Kevin’s Weekend Review: 5-24-09

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Hi everyone,

As I mentioned in my blog last week, I’ve been doing a lot of work to raise up other Worship Leaders in our church.� This Sunday, I had a guy on our team do a “Phase-3″ worship service (where he plans, prepares, and executes the entire service).� It was really cool!

One of the benefits of having others lead worship is that it keeps things fresh and exciting. Ryan has a different musical taste and style then me, so the songs he selected are not ones I would normally do on a Sunday… but they totally worked! That’s the beauty of worshipping in community together and having others who can compliment you. So even though I wouldn’t do these songs normally, when Ryan led them he did it with conviction and passion and it really worked out well.

Here’s what the morning looked like:

  • Forever With You (Decyfer Down… cool Christian alt-rock band that sounds a lot like the early days of Creed.� We did this song as a Prelude with full band and vocals… it was a great way to set the tone of the morning.� Check out this song by clicking the link)
  • Welcome / Memorial Day Prayer
  • Mission Focus: Commission Colin Fenn (young high schooler who is going to Africa during the summer)
  • Body Life / Offering Prayer
  • You Never Let Go(David Crowder; we played images of flags and Arlington Cemetery during the song… VERY powerful!)
  • Offering(Paul Baloche)
  • Message: “How to Let God Know You’re Grateful” – Hebrews 13
  • Rest (Skillet)
  • Show Me Your Glory (Third Day)
  • Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) (Chris Tomlin)
  • Offering (Reprise with full band this time)

You can see we did a lot of “commercial” type songs; but it was really cool. And people responded surprisingly well. I had my reserves about the music, but I was super excited how it all went down. You can check out what other people did on Sunday by going to Fred McKinnon’sblog. Btw, Fred was recently featured on the CCLI video section.� Good job Fred!