Our WorshipTraining.com Learning Community Values
Dan Wilt, M.Min.

The WorshipTraining.com Learning Community is very intentional, and relentlessly purposeful, about providing accessible online worship and creative training to churches around the world. The following are pivotal statements about who we are, and why we exist.

We are an international, interdenominational collective of lifelong learners focused on worship and creativity.

We’ve joined together to intentionally grow, learn and develop in the arena of creativity, theology, history, mission and spirituality. We are devoted to growing deep and wide as worshippers in this generation – and to prepare the way for the next centuries of worship leadership, creative influence and cultural impact.

We are made up of worship leaders (main session, youth, small group, children), worship musicians and tech leaders (drummers, keyboard players, bass players, media team leaders, etc.), songwriters (in all genres), worshipers (desiring spiritual formation), pastors (adult, youth, small group, children’s) and artists (performing artists of all genres) from over 30 countries and many denominations.

As a lifelong Learning Community, we quest to be a nexus where the past, present and future of worship, and the worshiping Church’s impact on culture, meet. We draw on the riches of worship past, the energies of worship present, and the possibilities of our worship future – in all of our learning.

We are equipped by Contributing Friends from all spectrums of the 21st century Church, including influential scholars, worship leaders, writers, spiritual directors and artists from many streams.

We are committed to walk and learn together, across a lifetime, for the sake of this generation of worshipers and the generations to come.

We are engaged in our primary Learning Community experience through online technologies. This enables us to reach deeply into almost any area of the world today, while at the same time experiencing both a sense of personal contribution to the learning community and receiving from the learning community.

We host live training forums that form artists, worship leaders and creative influencers for cultural impact, both within and outside of the Church. Our Master Of Ministry Degree, Certificate Program and other live events are optimally designed to develop the creative leader.

We are a Learning Community with a membership, for those who care deeply about worship – we are not primarily a product or event.

Our participants want to add value to one another’s leadership and worshiping community life. In that spirit, we will always seek to be generous toward one another and to share our insights with one another.

We want to highlight the “best of the best” insights into worship for 21st century faith communities. We will work diligently to maintain a broad voice – engaging with leaders and ideas from liturgical streams, contemporary streams, emerging streams and all corners of the Church. For that reason, the training we highlight will feature many types of voices from differing perspectives.

We will graciously learn together, both from those with whom we agree, and from those with whom we do not.

We will turn all of our learning into innovative and creative missional service toward the worshiping Church, the waiting culture, and the purposes of God in our generation.

We are the WorshipTraining.com Learning Community, and we welcome you to join us.

McManus Studios Purpose, Mission And Values

Our purpose: bringing art to life.

Our mission: to create experiences that inspire humanity to live our most heroic lives through products that promote beauty, story, community, creativity, and humanity.

Our values:

• Beauty- everything we design and/or develop must inspire through the elegant simplicity and raw beauty of timeless art.
• Story- everything we design and /or develop must carry an authentic story that matters to us and makes the world better.
• Community-everything we design and /or develop must promote our need for each other and must be created out of collaboration.
• Creativity- everything we design and/or develop must reflect the power of imagination, innovation, and the promote the spirit of human creativity.
• Humanity- everything we design and/or develop must promote the best of what it means to be human, must contribute to creating a better world for everyone we touch, and must take responsiblity for our part in creating a better future for all humanity.