Monty Kelso has excelled internationally at both directing creative church communications, and leading and designing worship and programming. A well-known and widely-admired Worship Leader at Coast Hills Community Church in Aliso Viejo, Calif., for many years, Monty possesses a combination of talents and skills as a Worship consultant, coach and mentor that are uncommon. Under his guidance, Coast Hills and many other churches have attained new levels of relevancy in their creative arts ministries, and have earned reputations for being highly culturally engaged within their communities.
In addition to his accomplishments and achievements at the local church and in the national and international arenas, Monty is marked by an ultra-relational approach. A savvy practitioner with an entrepreneurial spirit, he is as pragmatic as he is inspirational and visionary.
In recent years, Monty has served as a clinician and consultant to numerous Worship and Arts conferences and entities, including the Christian Artists Seminar in the Rockies, Willow Creek Association, Christian Associates International, Campus Crusade, the Jesus Film project, Continental Ministries, Hope International University and National Outreach, Inc. From 1990 to 2002, he also worked as a worship leader and consultant for Maranatha! Music's worship leader workshops. He currently serves on the board of directors for The Grove Center For the Arts and Media: www.thegrovecenter.org and Worship Mentor Network: www.worshipmentor.com.
