Last Saturday, Paul Cook, Andy Woodcock and myself, set out for London to go to the Worship Central conference at HTB.Arriving at about 10.30 the place was already packed for a 11am start and was buzzing. Apparently the church seats 800 people.
The day was fantastic, starting with 45 minutes of worship led by Al Gordon, and then a talk on 'humility' by Tim Hughes.
After lunch, there were 3 seminar choices, 'band dynamics' with Tim Hughes, 'God and Creation' with Graham Tomlin, and 'Drumming in worship' with Terl Bryant of the Psalm Drummers. 'Band Dynamics' was by far the most popular with the highlight being Tim going through how he would rehearse a new song (Lex Buckley's Holy is the Lord) with his band. Although, his band were pretty hot and it wasn't difficault, if they'd just turned up and played it without rehearsing they would have been good. So they went into detail about how they would develop parts for each instrument and then knit them together. Pretty interesting stuff if you're into that kind of thing!
Then there was a big Q&A with Nick Herbert, one of the new Soul Survivor worship leaders, Tre Sheppard of One Hundred Hours, and Rachel Hughes.
Followed by a big worship sesh in the evening with Tim Hughes and band.
So overall, a great day out, and really quite inspiring. I really reccomend the next one on November 18th. Its such great value at £8, and you really do get so much out of the day. They're doing them every 2 months, so if you can put the date in your diary. You can book through the website worshipcentral.org
