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Well, I’ve fallen behind in my Sunday setlist over the past couple of weeks, since I’ve been enjoying some vacation time over Christmas and New Years.  I also have not been leading worship at our church the last 2 Sundays, so I’m ready to get back at it this week.

Here are our setlists for the past few events:

Christmas Eve

“Joy to the World” (Praise Carols version from Praise Charts)
“Angels We Have Heard on High (Chris Tomlin – “Glory in the Highest” version)

“What Child Is This?” – Third Day version

“Jesus Messiah” – Chris Tomlin

“Adore Him” (Kari Jobe)
“Silent Night” (with candles)

Sunday, December 27th
“Here I Am to Worship” (Matt Redman)

“Matchless” (Aaron Shust)
“The First Noel” (Praise Carols from Praise Charts)

“Joseph” – by (Don Poythress and Tony Wood) – sung as special music

“How Great Is Our God” (Chris Tomlin)

Sunday, January 3rd
“Awesome Is the Lord Most High” (Chris Tomlin)
“God Is Great” (Hillsong – Marty Sampson)

“Mighty to Save” (Hillsong – Reuben Morgan)

“You Gave Your Life Away (Paul Baloche)” – for Communion
“Above All” – Lenny LeBlanc – for Communion

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas season with your teams! To read about other services around the country, go to http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/12/27/sunday-setlists-75/

We had a very Merry Christmas service yesterday! My recap here is part of the  “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival at FredMcKinnon.Com and you can read others here at http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/12/20/sunday-setlists-74/

Here is the Planning Center Online link to our service yesterday – http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/803264


Our setlist

“Angels from the Realms of Glory” – Praise Charts version, arr. by Henderson


“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” – Praise Carols version (from PraiseCharts.com)
“Glory to God Forever” – Steve Fee/Vicky Beeching
“Glory in the Highest” – Chris Tomlin (from “Glory in the Highest’ CD)


We had another amazing sax solo from one of our worship team members – his own version of “What Child Is This”.


We ended with Paul Baloche’s “Christmas Offering” to close out the service.


Have a Merry Christmas, everyone!!!

You probably could have called our service this morning – A Chris Tomlin Christmas!  It went great! We had our worship choir sing this morning along with our team and band.  We started with “O Come, All Ye Faithful”, the Praise Carols version from Praise Charts.  It was a nice way to start the service, and I think really set the whole service off in a worshipful tone.

Then, after the greeting time, we did “Angels We Have Heard on High” from Chris Tomlin’s new Christmas CD. Very straightforward arrangement, so it was easy for the congregation to pick it up and sing right along.

Our choir and team then did two special Christmas pieces, both from Chris Tomlin’s new Christmas CD –

“My Soul Magnifies the Lord”  and
“Emmanual (Hallowed Manger Ground)”

They did a great job on those!

After the message, we ended with our Christmas version of “What Can I Do?” by Paul Baloche. My wife and I co-wrote a new Christmas verse to use instead of the first verse, and the rest of the song was the same.  It was a great way to respond to our pastor’s message about Mary’s song of praise after being visited by the angel.

To read other stories of Sunday AM setlists, go to “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival at
http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/12/13/sunday-setlists-73/

Well, Sunday was the official start to our Christmas season at Bethel.  With communion as well, it always makes for an interesting service combining those two themes.

So, we started with:

“Hosanna” (Paul Baloche)
“Joy to the World (Unspeakable Joy)” – from Chris Tomlin’s new Christmas CD
 – worked well since the melody was singable, and the new chorus was great!

Then, one of our worship team members brought out her flute and played on “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” (Praise Charts – Praise Carols version) during our offering. Nice duet at the start, then with a world beat.

During communion, we did:
“Remembrance (The Communion Song)” – Matt Redman/Matt Maher’s new song for communion. Wonderful lyrics and moving song!

“The Wonderful Cross” (Chris Tomlin; Michael W. Smith’s version)

Overall it was a great morning. With other rehearsals going on in December, we had to take everything off the stage after our rehearsal Thursday night. Whenever we do that, it never quite sounds as good as it does after getting things put back together in our Aviom ears.  Everything usually seems to work itself out, but it took a longer time on Sunday to get everything sounding just right. But, we got it, and the teams did a great job!

This entry is part of the “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival at FredMcKinnon.Com.  You can find other setlists from this week by going to http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/12/07/sunday-setlists-72/

Our team did such a great job yesterday at our worship services! But, I just wish the flow of our services yesterday would have been better.  Looking back, I realize now that there was just too much to try to do in one service and have it work. It was just one of those weeks…

We started with:
“Our God Saves” (Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown)
“Only A God Like You” (Tommy Walker)

Then, after the message, we had planned to do:
“None But Jesus” (Brooke Fraser) (1st time for us here)
“From the Inside Out” (Joel Houston)
“Everday” (Joel Houston)

But, “From the Inside Out” ended up getting cut in both services.  In addition to our regular songs and message, we also had 4 baby dedications (13 minutes) in one service, and 6 (15 minutes) in the next. So, our service order ended up looking nothing like what had been planned. 

I would love to hear how you at other churches handle baby dedications in your services?  Do you have a special service just for that, or do you have them in the service? Do you dedicate several children all at once, or each one individually?

This entry is part of the “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival at FredMcKinnon.Com.  You can find other setlists from this week by going to http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/11/29/sunday-setlists-71/

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We’re halfway done with the songs for today as I’m typing this. We had a great time of worship this morning, and tonight we have our Pie and Praise service for Thanksgiving.

We started our morning service with:

“Rising” (Paul Baloche) and
“Let the Praises Ring” (Lincoln Brewster)
 – Our electric guitar player, Zack, did a great job on the solo on that one!

After the welcome, we did:
“Shaken” (Tony Guerrero)
 – It’s been a long time since we’ve done this one, but it’s a great song!
“This Is How We Know” (Matt Redman)

Then, during the offering, we did “I’d Need A Savior” (Among the Thirsty) as special music.  I’ve heard this song on the radio, and love it! A gal from our church asked about singing it, and even though I only had a chord chart (I usually have the lead sheet and vocal parts), we did it.  They did a great job!

We ended with “Love The Lord” (Lincoln Brewster).

Tonight for our Pie and Praise service we’ll be doing:

“Because of Your Love” (Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown)
“For All You’ve Done” (Reuben Morgan)

“We Will Remember” (Tommy Walker)

“How Great is the Love” (new song by Paul Baloche and Meredith Andrews)

“You Never Let Go” (Matt Redman)

Thanks, and I look forward to reading through all of your posts! If you would like to read about today’s setlists from other churches around the country, visit the Sunday Setlist Blog Carnival at http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/11/22/sunday-setlists-70/

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Update – Well, I need to add an update to my recap. It’s now later Sunday night, after the Pie and Praise service. The testimonies were great to hear! The team did a great job on the songs! But, we had major technical issues!  Partway through “We Will Remember”, I noticed hardly anyone was singing, and everyone looked confused.  Wouldn’t you know – the “Lamp Replacement” light came on the screen, so right in the middle of the song, people saw our reminder that it’s time to replace the lamp. After that, the lamp basically failed.  Our video guy tried to turn it back on a few times, but it just kept on turning off.  So, needless to say, that put a damper on the focus and attention of many people.  


That’s on top of a strange event we had earlier this morning. Our main video feed cable somehow got wound up and stuck in a wheel on the sound board chair.  So, that chair was off limits this morning. The cable was already frayed, and we could not get it out of the wheel!


So, we have some major technical issues to work on this week.  But, God is good, and people knew “You Never Let Go” enough so we all could end with a great time of worship.

We had a great morning today at Bethel. It’s always a treat to have our Worship Choir join us (once a month), and this was one of those mornings. Today was the last Sunday in our Salt & Light series, and it has been very good!  So, to conclude our series, the choir added to our mix and we did:

“Say So” (Michael Gungor and Israel Houghton)
“Salvation is Here” (Joel Houston)

Then,
“Blessed Be Your Name” (Matt Redman)
“Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)” (Chris Tomlin)

After the message, we ended by introducing  a new song that really worked great, especially with our choir –

“A New Hallelujah” (Michael W. Smith)

Overall it was a great morning! If you would like to read about today’s setlists from other churches around the country, visit the Sunday Setlist Blog Carnival at http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/11/15/sunday-setlists-69/

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching, and the question always comes up – what songs do we do at Thanksgiving?

One new one this year that I’m really excited about is from Paul Baloche’s new “Glorious” CD.  “How Great Is the Love” works great for Thanksgiving! Check it out!

Other songs we do at Thanksgiving are:

“Because of Your Love” (Paul Baloche)
“We Will Remember” (Tommy Walker)
“Once Again” (Matt Redman)

I would love to hear from you – what songs do you guys use for Thanksgiving? Are there other new songs that you are going to use this year?

Let’s get a good discussion going!

What a great morning of worship! We had the wonderful addition of a tenor sax player to our band this morning. He’s recently began attending our church, and he is fantastic!!  I was amazed at how much it added to have him play with the band. He knew just when to play to help fill in the holes, and it added such a rich texture.  He also played a wonderful jazz/gospel version of “Blessed Assurance” for the offertory. So excited to have him be part of our team!!

When I chose the songs this week, I intentionally chose songs with the sax in mind. They were all songs we normally do, but just ones that I thought would work well with that additional instrument.

So, we did:

“You Are Good”  (Israel Houghton)

“Better Than Life” (Israel Houghton)
“Jesus Messiah” (Chris Tomlin)
“We Fall Down” (Chris Tomlin) – (with that amazing sax solo in the middle, which he did a great job on!)

Sax solo during offering

“Shine” (Matt Redman)

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to reading through all of your setlists at:the “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival at FredMcKinnon.Com at http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/11/08/sunday-setlists-68/