SEU Worship on Leading a Team That Turns Over Every Year

Every person on their worship team has an expiration date. 

At Southeastern University, students audition, get developed, lead for a couple of years, then graduate. The team rebuilds itself constantly. It still works. 

Chelsea and Austin, who everyone calls Shuff, lead SEU Worship, a campus ministry of sixty to eighty college students leading chapel three and four times a week. 

In this conversation you'll hear how they frame excellence as 'prepare the offering,' a holy practice instead of a performance standard. 

How five staff develop thirty-plus student leaders, who then develop everyone else, so the discipleship isn't sitting on one person. 

And what stewarding ten straight days of worship actually looked like: swapping guitar players out mid-song over the talkback, two hour slots at one in the morning, and making sure people ate, slept and showered. 

Plus why 'What A God' lived in their chapel for about a year before any other church started singing it. 

If the 'prepare the offering' idea hit something in you, that's what Worship Online is built for: your whole team learning their exact parts at home so rehearsal is refining, not reteaching. Try it free at https://worshiponline.com/ 

Mentioned in the Episode 

What a God 

10 Days of Outpouring 

Southeastern University 

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