Worship Confessional, January 11, 2009

Today was week 2 in our joint services together.  We're having a joint praise choir(worship choir and senior adult choir) to fill the loft.  It keeps growing. Today we had to bring more chairs in.  We still have our praise team on mics, but the loft is full.

Here is our set:
Brethren We Have Met To Worship (G3Worship)
Let The Worshipers Arise (G3Worship)
Welcome
Funny Wedding Bloopers(from YouTube)--our point here was in the midst of celebration, sometimes funny things happen.
Offertory
Rock of Ages (G3Worship)
Video--Scripture Memory from the Cross children
Celebrating Families--we interviewed three families who are discipling their children (one of our Core Values)
'Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus (Hymn Charts)
Message
Softly and Tenderly (Hymn Charts)
You Alone (Tomlin)

How was your Sunday?
This post is part of Sunday Set Lists over on Fred McKinnons site.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Jim,
Thanks for posting - can you possibly modify the link that is going to my site to go to the Sunday Setlist post, instead of my homepage - that way, if someone is reading your blog, and they click the link, they'll see all the other worship leader's links.

Also - tell me more about this G3 Worship thing?

Thanks - see you in just a few weeks!

For the Kingdom,
Fred McKinnon
www.fredmckinnon.com
www.theworshipcommunity.com

Perky Gramma Teaches said...

Hi Jim,
I really love the mix of vintage and newer.
I REALLY love the combined chorus of your older members and younger members. That is such an awesome idea.
We don't have that many "older" people. The majority of us are parents of 30 something's.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a great service. I love reading how the rest of the Body of Christ is worshiping on Sunday morning!

Louise Knight said...

Such an interesting idea about interviewing families who are discipling their children...

Mark Jaffrey said...

Why were the children cross?

Jim Drake said...

Fred

G3 is a subscription music service that sends you 4 cd's of orchestrated worship music... check them out at www.g3worship.com

Contemporary and Hymn arr.s

Jim Drake said...

Mark

Why were the Children cross? Because the parents were discipling them!

Silly boy--their last name is Cross!

thanks for the laugh

Unknown said...

Great setlist! My Sunday service was great. Check me out.

Matt said...

g'mornin jim! thanks for the comments on my post:)

yeah, our body loves to express worship through music, so we tend to have some longer music sets...the typical pattern is:

song
welcome/video announcements
meet & greet
4-5 songs
message
song of response
wrap

some weeks we go longer, some shorter...i always try to over-prepare and then have the flexibility to tailor the morning flow to how the Spirit is leading (i'm sure we all do that though:)...but there are times you can tell people are done singing by the 3rd song, and other times when you're all out of music and people are still desiring more...

thanks for stopping by!
matt

Gary Durbin said...

Softly and Tenderly is such a beautiful tune. That's one I connected with since I was a kid in church.

David said...

Two of my favourite hymns from my childhood - Softly & Tenderly and Rock of Ages. Thanks for your confessional Jim!

Jim Drake said...

Gary

I don't know that I've ever led Softly and Tenderly in a contemporary service before. The feel led nicely into You Alone.

Thanks for stopping by.

Jim Drake said...

David.

Check out the arrangement of Softly and Tenderly at www.hymncharts.com

Rock of Ages can be heard on the G3Worship site www.g3worship. com

Thanks for stopping by

Unknown said...

Thanks for sharing what you are doing. When we do our combined services we have some people who either don't like it or flat out won't come depending on where the service is. Do you have problems like that with your combined services?

Jim Drake said...

Russell

We have in the past. Haven't felt that way this time--we've leaned heavily back on the hymns, but doing them in a new way and the HYMNCHARTS thing has helped. They have some great suggestions for combining these with praise choruses.

Having the multi-generational choir has helped too. Have all ages represented has been a plus.

Let me know if I can help. We all go through the same things!