Worship : 13 December 2009

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Come and join in with Sunday Setlists over at FredMckinnon.com, and see how churches around the world have been worshiping this week.. As anyone in worship leadership knows, December is a busy month. For Awesome Church this year, this has mainly been for non-Christmas reasons - the completion of sessions for our album. We are also "doing Christmas", but in conjunction with Jews for Jesus we're having a Christian Hanukkah celebration next weekend. So one of the songs we're doing has a very Jewish feel, which is weird for our rock-band oriented team. But all good fun, and all next week. For this morning's service, our young adults pastor Sebastian Ferla preached a great message on rivers of God's presence, drawing on a huge number of scripture references, mainly from Acts and Genesis, and linked the four rivers in the Garden of Eden. Sunday AM Music 1. Send My Sins Away (Murgida / Awesome Church) 2. For Your Name (Morgan, Gillies, Houston / Hillsong) 3. All For Love (Fieldes / Hillsong) 4. Shout Unto God (Houston / Hillsong) ...then following tithes, offerings, news... 5. It's Your Love (Fieldes / Hillsong) ...and then to close the service with the altar call, healing prayers, soaking time... 6. In Your Presence (DeShazo) Rachel was our worship leader this morning. And now that she's finished high school and is in that limbo period waiting to find out what university course she has got into, she's putting a lot of time into studying worship and music's part in worship. I love seeing our youth raised up and taking initiative like this! She also did a great job this morning, despite some technical issues before our pre-service practice. She got the team prayed up and excited about bringing the church into God's presence through music this morning. And she did. Though I will say, with the radical rearrangement of the first song (which will also be the first track on our album, I think) a lot of people were in "stop and stare" mode*. That's fine though, they got over that and started praising & worshipping without worrying about everything going on around them pretty quickly. This afternoon, after a marathon 16 hours in the studio yesterday and just a few hours sleep last night...I caught a few more hours sleep, though I'm still well behind and feeling it. It will now be a busy few weeks wrapping up post-production of our album ready for release at our Vision Sunday service at the beginning of February. *And, in case your interested, the final song we recorded sounds a little bit like this this. Just a bit. Seriously. I like arranging and producing church music a little left of centre some of the time. Note for Facebook readers : remember if I post a video or song, you'll need to actually click through to my blog to see or listen. You know you want to.

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