First Hmong Church of Kansas City held the first Harmony of Hearts presentation in the state of Kansas on August 9.

Pang Yang (pictured) and I met at the National Worship Leader’s Conference in July, where she immediately caught the vision of being a music advocate for the poor.

After Pang’s presentation, she had requests for our song Believe to be translated into the Hmong language.

Thanks to Pang, Pastor Yang, and the First Hmong CMA Church in Kansas City for their vision to worship God by serving the poor.

Can your church be the first in your state to debut a Harmony of Hearts presentation?  Click Here for free materials and more information.

A great final day of the National Worship Leader’s Conference included two workshops I had the privilege of teaching.

Titled The Service of Worship, we examined the Biblical mandate to serve the poor.  God’s Word points out, from Genesis 3 onward, the importance of providing materials goods and needs to those who are in need and have no earthly plans of repayment

• If you attended, thanks for your attention and participation.
• If you’d like the outline or notes from the class, keep watching this blog or email me:  harmonyofhearts@gmail.com.

Here’s a snapshot of participants from the second class (my apologies to the first class for neglecting to snap one):

A great collection of worship leaders!

We are up and going at the 7th annual worship leader’s conference sponsored by Worship Leader Magazine, this year being held at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS, just outside Kansas City.

Please pray that God will turn the hearts of the 1400 worship leaders in attendance towards the poorest of the poor, in obedience to the Lord’s desires (Is. 58, James 2).

Here’s our exhibit set-up:

Worship Leader has decided to live stream four of the main sessions from the National Worship Leader’s Conference in Leawood, KS this week.

According to Suzie Stablein of Worship Leader:

All you have to do to join us remotely is go to our website (nationalworshipleaderconference.com) during the designated times, and you will be directed to the video stream.

(All times are CST and are rough estimates for the live streaming)

Session 1: Tuesday, July 21 @ 9:30 a.m.
Speaker: Dr. Leonard Sweet

Session 2: Wednesday, July 22 @ 9:30 a.m.
Speaker: Dr. Marva Dawn

Session 3: Wednesday, July 22 @ 4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Pastor Scotty Smith

Session 4: Thursday, July 23 @ 9:30 a.m.
Speaker: David Nasser

Click here for the stream at the times above.

If you’re coming to the conference, stop by the Harmony of Hearts booth #19 and say hello and pick up a free info pack.

Midnight Friday (July 10) is the deadline for the National Worship Leadership Conference (NWLC) in Leawood (Kansas City).

Otherwise registration is done only as a walk-in at the door.

Michael W. Smith, Mac Powell (Third Day), David Crowder, Paul Baloche, Christy Nockels, Lenny LeBlanc, Leeland and others are among the songwriters, singers, worship leaders, and speakers.

I’ll be leading workshops on worship renewal and serving the poor through music.

Click here for details to register.

Hope you can join us July 20-23 at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood (Kansas City), Kansas.