musicsmission© provides support to parishes for enhancing musical worship through effective leadership and resources. It aims to strengthen congregations by fostering better communication between musicians and clergy while renewing the music ministry's vision. The initiative focuses on integrating musicians with congregations and empowering them to develop their unique worship identities.

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Inspired Music in Worship

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 Supports parishes in their search for musically
animated liturgical celebrations.
 Encourages conversations around what
makes the music in a parish’s worship intrinsic.
 Coaches effective musical leadership within a
parish through group workshops and one-on-
one sessions.

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 Parishes are strengthened:
 Enhanced congregational singing through access
to effective musical resources and techniques
 Discernment in visioning renewed parish music
ministry
 Support in searches for parish music leadership
 Help with planning and leading Parish retreats,
youth music events, Hymn Festivals and more.

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 MUSICSMISSION© encourages:
 Stronger congregations due to the integration of
musicians and congregations.
 Happier congregations due to a practical
approach to what “works” for their sung worship.
 Better communication between musicians and
clergy resulting in less tension and heightened
team spirit.
 Recognition of the unique situation and character
of a parish music ministry to frame an effective
search for musical leadership.

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 VISION
 Refresh music in worship with a view to
sustaining mission as music is made in
community.
 Remove roadblocks to communication by
reclaiming the language shared between
music and liturgy.
 Weave musical planning through the fabric of
the liturgical life of a congregation’s worship.
 Integrate musicians with their congregations.

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 GOALS
 “A church which sings together prays together”
 Call out the best in all God’s people at worship as they
discern the hymns that pray and prayers that sing in a
sacred space.
 “Many gifts but the same Spirit”
 Enhance the hidden musical talents within each
congregation and equip those called to music ministry.
 “I sing with the Spirit and with understanding
also”
 Discover and develop the unique “voice” of any specific
congregation for their sung worship to be authentic to them
as a singing church.

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 IDENTIFIES
 What is the “voice” of a congregation?
 DISCERNS
 What dreams, fears and tensions surround
musical worship for that congregation and its
leadership?
 RENEWS
 Place a more varied and diverse toolbox at the
disposal of those who lead musical worship.

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 MUSICSMISSION© exists to help you focus
creatively on renewing and sustaining your
musical vision.
 MUSICSMISSION© listens to your needs and
collaborates with you to plan the most effective
solutions and their delivery.

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 A Parish Retreat Day: “Strengthen For
Service”
 Pre-retreat conversation about the focus of the retreat.
Here are some possible themes:
 How can we renew our vision of music ministry?
 How does music get made in our community to make it reflect
who we are?
 How can we balance the well loved with the newly created
musical expressions in our liturgy?
 Retreat day
 Workshop booklet and other visual aids to accompany group
singing and discussion.
 Full or half day ending with an opportunity to share the fruits of
the retreat in a creative time of concluding worship.
 Follow up
 Summary report of the viewpoints shared and visions crafted
 Further intentional check-in times to sustain the energy of the

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 Coaching and resource delivery
 One-on-one occasions with the music leader (organist,
choir director, cantor etc) to help with such things as
technique, repertoire, use of instrument or conducting
gesture, ideas for vocal development or use of the organ to
lead worship.
 Helps resolve all issues around communication, shared
language and/or consensus building.
 Advises on organ and/or piano maintenance/restoration.
 Coaches the “reluctant organist” – a pianist who now is to
lead the congregation from the organ.
 Structures searches for music leadership positions for
congregations.

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 Parish celebrations
 Assistance with planning and leading Hymn
Festivals on specific themes (e.g. Justice, Prayer,
Advent etc)
 Support with organizing an area choral festival for
youth and/or adult ensembles.
 Present a guest organ concert as a parish fund
raiser or awareness raiser for your church’s
mission.

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Michael Bloss is committed to animating
music in worship over a career spanning
several decades within a great variety of
denominations and sizes of community.
In his calling he has brought consensus
around inclusive, imaginative and
accessible worship which can also be
excellent and captivating.
As an educator he enjoys working both
with groups and one-on-one uncovering
hidden gifts and releasing expressive
potentials. His encouragement opens the
worshipping community to its soulfulness.
Ultimately he understands the way music
and liturgy collaborate and strives to
demonstrate that both in his own work as
church musician and in his consulting
work with others.