While I believe that Worship should be led by a worship ministry team, it can also be led by a solo Worship Leader. The emphasis is not on the one leading, but the one to whom you are being led to worship - GOD ALMIGHTY.

I'm the one leading worship with my mum.. We have a great time every week :)

I forgot to mention that at the conclusion of the service, we have an offering march, with the children taking leadership, and we conclude the service with the children up front, leading in simple but important prayers, one out of Psalms 119, and the other The Lord's Prayer, then one of the children will conclude with a benediction. I am also developing music lessons designed around worship music that is part of the service, which will be given to families who attend the church for no charge. The lessons will dove tail with my daughters children's ministry during the worship service, and will focus on using worship and service as a tool for leadership training. If God did it, why can't we?

I am here because of my right hand man and Tonto like friend Rick, who like Tonto and the Lone Ranger doesn't say much, but is always baling me out of a jam. I am a pastor and also work full time, and also handled the music, which was built around an evangelistic style of pianist, myself and song leader, Rick.
Rick began introducing new worship music, accompanied by his guitar, and when I purchased a high end keyboard, it made a big difference.
Because of the illness of my wife, Rick took over all of the music leadership, which was a decision made in heaven, for he invariable picks songs that fit perfectly with my message.
Rick arrives an hour and a half early to set up and practice, and I try to be there an hour early. Rick's influence has won me over to worship music, and it has become a centerpiece of my life. It was worship that carried me through my wife' illness and death, and introduced me to worshipjournal.

We usually have the youth group leading.
Otherwise our church is more traditional with hymns and solemn prayers.
Changes are taking place gradually.

We have 4 music teams with a mixture of instruments in each team, and we are lucky that two of our leaders are music teachers, so as well as having the leading gift, they also have the musical gifting.
The rest of us have a range of skills, but no professionals.
We are always on the lookout for new music and will progressivley introduce new songs over a year.
We have recently completed a year long study called "One Step Ahead" (by a NZ Baptist minister) which is for the music team and the pastor and other key church leaders and goes through the history of the worship gathering, the OOS, and how we can develop our worship gatherings to have less distractions, better flow, and be more open for the Spirit to lead. It is an exciting time for us as we step out and try new things.

At our church, we are going through a transition. In the past, we have had a worship team, comprising of two or more soloists; backup vocals; ensemble, plus a band. The band has fluctuated between drummer, lead guitar, bass, flute and keys.
We also have psalmists, who sing in the Spirit and song writers, who write songs for the congregation. Otherwise, we sing many contemporary selections
At this point, the Holy Spirit has got to have his way, in order for us to move forward, as there is no one stepping forward to accompany the group!

usually our worship pastor leads the worship team. He does an OUTSTANDING job and I can't say enough about how much his leadership means to me. As a fellow musician and worship team member I feel very blessed by God serving with him, and doubly blessed to have him for a mentor. God is so good to me!!!!!!!

In our church we have a team of musicians, singers and worship leaders who take turns on a rota basis. They are led by a worship leader, who takes instructions from the pastor or speaker for the event.

We choose songs to hopefully fit the meeting and then rehearse as well as we can - so it's not left to chance.

There's loads of room for many more musicians and singers and we would love to develop lots more songs and sounds, and enjoy each other's company :)*

Sue

While the singing is led by the leader of the worship band the Worship is predominantly lead by the Vicar/Curate/Reader. As is normal in life some are better at this than others.
My personal preference would be for a gifted (in leading Worship) musician/singer to lead the Sung Worship as my experience as a Worshiper is that this provides a more fluid, less disjointed space in which to engage with the Holy Spirit both as a giving and receiving experience.

We have two types of service. One led by a service leader who is not usually a musician. They would determine the content of the worship and who does what and the musicians would respond to their lead.
The other type of service is more of a partnering between worship leader working with a band - who usually choses the songs and will sometimes include other aspects of worship e.g prayer, readings, invitation to share prayer/prophecy etc - and the service leader, who is often the one who will preach.
This allows someone to be sensing the feeling of the meeting and spiritual 'temperature' alongside the musical leader so that they dont have to feel they must cover all the angles. This does require trust and good communication between worship leader and service leader.
Seems to work!

We have a band but normally either the worship leader, whether it be me or one of the other two worship leaders, lead with our female "counter part". It's always great to lead with someone

Hi, I clicked other because we us a mix of most of the above. We have a worship team that leads the opening worship most weeks with me leading them, but then later on we use an organist . When I use children's songs I tend to use recordings coupled with automatated PowerPoints.

We believe that this mix keeps everyone happy

Mike