The BYB System
More Than a Camp.
A System for Building Student Worship Leaders.
Building Your Band helps churches discover, develop, and deploy the next generation of worship leaders.
Some churches begin with a five-day BYB Camp. Others need a training model that fits naturally into the school year. And some already have a student worship team but need a plan to keep developing them.
That’s why BYB is more than an event.
BYB CAMP
Launch the experience.
Five immersive days of music, worship, relationships, and hands-on training. Students learn together, play together, and discover that they really can be part of a worship team.
BYB ACADEMY
Build the skills.
BYB Academy introduces focused 8-week training modules designed to develop specific parts of your band. A church might begin with Rhythm (bass + drums), move to the Harmonic Core (keys + guitars), then add additional areas as students and leaders are ready.
Each two hour session per week combines focused instrument training with a shared BYB learning experience and a full-band rehearsal.
Learn the part. Understand the band. Put it into practice.
BYB COLLECTIVE
Keep building.
The Collective is the year-round development rhythm for your student worship ministry. Leadership training, session plans, rehearsal tactics, building blocks for bands, student focus points, individual coaching are all available.
Students continue growing in musicianship, worship, leadership, relationships, and spiritual formation while your leaders receive a clear plan for what to do next.
It keeps the momentum going between camps, Academy sessions, rehearsals, and Sundays.
ONE MISSION. DIFFERENT WAYS TO START.
You don’t have to build your student worship ministry exactly like another church.
Start where you are.
CAMP creates momentum.
ACADEMY develops skills.
COLLECTIVE builds consistency.
Together, they create a pathway for students to move from learning an instrument to serving a band—and from serving a band to becoming worship leaders.
READY TO BUILD?
Tell us where your church is today, and we’ll help you find the best place to start.
Contact us for more information.
SUMMARY
BYB is a culmination of decades of worship experience by multiple instructors who guide potential worship leaders from a starting point (zero experience) to actually playing in student and adult bands in their churches .
1. Learn an instrument from scratch:
- Piano
- Guitar: acoustic and electric
- Bass
- Drums
- Voice
- A/V & Tech
2. Enter the “conversation” of making music, by playing and sing songs together
3. Join a band in and perform with them
4. Study basic worship truth as a follower of Jesus Christ
5. Become familiar with the “Language of Music” (what many call basic music theory)
6. Church leaders call this camp experience “rocket fuel” for the young worship band participant.
7. Students enter the musical conversation in one week of camp!
8. Using this proven approach has resulted in:
- 11 different camps in the past fifteen years
- We have seen over 500 young people impacted for worship
- Students on at least twenty-five church stages
- Both student and adult worship leaders and band members in the Triad and the Triangle and throughout Jamaica.
HISTORY
Since its beginning in 2010, David Loftis and his team of worship leaders have been training dozens of young worshippers to populate the stages with backline band players, upfront worship leaders and support roles. This ministry continues once again now as a curriculum which you can use – or we will bring – into your local area.
BASIC INFORMATION
WHO: Rising 5th – 10th Grade students (11th & 12th graders come as “Student Assistants” who can also learn, but who help facilitate the camp as well).
WHAT: A 5-day day camp experience introducing and perpetuating worship through music for pre-teens and teenagers.
WHERE: Local Churches & Colleges host.
WHEN: M-F (ALT: Tues-Sat or Wed-Sun) 8:30-5:00pm, with a family cookout and concert on the closing evening.
COST: See Pricing Sheets for two Optional Plans (one we print & ship to you, one as a digital license so you can personalize and print for yourself). Included in the curriculum:
- Notebooks for students & teachers
- Stipends for teachers
- Rental of facilities if applicable
- Camp costs (daily meals for campers & staff, Cookout food, etc.)
- Cost of prizes and giveaways
WHEN: Timing is up to the host church, then according to schedule of instructors and participating churches.
WHY: developing worship leaders for God in the next generation is critical for our young family-oriented church plants to sustain their ministry. Reaching the next generation for Christ will involve dedicated worshippers. Ultimately, as John Piper says, “worship is the fuel that drives the engine of evangelism and missions” – so developing a next level of worshippers is critical for this generation and the next.
PERSONNEL NEEDS & TRAINING
PERSONNEL NEEDED & WHAT IS PROVIDED: (for a typical camp of 50-60 campers).
| Camp Directors – | 2-4 |
| Admin Team – | 2-3 |
| Instructors – | 5-10 |
| Assistants – | 10 |
| TOTAL NEED FOR THE CAMP | 19-27 |
TRAINING
Will be provided by David Loftis & the BYB team for each level of the ministry. Typically, the training consists of 3-4 sessions of 60-90 minutes which include orientation, basic camp training and planning, safety and ministry training and team spiritual preparation. This can be done on a “long” Saturday or broken up over Friday evening & Saturday morning.
