“Kevin’s Weekend Review”: 8-9-09
After a two week break, I’m back on the blog. Oddly enough, I wasn’t on vacation or even gone these last two weeks… I just have been so busy that every time I think about blogging there’s about 15 other things that I need to be finishing right then. Part of my busyness has come from this big outreach event that I’m coordinating. We have a booth at the local fair for the express purpose of evangelism; I’m the one who is in charge of the scheduling. I’ll tell you what: scheduling 88 shifts is not easy when you’re trying to work with busy people’s schedules!
But I got everything scheduled and now I can focus on what I really love: worship music! This Sunday was incredible. I really felt like God was using me and speaking through me. The last several weeks I’ve tried to not let my emotions control how I perceive worship, and this week I really sensed that God was working. At the end, we all kind of broke into this spontaneous chorus of “How Great Thou Art”; it was really neat!
Of course, the practice wasn’t that great. We went super late and I was getting pretty stressed out. I like to be done by 8:30 and we went all the way up until 9:00; any later and we wouldn’t have time for prayer. I made a commitment long ago that I wouldn’t sacrifice prayer time for practice time. I know some people disagree with that philosophy; but my take is that at a certain point you just need to give it to God. So we did and I think God really moved this Sunday.
So, here was our service:
- Meet With Me(Ten Shekel Shirt)
- Thy Mercy (Caedmon’s Call)
- Mission Focus: Supported Missionaries in Italy
- Special Prayer Focus: Outreach at Clark County Fair
- Jesus Paid it All (arr. of hymn off the Passion album, “Everything Glorious”)
- Draw Me Close (Kelly Carpenter)
- Blessed Be Your Name (Matt Redman)
- Shout to the Lord (Darlene Zschech… classic!)
- How Great Thou Art (this was a spontaneous song and our whole church rose up as we lifted our voices… it was a sweet moment)
- Message: Loving a Fool; a message on parenting (Jim Draper)
- Draw Me Close Reprise
To check out what other people are doing, go over to Fred McKinnon’s blog. God bless!
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