Worship 2-22
Well it’s been over two months since I last posted and feel it is time to start things back up.
Today was…well…interesting? during the services my mind was all over the place. Musically we were not very together today, actually it was really rough. We had tempo issues (RUSHING!!!), missed chords, some interesting harmonies. I hope that it was not so bad that others were unable to engage completely with God. I had a lot of trouble. I’m trying a new thing here and putting up excerpts of the songs we did this morning.
I also had the opportunity to lead worship for our junior high youth group this morning. TOUGH CROWD!!! I say that because I was shocked at the lack of engagement with these kids. Now I have lead this group before when they were younger in our Kids program, Holy Order of the Lion. I want to know what happened between grade school and junior high that caused them to go from passionate worshippers who weren’t afraid to raise their hands and jump around. Some might say that I am being a little harsh and I am aware that some of them may read this post. The fact is I plan to ask them these questions. I really want to know!!! I’m just baffled.
GOOD NEWS!!!!! Our church finances are back in the black for the first time in a while (a long while) God is gooooooood! Only God could do the impossible task of funding a church during a recession like we are seeing. All Glory to God!! Numbers have also been up pretty consistently over the last few weeks. I really feel like we are seeing people take intentional steps in their christian growth!!! Again…Only God!!
On a sad note. Yesterday Peter, a good friend left for Washington. Thank the Lord he arrived safely. He graduated from ASU in December and is beginning his next stage of life at Microsoft, in redmond WA on March 2nd. I am going to miss his harmonies most of all. I am going to miss his friendship (although we will probably communicate more now than before). I am praying and would ask anyone reading this to pray for peter to find a great church where he can serve. He says he is going to keep me updated on his progress:)
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Yay, new post… when does the reality show start?
I think that we are already part of it. (what could be more real?)
Peter thinks I should do a reality TV show to see who will replace him on the worship team.
Peter is irreplaceable.