LCCWorship

Trying to join the Sunday Setlist blog carnival from now on.

Yesterday was our last Preview Service! That’s right, come September 21st, we will begin doing this every week!

Being our last preview service we had one last chance to work out some of the kinks and, all in all, everything went pretty well. We did end up running about 10 minutes long, but it was all good. Great worship, great sermon, increased attendance, great fun!

Here’s what our setlist looked like.

• Great Redeemer (Paul Baloche)
• Let The Praises Ring (Lincoln Brewster)
• Hosanna (Paul Baloche, Brenton Brown)
• Days of Elijah (Robin Mark)
• Madly (Steve Fee)
• Amazing Grace - My Chains Are Gone (Chris Tomlin, John Newton)
• Be The Centre (Michael Frye)
• Awesome is the Lord (Cary Pierce, Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Jon Abel)

Free album download available tonight at Midnight…

I saw a post at betterthanblank today about Pandora Radio so I thought I would check it out.

It is awesome! I started a station by putting in the song name “Awesome is the Lord” and pressed enter. It began playing Audio Adrenaline, David Crowder Band, Charlie Hall, Robbie Seay Band, Desperation Band, Matt Redman and others.

Check it out…

Pandora Radio

In sticking with what seems to have become my tradition, here is my wrap-up from yesterday…

As is normal, we got to the school at 8:00AM and began the setup. This was the first time that we had to completely setup before the service (last month we were able to leave our equipment setup overnight at the school after practicing setup). Not only was this our first time to do a complete setup before the service, but we had more stuff to setup than ever before as we keep adding stuff to our setup (only few items left to add though). Anyway, it took us about 1 hour and 10 minutes to setup. Although this is the fastest we’ve ever done it (1.5 hours was our previous mark), we still are not quite to where we need to be at 45 minutes.

With setup taking a bit longer than expected, we ran late the rest of the morning. Band rehearsal ran about 35 minutes so by the time we actually finished rehearsing it would have already been time for us to start playing for the service, so things were pushed a bit more. Other than being about 10 - 15 minutes behind schedule, the service went pretty smoothly.

The most exciting part for all of us was that we had three new families visit yesterday!

Here’s the setlist…

• Love the Lord (Lincoln Brewster)
• Hosanna (Paul Baloche & Brenton Brown)
• One Way (Joel Houston & Jonathon Douglass)
• Everlasting God (Brenton Brown & Ken Riley)
• Fire Fall Down (Matt Crocker)
• Nothing But The Blood (Robert Lowry)
• Holy is the Lord (Chris Tomlin & Louie Giglio)

It’s been a while since I last posted anything up here. I’ve been fairly busy with work, church, and family and have not had much to post about. Here is an update about what I’ve been up to…

Valerie and I spent the extended weekend (4 days, I took an extra day off) with her parents up in Renton, WA. It was nice and refreshing to be away for a few days and not really have to do anything in particular. I think my favorite part was to be able to be part of the congregation in church on Sunday and just join in worship. Being the worship leader at our church doesn’t allow me to just join in worship as whenever we have service I am leading worship - how refreshing!

Other than that, we have been doing quite a bit of stuff. We are currently working on a complete makeover of our landscaping. We’ve never been very satisfied by our landscaping and always knew we would redo it to our liking, but haven’t had the opportunity until now. This project will likely take most of the summer due to our schedule and lack of ‘free’ time to work on it.

Hopefully I will be able to post more later…

Check out this post called ‘Why I Hate Patriotic Songs (In Worship).’ I have wondered for a long time why some churches play patriotic songs during their worship services and tend to agree very much with this post. Jordan at WorshipTrench makes some very good points.

So I will probably make this a habit of doing my Sunday wrap-up on Monday sometime…

Yesterday was a great ending to a busy weekend. After spending all day Saturday setting up and getting used to our new equipment all we had to do is show up at the school and do our service.

The band started about 10 minutes before the service was supposed to start (as is normal) playing ‘prelude’ music. At 10:00 AM, the scheduled start time, there was still no one in the sanctuary, even though I had seen some people walk in the front door several minutes prior. So, we extended the the prelude by jumping around our last song a bit repeating the bridge and chorus a couple of times. By the time we actually finished (about 3 or 4 minutes after we were supposed to) we had 22 people in the sanctuary! Praise God!

Everything just went so smoothly the rest of the service and we even finished on time (this was the first time this happened)! God was there in with us allowing us to worship him and speaking to us the words we needed to hear.

Here is the setlist for yesterday…

Prelude:

• Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing)
• One Way (Joel Houston, Jonathon Douglass)

1st Worship Set:

• Awesome is the Lord (Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Cary Pierce, Jon Abel)
• Unchanging (Chris Tomlin)
• In the Secret (Andy Park)

2nd Worship Set:

• Everything (Tim Hughes)
• Mighty to Save (Reuben Morgan, Ben Fielding)
• One Way (Joel Houston, Jonathon Douglass) - repeat from prelude

Postlude:

• Hosanna (Paul Baloche, Brenton Brown)

God has truly blessed us with great people, great equipment, and a great love and I feel honored to be able to serve him as the Lead Worshiper at LCC.

Well, my last post was just before four of us left for California to pick up our Church on Wheels equipment. Boy that was a long trip! 48 hours, 4 grown men, Extended cab pickup (not one of those nice full cab things, a bit smaller), ~1500 miles, and not much sleep. Needless to say, we will not be doing that again any time soon. The trip was good, but the ride was too cramped for that long of a trip.

No one was able to figure out a way to sit in the back seat without their knees having to be in their chest. There was really no way to get very comfortable, so sleeping in the back seat was pretty much out of the question. Anyway, we made it down there and back and got our trailer, which we have decided to call ‘Tiny’ (there is really nothing tiny about the trailer though), and all of our equipment.

Today we spent all day sorting through the equipment and setting things up.

Tomorrow we have our second preview service, which is very exciting! We sent out 10000 mailers to the surrounding community, so we are praying that God will provide the people.

Its been a very busy 4 days. I hope to post more about our trip, our equipment, and our preview service soon as I reflect on them more. It might not be tomorrow because I plan on just resting in the afternoon after the marathon 4 days I’ve had!

In about 4 - 5 hours we will be on our way to pick up our CoW equipment! We’ll be doing nearly 1500 miles in the next two days.

This is a test post coming from ScribeFire on FireFox 3. This is great!