Archive for June, 2008

mission a/yec week

Published June 30, 2008 church , work Leave a Comment
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so i started feeling bad because i threaten to take peeps of my blogroll for not blogging, when i havent blogged regularly myself so… i was going through my rss’s tonight from last wk and saw jenna’s post from last wk. i’m pretty sure she composed it in the laundry room of our hotel, and she has two incredible stories of some of the things that went on with our students at mission a last wk. and no, i’m not talking about the drama night.

the first is about my boy sherbert. and googling that name will get you nowhere buy wikipedia for frozen fruit juice. it’s his alias, and for good reason. this kid may be one of the funniest, geekiest kids i’ve ever met. so check out what he did here. here are most of the pics i have from the wk, mission a and yec combined. i told somebody today when asked how yec went, it was good but it didnt touch what we experienced at mission a. i’ve heard it said many times at different events, why experience something only once a year when it could be done on a weekly basis wherever you are. whether it be missions in your town, or doing church differently. it can be done.

cheers

busy week ahead

Published June 22, 2008 work 1 Comment
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got a busy week coming up folks..

leave tomorrow morning for MA (mission arlington). i’ve heard of ma through the grapevine for several years, but this will be my first experience so i’m looking forward to it. everyone else comes home friday after six flags, but i am scheduled to head over to dallas and do my normal yec thing. i’ve helped out every year for about the last 5-6 years except for last yr because it was hard for me to get a day off. they’re supposedly short on volunteers so i’m supposed to take on another role of some type with artist relations. which means i’ll either have a story about how cool somebody was, or another story to add to the many i already have of people that i can never listen to again because they were straight up pre madonnas. but the yec folks always treat us nice. who else can say they’ve broken bread with mark hall, or set up drums for audio a, or raided big daddy weave’s dressing room, or been in on salvador’s pre-show prayer, or almost be frisked by rebecca st. james’ security…not many….

throughout all my travels this next LONG week, one thing is for sure. iTwitter. do you? so click on the pic and check out my page or make one for yourself and have my updates come to your phone.

ps-the new coldplay is OUTSTANDING. go to this link here and buy it. seriously. do it. now. what are you waiting for. it will change your life. ok maybe not, but you never will know unless you go download it. would i ever lead you astray?

cheers

tips from a worship pastor

Published June 20, 2008 church 1 Comment

i found this post on steven furtick’s blog and it was actually done by elevation church’s worship pastor wade joye. i think he has good words of wisdom
4 Ways a Worship Leader Can Earn the Trust of Their Lead Pastor

At Elevation Church, we are in the unique situation of having a lead pastor who used to be a worship leader. He is also a huge music lover who knows more rock trivia than anyone I know. Even though he knows how to do our jobs as worship leaders, Pastor Steven has given us a lot of freedom in the worship department as we have gained his trust. Here are some of the ways this trust can be developed.

1. Implement your pastor’s vision for the worship ministry, not your own vision.
The Lord speaks to the lead pastor about the vision and direction of the church, not the worship leader. Yes, your pastor wants you to dream big and push the envelop of creativity and excellence, but it must be done within the parameters he has set. At Elevation, Pastor Steven has cast the vision that our worship experience will be one of celebration. So, you won’t find a lot of dark songs in a minor key because they don’t fit the vision of the church…that might mean I don’t get to play one of my favorite songs– and that is ok. There will also be times when your Pastor asks you to cut or add a song, and when he does, do it joyfully.

2. Be a worship leader who cares more about Jesus and the vision of the church than being on the next Passion CD. Jesus specifically has chosen to work through the local church to advance the gospel. Your pastor will trust you when he sees that you are more passionate about the vision God has given him for your city than you are about the how cool you sound covering the latest Coldplay song.

3. Choose the words you say on stage carefully. The priority for us at Elevation is the preaching of God’s word. That gets 50 minutes in our worship experience while the worship set gets 20 minutes. As a worship leader, when you pray or set up a song, be intentional and strategic so that you maximize your impact with few words. When we don’t prepare and ramble, we are taking valuable time away from the most important part of the worship experience.

4. Play to win, don’t play not to lose. Push yourself. Don’t play it safe. When we get comfortable with what is working well and stop creating, we are not honoring God with our worship. Always let your pastor see that you are continually striving for excellence and taking chances. Worshipping our creative God should never be stale and boring.

day 3 vid

Published June 14, 2008 video's Leave a Comment

it’s coming…

Published June 13, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment

last night recap to come tomorrow after about an 18 hr nap

day 3-skimboarding

Published June 11, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment

covey and i decided to try and skimboard…this is the result

beach break day 2 (yes it was a long day)

Published June 11, 2008 Uncategorized 2 Comments

it’s been a long day and i wasn’t even in the sun that long…just got back from aransas pass with nic. we went and bought some supplies for tomorrow’s rec and dinner.

tonight’s worship was awesome. i love when God moves in spite (i think i’m using that correctly. if not, you know what i mean) of different things happening or not happening around us.

set list was as follows:

wholly yours
mighty to save
from the inside out
jesus paid it all (kristian stanfill version)

the last song really rocked out. the added portion being “o praise the one who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead.” i love that.

the rest of my day was really uneventful. my morning “tribe” or group talk time went nowhere. nobody wanted to talk. i was frustrated for sure.

we had an awesome church time where everyone laid on the basketball court and looked up at the stars singing “God of wonders” and “amazing grace (my chains are gone)” that was awesome.

here’s the video from today. (jo, we miss you and really really wish you were here. hopefully these do make you feel like you were here!)

cheers

beach break day 1

Published June 10, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment

finally i got to sleep in…made it to 820 today…last wk it was 720…so anyway first thing was bible study….hadn’t even started yet and sprinkler’s came on, so everybody sprinted to the pool area for some shelter from the sprinkler’s, gathered around the end of the pool and doug (one of pville’s associates) did his talk in 3 ft of water which was kind of cool. then we had group talkback times and then played rec. today rec was a scavenger hunt which went ok and my team dominated and of course won. after that was lunch and i edited the first bit of the afternoon. went to the pool and the beach after that and did some duties and came back and cleaned up in the room and went to a shop with manly stanley. after that i showed stan & tom some final cut stuff. then worship which went ok. then small group then church time. pretty uneventful-eventful day.

i’m finding final cut makes putting together stuff quickly extremely easy. the drag and dropness of it is superb. and this is all after spending less than a wk on it. which i CANNOT say for avid. final cut also has flashier FX with it, although i wish i had A LOT more.

as far as mixing goes, i’m finding my way around the o1v nicely now. i picked it up real easy the first day, but i got so used to the M7 and it’s easy functionality, the 01v some things hopefully they changed in V2 (which we have at work to do audio for video but i havent gotten to mess with much)
missed a call from clay today all the way from europe. i was not happy about that. i hear they’re having fun though

i leave you with more picture of jordan and hopefully my day 1 video will get uploaded tonight and i will post that asap.

greater things have yet to come, greater things are still to be done here.

cheers


beach break day 0

Published June 9, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

it’s 12:05 am from where i’m sittin, so i guess it’s actually the beginning of day 1. and zero’s not over yet. since about 4pm till now i’ve felt like i was running around with my head cut off. it’s been insane to say the least. began with an attempted load in and i say attempted becuase we had no key to the building like they said we would. so that delayed us a bit, and then we finally got loaded in and just about everything worked. at least the stuff we brought backups for. no XO=no sub. no wireless receiver =no speaker’s mic. that’s really the biggest things so all in all for what we had to work with, i would say not bad. night really went of without a hitch. band was good, speaker talked and then we had our group times. so i’ve begun the editing process and as we speak i’m capturing. i mixed tonight, so i let one of the pville kids film the worship time which helps me out a lot, but it means i have to filter through everything and i dont know what he shot. it’ll be all good though. i leave you with some of those pictures of jordan i promised. enjoy

cheers

beach break day -1

Published June 7, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

and yes that’s supposed to say -1(negative 1). cuz tomorrow would be day 0 (zero). meg and clay and gayla and justin and allison left for europe after lunch. i’m pretty jealous too. today i headed to port A early to get set up and whatnot for the wk.

what’s goin on here is a lady in riding shorts, sitting on a roles royce in front of the department of health and welfare. i thought it was ironic cuz it was in our condo’s bathroom.

i wold post more pics but blogger isn’t working well with me at the moment. so some jordan pics to come

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