All About Worship Podcast - Fred McKinnon Interview

On this week’s All About Worship Podcast, Wisdom and Ben talk to Fred McKinnon about the worship ministry he leads at St. Simon’s Community Church.  During the interview we get to hear how Fred leads the worship team along with his heart for helping other worship leaders in their important roles in the local church. You’ll also hear some great pointers for you worship leading keyboardists.

This week’s worship leader tool in the toolbox is a book by Nancy Beach called ” An Hour on Sunday: Creating Moments of Transformation and Wonder”.  This book is a great resource for not just the worship leader, but for anyone involved in helping assemble worship services (Sr. Pastors, Worship Pastors, Worship Directors, Drama Leaders etc.).

This month’s freebie is a book written by Ben’s dad, Tass Saada, called “Once an Arafat Man”.  Ben’s dad was a former PLO sniper and personal drivier for Yasser Arafat in the early 1970’s.  A great read about the transforming power of Jesus Christ.  Published by Tyndale House last fall.  Get the book by simply emailing us at [email protected]. Let us know what you think of the podcast, shoot us your blog if you’ve got one, tell us about yourself…we’d love to hear about your ministry.  We’ll enter your name in the drawing for the book.

Here are the links for this week’s episode:

• “An Hour on Sunday” - Our Worship Leader Tool this week. A great book by Nancy Beach.
• St. Simon’s Community Church - The church Fred directs worship at.
• “Pure Praise” - Fred shared how his worship team is studying this book together. Great team building resource.
• Sunday Setlists: What Happened at Your Church? - Check out this blog carnival Fred hosts on his site.
• Brian Daniel - Visual worship artist Fred mentions.
• United Pursuit Band - Fred mentions what artist he’s digging lately.
• FredMcKinnon.com - Fred’s blog
• TheWorshipCommunity.com - Online community for worship team members that Fred manages.
• IndieHeaven.com - Check out Fred’s music.
• “Once An Arafat Man” - This week’s giveaway if you email us at [email protected].
• OnceAnArafatMan.com - Blog for the free giveaway.
• AAW on Twitter - Here we are!
• AAW on Facebook - And here we are again!
• BrianandJennJohnson.com - Wrote and performed our closing song.

You can listen to the podcast online here. Or go subscribe here. And even better…subscribe on iTunes here (maybe leave some feedback!)  Shane Barnard of Shane&Shane will be on the next All About Worship podcast in two weeks!