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Zhi -> Worship team frustration (4/15/2008 6:13:11 PM)
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So, we have three worship teams at our church, I'll call them groups A, B, and C. My husband leads group B, we play on group C when we're scheduled to (I play keyboards/sing alto, my husband plays guitar and sings lead when he's leading).
Group A contains the people making the schedule. They have their own group of people they play with, they play pretty much every other Sunday. It's always the same group, they practice every week on a designated night, everyone's schedules are synched, they've cherry picked their members.
Group B and C basically get different people to work with every time they play, and it's basically whoever wanted to sing or play who wasn't picked for group A. Many of them are skilled (though some of the very-skilled musicians that signed up after the schedule started and were initially on B and C were later pulled into group A). Some of them, I appreciate their enthusiasm, but they could not carry a tune if one were given to them in a bucket (this is not solely my opinion, as I noticed that their mics were turned completely off when they were singing with group C the last round). None of the schedules were synchronized, most of them have jobs that require them to work at night (hospital, police, etc) so scheduling a night is almost impossible, especially considering that group A has a designated night every single week and the church is otherwise in use for Bible study and Women's ministries and so forth on other nights. My husband's turn to lead group B is coming up a week from Sunday, and he's been trying to schedule so we get two practices in prior to Sunday morning, but group A is this Sunday so they're taking up two nights this week instead of the usual one.
So, naturally, group A sounds awesome, and groups B and C do not. I'm getting really frustrated with it. I would love for our group to sound good, but in these circumstances I'm just not seeing how it's possible.
How do I deal with this? I'm developing a horrible attitude (as I'm sure you can tell) which doesn't help I know but it's difficult not to. I think the best thing would be for group A to just play every week, but their members aren't able to, so that leaves us bands-of-leftovers to pick up on their off weeks, and with the scheduling issues and material we have to work with, the differences in the quality of the groups are getting more and more obvious and I'm getting tired of the comments on how we want quality that come up at the worship leaders' meetings. We're doing our best with what we have, but given the disparity in how group A and groups B and C are composed and allowed to work, the comparisons are really unfair, and there doesn't seem to be much we can do.
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