HA/SOW.

What is the Honor Academy? What do you do there? What is the School of the Worship? What do you learn/do?

These are several of the questions I’ve been asked & I’ve heard. So here is the place to find answers.

This is the HA website’s answer: The Honor Academy is designed to cultivate and develop the leadership potential in young adults while preparing them to impact today’s world for Christ. The scope of the program is extensive and includes classroom instruction, practical hands-on experience, and life-transforming events. All are designed to give each intern at the Honor Academy a balanced, strategic approach to Godly character and lasting leadership skills.

For me the Honor Academy is: A place to retreat from the world, to seek and focus on God, to grow closer to him. To find his will for my life and how I am going to fit in his Great Commission.

What I do in the Honor Academy: Monday: 5:00am corporate exercise; 8-11am HA classes(World View, Habitudes, Missions).

Tuesday: 11-1 HA Classes(apologetics & great books); 2-3pm Chapel

Wednesday: 3-4pm Character Development; 8-10 Wednesday Night Service

Thursday: 10:30-12:30 classes(trailer club & discussion lab)

Friday: 10:30-12:30 classes(enrichment & vision)

That is my required HA schedule minus work.( I’ll explain work/ministry placement later).

What is the School of Worship?

HA’s Answer:

The School Of Worship is designed to equip you to be a worshiper who will impact this generation by presenting God in a fresh and relevant way. You will be challenged in your view of what worship is by diving into God’s Word and presence. With a standard of musical excellence, you will also have the opportunity to grow in your understanding of band dynamics by using your instrument in a worship team environment. As a School of Worship intern committed to the heart and vision of Teen Mania’s Honor Academy, you will gain necessary leadership skills that will enable you to best accomplish God’s will for your life.Dove Award winning worship leader, Paul Baloche, who has written songs such as “Open the Eyes of My Heart” and “Above All,” leads a team of instructors who teach classes such as Song Writing, Music Theory and Worship Leadership. These classes are informative and practical, enabling participants to graduate the School of Worship with a confidence to lead worship in any setting.

My answer:

The school of worship is a program that prepares students to lead a generation in worship through music. The program also teaches any & everything about worship-how to flow-what exactly is “the presence of god?”-etc. They also teach us how to become experts with our instruments & in music theory. Paul Baloche doesn’t lead the team that teaches us, he apparently visits us several times a quarter, but he doesn’t lead the program.

My SOW schedule: Monday 1:30pm-2:15 Music Theory; 3:45-4:45 Guitar Lessons 4:45-5:15 SOW Alignment(SOW Announcement time); 5:30-8:30pm Pre-production(critque for bands playing that week)

Tuesday: 9-10pm Rebar(we’re going through a book written by david crowder–we basically take different thoughts about worship and discuss them); 6-6:30 Vocal Lessons

Wednesday: 4-5:30pm Worship Perspectives–Here we look at examples of worship in the Bible and examine them. We are currently focusing on the Presence of God with 2 Samuel and David

Thursday: 1-4pm SOW classes (songwriting & worship leadership) Songwriting-we’re currently reading God Songs by Paul baloche. We’re also writing songs and examining them for an upcoming recording project the SOW is planning.

Friday: nothing.

This is my SOW schedule. So combine this with my HA schedule. Then take what is left. That is when I work. The work schedule is being changed up, so things are shaky.

Work/Ministry Placement

I work in the auditorium- I do anything, but lights. I know how to run sound, (I’m working on my mixing skills), I know how to record, I know how to run the video switcher & words. I don’t run lights because I got kicked off in the process of learning I deleted the house setting. So, I deleted the house lights- However, I still like to goof of with the Mac’s (smart moving head lights).

In the summer everything changes.

All classes stop, and Extreme camps begins.

For SOW/Auditorium Crew we run the entire setup. From what I’ve heard: We get several people from ATF to help run, we get two camera’s- a stationary and a roaming; we get lots of additional smart lights; we go with IEM’s and a backstage monitor board. We have big name bands come in. Speaking of that, I’ve researched the bands coming this year, I believe leeland, skillet, group 1 crew, sanctus real, jeremy camp, & kutless are coming. I’m not sure if the info is correct yet. I’ll post on the blog when I find out more.

-cD