Develop worshippers. Equip leaders. Strengthen your church.

Worship Mentors helps churches develop healthier worship teams, equips musicians to serve with confidence, and designs and installs audio, video, and lighting systems for worship spaces.

JP Smits leading worship with an acoustic guitar

How we can help

Worship Mentors Coaching

Coaching for pastors and worship leaders who want to develop volunteers, strengthen rehearsals, and build a healthier worship ministry.

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Worship Mentors Audio

Audio, video, and lighting design, installation, and volunteer training for churches. We work with Sweetwater Commercial to source equipment suited to your room and budget.

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Beginner to Platform Ready in 90 Days for Piano

A step-by-step course with Clay Collins for beginners who want to build the skills and confidence to play keys on a worship team.

Coming in the New Year

My Voice Mentor

Vocal coaching from Worship Mentors with Clay Collins. Develop healthy technique, sing with greater confidence, and grow as a worship vocalist.

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Shofar Mastery

Learn to sound the shofar with clarity and confidence, understand its biblical significance, and use it in worship with guidance from James Knabe.

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Cover of From Worship Leader to Lead Worshipper by JP Smits

From Worship Leader to Lead Worshipper

Leading people, not songs.

JP Smits wrote this book for worship leaders and teams who want to grow in the heart and responsibility of leading people in worship. Explore how what you cultivate off the platform shapes how you lead on it.

Portrait of JP Smits

Meet JP Smits

JP Smits is a worship pastor, songwriter, author, and co-founder of Worship Mentors. He served as a youth and worship pastor in Ontario before moving to North Texas, where he served as Central Worship Pastor at Gateway Church. He now leads worship at Alliance Community Fellowship in Haslet, Texas.

JP started Worship Mentors to help church leaders develop the people they serve with each week. His coaching brings together spiritual formation and the everyday work of ministry, from welcoming new volunteers and planning rehearsals to mentoring the next generation of worship leaders.

Our approach

We focus on three areas of worship ministry: passion for God, wisdom in leading people, and systems that help teams prepare and serve well.