Worship Musician June 2018 | Page 40

Interview with Joshua Mohline Director of Bethel Music’s Worship U The heart of what we do at [WM] is to equip In addition to being key influencers in putting in 2000, around the same time that our worship teams to get ‘better by Sunday’. One words to the heartbeat of the next generation Ministry School started. It is a short, summer expression of that is the interviews we do with of worshippers, Bethel is equally committed to program that focuses in on worship leading, worship leaders from movements like Bethel raising up the members of your team through musicianship, instrument classes, creative arts, Music. In these interviews we try to elicit pearls Bethel U, the online training program that dance, paint, and just worship in general. of wisdom that will bless you and your team. allows members of your team to drink directly from the well fueled by Bethel Music’s firehose We realized that every summer, the worship Most of our columnists, have served at of experience and insights. As detailed below, school was either too long, too expensive, or churches of various sizes, which means we this program is multi-faceted and extremely too far away for a lot of people that wanted all have a heart to bless and support smaller comprehensive, providing the exact sort of to attend, and it would fill up really fast. There congregations who have limited resources to training resources that many teams are hungry were a lot of people that wanted to be able to work with. Ironically, smaller worship teams for and in need of. So, it is our pleasure to get the worship school teachings and content, tend to be the ones who need the most introduce Joshua Mohline, Director of Worship but they couldn’t, for whatever reason, whether support, yet have the fewest resources to work U. they couldn’t take off time from work, afford with when it comes to developing a common the travel to California, or they weren’t able understanding of music fundamentals and [WM] Joshua, what is Worship U, when did it to sign up in time and didn’t make it into the systems for transforming singers into worship start, and what do you guys do? enrollment. So, Worship U online was birthed leaders. If I just described your team, then I to meet a demand from people who needed encourage you to read and share the following [Joshua Mohline] Worship U online started a lower barrier to entry to be able to get to the interview with the members of your worship in 2012, and was the online expression of the content. community. on-campus worship school from Bethel. The Bethel Worship School on campus started 40 June 2018 [WM] What is your official title, and what are WorshipMusician.com