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Sunday Recap – November 6, 2011

Contemporary Services

What a powerful morning of worship we had today! God is so good! That’s really all there is to say! I would feel strange talking about how good our team was, or how well things flowed, because that would seem to take away from what God did at our services.  But, I just have to say thank you for a job so well done to our team! It’s been a while since we’ve used “O, The Blood”, but wow, what an amazing song of worship! It led our congregation into a time of taking communion together, as we focused on the cross with “How Deep….” and “You Gave Your Life Away”.  If you haven’t heard “Bless The Lord” yet, by Jared Anderson, check it out! It’s a great service opener, and a fun song of praise to sing/play!  You can watch the video of this service and also see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

Zack led the team in the Cafe, and they sounded great!  I loved the songs that Zack chose this week, and he even found an additional second verse to “All The Earth”  that I had never heard before. I guess Paul added another verse when he released it on The Writers Collection CD.  Very cool!  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

  • “Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens Adore Him”
  • “One Day”
  • “Bless His Holy Name”
  • “O Sacred Head Now Wounded”
  • “Worthy Is The Lamb”
We had a great service in the Traditional this morning as well.  Familiar hymns with one of the very old praise choruses thrown in. “O Sacred Head” was challenging to sing, but we did the third verse a capella, and the team did a great job on the tricky harmonies!  Pastor Tim began a series on generosity this morning as well.  You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share recaps and setlists from this week’s services.

Sunday Recap – October 30, 2011

Contemporary Services

I’ve been on vacation all this week, so Marv led the team this morning in this service.  I watched a little bit of the livestream this morning, and from what I saw, the team did great. It’s so nice to know that I can leave for a week, and everything is in great hands, not just in this service, but in the other two venues as well.  You can watch the video of this service as well as the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

Zack led the team this morning in the Cafe, so thanks to him and all the others who were involved in leading this service.  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

  • “I Will Sing of My Redeemer”
  • “Glory To Your Name”
  • “He Keeps Me Singing”
  • “In My Heart There Rings A Melody”
  • “Open My Eyes That I May See”
  • “Higher Ground”
Thanks to Rick for leading this service along with the rest of the male trio – Randy and Howard!  Jan and Jen were supporting on the piano/keyboard.  Pastor Tim gave a challenging message from Romans 14 called “When Christians Disagree”.  You can watch the video of the service and also see the Planning Center details.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share recaps and setlists from this week’s services. Thanks for reading! How was your service??

Sunday Recap – October 23, 2011

Contemporary Services

Still inspired by our night of worship with Jared Anderson last week at our church, we introduced “Bless the Lord”, a new song that Jared introduced.  It has a great piano part, and as a keyboardist, it was a lot of fun to play!  It’s a great song – right from Psalm 103, very accessible, perfect for the opening of a worship service.  It had been a while since we did “A Mighty Fortress”, so it was nice to renew that one. Sheri did a great job on the solo, and the loop from Praise Charts really added some unique sounds.  Another highlight today was a song during the offering by a group called 4:00 Edison.  This is a group made up mostly of people from our worship team, and they performed “Summer Rain”, a song written by the group.  You can watch the video of “Summer Rain” and the message from today by Pastor Jamie Lane from the book of Haggai. The livestream sound mix was way off today, so I”m not able to post the video from that, but you can see the video from the special music and message. You see the Planning Center details for this service.

Cafe Connection Service

Marv led the team in the Cafe today and picked out some great songs!  Pastor Tim actually led the service for the first time, switching places with Pastor Jamie today.  All the teams worked hard to make this service come together today! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

  • “All Hail King Jesus”
  • “Crown Him With Many Crowns”
  • “And Can It Be”
  • “Jesus Loves Even Me”
  • “O Master Let Me Walk With Thee”
  • “I’ll Go Where You Want Me To Go”
The team did a great job on the hymns today, and Pastor Jamie’s message on Haggai was excellent.  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog carnival at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share recaps from today’s worship services.

Sunday Recap – October 16, 2011

Contemporary Services/Cafe Connection Services

We not only had a great morning of worship at Bethel, we had a wonderful weekend of worship!!  The team did a super job on these songs this morning, but we were all a bit tired.  Saturday night we had worship leader/songwriter Jared Anderson  and his band here at Bethel to lead us in a night of worship and prayer. It was amazing! We were one of the stops on his “Hear Us From Heaven” tour. You probably know who Jared Anderson is, but if not, he wrote songs like “Rescue”, “Amazed” and a powerful new worship song called “Great I Am”!  It was a wonderful experience, and I’ll probably end up writing a whole separate post all about it.  But, we didn’t get home from church until around 11:45 pm Saturday night, after resetting the stage for our team.  You can watch the video of this service and see the  Planning Center details.

Traditional Service

  • I Will Sing the Wondrous Story
  • Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
  • Glorious Is Thy Name
  • Jesus Is Lord of All
  • Wherever He Leads, I’ll Go
Randy led the team in here, since I led in the Cafe this morning.  Pastor Tim’s message was on the topic of submission from Romans 13.  Tough subject, but great message!  You can watch the video of this service and also see the Planning Center details.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog carnival over at The Worship Community, where you can read recaps and setlists from other worship leaders.

Sunday Recap – October 9, 2011

Contemporary Services

Well, you may notice something about our songs for today – only two songwriters represented, both start with J – yes, I guess that’s true.  But, what I was pointing to was that three were written by Jared Anderson.  Why, you say?  Well, this Saturday, Jared Anderson and his team will be at Bethel for the “Hear Us From Heaven” tour. I’m very excited to have him here for this night of worship and prayer! So, our prelude CD has been music by Jared, and today I included a few songs of his, just so people are familiar a bit with his music. Of course, some of his songs need no introduction, like “Rescue” or “Amazed”, but others aren’t as familiar.
“Glorified” is a terrific call to worship that sets the tone perfectly for worship, and “Promises” is one of our favorites! We had a bit of trouble staying with the click track today on these first two songs, so I ended up killing it part way through the song.  There was no loop with it, so it was easy to stop. I think the issue was not locking in on the right tempo for the click during our rehearsal Thursday. This is the first time in quite a while we’ve had to kill the click. It’s actually been going very well recently in that area!  “Great I Am” is a powerful new song by Jared Anderson from the new New Life Worship CD “You Hold I It All”.  If you haven’t heard it yet, you need to listen to it. I included the video of our team singing this song below.  After we finished it, it was just one of those moments where we didn’t want to stop! The team was talking about it the whole morning! We ended with “Everyday”, which is always a fun, but challenging song to sing, especially after Pastor Tim’s excellent message today which challenged us to live for Him as a living sacrifice from Romans 12.
Today was also a worship choir day, so we had a full stage this morning! Love these weeks!  God is so good. I wasn’t sure if I’d even be able to sing today! My voice basically went out after rehearsal Thursday, and it was barely back early this morning.  But, lots of people were praying, and my voice held out, and even got stronger as the morning went on. Thank you, Lord! You can watch the video of this service, and also see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection

  • “Your Great Name” (Michael Neale and Krissy Nordhoff)
  • “How Great Is Our God” (Chris Tomlin)
  • “How Great Is The Love” (Paul Baloche, Meredith Andrews)
  • “I Give You My Heart” (Reuben Morgan)
Marv led the team in this service today.  He picked out great songs, and the team did a great job! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

  • Rejoice, the Lord Is King
  • I Will Praise Him
  • Take My Life and Let It Be
  • I Surrender All
  • Have Thine Own Way
  • Living For Jesus
Pastor Tim gave a great message from Romans 12 today about being a living sacrifice.  It was a good thing I was singing bass this morning, because my voice could not have handled any other part! You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlists area of The Worship Community, where worship leaders share setlists and recaps of worship services from today.

Sunday Recap – October 2, 2011

Contemporary Service

Well, I wasn’t at church today, but from the little I saw on the livestream from home, and from all the comments I’ve seen on Facebook, things went great today! Recent high school grad Zack Burtness led the team today, and did a super job! Zack plays electric guitar regularly on our team, and leads regularly in our Cafe service, but this was only the second or third time he’s led in this service when I’m gone. The whole team did a fantastic job! I didn’t get any calls this morning, so I’m assuming everything went smoothly on the technical side – what a relief! I took some days off this week to do a garage sale (I know, not much of a vacation…), so we went to Blackhawk Church in Madison this morning as a family.  They do a great job there, in all three of their venues.  Of we had to have a little fun with the family, too, so we played Laser Tag this afternoon – what a fun thing to do as a family!  You can watch the video of this service and also see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

Zack led the team in this service as well, with the same songs as the Contemporary. You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

  • For the Beauty of the Earth
  • Immortal, Invisible
  • Redeemed
  • Jesus Paid It All
  • Calvary Covers It All
Thanks to Rob, who led the team this morning in the Traditional service.  The message today was “God’s Special Heart for Israel” from Romans 11.  You can watch the video  from this service and also see the Planning Center details.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share setlists and recaps of their worship services from today.

Sunday Recap – September 25, 2011

Contemporary Services

This morning we were in Romans 10 with a message called “When It’s Good To Be Wrong”, focusing our salvation in grace alone.  “This Is How We Know” was a nice opener to set the focus on the cross, and God’s grace.  “At Your Name” is a new song by Phil Wickham that I think will quickly become a favorite with its very singable chorus, bridge and verses.  It’s been a while, but we pulled out “Victory” again this morning from the last Gateway Worship album.  I love that song, and it led perfectly into Pastor Tim’s message about God’s grace.  We closed with “Your Grace Is Enough”, and after a tempo adjustment to the click between services, the second time through went much better!  Our 9:30 service was full of little glitches, with the sound, instruments, you name it. My pedal on my keyboard didn’t work, and man is that distracting! It really threw me off today! It worked about half the time. My mind really was focused on that.  The 11:00 service went much better, and the pedal actually worked. Time for a new one! You can watch the video of this service and also see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

I led in the Cafe this week from the keyboard, along with Denise on vocals (1st time – she did great!), Jake on bass and tambourine, and Zack on percussion.  We had nearly a full house today – love that this service is growing!  We also highlighted the new “Courageous” movie coming out this Friday. We’re taking a group to the movie, and providing childcare at the church. Looks like a great movie! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

  • Praise To The Lord, the Almighty
  • O Worship The King
  • At The Name Of Jesus
  • Blessed Be The Name
  • Grace Greater Than Our Sing
  • Wonderful Grace Of Jesus
Rick led the team in this service today, since I was in the Cafe.  Dee played a beautiful piano solo for the offertory, and the team did super on the hymns today.  You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share service recaps from this week.

Sunday Recap – September 18, 2011

Contemporary Services

God is faithful! That was our theme today, as we continued our walk through Romans.  It was also a worship choir day, and the kickoff of our new “KICKS” program for kids. It was quite a day!  “Better Than Life” is one of our team’s favorites, with the funky beat, tight harmonies, swaying choir and powerful lyrics that remind us He is better than anything!  “The Lord Reigns” went well, and the click track from Praise Charts added some cool new sounds.  We introduced “Never Once” today from Matt Redman’s new album. Such powerful lyrics – “never once, did we ever walk alone… God is faithful!” You can watch the video of this service and see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

Marv led the team in the Cafe today, along with Brenda and Mari singing, and Chris on percussion.  Marv picked some great songs today! You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

  • “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”
  • “‘Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus”
  • “God Leads Us Along”
  • “Day By Day”
  • “Leaning On The Everlasting Arms”
I’m always amazed at the timelessness of some of the lyrics of these hymns.  “A Mighty Fortress” has such a powerful message if you really read the words.  It was great to have Paul back today, too!  You can see the Planning Center details.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog at The Worship Community, where you can read other recaps from today.

Sunday Recap – Bethel At The Rock

Bethel At The Rock

Today was an amazing day for so many reasons!! We had our annual Bethel At The Rock service where instead of having our regular 4 services at our church, we move it downtown to the river and have one huge service. It’s a lot of extra work, hauling all of our sound equipment down, setting up, tearing down, hauling back, etc… but it’s so worth it!  As people were coming in with their lawn chairs getting set up, we did “God Is With Us Now” and “At Your Name”. Today was our first time using “At Your Name” a new song by Phil Wickham and Tim Hughes. I can already tell it’s going to be a favorite. Great song!
During the service, we also took time to remember the 10 year anniversary of 9-11.  We honored those in the armed services and first responders in attendance (we invited police/fire crews from the city). We started with “We Will Remember” by Tommy Walker going right into the chorus of “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”.  We also used a powerful dramatic reading by Randy Vader about 9-11, and closed that section out with “Blessed Be Your Name”.  I’m sure that song was used a lot today at churches around the country, as it was written 10 years ago, just a few weeks after 9-11, in response to 9-11.
We ended our service with “Happy Day” as we led into our baptism service.  There were 14 people were baptized, including my 13 year old son, Chad!  What a proud moment as a Dad, seeing your son take that huge step of faith!
The weather was beautiful, had great food afterwards with a hog roast right there at the park, car racing simulator for the “kids”, couldn’t have asked for a better day!!
You can see the Planning Center details for this service.  This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog at The Worship Community.

Sunday Recap – September 4, 2011

Contemporary Services

Our services went great here this morning at Bethel. We did the Paul Baloche version of “Today Is The Day” with the click/loop from Praise Charts.  One little change between services made a huge difference – it felt a bit slow in the first service so we bumped it up from 119 to 120, and everything seemed to “click”.  Today was the first day we used “10,000 Reasons” in this service, a terrific new song from Matt Redman’s latest project.  Again we used the click/loop from Praise Charts, which helped fill out the sound a lot.  Jake was featured on the mandolin today, which was the first time he’s played that in the Contemporary services. He did a great job, as did the rest of the team!  Georgine did great on the “In Christ Alone” solo, but again we had to alter the tempo a bit on that one between services. We slowed it down a bit from 72 to 70, and it flowed much better the second time. “How Great Is The Love” is a great song by Meredith Andrews and Paul Baloche, although this is the first time we’ve used it for communion. It was also the first time we’ve used a click on this one, and it really seemed to help this song out, in particular.  No video streaming again this week, but you can see the Planning Center details.

Cafe Connection Service

Zack led the team today in the Cafe today, along with Georgine on vocals and Jake on bass.  The Cafe service has really picked up this summer – almost full today!  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.

Traditional Service

  • “I Will Sing of My Redeemer”
  • “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
  • “Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us”
  • “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”
  • “Lamb of God”  (Phil McHugh and Greg Nelson)
I led this service today from the piano, along with Dee on the keys and the vocalists.  Dee and I also played “Wonderful Peace” as a piano/keyboard duet. Very fun to play!  You can see the Planning Center details for this service.
This post is part of the Sunday Setlist blog at The Worship Community, where worship leaders share setlists and recaps from this week.  Hope you all had a great week, too!