Planning week-to-week “one hit wonders” is exhausting. Once you’re done with one Sunday, you only have SIX DAYS until you have to do it all over again!
Let Dr. Marcia McFee help take the stress out of planning with access to years of highly-acclaimed series materials and worship arts training that will enliven your task of design and leadership.
WDS 3.0 is NOW a private social community platform! You are never alone. You never have to start from scratch.
Worship Design Studio began 12 years ago with regularly-posted podcasts full of ideas for each liturgical season. It got so popular that an expanded website with hundreds of resources launched 8 years ago and since then thousands of churches have received coaching there from Dr. McFee.
With the input of our current subscribers, we’ve redeveloped the website with streamlined accessibility and ways to interact both with your team AND with other churches to crowdsource, support and encourage one another, right in the app! Additionally, all the materials are now right at your fingertips on the new mobile app, including the ability to share ideas, images and thoughts anywhere, anytime.
The concepts and practices that you’ll learn in the Worship Design Studio, as well as the worship series, are applicable and adaptable to any context. Churches of varying denominations, worship styles, settings, and age groups have seen success when applying these theories and materials.
12 months of access to EVERY Worship Design Studio resource for unlimited staff and/or volunteer members of your church’s worship team
Save tons of preparation time with 12+ years of worship series inspiration based on lectionary and non-lectionary texts
Seasonal fully-scripted worship series to jump-start your progress toward more sensory-rich worship
Practical how-to webinars, video lessons, and guides for implementing all of the worship arts
Interviews with guest worship artists and curated internet "must-have" resource suggestions
Periodic live Q&A’s, special event webinars, and online trainings PLUS discounts to live events
Coordinate your team’s work and communication in your church’s own Group in the app
Connect and crowdsource with other churches and get the feedback of Dr. Marcia and the WDS Certified Trainers! You are not alone!
Join the WDS Subscriber Community Instantly for only $299
For the price of one specialty latté per week, or one registration fee to one conference, you can have coaching and worship series resources ALL YEAR for the WHOLE TEAM.
See what subscribers are saying:
"Since we have been using your material I have received many compliments about how much better worship is. I have experienced a renewed joy in preparing and doing worship... your service to pastors allows me the time to attend to my other duties."Name 1
"The WDS materials have made our worship services flow much better. We've learned to plan as a team rather than each person planning individually. We've used several worship series and we've designed a couple of our own as well. It's well worth the cost of admission to have access to all of the materials."Name 2
"I can’t say thank you enough. When this crisis hit, the pastoral work week changed rapidly. These worship tools were already a gift and a help to the usual overworked week. When we had to shift gears... I realized how much of a gift your work is!"Name 3
As part of the Worship Design Studio, you'll receive access to articles and webinars that can train your volunteers in the basics of the five Worship Arts: Music, Media, Visual, Verbal, and Dramatic Arts. There are bite-sized video lessons about ways to enhance worship that are perfect for team meetings and discussion jump-starters. You'll get access to the ENTIRE Worship Series Library developed over more than 12 years, support for learning how to organize teamwork and design processes, guest expert interviews, and so much more! You will have first access and discounts to live and virtual events, and more!
Being part of the Worship Design Studio means you become part of the WDS Community. While the mission of Dr. Marcia McFee has always been to resource worship teams and leaders through her own experience and resourcing, being part of WDS means you also get to collaborate and connect with members who are working through the same challenges you are! With Topic boards, activity Feeds, and affinity Groups where you can post what you are working on, ask questions and get feedback, to very easy-to-use chat functions within Worship Design Studio, you have so many ways of connecting, planning and sharing with others!
EducationAccess the foundational articles and webinars to get a taste of Dr. McFee’s dynamic step-by-step teaching style for all the worship arts!
InspirationGet instant access to social connection with other church leaders and see the exciting things that are happening in the Worship Design Studio!
ExhalationBegin to imagine the relief of not having to come up with ideas week after week with a look at a sampling of our worship series materials!
A selection of our worship series and educational materials are available a la carte as well.
Dr. Marcia McFee is a professor, worship designer, author, preacher and ritual artist. Her first career was in professional theater, music, and dance in major companies that toured the world. She brings all of that, combined with a Master's in Theology and a PhD in Worship and Ethics to her ministry of designing, leading, and teaching about meaningful and memorable worship for the last 25 years. In that time she has traveled extensively, worked with numerous Protestant mainline denominations (UMC, UCC, MCC, DOC, PCUSA, ELCA, UU, etc), has designed and led worship at the local church level as well as regional, national, and international conferences. Dr. McFee has taught at 14 different seminaries and held hundreds of workshops in the US and Canada, as well as other countries.
But in a nutshell. This is what Dr. Marcia says about what inspires her...
"Passion for ministry.
Love for learning.
Love for vital, artful worship.
Love for ALL people and their flourishing.
My number one purpose is to support ministry professionals and volunteers in such a way that you can have MORE EASE, MORE JOY, AND MORE TIME for creativity and depth in everything you do!"