Rise Up and Sing: Equipping the Female Worship Leader [Paperback]

Lex Buckley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2010

An essential, practical handbook that equips female worshippers to lead worship, work with musicians, pastor a worship team, write songs, and work effectively with their pastor.

 

For women who are called to lead worship—or think they might be—worship leader Lex Buckley offers this essential handbook. Buckley shares from the Bible and from her heart to encourage, empower, and equip female worship leaders, urging them to be themselves and lead with confidence, secure in the knowledge that there is a role for women to lead worship and pastor a worship team. Packed with practical tips and featuring advice from outstanding female leaders and songwriters, such as Beth Redman, Christy Nockels, and Kathryn Scott, this book fills an empty niche, providing aspiring worship leaders with the female friends and mentors they need and probably don’t have.

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About the Author

Lex Buckley and husband Paul head the worship department at River City Church, Jacksonville, Florida. She has served as a Soul Survivor worship pastor in the UK and released her own CD, Through the Valley.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: David C. Cook (July 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1434700585
• ISBN-13: 978-1434700582
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #803,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rise Up & Sing by Lex Buckley, July 31, 2010

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Ryan J. Rotman - See all my reviews
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Rise Up & Sing by Lex Buckley is a great book and a fantastic resource for worship leaders. Originally I wasn't going to read this book because the subtitle is Equipping the Female Worship Leader. However I ended up deciding to read it because as a worship leader myself, I want to have the kind of ministry where I can help build up other worship leaders and I realized that that may include female worship leaders, and I hope it does. I'm very glad I decided to read this book. Even more than Lex wanting to have a resource available for equipping female worship leaders, this is a great book for worship leaders in general. She does a great job of outlining the different facets of this position and what to expect in music ministry. She also has Beth Redman, Christy Nockels and Kathryn Scott share their expertise and experience as well. Overall I believe and hope that through this book and Lex's sharing that there will be a greater movement in the church today of allowing females the opportunity to lead in worship. Having read this book, I would encourage all worship leaders and pastors, male or female, to read it. At the very least for those of us that are males, we not have a resource to help us in understanding how to encourage and build up those females that are wanting to lead our churches in worship.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great insight for worshipers, leaders and worship leaders, July 1, 2010

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Stacey (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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I would like to extend a heartfelt "Thank you" to Lex Buckley and her publisher for sending me a copy of "Rise Up & Sing" to review for them. I am truly grateful for this generosity. I really appreciate the time, effort and expense it takes to make a reviewer copy available to me.

"Rise Up and Sing: Equipping the Female Worship Leader" is an insightful book by Lex Buckley. It is geared toward women who intend to go into the ministry of leading worship. But it is also useful for women who serve in other ministries, leadership capacities or engage in worship. This book is thoroughly uplifting. It equips leaders and worshipers to engage those calls. There is distinct help for developing a style of communication, both verbal and non-verbal. There is also help on other aspects of leading worship such as songwriting.

Although Bible passages were quoted, I would have liked to see more scripture referenced throughout the work. But this book is a critical read in the area of communication. The author has obviously dealt quite a bit in this area of ministry and has provided valuable insight and wisdom to help the reader communicate better.

4.0 out of 5 stars Encouraging words for Women Worship Leaders, November 9, 2011

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The author has practical advice for women in the church who have been gifted and called to lead worship. She speaks from her own experiences. I found the book encouraging, as it helps women know how to work with and solve problems that may come up when working in an all-male environment. There was a section that was directed to Pastors who may have to work with women, which I thought was a good exhortation.