sooo, this is another post submitted as a part of the craziness which is now being hosted over at the worship community…it’s a weekly hot spot for worship leaders to blog about what all happened in their weekend services…GO CHECK IT OUT!!!
i was in the LIVE services at lima community church…and it was an AMAZING weekend!!!
we jumped right in this weekend…in more ways than one!
1. tell the world…by hillsong united
then we had our video announcements and we celebrated baptisms each each of the three services…this was followed up by a short meet and greet time…
2. Your grace is enough…by matt maher
3. mighty to save…by hillsong united
then the service host came up in each service to do a few verbal announcements and set up our offering…
4. reign in us…by starfield
then we had our message that was given by cindy porter, our connections pastor…we continued our series on healing…cindy did an amazing job this weekend on the topic of finding healing in forgiving others…the message time included a video testimony from a woman in the church who had experienced emotional healing, through forgiving another who had sexually abused her when she was 4 years old…WOW!!!
5. amazing grace (my chains are gone)…by chris tomlin
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sooo this past weekend was a BIG challenge for me…i had been sick with a cold for about a week and a half…all of the coughing and drainage had gotten to my voice early in the week and i was just starting to get it back by the end of the week…but i really didn’t know what i was or wasn’t going to be able to do…on top of that our bass player got the flu and shot me a quick text on friday…
sooo on friday i was texting the rhythm electric for the weekend for the weekend and asking him to cover bass instead…and then i just gave everyone who was on stage (and could sing) a mic…i told them to just sing along to fill in what was going to be missing…everyone did a great job!!!
God got us through our rehearsal with lightening speed…which was good for those that needed to get rest!!!
saturday night was very uncharacteristic…there were a lot more people than normal and they were very interactive…it kind of took me off guard…but it gave me that extra energy and strength to get through everything…i really think the baptisms helped with this!!!
sunday morning came…we ran through all of the music and discussed a couple trouble spots from saturday night…mainly a couple intros that we were a little weak on…the 9:00am service was pretty typical…the people were there and soaked everything in…the baptism testimony was from one of our parking lot volunteers…it was awesome to hear him share about his life and a lot that he has been through…he absolutely loves seeing the children and giving them “five” on their way in to church each week…i know molly loves seeing him too…especially when he has candy!!!
but then there was 10:45am…WOW…we had NO CLUE what we were in for…things started and everyone was ready to go…that’s the norm for 10:45am…but when we got to the baptisms, it was time to HOLD ON…two men and one young girl shared about all that God has done in their lives…it was just amazing to hear each of their stories!!!
but the last one was from a man named tom…tom is a BIG man…mainly in speaking of the muscles that he has been blessed with…he shared about the sin that he dealt with, of anger…how his son had been the target, but also his forgiver…how his daughter had always been his defender, even hearing her ask God to forgive him…how his wife had played a major role in many areas…and then how GOD is capable bringing about change in us, no matter where we are in life…there were a few LOT of cheers and clapping going on at lima community church…(side note : water was leaving the baptismal when tom went under!!!)
i stepped up and told everyone that they were dismissed because we already had church…but we obviously continued on…just with a different schedule…tom had actually used some of the lyrics from “mighty to save” in his testimony…sooo, we just went with what God was doing and did that song…i don’t think i’ve ever heard that song sung with such power and passion!!!
for the offering time we started into “reign in us”…before i knew it everyone was standing and worshiping, while the offering was being taken…that’s usually a problem for some of the ushers and it’s not well liked…but they will have to take that up with God…this spirit just carried on through the message and ministry time as well…everything was just UNREAL in that service!!!
we did an audition with a vocalist after the service…i was there about 45 minutes later than normal and there were still NUMEROUS people just lingering around the church…i think everyone was just processing what we had been a part of…and i must say that i was WIRED for the rest of the day!!!
if you want to view the weekend services of limacc, go check out our livestream page…
well, there you have it…
sunday setlists…2010…take TWO…
