It’s impossible to be around Mark Tedder for very long before his passion for worshiping God in every corner of the world infects the conversation. An Arkansas native, Tedder has spent the majority of his life in planet-hopping mode. After having invested several years living and expanding his musical base throughout Europe, he and his family returned to the States.

Tedder has been around the Christian music scene most of his life, primarily as a professional drummer. It wasn’t until his wife, his two sons, and he moved to Prague, Czech Republic, that he first started to feel God’s call to worship leadership. He traded in his drum sticks for an acoustic guitar and began a new chapter of his calling.

After having spent four years cutting his teeth as a worship leader for the International Church of Prague, the Tedders moved back to Arkansas to lead worship at a church in Little Rock. There, Mark and Carrie witnessed firsthand the desperate need for worship leadership training in countries they had visited o