Fred J. Heumann is an internationally-respected worship leader, speaker and teacher. He has four decades of diverse experience—from the Australian outback to European cathedrals, from leading small group worship to producing major international events in over 50 nations. He is a lead worshipper and singer who carries a deep understanding of the theological and practical aspects of leading and planning corporate worship from highly liturgical services to charismatic renewal.

Fred has worked alongside the music industry for many years. He has been a trusted music consultant for major publishing companies like Thankyou Music/Kingsway Worship, Worship Together, Integrity Music, Word Music, Sovereign Grace Music, Media Complete, LifeWay Worship and Lillenas Publishing.

He helped develop the MORE SONGS FOR PRAISE AND WORSHIP worship planner series and the materials for wordmusicnow.com at Word, and was a content curator for the new LifeWay Hymnal / lifewayworship.com, assisting them in choosing today's worship songs for the digital online and print hymnals.  He also played a significant role in introducing the current wave of British worship music here, bringing the first WorshipTogether conference to the US alongside Kingsway/Thankyou Music in 1997.

Fred is passionate about technology and how it can be a strong asset to worship leader/planners—you won’t see him anywhere without his MacBook Pro and his iPhone—and has worked on developing several digital or online products.  He is an ordained minister who also has served 7 very different churches as part-time, full-time or volunteer worship leader, and taught and planned Hispanic worship seminars both in the US and in Latin America.  He loves history, and has found that most trips into his office are actually archaeological digs… And believe it or not, he loves collecting old hymnals.  It’s amazing how many old songs didn’t make it either!

Fred has shared the Gospel with over 1 million students live with his team Wings of Light and served as a church worship pastor, missionary evangelist, and on the World Leadership Team for Youth for Christ International. He has also served as worship leader at Belmont Church, Nashville over the past ten years.

He directs MusicWorks International, offering training, teaching and consulting in music and missions, but is most excited about starting a new initiative called theworshipservice.com—serving those in the service of worship.  He’s restarting his blog slowly, with fear and trepidation, so be kind when you come to fredheumann.com! 

He has just released his first book, called magnify!  It's a resource book, containing 105 song-based modern worship devotionals for lead worshippers and their teams.

He lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife Judie, son Joel and faithful dog Joy!