Digital Resources

Resources for Students & Youth Leaders

Awakening has produced resources for our students to use during and after their experience in Awakening. These resources are free and available for download for students, youth leaders, pastors and parents.

Awakening VIII Prayer Guide

Josh Banner
The Awakening Institute 2023

This is the prayer and meditation guide spiritual formation during Awakening VIII. Make sure to keep a journal, a Bible, and this prayer guide available throughout the week, especially for our time together in the morning.

Download the Guide

40 Ways to Spend 5 Minutes with God

Josh Banner
The Invitation: Creating Time & Space for God 

A guide that contains 40 prayer methods as suggestions for how to spend 5 minutes with God in prayer every day.

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Songwriting for Worship

Bruce Benedict, ed.
The Awakening Institute 

A collection of reflections and helps from 16 songwriters who regularly write for the church.

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The Six Pegs of a Worship Leader

Bruce Benedict
The Awakening Institute 

As a fun and familiar analogy for the essential skills that each worship leader needs to develop, Bruce Benedict uses the six tuning-pegs of a guitar to illustrate the key areas where we need to pursue God in cultivating our calling and competencies.

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Informal Video Lessons

Engaging lessons and classes led by our guest artists that you can do on your own. This may be a time to also engage in an art form you are not accustomed to.

Worship Leading

Acoustic Guitar

Percussion/Set

Flute

Visual Art

Bass Guitar

 

Cello

Saxophone

Prayer Guide and Discipleship

 

Worshipping God in Nature

 

Awakening Webinars

Worship Leaders Panel Round-Table

Meet the President of Western Sem

The Heart of a Worship Leader

Meet Your Awakening Leaders

Songwriting Sessions

Josh Banner and Kenda Creasy Dean

Virtual Fundraiser