PORTFOLIO
Welcome to my portfolio, and thank you for visiting! Below, you'll see attachments and links to worship services, recording projects, original music, and more.
It is a privilege to share some of my work with you.
Thanks for being here!
Worship Services
Acoustic Night, December 14, 2025
Multi-Generational Worship Service, December 21, 2025
A Sunday morning service including adult choir, children's choir, sign language team, and three soloists.
Sunday Morning, December 28, 2025
A Sunday morning with music led only by myself and an additional keyboardist, including a special solo piece (time stamp 14:30).
Before my current position, I served as a choir and praise team member at First Baptist Millington. Please click to visit the links below:
Easter Sunday March 31, 2024 (time stamp 40:00)
Christmas at First, December 2023 (time stamp 13:25)
Track Building
Over the years of working both in and outside ministry settings, I have noticed a pattern of surprising people with the level of music execution I can help a team bring to life. One way I do this is by providing musicians with the resources they need to succeed. Sometimes those resources already exist; Other times, they need to be created to suit our unique needs. One example is this practice recording of "Blessed Assurance" (by CAIN). Not only is this song a challenging one, but the size of our vocal team required that we make some adjustments to the vocal score. To make this score clear and easy to learn, I recorded each member's vocal part over the top of a purchased backing track from Loop Community. I also used this demonstration recording to create parts-highlighted tracks for each vocalist to rehearse alongside:
Whether for the purpose of helping team members rehearse, creating a custom backing track for live overlay, or making a track that allows me to lead a choir without being bound to the piano, my ability to create music tracks from the ground up in my own home studio is a unique skill I bring to the table.
In the first six months serving in my current role, I created 38 song projects like these and 120 various mixes to equip the worship team with practice resources.
Arranging & Notating
Cedric Dent, nine-time Grammy Award Winning artist as a founding member of Take Six, was my degree advisor at Middle Tennessee State University. Being passionate to equip well-rounded musicians who would adapt to provide any musical skill that opportunity beckoned, he created the Middle Tennessee State University "Music Industry" degree during my Freshman year. As a man of deep Christian faith, he believes that a musician should be prepared not just to perform, not just to write, not just to conduct, and not just to arrange... but to develop all of those skills and to grow in every way that the Lord wills. Dr. Dent carries a heart for the Lord, a passion for music, and a determination that we must prepare for opportunity before it is presented. These values and the skillsets offered by my unique degree have prepared me to do projects such as this one: "This is How I Thank the Lord." This beautiful song, at the time of my selection of it, did not have any recorded parts - much less an SATB score; But I wanted our worship team to bring this song into our services, so I arranged the vocal parts and notated this score. The recording demonstrations the vocal arrangement as well.
Songwriting
"Lord of Armies" is in the works to be utilized as a congregational song at a mid-size Church in my area, as well as in the Church I'm currently serving in. Since immersing myself with worship directing and service planning, I've started to consider a whole different side of songwriting that I'd love to develop more fully. I've gained a better understanding for what makes an excellent congregational song and what truths I'd love to hear the Church singing about more. I am eager to explore new processes for writing lyrics rich in truth and beauty. I am eager to see what the next chapter of songwriting sounds like in my life.
Band Experience
More than education and official experience, the basis of my band skillset lies in my family history. Most of my childhood, my Dad was a drummer for a Christian rock band, "Quick Change." Band practice was held at my house twice a week, every week! As I got older, my brother was a drummer in his own bands as well. And as a family, we also made music together with friends every week. All that to say, live music took place in my home on almost a daily basis. While my entire family loves music dearly, I am the first one to truly study it, perform in a variety of settings, and pursue it professionally. So naturally, I became the musical advisor-of-sorts in the family. I gradually became the one who answered the questions, provided the feedback, you name it! Of course, I grew to have my own band experiences outside our family band room as well. Many of those experiences were in high school and in college, before I ever had the opportunity to lead musicians in worship settings later on. Namely in high school, I became the band instructor's intern. I was assigned to write music charts, lead some of the rehearsal time, and create written instrument parts of my own songs for the "Soul Band" to play (including parts for trombone, trumpet, saxaphone, and rhythm section). We competed with some of my songs and scores as well. I participated in four different bands throughout my high school journey. I also played and sang in a band outside of school hours, "City Limits", where my friends and I competed in band competitions and performed at local festivals. In college, I played and sang in bands performing in Murfreesboro and occasionally in Nashville. I also participated in writer's rounds at Hotel Indigo in Nashville. But most favorite of all, I created my own band, "The Jenny Mills Band," and learned to lead a band entirely on my own and bring my original music to life alongside other musicians. Spiritually, I believe it is important to recognize that Scripture specifically lists all the instruments that were available at the time as tools available for worship. Artistically, I believe that all of our gifting and creative bents are designed by and for God. It is of profound importance that the Church create and encourage opportunity for all kinds of creative gifting possessed by its congregants.
Accomplishments
- Awarded "Outstanding Songwriter" by Downbeat Magazine's Student Music Awards, in recognition of a EP recorded and produced at Leeway Music studios in Memphis, 2010.
- Recognized by Rick Carnes as the top songwriter in the MTSU songwriting class of 2013
- Selected by Odie Blackmon to receive an internship at Rare Spark Media Group on Music Row in Nashville, serving acclaimed songwriter Victoria Banks
Character Testament
While there is a time and place to demonstrate skill and discuss experience, I believe that God is not so concerned with what we can do or have done. Much more than that, He is concerned about who we are and what we understand of Him. As fellow believers here, I'd like to simply acknowledge that beyond basic competence in worship leading, skills and experience are ultimately secondary. What is primary, however, is who a person proves to be in character and in faith, who they believe God to be, and how that understanding shapes the way in which they lead and live. In this limited digital space, I leave you with this final link to a blog post of my own. Perhaps it will help you gain a glimpse into something about me that is more primary. God Bless, Jenny Davis
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