Worship Confessional, 7-27-2008
I’ve missed a few of these lately, so I was determined to spend a few minutes ruminating on my role in worship team this morning at church. We actually missed an entire rehearsal this week, but we started all the earlier this morning and was able to give a good performance during the service. We were down a guitar again, but I actually like the scaled-back sound that that situation provides. My role as a pianist/keyboardist definitely changes when we only have one guitar. Here’s the set:
- Change Me On the Inside (Brian Doerksen)
- Holy (Robin Surber)
- Fall On Us Now (Dave Chumchal)
- Desire (Jessica Ketola)
- How Great Is Our God (Chris Tomlin)
- Let My Words Be Few (Matt Redman)
We didn’t do any songs that were unfamiliar to us because of our shortened rehearsal time this week. But, this was an effective set nonetheless. “Holy” is one of my favorite songs that we do, and it was written by a member of our own team. I continue to be impressed with the breadth of talent that exists in our relatively small church. I love working with these people! Our musicians today:
- Leader & acoustic guitar: Dave Florea
- Bass guitar: Andrew Douglass, a lad of 15 whose bass chops are growing by leaps and bounds this year. He’s doing quite well, and it’s fun to watch him develop as a musician and young man.
- Vocals: Robin Surber
- Drums: Brad Reynolds, dude lives to play
- Keys: Your mom
Elizabeth Ashbeck gave the message as our regular pastor was out of town, and she spoke on being still and waiting for God. These songs lent themselves to that theme. All in all, a great worship experience this morning. Now, I’m going to spend a quiet Sunday afternoon organizing my worship folder, something that I’ve put off for far too long now. Amazing the things I think of to do when we only have one kid in the house instead of four!
How was your worship experience this weekend?
Update: I’m including this post in Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlists series.
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Hey,
Thanks so much for participating in Sunday Setlists … this will be fun each Sunday. Great set, I love the background info you give about the rehearsal time, etc. Looks like a powerful service! Glad to have you.
By the way - I’m really glad you commented because I’d not seen your blog. I’ve added your blog to my GoogleReader, linked to you on FredMcKinnon.Com, and followed your twitter. If you can, I’d love a link back to fredmckinnon.com and theworshipcommunity.com.
For the Kingdom,
Fred
Will do, Fred, you’ve got some good stuff going on. I’ll get you linked right now.
Hi Rick, I really like Dave Chumchal’s worship. Refreshing to see his name in your setlist. Thanks for commenting on my blog! It got me over here, and I’m thinking of making my blog more of a permanent thing after seeing a couple features on yours. Right now I have it up primarily to respond to a course Im taking at St.Stephen’s University in NB Canada. http://www.ssu.ca/
What really caught my eye on your blog is the kindness you show to your team by giving thanks for how they serve. That’s really nice. Good mention, and very supportive.
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Let My Words Be Few….love that song. One of the first songs that challenged me to some weird chords on guitar.
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I love that you are using songs being born out of your church. There’s just something really special and powerful that those songs bring to the worship service. We also did “How Great is our God” this week.
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I love involving youth on the “adult” team. I’ve been in large churches where it makes sense to have a separate youth band, but this is one of the advantages I see in being in a small church.
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Hey… thanks for posting. So, how was my worship experience this week… it was in my sister-in-laws back yard taking family photos… that will cause one to seek Jesus.
j/k Seriously, so sad that we missed Sunday. I really really wanted to hear Elizabeth speak.
Happy Blogging!
You know what song I absolutely love right now? Indescribable by Chris Tomlin. I discovered it on my Rebecca St. James station on Pandora and I think it’s such a beautiful song. I don’t know if you know of it…
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