Category: Culture

• The Time Is Now: Creatives Driving Culture

  July 9, 2016 | Nikki Lerner | Bridgeway Community Church | Duration 39:36

  At our New City Music Conference 2016, special guest Nikki Lerner talks about what creatives have to offer and how to create space for them to work in the church.

• Music for the Mission

  July 8, 2016 | Russ Whitfield | Grace DC Mosaic | Duration 59:16

  Rev. Russ Whitfield's breakout session from the 2016 New City Music Conference gives us some ideas on how to use music to further the mission of the church.

• The History and Celebration of the African American Spiritual

  July 25, 2015 | Ruth Naomi Floyd | New City Fellowship, University City | Duration 39:58

  Ruth Naomi Floyd's plenary talk from our 2015 Music Conference on the history of the African American spiritual. (The final song from Ruth's talk will not be available here, but you can look for a version of it to appear on her next recording.)

• Planning a Christmas Concert at New City Fellowship

  November 5, 2014 | James Ward | New City Fellowship, Glenwood

  As November begins I realized that there are some tips for Christmas concerts that have helped us have a great celebration of music and Jesus' birth in a cross-cultural church. 

    poster by Carrie Jones

• Michelle Higgins talks Music Genres

  September 15, 2014 | Michelle Higgins Loftin | South City Community Church | Duration 53:50

  Michelle talks at the Worship Ministry Workshop in St Louis on August 9, 2014 about how to incorporate diverse music genres into a worship service.