WORSHIP

We all worship, so our goal is to focus teams, individuals, and ministries to a biblical directive for worship - giving them custom processes that will disciple those leading and those being led. When we have the right target, we can see the transformative power of biblical worship in our homes, our families, and our church

IMPACT

Developing leaders and empowering God's people to fulfill their purpose creates an impact that can only be described as transformative. Our desire is to help raise up leaders individually, corporately, and within families while resourcing and investing into a consistent environment for ongoing worship biblically, functionally, musically and relationally.

Praise Team

TRACKS

Worship Impact recognizes the dynamic environment of the small to medium church worship team and our goal is to serve the local church with access to hymns and specific songs with simplified arrangements that can be customized to what instruments you do or don’t have from week to week. Our goal is to streamline and stabilize a consistent sound for your ministry even when all your team can’t make it. This is a service that is in development and working its way through the legalities of licensing and copyright.

Paul Rumrill

Dr. Paul Rumrill is a performer and pedagogue in both classical and contemporary styles. He studied with Neal Larrabee at the University of Connecticut, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Music and his Master of Music in Performance degrees. He received his Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Rebecca Penneys and worked under Tony Caramia in a pedagogy fellowship. Dr. Rumrill continued his studies in gospel, Afro-Latin, and East Asian music at Bethel University, where he received his Master of Arts in Ethnomusicology. Prior to Liberty University, Dr. Rumrill served twelve years as the Worship Pastor for Living Word Ministries, a multiracial non-denominational church in West Haven, CT. Simultaneously, he worked in K-8 urban music education for three of those years. After moving to Lynchburg, he continued his corporate worship service as the Creative Arts Pastor for Thomas Road Baptist Church’s first satellite congregation, Dan River Church. He served there three and a half years before being offered the chair position in the Liberty University School of Music. As a Liberty professor, Dr. Rumrill has presented lectures and lecture-recitals related to intercultural music-making, worship formation, and music education, including presentations at Yale University, The University of Notre Dame, the national Choral Festival (Spartanburg, SC), OMEA, and the NAfME National In-Service Conference in Nashville. In 2017 Professor Rumrill received the Certificate for World Music Pedagogy from Smithsonian Folkways for his pedagogic studies in Puerto Rican and Cuban music. He serves evangelical churches in worship and culture consulting contexts as time permits and is a member of MTNA, NAfME, SEM, and the International Council of Ethnodoxologists.

Matt Bonnett

Matt Bonnett is a worship pastor and active team developer for multiple ministries and has served in various ministry roles in full time ministry for the past 20 years. He has his degree in Worship Leadership with an emphasis on leadership and biblical studies from Liberty University and joined Dr. Rumrill at Thomas Road Baptist Church in the planting and development of Dan River Church and along with other worship team development church plant ministries at Thomas Road. Matt has an expertise in the development of systems and processes that can directly engage the culture and mission of local churches and has used that skill in a singular focus context until 2022 where God called him to invest into the local small, medium, and large churches in ways he had served his previous congregations. This has involved work with Liberty University, different state conventions, and numerous ministries across the US. As the Executive Director of Worship Impact Group, his goal is to invest resources from different areas of expertise towards the furtherance of the transformative gospel in ministries, colleges, and families here in the US and beyond. Matt has extensive experience in vocal leadership and training in small settings to extremely large venues and his primary instrument is the piano.