Matthew Stowell
Executive Pastor
53 years old
Grand Rapids (49525) United States (Michigan)
Professional Status
Employed
Unavailable
Pastor of Worship
Harvest Bible Chapel
1998
to 2008
Rolling Meadows, IL
- Worship Pastor – led the Worship Department of 8 employees including all worship leaders and support staff, volunteers, service planning, lights, video, sound, choir, record label, and worship services on our 4 campuses.
- Harvest Bible Fellowship – Placement, formation and direction to the worship pastors in our churches across North America.
- Various worship leading and teaching at conferences like Straight Up, Downpour, Moody Pastors Conference, and Harvest University.
- Started a record label "Harvest Songs" that produced over 8 albums of original artists and live worship for our churches.
- Jr. High Pastor / Student Ministries Pastor (1998-02) – Oversight and development of programs and staff that challenged students to Love God and Love Others with all they had, the last two years in student ministries I was promoted to oversight of both Jr. High and High School.
- Camp Harvest – Opening, Building (actual), and Program Development at our summer camp in Michigan.
- www.harvestbible.org
Detailed Description
- Worship Resume Addendum
Worship Ministry Oversight:
• Harvest Bible Chapel 2003-2008 - Leading and Managing a team of 8 full time employees and over 100 volunteers toward production of worship services on 4 campuses across the Chicago suburbs. Oversight of all creative content of every service, including Worship Leaders, Bands, Production, Choirs, Lights, Video and Sound.
• Oversight of the design / build of a 7200 seat auditorium with a 1.3 million dollar light, video, and sound budget.
• Executive Production of a 12,000 person Easter Celebration Event
Worship Leading:
• Wheaton Bible Church, Harvest Bible Chapel: Extensive Stu-Min leading
• Harvest Bible Chapel: Main Leader for 5 years
• The Grove Bible Church: Intermittent leading while serving as Assoc. Pastor
• Moody’s Pastor Conference: Main leader for 3 years (1200 pastors)
• Walk in the Word: led at Nights of Worship and Word all over N. America
• Downpour: Led worship and was a creative content producer for Lifeway’s touring stadium conference on revival. Featuring Beth Moore, Crawford Loritts, Joe Stowell, and James MacDonald (up to 5000 in attendance)
• ELIC: Worship pastor, leading at conferences and training
• SEND International: Annual Asia conference
Worship Training:
• Oversight, placement, mentoring, and training of over 20 worship leaders at HBC’s church plants across N. America
• Straight Up Church Conference: Break-out Session Speaker
• Harvest University: Intensive curriculum development and teaching for worship leaders on creative content and leading
• Organized and led song writing retreats with artists like Meredith Andrews and Jason Ingram
Executive Production / Song Writing / Album Recording:
Most of the albums below are from a record label I started with Andi Rozier called Harvest Songs, and were recorded at the studio we built on site.
• Here and Now – Worship with original content (Songwriter and Production)
• Downpour – Worship for the Lifeway Events (Songwriter and Ex.Producer)
• Lift up the Name – Live worship Album (Did Preliminary Exec. Production)
• Ready – Lindsay Mccaul (Executive Producer)
• Songs For Sinners – Andi Rozier (Executive Producer)
• Joining In – Luke MacDonald (Executive Producer)
• Live at ATC – Live worship album from ELIC’s annual conference - Add a new detail.
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