Worship in the City is just eight weeks away, and they have decided to open up an audition process this year for the Sunday morning worship team.

They hope to create a worship team for the event with people from all over the community.

Worship in the City organizer Jeff Neufeld says they’ve been looking at community as the focus of what they do, and so this year they really want to bring the community together. 

“Instead of bringing in musicians from elsewhere and people who don't know our community, we're doing it ourselves, bringing together some of our best local musicians.”

He says the audition process will help them get new people on the stage, as they know there is a lot of talent in Steinbach to be discovered.

“We have so much talent and ability and heart in Steinbach, and so we really want to bring that together.”  

He says oftentimes, finding people is easiest to do through already existing relationships and asking people they know, but they really want to make it clear that this is community based. 

“It's open to people, whether or not they have the connections. We want to make it clear that this is open, that this is our community.” 

Neufeld says this will be a great way for the faith community in Steinbach to gather. 

“Personally, I’m really excited to meet some new musicians that maybe I don't have a connection to, that maybe don't have a connection to the worship leaders that we have on this team.” 

If you would like to participate as a performing artist for Worship in the City, or as part of the Sunday morning worship team, visit summerinthecity.ca to sign up. 

He notes that the focus on community is not only for the worship portion of the weekend.

For example, they have Terry Kaufman as a speaker, who is a local pastor who works with Steinbach Bible College.

They're also getting local first responders to share some of their faith stories, and “what it looks like to be a person of faith in a workplace where you face some very difficult situations.” 

Neufeld says it will be great to hear stories of faith during the service to build that sense of community.

He says first responders often meet people on the worst day of their life, and their faith must play a big part in that. 

“I think it's impossible to be in that space and not have that be a big part of your life.” 

 

With files from Corny Rempel