In the fall of 2020, worship leaders from Grace Community Church in Warsaw, Ind., were asked to lead worship at a youth ministry outreach event. Over the following year, 909 Collective was established as they continued to receive requests for leading worship outside of their church. Tristan Spuller, worship director at Grace Community, said, “As it grew, it became a vehicle for discipling musicians, songwriters, technicians, and worship leaders for the Church.”
“Our goal is to write music for the church that is both theologically thoughtful and musically creative,” Tristan said. “We desire to develop leaders who will disciple the church into deeper and purer worship of Jesus Christ.”
909 Collective has released two full albums that are available to stream on all major platforms. All of their music is written with corporate worship in mind, and all of their chord charts are available for free for worship teams to use on their website, 909CollectiveWorship.com.
Tristan said there are three ways 909 Collective desires to connect with and support local churches:
- Serving by leading worship at an event. These are huge wins for all involved — we’ll take care of the music, tech, and leadership to allow your people to encounter God while also creating opportunity for our people to grow as worship leaders. We love getting to partner with ministries in this way.
- Leadership development. While a lot of our developmental passion gets focused internally on our teams, we love the idea of getting to connect with local church’s worship teams. If your team could use training in leadership, developing team culture, songwriting, character and competency development, or any other area related to worship ministry, let’s connect.
- Music available for worship services.Give us a shout if any of our songs are able to be useful to your churches!