SEU Worship
Chelsea Plank and Austin Shuffit
Every person on their worship team has an expiration date.
At Southeastern University, students audition, get developed, lead for a couple of years, then graduate. The team rebuilds itself constantly. It still works.
Chelsea Plank and Austin Shuffit lead SEU Worship, a campus ministry of sixty to eighty college students leading chapel three and four times a week.
In this conversation you’ll hear how they frame excellence as ‘prepare the offering,’ a holy practice instead of a performance standard.
How five staff develop thirty-plus student leaders, who then develop everyone else, so the discipleship isn’t sitting on one person.
And what stewarding ten straight days of worship actually looked like: swapping guitar players out mid-song over the talkback, two hour slots at one in the morning, and making sure people ate, slept and showered.
Plus why ‘What A God’ lived in their chapel for about a year before any other church started singing it.
If the ‘prepare the offering’ idea hit something in you, that’s what Worship Online is built for: your whole team learning their exact parts at home so rehearsal is refining, not reteaching. Try it free at https://worshiponline.com/
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About SEU Worship
SEU Worship is a worship collective born out of Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. Since its beginnings in 2010, the group has grown from campus chapel services and student-led worship gatherings into an influential voice in modern worship music. Known for their fresh, genre-blending sound and deeply rooted biblical lyrics, SEU Worship is passionate about creating songs that resonate with the next generation while pointing people toward Jesus.
With songs like “What a God,” “Wild Rushing Wind” and “FREE!,” SEU Worship has developed a unique sound that combines contemporary worship, pop, and electronic influences. Their projects, including Move of God and Found in a Field, reflect a heart for authentic encounters with God and a desire to see worship extend beyond Sunday mornings into everyday life. Their music has earned Dove Award nominations and connected with churches and worship teams around the world.
What makes SEU Worship especially unique is its commitment to developing the next generation of worship leaders, songwriters, and artists. With a collective that includes Chelsea Plank, Caylie Catoe, Sydney James, and Johnny Pena, SEU Worship continues to serve as both a creative community and a training ground for emerging worship leaders. Their mission extends beyond releasing music to raising up leaders who will shape the future of worship in the local church.
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