6 April 2009 228 views No Comment Print This Post  Email This Post

Hello out there!  Palm Sunday at Laurelwood was AWESOME!  We didn’t have a cool worship band like David, but we did get A LOT of excitement about Easter.  You ever have one of those Sundays where it’s just fun and exciting and there’s joy in the air?  That’s how church was on Sunday!

Truthfully, a lot of it may have had to do with the weather.  It’s been rainy and cloudy for many weeks and this Sunday was absolutely beautiful!  There’s something about the sun that makes everyone a little happier than normal.  But whatever the case, our Sunday service was just great.  We did some excellent songs and really focused on the idea of “Jesus coming to town”.  The best part of all is that we took communion this Sunday with the idea that “the story doesn’t end here”.  That’s when everyone started getting excited about Easter.

So, here’s what our morning looked like.  All our music centered around Christ being our King and Hosanna; the one who saves.  It really worked well and people responded very positively:

• Prelude / Scripture Reading: Mark 11 (Triumphal Entry)
• Here is Our King(David Crowder)
• Hosanna(Paul Baloche)
• Mighty to Save (Hillsong)
• Communion (with songs in-between the bread and juice)
• Jesus Messiah (Chris Tomlin)
• Grace Greater Than Our Sins (Hymn)
• Mission Report from Youth (our Youth Group went to New Orleans during Spring Break to help with continued recovery from Hurricane Katrina)
• Body Life / Prayer for Offering
• Mystery (Very cool, new Charlie Hall song that we are doing for Easter.  If you haven’t heard it, check it out on iTunes or somewhere)
• Message: “Christ’s Immanent Return”: John 12 & Matthew 24
• Mystery (Reprise)

To check out what songs other Worship Leaders are doing on Sundays, you can visit Fred McKinnon’s blog.  Hope everyone has a great Easter week.  He is Risen!