Welcome to the worship leader probs podcast, where we aim to entertain, encourage, and equip worship and tech leaders all around the world.

Look, we all know that serving in worship and production is great, but the problems...

Those are real.

Thanks for joining us.

Welcome to episode 156 of the Worship Leader Probs podcast.

My name is Scott Longyear.

I'm setting in for Brian Tabor in this special Christmas edition of the Worship Leader Probs podcast where we've taken all the regular content and smashed it down into a bite-sized morsel because here's what we know this season is that we are all short on time. So listen, here's what you know about Worship Leader Probs is that we're all about entertaining, encouraging, and equipping, and we're going to do that in our short time together.

We're going to give you some great prayer concerns. They're going to be abbreviated, but we'll

give you some great prayer concerns, going to give you some resources. And then I would like us

just to take a little bit of time and talk about the whole idea of peace because this is

supposed to be the season of peace. But what happens in worship and production is that it's anything

but. And so stick around because we're going to kind of flip that and actually make it possible

for us to walk through the season with some peace. But before we get into all that, let me tell you about

our great sponsors from Planning Center. You know, Planning Center has a free app called the Church

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about all this at planning center.com. Hey, a few other resources that you might be interested in. If you find

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