I was excited to hear about the giveaway contest for Paul Baloche’s new CD “Glorious”. I’ve been looking forward to this release for a long time, and can’t wait to listen to it!
Here’s a link to a website where you can enter a contest to get it free!
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I’m going to have to give a second-hand account of how things went this morning at church, because I was on vacation and actually visited a different church today. I love getting the chance to visit other churches and just spend time worshiping without having to prepare and be concerned with anything other than worshiping Him! So, that was a nice break this morning.
But, I also heard many wonderful reports about how the team did this morning in my absence. I had someone else lead the team this morning. He’s had many years of experience leading in his former church, but this was his first time here. Jeff did a great job, from what I’ve heard! Thanks, Jeff!
I just finished listening to the CD from this morning and all the band/singers did a wonderful job!
They opened the service with:
“Awesome Is the Lord Most High” – (Chris Tomlin and others…)
The next set was:
“Beautiful One” (Tim Hughes)
“Glory to God Forever” (Vicky Beeching and Steve Fee)
During the offering, they did:
“God of This City”
Then during Communion, they did:
“Once Again” – (Matt Redman)
“You Are My King” – (Billy Foote)
I tried to choose songs that were familiar, and ones they could be led easily without me at the keyboard. Since I normally lead from the keyboard when I lead, it was a nice reminder as I listened to the CD, that it also sounds great when the guitars lead. I know that’s nothing new, but I tend to forget that I don’t always have to use the keyboard to lead the song. I don’t feel as comfortable when I’m not behind the keys, but maybe I’m too comfortable. Something for me to chew on. The mix sounded great, and we have some very talented musicians who I know would do a great job!
So, it’s good to change things up once in a while, and I’m so glad Jeff got the opportunity to lead.
God is good!
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What a crazy weekend!! Part of our worship team was involved with leading worship at our conference’s annual meeting in Milwaukee, WI, this past weekend. We led 25 songs over two days. It was intense, but a lot of fun! So, after hauling our equipment there, setting up, leading worship, tearing down, hauling it back, resetting everything up at church for this morning, and leading this morning, I’m a bit tired out. Good thing is that I’m on vacation this next week!
This morning, we started with:
“Open the Eyes of My Heart” (Paul Baloche)
“The Lord Reigns” (Klaus Kuehn)
Then, after the Welcome, we did:
“Sing to the King” (Foote)
“God You Reign” (Lincoln Brewster)
Then, after the message we closed with:
“Happy Day” (Tim Hughes)
Now, time to start vacation!
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This morning was a whirlwind! We had a Missions Conference at our church this week, and we had a guest speaker with us this morning in church. We are also going through the “Salt and Light” material with our GLBC conference, so we had two “15” minute messages this morning. We ended up going over time in all 3 services, so it was a stressful morning.
But, on a good note, Easy Worship 2009 came through for us! This is only our 3rd week using the program, and I since the guest speaker had some videos in different formats, I was forced to figure out how to install the right codecs so we can play them. But, now since that’s done, we’re set for pretty much any type of movie.
So, for our set list this morning:
Before Service – “Say So” (Michael Gungor and Israel Houghton)
Opening Song – “Today Is the Day” (Lincoln Brewster & Paul Baloche)
Then, “Everlasting God” (Brenton Brown) (Lincoln Brewster version)
“Your Name” (Paul Baloche)
After the first message, we did “Follow You” by Leeland during the offering.
We closed with “Hope of the Nations” (Brian Doerksen).
Overall, a busy, stressful but wonderful morning!
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I’m a little late getting my post in this week, but it’s been a busy weekend! I couldn’t post our setlist last night, because we spent the evening at a 4 hour dinner experience at The Melting Pot fondue restaurant. Fun!!
So, yesterday morning we had our Worship Choir sing with our team, as they do one time a month. It always is good to have the choir with us!!
We started off the service yesterday with “Hosanna” (Paul Baloche). Great way to get your thoughts and mind set to worship.
Then, after the welcome, we did:
“God Is Great” (Reuben Morgan)
“Glory to God Forever (Steve Fee and Vicky Beeching)
Before the message, I used a Worship House Media/ Deidox film – “Lindsay”. It was free this week on WHM, and it really fit perfectly into our theme of being Salt & Light in our worlds.
After the message, we did “The Power of Your Name” (Lincoln Brewster) as a special with our worship team and choir. Zack, our guitar player really nailed the opening electric guitar part – wow, did he do a good job! In fact, our sound person said that she had a couple of people ask her after the service how we switched so seamlessly from the CD to live. She told them, no, it was all live! Way to go, Zack! What a powerful song and challenging message for us to be the hands and feet of Christ to our worlds.
We ended the service with “God of This City”.
Hope you all had a great week, as well!
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This morning there were a lot of firsts, and they all went very well!
We started the service with “Our God Saves” (Paul Baloche & Brenton Brown) followed by “My Savior, My God” (Aaron Shust).
Then, we moved from there into Communion. This was the first first today. Usuallly, we have Communion at the end of the service, but we have been trying to just change up the way we do communion recently. So, instead of tacking it on at the end, I thought we would rather incorporate Communion into the service, and make it more of a highlight during the worship through song time before the message. It worked great, except for a few logistical issues which would need to be worked out if we try it that way again.
During Communion we did “The Wonder of the Cross” (Vicky Beeching) and “Lead Me To the Cross” (Brooke Fraser).
Then, just before the message we introduced a new song that really ties in to our “Salt & Light” series. We did “Follow You” (Leeland Mooring, Jack Mooring, and Ed Cash) off of Leeland’s new CD. It’s really a great song, and we had one of our young guitar players sing the lead on it. We did it as a special today during the offering, but I’m planning to bring it back as we go through this series.
We ended the service after the message with “Mighty To Save” (Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan).
We also had a new worship team singers this morning sing with us for the first time. I love involving new people and discovering/using new talents of current members. I was so pleased with how everyone did this morning. Praise be to God!!
Thanks for reading.
Well, today I officially became an EasyWorhsip 2009 registered user. I have been debating for several months which program to use. I have been a loyal Prologue Sunday Plus user for several years, and I really love the program. It’s just that there hasn’t been an update for several years, and I was just ready for a change.
I tested our Media Shout, Easy Worship and Song Show Plus, plus some lesser-known options. I felt it really was a big decision, since whichever program I chose would probably be one that we use for several years. I did have certain features I was looking for, but one of the most important things was ease of use for the operator, since we have several people volunteering from week to week. I was trying to find a program that had some of the features that I liked about Prologue, yet with the new features I was hoping to find. But, as I was going through the trial of each program, I found that there really wasn’t a program out there that exactly fit what I was looking for. ProPresenter was actually the closest, but that only works on Macs, and our church has all PCs.
The more I looked at Easy Worship, the more I realized that this is the program that best fits our needs, and is the easiest for people to use. After the 30 day trial, I was really getting the hang of it, and everyone who tried it really seemed to like it. I did try Media Shout and Song Show Plus, but even though they have more features, I’m not sure how many of the features we would actually use. Easy Worship had all the features I was looking for and was the most practical. From what it sounds like, the EasyWorship 2010 version will add even more features to really make it the best program out there.
To top it all off, they were running a special for people who were switching to EasyWorship from another program. So, instead of $399, I will be getting it for $199. And, they have a conversion tool so I can convert all my songs in Prologue to Easy Worship! (None of the other programs out there offered that.) So, I felt really good about making the switch, and I’m excited to really dig into this program and learn all I can about it.
I found some online tutorials I’m going to post in a separate blog.
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This was the first Sunday in a new series called “Salt & Light”, which is an 8 week emphasis put together by our denomination, the Baptist General Conference. The overall theme is extending our reach as individuals and as a church into our neighborhoods, communities and beyond as the “salt and light” of the world.
We opened with “You, You Are God” (Walker Beach/Gateway).
Then, after the Welcome/Prayer, we did:
“My Savior Lives” (Jon Egan and Glenn Packiam)
“This Is How We Know” (Matt Redman and Beth Redman)
“Hosanna” (Brooke Fraser)
After the message, we did “Carry the Light” (Mark Harris) as a special with the worship team.
We closed with “Shine” (Matt Redman).
Just as a side note, this week I had an interesting experience related to the Sunday Setlists site where I’m posting this. I happened to see on Twitter that Worship Leader Magazine was having a contest where the first 5 people to submit their setlists from last week would win a free capo. Well, I already had my setlist put together here for the Sunday Setlists site, so I just sent a quick link to that, and I ended up winning a capo. What I didn’t know is that they also published the setlist on the Worship Leader website, and possibly in the magazine. Here’s a link to the page: http://www.worshipleader.com/index.cfm?tdc=dsp&page=features_detail&aid=143
Thanks!
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Here’s our Planning Center link to this week’s service – http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/803245
Another great morning spent with our Bethel family worshiping together! This week we had our Worship Choir up there along with the worship team singers and band. It’s always great to have them there! The worship choir sings once a month with our team.
Opened with “Better Than Life” (Israel Houghton, Michael Gungor)
Then, “Only a God Like You” (Tommy Walker) followed by “From the Inside Out” (Joel Houston).
Then, we did something which was a bit out of the norm for us, but our worship choir, keyboard, guitar and soloist sang “I’m Putting on the Love of the Lord” (John Andrew Schreiner) from The Odes Project. We had a group of 12 of us from our church go down to the National Worship Leader’s Conference in Kansas City this past July, and I heard this song for the first time. About 10 of us were in the conference choir while we were there, and we sang this song during the conference. If you’re not familiar with this project, you can check it out here – http://www.theodesproject.com/ Several beautifully written songs based on writing from around 100 AD. You can watch our conference choir sing this song at the NWLC here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ULAWrp7Ns.
We’re just starting an 8 week emphasis called “Salt and Light” put on by the Baptist General Conference, so this song also tied into our theme for the week.
We ended with “This Is How We Know” (Matt and Beth Redman). We just introduced this song last week, and I get struck by the lyrics of the song each time we sing it!
I hope you all had a wonderful week as well! Thanks.
Wow! What a morning! God is good!
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Here is the Planning Center link to our service today: http://www.planningcenteronline.com/plans/803244
Today was a unique day because we had an outdoor service at a park here in Janesville right by the Rock River. It was a lot of extra work for the worship team – hauling everything down, early call time to set up and sound check. But, it was so worth it! It really made me appreciate how much work church plants and other churches have to go through if they set up in a location each and every week. It also reminded our team how much we appreciate using our Aviom system at church. We’ve been so spoiled each having our own monitor mix. We only had two different monitor mixes today for the whole group. So, it wasn’t ideal, but everyone had a great attitude, and none of that took away from what God did today at the river.
We played two songs just before the service as people were coming in and setting up their chairs. This was new for us; usually we have a CD playing during the prelude. They were:
“The Lord Reigns” – Klaus Kuehn (from Gateway Worship “Wake Up the World” CD)
“This is How We Know” – Matt and Beth Redman (from his new “We Shall Not Be Shaken” CD)
We then started the service with:
“Awesome Is the Lord Most High” (Tomlin)
“How Great Thou Art” (Paul Baloche version)
After a Welcome and Meet/Greet time, we did:
“Glory to God Forever” (Vicky Beeching and Steve Fee)
“Fairest” (Glenn Packiam)
After the message, we ended with “God of this City” (Bleakley and others..); a great challenge to reach our city where God has placed us.
After that part of the service, we ended with a Baptismal service. I always love hearing people’s testimonies! We had 6 people baptized in the river today. So cool to hear how God has rescued people – from alcoholism, drug abuse, and other backgrounds.
It was a great morning, with everyone from all 3 services combined for one giant service. Cool!
Thank you Lord!!
Barry Westman 