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What a weekend! It was great! I know that not everyone involved felt like they were “up to snuff” for the weekend, but it was a great weekend – the people of God worshiped! Sure there were things we could have done better, things that could have gone better, things that could have been tighter, notes that could have been “righter,” but when it comes down to it, the bottom line is that people worship and that they did my friends, that they did.
One of the challenges of having a Saturday evening service and a Sunday morning service, is that there is always the possibility that something will happen to someone between Saturday night & Sunday morning – like getting sick. That’s what happened this weekend, our drummer called on Sunday morning to let me know he wouldn’t be able to make it because he was sick. Fortunately, our children’s director plays drums excellently, and he was able to step in. So, we ended up being covered.
We did Paul Baloche’s new song “Glorious” today. We didn’t use a loop (Someday, I would like to), but I was able to set up a patch on my Yamaha Motif XS8 to sound pretty much like a lot of the stuff they were doing on the recording. It’s a “glorious” song, If you haven’t added it to your repertoire yet, I’d highly recommend you do.
Here was our Set:
I love a lot of these songs: All Because of Jesus, Glorious & Revelation song are among my favorites right now. Our female vocalists were sick this weekend, and were unable to find anyone to fill in for them, so I had to try & do the echo’s on “I am free” by myself. It was interesting, different.
For more weekend reviews/worship confessionals/Sunday Setlists – check out Sunday Setlists over at Fred’s Place.
If you missed last weeks’ podcast, I’d highly recommend you go check it out here. In this week’s episode, David and Kevin continue their discussion on songwriting through the book “God Songs.” I’d strongly recommend you pick up a copy of the book and go through it with us!
We’re going to be going through the book God Songs by Paul Baloche & Jimmy & Carol Owens. (If you click on the title, it will take you directly to the store on Paul’s site where you can buy your own copy of the book.) By the way, if you haven’t checked out Paul’s Site: leadworship.com, you should do that. There are tons of great resources there for your worship team.
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Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast - Episode 0049 - God Songs [37:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (43)Church on Sunday was pretty cool. I put together a Veteran’s Day celebration at the beginning of the service and it was a hit! I tried to get the Junior ROTC from our local high school to come and do an Honor Guard to present the colors, but it didn’t work out. Maybe next year. But I did get all our Veteran’s to come in their uniform and one of our currently serving members gave a brief message on freedom. At the end, all the Veteran’s came on stage and we prayed for them. It was pretty powerful!
The rest of the service was good; but that image of over 40 Veterans standing on stage is still so clear. We had a smaller band this Sunday, which worked out really well because we’ve been having some monitor issues. I was happy with how things turned out and got some good feedback after church:
To see what other Worship Teams are doing on Sunday, check out Fred McKinnon’s site.
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