Leading Worship

The Corridor district Lay Servant Ministries team presents Leading Worship with Chuck Frost.

Course scholarships are available to those in need of financial assistance. Please contact your district director or cle@nccumc.org.

About the Course:

This course focuses on the ministry of the lay servant who either regularly or occasionally leads a group, class, organization, or congregation in worship. The course is grounded in the classic patterns of Christian worship.

Participants will be able to:

• Be able to name the four elements of the Basic Pattern of Worship and describe the history of this pattern;
• Practice leadership through the four elements of the basic pattern;
• Receive and offer supportive feedback on planning and leading worship;
• Explore and practice leading worship in a variety of settings, other patterns of worship, and multiple forms of prayer.

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All participants are expected to read Worshiping with United Methodists, by Hoyt L. Hickman, prior to class.

Participants will also need access to a United Methodist Hymnal and a United Methodist Book of Worship. Your church or pastor probably has a copy that you may borrow. You can also access the Book of Worship online.

For questions about the course, please contact Vicki Ambrose (vambrose@nccumc.org) or Allen Burden (aburden@nccumc.org), Corridor district co-directors of Lay Servant Ministries.

About Chuck Frost:

Chuck currently serves as pastor of Fairview UMC in Elon. He received his Master of Divinity from Duke University’s Divinity School in 1994 and was ordained an Elder in The United Methodist Church in 1996. Chuck has served churches in Mississippi, Alaska, Virginia, and North Carolina. He has been married to his wife, Julie, for 37 years and has two sons, Joshua and Jonah, and a daughter-in-law, Morgan (Joshua’s wife). He and Julie are also the proud grandparents of Kay, José, Tiffany, and Lydia. Chuck is currently working on his Doctor of Ministry at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.