Last week I wrote about how rough it was to get going, this week was much better! We were all there on time and ready to get to work, with no chairs to set up, which was nice! We are still on the hunt though for some extra volunteers, because, as they say “more hands makes less work”. We’ve been asking the congregation for the past few weeks for some volunteers, but no one seems to want to be up that early! Hopefully some will come soon.

Worship went great this week. The team seemed to be spot on! Musically it was great, vocally I was hearing some amazing 4 part harmonies that I haven’t heard at our church before, so it was a joy to be a part of. The only thing missing was the percussion, and we could feel it! Our percussionist was away this week, and boy did we miss him! At this point, percussion is the only thing we don’t have a back up for, though we do have a couple of drummers in our church.
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I’m going to start off with a side note, it involves our congregation, but nothing to do with our music. This past Sunday morning the adults in our congregation had a major breakthru during Sunday School. Our pastor started off his lesson talking about some of the silly things he had done in his past, and wrapped it up by apologizing to the congregation for something that happened the week before, where in not so many ways, he spoke badly of another church in our area. The breakthru was that many people in our church speak badly about other churches, because we seem to think we are better than them. Be it because we have an amazing teaching pastor, or awesome worship band, or the fact that every church in our community (about 25 churches) are dying, except for ours, which is growing in leaps in bounds. The congregation realized that we shouldn’t be thinking ill of these churches, but rather we should be praying for them and helping when we can. There were a lot of tears, and some very encouraging words spoken around the idea of repentance, and it not being to late. It was something I’ve NEVER seen happen in our church in the past 5 years that I’ve been attending.
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Today marked the beginning of something new for our church when it comes to worship music. Today was the first day of our “one BIG worship team”.. for the past 2 years, we’ve been working with 4 smaller worship teams, and to be honest, it just didn’t work well for us, because if I (as the more contemporary guy) introduced a new song the beginning of the month, the congregation wasn’t going to hear that song again for another month, because the other teams never took the new songs, they would just do older stuff. So after a chat with our pastor about where the church is going, and a long chat with all the worship leaders, we decided to merge and make 1 versatile team.
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