jon mark

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!!!

this past weekend was our PALM SUNDAY weekend…i was  in the LIVE services at lima community church…and God is continuing to work in the lives of people!!!

i kicked things off by reading psalm 66:1-2…it was a challenge that God had given me to praise Him for WHO He is…not just for all of the things that He does…and i asked the congregation to greet others and share WHO God was to them this week…

1. here is our King…by david crowder band

2. marvelous light…by charlie hall

then our host for the services came up and intro’d the video announcements and set up the offering time…

3. everlasting God…by lincoln brewster

4. sweetly broken…by jeremy riddle

5. arms open wide…by hillsong united

there was a roll-in video to the message given by our discipleship pastor, mike huckins…

6. arms open wide…a shortened reprise

then we had a time of prayer and announcement for our new off-site video venue…the first service for that venue will be on EASTER sunday…

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this past weekend was pretty CRAZY…limacc hosted a community wide palm sunday service, on sunday evening…this meant having a very large set of risers on stage…sound equipment was being used to the max and had to be reconfigured for what we would need during our services…but it was all worth the extra work in the end!!!

the band was prepared and things really seemed to flow well during the services…i have to say that i never cease to be amazed at how God works out the setlists in advance…and then pulls them together with the message, even when i have NO CLUE what it’s going to be like…and this was just one of those weekends!!!

i challenged the musicians on sunday morning with psalm 66:1-2…the challenge was to take 5 minutes and simply right out WHO God is…nothing to do with what He does for us, simply WHO He is…it was awesome to hear the pens writing away and to see how fast the 5 minutes went by…then i tried to incorporate that at the beginning of the services…i just couldn’t really take the time to do it justice in the services…

then as we did the songs…it was great to see all kinds of things pop in my head about WHO God is…sooo many lyrics that just played right into the idea…it was cool to go back and talk about what everyone had written and even to hear how God was revealing more and more things to each of us…

if you want to view any of the weekend services of limacc, go check out our livestream page…

sooo there you have it…

sunday setlists…2010…take six…

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 ferrum, va this past weekend visiting my friends at twin oaks…this church REALLY knows how to worship and has been a blessing to me in the past…this weekend was no exception!!!

the services started out with a time of welcome and prayer…this was followed up by prayer for the offering…

1. reign in us…by starfield

then the pastor, terry covey (a mentor and GREAT friend of mine), gave his message from joshua 5…it was entitled, “the battle is the Lord’s”…it was very challenging for me…he opened up some things and put them in a light that i had not looked at them with before…(i will most likely share more about this later in the week)…

2. mighty to save…by hillsong united

3. Jesus paid it all…by kristian stanfill

4. Jesus Messiah…by chris tomlin

then terry came back and shared about the battles that needed to be handed over to God so He could bring healing that was needed…people were encouraged to come forward and pray…

5. Healer…by hillsong united

then there was another time of prayer and ministry…

6. revelation song…as performed by kari jobe (lead by amy)

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sooo, it was a ROADTRIP weekend for the mckanna family…we were down in ferrum, va for a wedding on saturday and to then hang out with our friends at twin oaks…this was my third visit to the church, that i can remember, and every time i am blown away at their spirit and their PASSION to worship God!!!

twin oaks is a “small” country church…their weekend attendance is around 300 people…which is between a 6th and 7th of the size of limacc, where i am usually leading worship…but when i consider where the church is, it’s AMAZING to see what God is doing there and how He is at work…it was a 30 minute drive to the nearest motel…NO JOKE!!!

not only that, we DIDN’T have an electric guitar, let a lone a lead…we didn’t use a click…we didn’t have any fancy lighting…yet God is working and moving and changing the lives of people…(insert sarcastic…NO…)

the service was great…actually both services were great…but the second service especially…when we were ready to start men were hauling in chairs from some other part of the church…there weren’t enough seats for the bodies that were coming in…if they have fire codes in the middle of no where…we were breaking them!?! (i did see a sign that said “no open fires until after 4pm?!?)…i was blown away by what i was seeing…then we actually got going…by the time we got to revelation song, i’m pretty sure the roof was raised a little no SERIOUSLY these people were singing like we had already made it to heaven and this was the REAL THING!!!

i absolutely love being a part of what God is doing…regardless of where it’s at…regardless of the “style” or size of the church…God is still God and people were worshiping Him with everything they had…AWESOME!!!

it was just what i needed!!!

so there you have it…

sunday setlists…2010…twin oaks style…

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 another great weekend!!!

this weekend we started things off with our video announcements and then we jumped right in…

1. all because of Jesus…by fee

2. healer…by hillsong united

then we had communion set-up…this was done by a different host in each of the three services…the elements were passed and then taken together, during the following song…

3. revelation song…as performed by kari jobe

this was followed up by our verbal announcements as well as the offering set-up…again this was handled by the host of each service…

4. what faith can do…by kutless

then we had our roll-in video for our current series…healing for all of us…and the message was given by the executive pastor at limacc, vince nelson…the message was entitled “enough faith” and based out of mark 9…and was followed up by a ministry/prayer time…

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sooo, this past weekend was something else…there were several FIRSTS…we had an acoustic player join us for the FIRST time…he broke the head off of a bridge pin, a FIRST…and later broke a string…then during the saturday night service the low G string on the baldwin…broke…a FIRST…we also had a brand new boom stand just snap at the boom…a FIRST…and in the last service a vocalist laid their mic down in the room where we sit during the services…a young boy, will, decided to turn it on during the ministry/prayer time and see if it worked…IT DID…a FIRST…you would think that the services would have just been a wreck, but my guess is that no one knew anything was going on (other than hearing will)…unless they noticed that someone else was playing my guitar and i had a different one as well…?

the band pulled things together quickly this weekend…there weren’t any real trouble spots musically as we got ready…i will say the song that was the most fun, CHALLENGING, and powerful for me was the kutless tune…there are some GREAT lyrics in that (not to mention HIGH notes) and it had me really meditating on a couple verses in psalm…

psalm 46:1-2a

¹ God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.

² Therefore we will not fear,

no matter what we are going through…no matter what we are in the midst of…no matter how we got there…God is ever-present with us…we need to have faith…we need to trust Him…we MUST NOT fear!!!

if you want to view any of the weekend services of limacc, go check out our livestream page…(the services are listed by date…there has recently been a delay in getting those videos up…this should be resolved soon!?!)

well, there you have it…

sunday setlists…2010…take FOUR…