Chapters

The Fellowship has a number of chapter organizations located around the country. Many chapters sponsor their own regional events for members in the area.

To get involved in your regional chapter, check out the latest news and events linked below to interact with fellow chapter members. Contact information for each of our chapter leaders is also listed below.

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Chapter Events

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Chapter List

Arkansas

The Arkansas Chapter works closely with Arkansas Conference to provide training, resources, and leadership in worship arts throughout Arkansas with an annual worship fair, music reading sessions, annual conference break-out sessions and worship services. Information and resources can also be downloaded from the chapter website: http://www.arfellowship.org.

The current chapter president is John Churchwell (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Cal-Nevada

The California-Nevada chapter covers one of the largest geographic areas in The Fellowship, as our annual conference includes all of Northern California and most of Nevada. That includes more than 300 churches!

We host one workshop each year and try to vary the location to allow for as many people as possible to attend. If you can't attend the workshop, come and find our table at annual conference. We're there every year and look forward to sharing information about our great organization with you!

The current chapter Co-Coveners are Andrew Davis (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Clyde Kidd (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Florida

The Florida Chapter of The Fellowship is a group of musicians, artists, and dancers who are passionate about worship. Although most of us value so-called "traditional worship," and we all have our personal preferences, we are open to contemporary worship, emerging worship, and other styles of worship that give us opportunities to use our creative gifts to honor and present Jesus Christ.

The Florida Chapter is one of the largest Fellowship chapters and sponsors an annual multi-generational Church Music Workshop that emphasizes worship arts as well as spiritual renewal. Adults and youth from Florida and the Southeast join together for this summertime, week-long workshop that brings nationally known choral and handbell clinicians together with worship leaders, choir and handbell directors, visual artists, dancers, and youth and adult choir members.

The chapter's current president is Jeffrey Faux (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Illinois Great Rivers

The purpose of the Illinois Great Rivers Conference chapter of the Fellowship is to transform the world through worship. We embrace the sacramental life and affirm that worship arts are a primary means of worshiping God.

The IGRC chapter seeks to be a resource to local churches and the annual conference in the areas of worship arts. Festivals and workshops in various worship arts areas (including an annual handbell festival, a choral festival, preaching, keyboard, and other workshops) allow the chapter to reach a variety of church worship staff and lay artists.

The current chapter president is Douglas Grogan (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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North Alabama

The North Alabama Chapter promotes worship in the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God. If you would like more information about events sponsored by the North Alabama Chapter, please contact Justin Banks (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Chapter President.

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North Carolina

The North Carolina Chapter promotes worship in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God. If you would like more information about events sponsored by the North Carolina Chapter, please contact Todd Arant (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Chapter President.

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North Georgia

The North Georgia Chapter promotes worship in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God. If you would like more information about events sponsored by the North Georgia Chapter, please contact Jeanne Blood (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Chapter President.

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Northern New England

The Northern New England Chapter promotes worship in the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God. If you would like more information about events sponsored by the Northern New England Chapter, please contact Sharon Walden (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Chapter President.

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Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Chapter of The Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts exists to assist worship leaders in creating meaningful worship experiences that bring people into deeper relationships with God and each other.

 

Rio Texas

The Rio Texas Chapter promotes worship in the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God.

This chapter formed in January 2017; additional information to come.

 

South Carolina

The South Carolina Chapter of The Fellowship organizes and promotes workshops each year to help members better serve the local church.

The Church Music Workshop, held in February, features choral, organ and/or piano, handbell and liturgical dance clinicians. The workshop is held at Shandon United Methodist Church in Columbia.

If you would like additional information about the South Carolina Chapter, or specifics on these two events, please contact Jason Barrs (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Minister of Music and Arts at Shandon UMC.

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Texas

The Texas Chapter promotes worship in the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God.

The current chapter president is Ann Ables (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Virginia

The Virginia Chapter promotes worship in the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God.

The current chapter president is Suzanne Krauss (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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West Michigan

The West Michigan Chapter promotes worship in the West Michigan Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God.

The current chapter president is Buff Coe (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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Western North Carolina

The Western North Carolina Chapter promotes worship in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, provides training and enrichment opportunities for church musicians and worship artists, and encourages the creative use of music and arts to the glory of God.

The current chapter president is Rhonda Smith (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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