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Come join us as the Fred Bock Institute of Music presents:
Forming Hearts, Creating Art: Developing Worship Leadership.
Presenters include:
Keith & Kristyn Getty, John Rutter, and Lloyd John Ogilvie.

Come and gain knowledge and resources you can take back to your worship ministry.

We will explore the personal, spiritual foundation that is vital in the
practice of corporate worship.
How does one effectively pastor as a musician in today’s local congregation? How does your personal spiritual journey inform what happens on Sunday morning?
How does the state of your heart shape your artistic expression?

 

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Keith & Kristyn Getty

Irish composers and artists Keith & Kristyn Getty are known throughout Europe and the United States for their desire to sing the whole scope of the truth of the Bible. They are most identified with the song, "In Christ Alone," penned by Keith and Stuart Townend which is one of the most popular Christian songs of all time in the United Kingdom. Keith has orchestrated and arranged more than 200 projects for recordings, concerts, theater, television and film, including arrangements for Michael W. Smith's 2004 Healing Rain album, as well as producing and composing (with Kristyn) various projects for the internationally renowned African Children's Choir. Kristyn is both an accomplished songwriter and artist, having penned children's musicals and been featured with Christian music's Margaret Becker and Celtic artist Joanne Hogg on the New Irish Hymns series. Kristyn's heart joins Keith's with the dedication for reviving the art of hymnody for a new generation.


John Rutter

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John Rutter's compositional career has embraced both large and small-scale choral works, orchestral and instrumental pieces, a piano concerto, two children's operas, music for television, and specialist writing for such groups as the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and the King's Singers. His larger choral works, Requiem (1985), Magnificat (1990) and Psalmfest (1993) have been performed around the world. He co-edited four volumes in the Carols for Choirs series with Sir David Willcocks, and has edited the first two volumes in the new Oxford Choral Classics series, Opera Choruses (1995) and European Sacred Music (1996). He formed the Cambridge Singers as a professional chamber choir and now divides his time between composition and conducting. He has guest-conducted all over the world and is an Honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College,Princeton, a Fellow of the Guild of Chrurch Musicians. The Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music. He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and later was their Director of Music.

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Lloyd John Ogilvie

Lloyd John Ogilvie joins Fuller Theological Seminary and the new Institute of Preaching that bears his name for the cause of Christ around the world. Fuller is pleased to be able to honor Dr. Ogilvie's legacy—his preeminence in the preaching arts, his literary contributions, and his ministry to millions with the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute for Preaching. His institute is established to influence and train future generations of preachers, and to serve the Church worldwide by sponsoring his Preaching With Passion conferences for preachers. Dr. Ogilvie is the president of Leadership Unlimited and the former Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. His most recent book, The Red Ember in the White Ash on II Timothy was published in 2006. In 1996 he was recognized by Baylor University in a worldwide survey as one of the 12 most effective preachers in the English-speaking world. Dr. Ogilvie was educated at Lake Forest College, Garrett Theological Seminary and New College, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.