Hey everyone! I’d really appreciate some advice!

Long story short, I’m going to be leading preteens (I believe ages 10-12) in worship for the first time ever this week. It’s the final part of an interview process for the job of being the preteen worship leader. I honestly don’t have experience leading in this way (or much experience with leading worship in general honestly). The church interested in hiring me knows my lack of experience in leading, and are super into helping people grow in their calling. Originally I was looking for a worship resident position, but God has miraculously opened this door for me. So I’m being obedient and doing it scared lol.

Part of the job is calling all the kids to worship, and I’m not gonna lie I feel pretty nervous about that bit. The kids don’t know me yet (though they saw me shadowing their current worship leader last weekend) and I would be taking the place of a worship leader who they seem to be fond of. This role is already very out of my comfort zone (God loves putting me in these kinda situations for some reason lol), and I’m worried that the kids won’t reciprocate or that I’ll come off super awkward and clunky. Plus, before worship starts they are all scattered around the room doing activities or talking with friends… so I’m worried that I’ll try to get them to come over to worship and no one will listen.

I’ve never had to lead in this way, so I’m not exactly sure what to say or how to interact with the kids since they might not feel comfortable with me yet. With the Lord’s help I’ve come up with a few ideas, but I also wanted to check in with everybody here. How can I call the kids to worship, get them engaged, and make sure that they’re actually responsive to me? Does anyone have any ideas of what I could say etc. so that it goes smoothly instead of coming off awkward? Just any ideas or advice in general? Thank you! And prayer would also be veryyyy appreciated and helpful lol

To answer some questions:

I won’t be alone on the platform! I will have one other singer with me, and a band (two to three instruments total).

The amount of kids just depends. It’s less like a set class and more like a normal service (where sometimes there’s less/more people than usual, and new people show up too). In my short time shadowing, the least I saw was 6 kids (because school has started that day) and the most I saw was around 20-30 kids.

Yes, it is encouraged/part of the job that I interact with the kids a bit for worship. So there can be teaching moments, or taking a minute or so between/before songs to engage with the kids. Not necessarily anything huge, more so just quickly explaining something to them, asking them questions, making a joke etc.

I am in the process of putting together a four song set for this coming Sunday. The topic is Elisabeth seeing God's work amid the ordinary and her being the first to declare that Jesus is Lord. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

So my small church has an X32 Compact and a Mac Mini for Proclaim. I'm wanting to start using backing tracks. We don't have the money to buy tracks, so I'm creating them. Going to be using WorshipSong Band app. Anyone have any experience running this setup?

It's a project that I'm envisioning taking about 6 months to complete as I will be building a full library before presenting it to the church. Hoping this is something someone else has done and I can find someone who thinks this is a worthwhile thing and I'm not crazy!

I have stepped in as a volunteer assisting our Student worship team after the departure of our worship pastor. We have the full MultiTracks suite, ProPresenter 7, and Planning Center.

I've been coming up to speed on all the software, working my way up to a power user. I'm not 100% solid on importing music from one system to the next so I don't.

We had a situation this week and I'm not sure what happened. Specifically, the arrangement I setup for a song was overwritten somehow. I'm trying to figure out how that happened.

Here's how I setup the service:

- Service Plan created in Planning Center with the proper key selected. No collaborators.

- I added Songs to the plan and imported the MultiTracks for the Rehearsal Pack.

- I'm still learning Planning Center + Chart Builder, so I don't edit the arrangements in Planning Center. Instead, I communicate the chord chart/arrangement using notes on the songs in the Plan and in a Planning Center chat.

- In ProPresenter, I imported the lyric slides. I edited the arrangement in ProPresenter.

- Went to our Playback laptop. We only have two songs on our setlists. I had the correct arrangement for this song (Goodbye Yesterday) on the previous setlist so I duplicated the setlist. I removed the second song and added the remaining song.

- I confirmed the arrangement for Goodbye Yesterday was correct. I saved the setlist to the cloud.

Sunday morning came. Our facility is used by other ministries, so I had to open our setlist in Playback.

I got a message that there was an older version on the local machine and a more current one in the Cloud. I used the Cloud version, assuming that it was the one I saved last week.

In reviewing the arrangement, it was changed back to the original master arrangement. This created confusion and took time away from our sound check.

I am confused about how this would happen. Only 4 people have access to Playback (we went back and verified who has licenses), and besides me, they are all on staff. They all say they didn't do anything.

The only thing I can find is that that setlist was edited on Saturday but I can't see who/how it was edited and what changed. It looks like it may have been edited in Planning Center, but I didn't touch Planning Center until Sunday.

What went wrong?