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October 16, 2007 in worship with 9 Comments

Do you read? Do you blog? Do you link?

Let me know if you do any of those three things – I’m in admin mode and will be cleaning up the blogroll this week. If you read, blog or link I want to make sure that you’re listed here.

Come out of hiding!

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

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October 16, 2007 in worship with Comments Off

What a week. I had the great joy of spending dozens and dozens of hours in my basement with my wife and (sometimes) our two daughters. I have lost track of how many times Avery watched “The Jungle Book” this week. All I know is that the “bear necessities” will never be far from my mind for a long, long time.

So what did I miss? Here are some links that I starred in my Google Reader this week:

Mark Driscoll on why Mars Hill Church uses video teaching – Mars Hill Videology

How Catalyst used SMS technology at their conference

How Walt Disney cartoons are made – YouTube

Six Worldviews You’ll Have To Compete With – MMI

Dr. Samuel Chand at Fuel 2007 – Better Than Blank

Xpenser – the most efficient way to manage your expenses and reports

Watch Innovate 2007 sessions online here (via Mark Waltz)

Play jazz by ear – watch the video here (via Fred McKinnon)

How to look at art – Scriptorium (via Tim Challies)

Tim Stevens’ thoughts on Andy Stanley closing Catalyst

So what did you do this week?

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

Worship Text-fessional – October 7, 2007

October 9, 2007 in textfessional,worship with 1 Comment

I’m on holidays this week (I’m going to post about that in one second) so here is the brief recap:

Sunday was amazing. Worship, the Word, testimonies, baptisms, what more could you want??!!

Our opening songs (Let Everything That Has Breath & How Great Is Our God) set the tone for our Thanksgiving service really nicely. We then moved into baptisms and two songs focused on God’s faithfulness. Closing the service with a package of songs focused on Christ was great and the congregation was engaged and singing at both services.

Being a holiday weekend AND doing baptisms meant we were pretty full both services. Our first impressions folks (greeters, ushers, welcome centre) had to be on their toes and assume that anyone they met was a visitor from out of town and it was their first time in our building. I had a conversation this week with a leader in one of our ministries who still remembers clearly the amazing treatment he and his family received on their first visit to our church -that treatment set the tone for him to become engaged in the life of our congregation and move towards ministry and leadership.

What are you moving towards?

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

Worship Pre-Fessional – Sunday, October 7, 2007

October 5, 2007 in canada,textfessional,worship with 3 Comments

October 7, 2007
“Give Thanks” – Luke 17
Let Everything That Has Breath – Matt Redman – E
How Great Is Our God – Chris Tomlin – G
Prayer
Offering
Announcements
BAPTISMS!!
Forever – Chris Tomlin – G
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
BEYOND – Video & Update
Message – “Give Thanks”
In Christ Alone – Stuart Townend & Keith Getty – D
How Awesome Is Our God – Chris Vacher & Craig Douglas – C
You Are – Mark Roach – F

This weekend is going to be amazing ! Baptisms are always a hilight for us and this week we will hear some incredible stories from the life of our congregation – a woman in her 70′s who just recently came to faith in Christ and wants everyone to know it, a 10-year old boy who has given his life to Christ at a young age and wants everyone to know it, adults and youth who are taking this incredible next step in their journey of faith and they’re allowing us as a church family to share in that. Amazing!!

This week is also 6 months since the end of BEYOND so we are taking some time to recap the vision behind it and give an update on where we’re at. We’ve had lots of new families join us who haven’t heard the what, why, when, how of BEYOND so we’re excited to share that with them.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! What are you doing to celebrate?

P.S. Have you ever seen a better clipart graphic than that??!!

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

My pastor has a blog…

October 5, 2007 in admin,friends,ideas,tools,worship with 1 Comment

…sort of.

We are beginning another long series next week and one of the new things we’re doing is our senior pastor will be blogging daily through the book of Luke. You can follow along here.

Does your pastor blog?

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

I like where this is going!

October 4, 2007 in worship with 5 Comments

Worship Trench is a blog that I’ve been following for a few weeks. The other day this was posted:

We begin this new series of processes we have learned which will allow you to do a stellar life and ministry year end review (YER). If you would like to take part in this thorough process, you need to calendar the following things now:

Set aside a day outside the office late November/early December to do the personal assessment exercise sections of the process.

Calendar a time to take 30 min or preferably an hour for every member of your ministry team to complete and return the participant evaluation exercise. (We prefer to do this in a group setting, as emailing them out gets you very few returns).

Calendar a time to meet with your captains as individuals for their assessment of you and the ministry, and your assessment of them.

Set aside an additional half-day for yourself after the individual assessments for mastery points exercise and personal goals tweaking.

Calendar a group captain gathering to formalize 08 goals and agendas. I usually do a Friday night dinner at a nice restaurant to say thanks followed by a Saturday morning get together at my house.

Find a time to vision cast reviews/goals 08 that are appropriate with all ministry participants.

You’ll need to start calendaring these dates now. In the coming weeks, we’ll provide the resources and tools for each of these segments. There are some cool things we have learned over the years to make this a highly effective process.

I’m not totally sure where this is going but I like it! I’ve done steps 1-4 and working on 5 & 6. How about you?

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

From St. Louis to Orangeville via Nashville

October 4, 2007 in worship with 2 Comments

Earlier this year I met Mark at re:create in Nashville and we had a couple good conversations about the state of the church and our role as worship inspirers. We’ve kept in touch this year by blogs and emails and phone calls and yesterday he came up to Orangeville for a quick visit. He was visiting a partner church just west of Toronto and it worked out well that he had a couple hours to come up here and spend some time talking ministry and life.

Thanks for coming, Mark – too bad we forgot to take a picture to prove to everyone that you actually survived your trip to Canada!!

So, who’s next?

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

Worship Text-fessional – September 30, 2007

October 2, 2007 in textfessional,worship with 2 Comments

Here was our set list -

Sunday, September 30, 2007
“The Bible: God’s Message To You”
Filled With Your Glory – F
God Of Wonders – G
Holy, Holy, Holy – D
Announcements/Offering
Prayer
This Is Our God – D
Jesus, Lamb Of God (chorus only) – F -> G
Message – “God’s Message Is Redemption”
Video – “The Book”
Glory Of It All – A

Good morning overall but not without its hitches and frustrations. The guy leading our service has done it a couple times and is a very capable leader but wasn’t as confident with the songs as he normally is. This resulted in a couple of missed transitions and some minor hiccups as the worship team was playing but nothing that cause the whole service to derail.

Kevin, our youth ministries director, spoke on Sunday about the message of the Bible being God’s relentless pursuit of us individually and collectively. Really talking about how the meta-narrative of scripture comes down to creation -> fall -> redemption and it happens over and over and over and over and.. you get the picture ;)

Closing with the video and “Glory Of It All” was a nice touch. We brought the congregation in with the last chorus of “Glory” and they seemed to get it. Not sure it will be a congregational song for us but it worked well as a closer this week.

Next week is the real Thanksgiving and then we’re kicking off a 10-week series on discipleship – I LOVE these long series so I’m excited about that.

Do you have a question for me?

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

“you’re famous”

September 28, 2007 in friends,ideas,worship with 1 Comment

“you’re famous”
The subject of an email from my friend Mark after seeing that Nancy Beach has blogged about an idea I mentioned at our Willow training event last week.

Remember the idea from this post?

Nancy Beach blogged about it in this post.

Are you famous?

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

Worship Pre-fessional – September 30, 2007

September 28, 2007 in textfessional,worship with Comments Off

We just finished our final service walkthrough meeting and this is what we’ve got for Sunday morning:

Sunday, September 30, 2007
“The Bible: God’s Message To You”
Filled With Your Glory - F
God Of Wonders – G
Holy, Holy, Holy – D
Announcements/Offering
Prayer
This Is Our God – D
Jesus, Lamb Of God (chorus only) – Eb -> F -> G
Message – “God’s Message Is Redemption”
Video – “The Book”
Glory Of It All – A

If you think we’re doing “Glory Of It All” only because Crowder’s record came out this week, you’d be wrong! ;) I’ve actually been planning on using that song during this service for a couple of months – good timing, Mr. Crowder!

I wonder who else is doing that song this week?

Thanks for stopping by the blog. I'm currently on sabbatical this summer - you can read more about my sabbatical here: Personal Update - What's Next

Since I'm away from the blog I've decided to close comments. I love the interaction and discussion that happens with readers and since I'm not able to do that this summer, I'll be very much looking forward to that when I return in August.

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Chris Vacher Married to Sonya, dad to Avery, Emmy, Isabelle and Anderson. Director of Worship at Orangeville Baptist Church near Toronto. Founder of WorshipRises and doing my best to follow Jesus in the midst of it all.

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Time for some Canadian friendliness.

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Worship Text-fessional – October 7, 2007

Worship Pre-Fessional – Sunday, October 7, 2007

My pastor has a blog…

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“you’re famous”

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