sooo, this is another post submitted as a part of the craziness over on fred’s blog…it’s a weekly hot spot for worship leaders to blog about what all happened in their weekend services…GO CHECK IT OUT!!!
as usual i was in the LIVE services at lima community church…here we go…
our services this weekend started off with our video anouncements…i then welcomed everyone and we dove right in…
1. everyone(praises)…by ross parsley
2. all because of Jesus…as performed by fee
then our head pastor, dan huckins, addressed the congregation…this was his first service back in over three months…he’s been on a sabbatical…he gave an update on health problems that he has been dealing with…he shared what God had laid on his heart for limacc to be doing more of…he also set up our offering time…
3. reign in us…by starfield
4. arms open wide…by hillsong united
5. how He loves us…as performed by kim walker
then we had our message given by the executive pastor, vince nelson…he really challenged men to step up and be the Godly leaders we should be…to rely on God’s grace to hold us together and do what He calls us to do…
6. arms open wide…by hillsong united (short reprise)
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this weekend was just a little ODD for some reason…our rehearsal time went ok saturday night…nothing seemed too far out of the ordinary…there were a few things to work out, but nothing major…we had a good run through…but the service was DEAD…
we had a few errors musically that we didn’t have during rehearsal…but that wasn’t it…the service had ZIP for energy and no one was responding to anything…even when our head pastor got up to speak, no one even clapped…it was just ODD…and i really have no idea why…
sunday morning we all showed up and were still scratching our heads…we ran through the problem spots for music and got things ironed out…we pulled one song for the first service, just for the sake of time…and off we went…
right off the bat there was a buzz among the people and things were sooo much better than saturday night…the energy level was there and even more than normal for the 9am crowd…and there was a good response, both during our time of music but also to our head pastor’s return and to the challenge given during the message…
of course we get out there for 10:45am and it’s off the charts…there are people everywhere…the energy is HIGH…and the response was amazing…pastor dan got a standing ovation that lasted quite some time…people were singing and worshipping with everything they had…and i would say musically we didn’t do any better in that service than the others…there were still some mistakes that seemed random to me…but the people were there to worship and did so…their response to the message was awesome as well…
again, this weekend was just ODD…i’ve never seen this big of a difference in the three services…and it leaves me scratching me head as to why…why are the services sooo different…why can’t all of the services have the energy and response of the 10:45am service…and of course i have no answers…sooo i will have to trust God and seek His wisdom and understanding…i will seek Him for answers that i don’t have and for guidance in any changes that i need to make…
sooo there you have it…
sunday setlists…LIVE…11/29/09…
As I said earlier, I am back, and I must tell you, to stop wonderin, you do a whale of a job each and every service, the people on Sat night I can’t speak for because we seldom go to that service, the nine o clock service is mostly silver topped people. people that don’t bounce around and get all thrilled and tingly to worship God, they have there own ways of doing so, You are such a blessing with your talent, you have made our praises louder and more intense than they have been in years. God is using you, He is using you for us, continue on this voyage young man, you have so much to give to Lima CC and there are a whole lot of people that will agree to that,,,,
When we killed Everyone for 9am…LOL…I didn’t get that joke til the service actually started. You guys did a really great job on How He Loves! One of my favorite songs…although I don’t remember it being covered by Kari Jobe.
@jordan – just edited that one…thanks for the heads up on “kari jobe”, aka kim walker!