How to organize a church choir -Introduction

So you want to start off a church choir do you? It could have been thrust upon you or you may have been bursting to get one started. Well, congratulations are in order as well as admiration for your saintly courage.

Next, some good news. It doesn't matter what mixed ages your keen members are -from 10years to 100, depending on church policy. You could be starting off with as few as five in number or as many as forty. The choir admin guidelines here will work for most groups with the most basic skills, so even if you haven't got an instrumentalist and all the choir members seem to have lost their buckets supplied for carrying a tune- you can make really good progress.

First, if you are now in charge of a church choir , you need to identify who put you in charge and who put those persons in charge over you. It is usually the church ministers over you and God over the ministers. In some set ups there is a board between the ministers and God.Hopefully you will not be in a set up with a board that thinks they are over God.

The reason you must appreciate who appointed you is because as choir director, leader, coordinator etc, you would have been appointed to fulfil someone else's dreams and aspirations for the church's choir, not necessarily your own.

This does not mean that you will never express your own ideas and inspirations with the choir. It does mean that you will present an excellent model of a person under authority and also in authority.(Mat :9) Your choir will start with a firm footing.