Shouts of Praise: Developing Student Worship Leaders

Description: Worship through song is key to a community’s sense of connection to God and each other. God deserves our praise, and God delights in the praise of his people. What role can and should your young people have in leading worship? How can you recruit youth to lead worship, and train them to do it faithfully and effectively?

In “Raising Up Shouts of Praise,” Abram Kielsmeier-Jones will share some lessons he’s learned in developing student worship leaders: from big picture methodology concerns (like how to select a team; Biblical principles in which to train them) to nuts and bolts (like how to coach worship leaders in what to say between songs, how to help them find and teach new music). Abram especially looks forward to hearing others’ lessons learned that he might take back with him to his own worship leading context.