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Worship Confessional – 01.04.09

January 5, 2009 in Worship, Worship Confessional with 2 Comments

The first Worship Confessional of 2009. I feel like I’ve been confessing forever.

Hmmm… I just re-read that last sentence and am totally aware it sounds weird, but I’m gonna leave it. Awkward is beautiful, people… awkward is beautiful.

So, yesterday… Whipple Creek sent a team to lead worship since I’m slowly working myself back into the main services (I really have one more week till I’m back up and leading up front).

The team that was sent did a great job of being prepared musically to lead us. I contributed by running graphics which was actually super easy since I created mapping for everything WEEKS before and Matt didn’t have any talk graphics for me (his Mac has been at the doctor’s all week).

This is my confession this week though:

I have failed as a leader the last few weeks. I haven’t communicated with my team and I’ve barely communicated with Matt. I need to pull it together.

No one knew what time they had to be at church to prep. The majority of us got there AFTER the guest band had arrived… um… I’m LAME! I’m so sorry, Whipple Creek Team, if you’re reading this. Totally my bad!

It was nice running tech stuff this week though and slowly coming back into the mix. The only rough patch was we recently switched from using large screens to flatscreen TVs. It’s more appropriate for our space and they work well… except that I have to reformat ALL my song lyrics because they appear too small on the smaller tv screens.

After I got that done… all was well.

Next week, Liz is leading… then I’ll be back the week following that.

Worship Confessional 09.07.08 – First Day at my New CHURCH!

September 8, 2008 in Ministry, Worship, Worship Confessional with 1 Comment

Yesterday morning was my first day leading worship as the “Worship Pastor” at Church! at Bethany. It was exciting and strange all at the same time.

It was very obvious to me that I was NOT getting ready to go lead at Sunset. That was really weird and a bit bittersweet. I mean, I’m growing up, so really, it was only so long till I was no longer relevant to students though I’ll always have a heart and passion for them. I was also heading out the door to work with a different team.

I think one of the toughest things is preparing how to interact with people you don’t really know. My old team just KNEW me. That was nice.

However, I have always believed that CHANGE is good. Brian and I absolutely LOVE our new pastor, Matt. He’s authentic and just says it like it is. There’s no guess work with Matt. What you see is what you get. I don’t ever go home thinking, “Hmmm… when he said this, did he mean…” and I never feel like I’m imposing. If I have a question, I text him or email him and he gets back to me almost immediately.

What’s great about a church plant/small church is the COMMUNITY is a bit more obvious and easier to find. Because we don’t have a building and are currently using Stoller Middle School on Sunday mornings, we are a 100% portable church. It’s like setting up for camp every Sunday. We HAVE to be organized (if you know me… you’ll know I love love LOVE organizing and BEING organized).

Tiring, but definitely team building.

Everyone pulls together to work together. You see everyone’s love for each other and how much they are absolutely SOLD OUT to God.

Yesterday’s set was:

Meet With Me – Ten Shekel Shirt
Not To Us – Chris Tomlin
Devotion – Hillsong
Hosanna – Hillsong
Heart of Worship – Matt Redman
Grace Like Rain – Todd Agnew

Matt started his series on The Leader Within from Nehemiah. Nehemiah started his leadership ON HIS KNEES. Something, I can’t say I do enough of. Matt challenged us to seek out God’s heart – to ask God to break our hearts with the things that break his. That’s a scary thing to ask… because if you really mean it, your heart not going to hurt, but you’re going to grieve deeply.

However, I’m taking on the challenge.

Overall… Though I miss my old church of 8 years and some of my best friends over at Sunset, I feel overly humbled and privileged to be a part of Church! at Bethany. I know God is moving and doing some incredible things here in Portland, Oregon. We need all hands on deck here in P-town, and I know Sunset is more than capable of doing it without me.

Church! at Bethany is where I’m supposed to be right now – I love adventures!