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This morning, my friend John led worship. He’s been on one of our worship teams for about a year and a half and has been helping give leadership to our youth worship stuff since the winter. I was excited to have him lead our Sunday morning for the first time this week.
And he KILLED it!! Seriously, he hit it out of the park. It was awesome. This morning was all about song flow, integration with the message and thematic consistency.
Here’s our list -
Sunday, July 15, 2007 – “Like This”
1 Thessalonians 5:16-21
Your Love Is Amazing – Brian Doerksen & Brenton Brown
Holy Is The Lord – Chris Tomlin
Filled With Your Glory – Tim & John Neufeld
Indescribable – Chris Tomlin
Famous One – Chris Tomlin & Jesse Reeves
Blessed Be Your Name – Matt & Beth Redman
You’re Worthy Of My Praise – David Ruis
Dudes – the flow from the end of the chorus of “Holy Is The Lord” to the chorus of “Filled With Your Glory” was amazing!!
Go read the passage that we used for the service and you’ll know why we used this as a congregational reading during the second set -
Because we believe in and know the goodness of God,
we will always be joyful.
Because we believe and know that God hears us,
we will pray continually.
Because we believe and know that God is faithful,
we will give thanks in all circumstances.
We believe and know that this is God’s will for us in Christ Jesus.
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Alright readers – time to ask for prayer.
In exactly 9 hours we will begin seeing kids arrive for our first EVER Krazee Arts Camp. If you want an idea of what this camp is all about, here’s a little visual game.
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Alright, so I suck at this blogging thing. In my recent comings-and-goings I’ve failed to be consistent in my blogging behaviour. Hopefully the three of you who read this will forgive me.
Here’s a recap of what we did this past Sunday – we’re in the middle of a really great series in 1 Thessalonians that we’re calling “Like This.” Our Director of Youth Ministries, Kevin Van Dyken, had the unique opportunity of telling our congregation that one of the things they can do to keep our church healthy is to “respect and esteem” the leaders of our church. Not an easy task so I’m sure that our Senior Pastor wasn’t too upset that he was away on holidays and didn’t have to preach this message :)
Sunday, July 8, 2007 – “Like This”
1 Thessalonians 5:12-14
Your Grace Is Enough – Chris Tomlin version
There Is No One Else Like You – Robin Mark
That’s Why We Praise Him – Tommy Walker
Holy, Holy, Holy – Traditional
May The Words Of My Mouth – Tim Hughes
As a response to Kevin’s message we took communion together. Normally communion is done one of two ways – we pass the trays down each row OR we set up stations and people are served commuion. Because of the passage that Kevin was preaching this week and the focus on developing healthy community we thought we’d do something a little different.
We set up six communion stations around our auditorium and at each station we had communion trays which had both the bread and juice (we’re Baptists but not Baptist enough to use wine!) on the same tray. As people left their seats and went to one of the stations, there was someone their to serve communion to the first person in line. After this first person ate and drank, they took the tray from the person who served them and served the NEXT person in line. When that person ate and drank, they took the tray and served the next person. And on and on.
We had several positive comments from people that this was a good visual for them to immediately put in to practice what they had just been hearing from God’s word. Our hope, of course, is that the memory will stick with them and will continue to inspire them to serve and help the idle, the fainthearted and the weak.
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A bunch of you are ending up here via the Willow Creek Arts Conference blog. Great to have you!
You might see that I’ve been out of the blog routine for a while. Read through some posts and you’ll get the sense that this blog is just to re-cap service ideas and let people know about some resources and tools that make my job a little easier.
What do/did you think of the conference? Best part? Biggest thing you’d change?
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You’ll see that I’ve got a whole bunch of new blog links over on the right hand side. This is a list of blogs inspired by Randy Elrod who I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this spring at re:create. Have a look through those blogs and get to know some folks over there – they’re good people!
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After missing a couple of Sundays for some family time I was excited about being back at the church this week and to lead worship on Sunday. We had a really solid team (including a new keyboard player!), the song flow worked really well and our second service included a bunch of child dedications so we had a whole whack of visitors with us, too.
Every year we take a week and focus on our global outreach efforts. For the second year in a row we brought our friend Justus Miwanda from Uganda to come and speak to us. He was around all week spending time in our various ministries and then preached on Sunday morning. We had asked him to tell the North American church what it needed to hear from an African. Justus preached from the parable of the good Samaritan and focused mostly on the fact that the Samaritan went to him - how we must be willing to GO to those who need to be helped.
Sunday, May 13 – “Beyond Our Four Walls”
“He Went To Him”
Ancient of Days – Gary Sadler & Jamie Harvill
Holy Is The Lord – Chris Tomlin & Louie Giglio
Because Of Your Love – Paul Baloche & Brenton Brown
You Are – Mark Roach
Shout To The Lord – Darlene Zschech
Give Us Clean Hands – Charlie Hall
Two real highlights for me this week – we had done “You Are” once before as a presentation song on Celebration Sunday at the end of our Beyond initiative but we dropped the key to F and did it as a congregational this week. The response was awesome! This is definitely getting added to our regular repertoire. The second really cool thing was just the great energy the congregation had at the second service in response to the child dedications. Anytime you put babies on stage people are going to think it’s awesome!
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So I think I’m going to start a new blog feature – New & Old. I’ll link you to a blog that I’ve been reading for a while (the “old”) and a blog that I’ve just discovered and am enjoying (the “new”). See – we like to keep things simple up here in Canada!
The New – I’ll go with the newest for this first one! I was visiting Rich‘s blog yesterday and ended up at The Wonderful Noise the blog home of Victor Estrada. Like me, Victor is a worship pastor and, also like me, is the father of a new baby girl.
The Old – I’ll stick with the theme and go with the oldest! The first blog I ever started reading belongs to Jordon Cooper. I had the opportunity to meet Jordon a couple years ago but was too chicken to tell him that I read his blog. Jordon has a very keen sense of the goings-on in “underground Christianity” in Canada and is not afraid to take significant steps to help make things better. Plus, he’s Canadian and that makes him worth reading.
Both of these guys are linked in my bloglist so check them out if you’re looking for some more reading.
Now go find your own guitar-playing, singing goat and send me a snapshot!
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