Barry Westman

GROW! That was the word for today.  We’re going through a sermon series on our new Discipleship Process: Connect – Grow – Serve – Go.  As part of the focus on Grow today, we had a Growth Group Fair this morning at the end of each service to launch our new Growth Groups.  We cut our typical 60 minute service 15 minutes short today, and used that time plus the time in-between each service to have our Growth Group Fair. Each of our Growth Groups had a booth, and the leaders of each group were there to help people sign-up for our fall groups.

So, because of the shorter service, we only had 3 songs in each service, which seemed very strange! But, it was a great morning, and we had many people sign-up to be in one of our Growth Groups, many for the first time.  I focused in worship this morning on how God changes us as we become more like Him.

Here’s a video we showed just before the Fair from one of our members, and her experience with Growth Groups.

Contemporary Service

“Now That You’re Near” (Marty Sampson)
– This one’s a few years old, but I loved the energetic opening for our service!

“My Savior, My God” (Aaron Shust)
– One of my favorites! Great lyrical depth on the verses, then a response from the heart on the chorus!

“I Will Never Be (the Same Again) – (Geoff Bullock)
– Another older song, but I just love the lyrics; what a great challenge to press on toward becoming like Him, and not turn back.

Cafe Service

“Today Is the Day” (Lincoln Brewster)

“Jesus Messiah” (Chris Tomlin)

“Your Name” (Paul Baloche)

Traditional Service

“For the Beauty of the Earth”
“I Would Be Like Jesus”
“I Am Thine, O Lord”

To read what other worship leaders did this morning, check out The Worship Community for today’s post.

We had a wonderful morning of worship here at Bethel today! I led worship in the Cafe Service, which is always a nice treat! Another highlight was when Zack, one of our younger worship leaders, led a couple of songs on his own, which was the first time for him. He did a great job! We also had the worship choir join us today! We are just starting to go through a series on our new Discipleship Process that we’ve been working on for a few years! It feels very good to actually put this into motion. Today we focused on how we can “Connect” with God through worship and connect with others.

Part of the message included a video testimony from Brenda, one of the singers on our worship team, about how she can connect with God through worship. Watch her video below – she did a great job!

Here’s the setlists for our four services. We have a Cafe Connection service, which is a casual contemporary service with a live worship team, and the message live via video; a Traditional service; and then two Contemporary Services.

Cafe Connection

“For All You’ve Done” (Reuben Morgan)

“Enough” (Chris Tomlin and Louie Giglio)
“Sweetly Broken” (Jeremy Riddle)
– Zack Burtness, one of our newest worship leaders, chose and led these songs this morning. It was his first time choosing, arranging, planning transitions and leading the songs in our service. He did a great job! Way to go, Zack!

“Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing)” (Brenton Brown)

Here’s the Planning Center details for this service.

Contemporary Services

“Say So” (Israel Houghton and Michael Gungor)
– We followed Michael Gungor’s version of this song this morning off the “For You I Live” album by Resurrection Life Church.  Great CD!!

“You, You Are God” (Walker Beach)
– This is  one of our congregation’s favorite songs! They sing out on this one each time we do it. It’s a great song to open a service, and just a great song!

“God You Reign” (Lincoln Brewster and Mia Fieldes)

“Jesus Messiah” (Chris Tomlin, Ed Cash, Jesse Reeves, Daniel Carson)

“You Never Let Go” (Matt Redman and Beth Redman)
– Always a great way to end our service! “Oh no, You never let go!”

Here’s the Planning Center details for this service.  You can also watch this service.

Traditional Service

“Immortal, Invisible”
“O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing”
“O To Be Like Thee”
“I Want To Be Like Jesus”
“O How I Love Jesus”
“Glory To His Name”

Since I was leading in the Cafe this morning, Randy led in the Traditional Service this morning. He did a great job leading the team. Thanks, Randy!

Here’s the Planning Center details for this service. You can also watch this service.

This recap has been part of the Sunday Setlists blog carnival at The Worship Community. Thanks for reading. I’d love to hear your comments.

What a week! We were at the National Worship Leader Conference all this past week in Kansas City, and what a great week it was! You can read my recap and some thoughts from my experience here.  But, we got back Saturday night, so I was able to be at church this past Sunday, even though I didn’t have any official duties.

Once again, thanks to Adam for leading the team in the Cafe, and Rob in the Traditional.  This week we had our interim Youth Pastor, Nathan Nymeyer, lead the team in the Contemporary services. It was his first time leading that service here, and he did a great job!!

Contemporary Services
Let the Praises Ring (Lincoln Brewster)

Sing to the King (Billy Foote) – We met Billy and his wife Cindy this week at the NWLC. They actually stayed in the same hotel as us, so we met them over breakfast.

From the Inside Out (Joel Houston)

You Alone Can Rescue (Matt Redman) – It was neat to hear Matt’s story for this song at the conference!

Cafe Connection
Everyday (Joel  Houston)
Holy Is the Lord (Chris Tomlin)
I Give You My Heart (Reuben Morgan)
You Alone (David Crowder Band)

Traditional Service
Come, Christians Join to Sing
Love, Divine, All Loves Excelling
My Savior’s  Love
The Love of God
All That Thrills My Soul

This post is part of the Sunday Setlist page on The Worship Community.

I wasn’t at church on July 18, because I was leading a team of 10 others from our church down to the National Worship Leader Conference in Kansas City that morning. I know I’m very late in the game for getting our setlist in for this week, but better late than never, I guess!

Contemporary Service
Beautiful One (Tim Hughes) – A classic! Great song!

All the Earth Will Sing Your Praises (Paul Baloche) –

Glory To God Forever (Vicky Beeching and Steve Fee) – We did the Steve Fee version, just more of an acoustic feel without the electric guitar.

Mighty To Save (Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan)

Cafe Connection
Awesome Is the Lord Most High (Chris Tomlin)

Shine (Matt Redman)

Consuming Fire (Tim Hughes)

God of This City (Bluetree)

Traditional Service
We Are Called To Be God’s People
How Firm A Foundation
Trust and Obey
The Longer I Serve Him
Leaning On the Everlasting Arms

It’s great to be able to leave, and know that everything is in good hands. Thanks, Rick, for stepping in to lead all three services this morning! And thanks Adam for your leadership in the Cafe!!

This post is part of the Sunday Setlist website on The Worship Community.

Phillip Edwards, Interactive Worship Live

–          Always uses click track and loop track

–          Loop track – percussion, ongoing – no set song structure

–          Why run MultiTracks?

• Some have tough time with the idea of using something that’s not live onstage
  • But, many do it – MWS, Coldplay
• You can fill in missing players – drums, bass, etc… if you’re missing it
• MultiTrack Masters can be your whole band.
  • You can adopt technology to your band to sound more current
• Or just part of your band…
  • Loops for percussion
    • Gives you a sonic sound that’s in the house
    • Doesn’t lock you in to a specific part of the song
  • Leave in the live strings, real horns, synth noises, key melodic hooks
  • Replace a missing musician
  • Video Capability
  • MultiTracks can become another musician on the stage
• Incredible Teaching Tool!
  • Solo parts in rehearsal so musicians can learn their parts
  • Export mixes so musicians and singers can learn parts for rehearsal purposes
    • They can rehearse with it during the week
  • Mute what you have live on stage and you sound like the original with the right mix

–          Ableton Live – Berlin, Germany

• Created for DJ Market
• How does it work?
• Video track, too – pre-produced, so it follows the song in time
• You can assign a few measures to loop, so if you want to repeat the chorus, you can just push a key on computer and repeat the intro as many times as you like.
• Or, you can push a button and it can go to the Bridge, or go the Chorus, so at the end of the current section, it will jump to a new section.
• You can play it like you’re playing an instrument
• PC or MAC
• Can have a Guide track – tells people in ears, “Intro – 1,2,3,4”;
• The click track just disappears – to them….
• With only one electric guitar player, we could add in all those other sounds.
• Audio interface, you can split the sound into more than two.
• Long-term – use audio interface, not 1/8 inch cable with L-R split
• Training videos available
• Live Intro – $99 – does everything except the video track

–          How do we do this at my church?

• 1. Foundation = Click Track
  • Main hurdle – getting drummer to play with click track
  • Lovingly encourage them to stick with it
  • It may seem strange to hear the click track, but our goal is to play in time.
  • If they get off, just stop the click, and restart
  • It helps keep the tempo without always having to have either the drummer or piano always pounding the beat. They can hear it, and know when to come in
  • Band has to have click tracks, they let the singers decide whether or not they want it.
  • TAMA Rhythm Watch – Click track
  • Westone UM2’s Dual Driver In-Ear Monitors ($279)
  • Call and talk to Dale, tell him you took this class, and get 10% off
• 2. Choose a Music Director
  • Goal of a MD is to bridge communication between band and worship leaders
  • Pro Co Panic Button ($175)
    • A/B button – A singing voice; B, talk to Band
      • Mic into it, one goes to house, one to band.
  • WL communicates to
  • This would allow me to talk to people who I want to (band, tech) and not to the whole house, using the same mic.
• FC200 Roland
  • Foot pedal for guitar players where you can control from pedal
• Open Labs Keyboards
  • Open Labs Neko keyboard
  • Built in computer to the keyboard – with Ableton Live on the keyboard
• ProSonus Firebox – audio interface
• When you sign up through Interactive Worship Live – , you get some free tracks
• Need:
  • Laptop connected to audio interface via firewire
  • M-Audio Firewire 410
  • Recommend FW 400 6 pin connection to laptop and connect hard drive thru audio device
  • Get the Firewire 400 to connect to audio interface!!
  • Buy computer – 7200 RPM drive; that would fix the lag
  • On the Go 100 GB drive

–          IWL Lite

• Play from iPhone or iPod touch, iPod
• Very lite program