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Worship Confessional: January 18, 2009

January 19, 2009 in monday, Service schedules, Worship, Worship Confessional with 2 Comments

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Today we wrapped up our series on the church called “The Big D.”  The focus of the series was to talk about how everyone fit into the body, and how has delegated to each and every one of us to be a part of the body and to perform our function in the body.  The responses that we have gotten have been very positive, and we have seen some movement in the church over the last several weeks of people coming and getting involved.  Attendance is up, and people are asking about where they fit in.  God really has used this series in our church!  It is so cool to see people get connected in ministry and strive to find where they fit in the body!  We shook up the order of service for our second service, and it seemed to generate a lot of positive responses as well.  Here is our order of service for first service:

9 AM Service

  • You, You Are God – Beach
  • A New Hallelujah – Smith/Smith/Baloche

Video for our discipleship class

Welcome from our discipleship Pastor

Special – If We Are The Body

Message

Offering/Closing

Our 10:30 Service:

  • You, You Are God – Beach
  • All Because – Fee

Video for our discipleship class

Welcome from our discipleship Pastor

Special – If We Are The Body

Message

Offering

  • The Stand – Houston
  • Marvelous Light – Hall
  • A New Hallelujah – Smith/Smith/Baloche

Closing

Our people really liked going into a worship set after the message.  It let us leave with high energy and an excitement that was just awesome!  The song we ended with was a perfect fit as an ending, as it is a call for the church to rise up and take Jesus to those around us… to live out the “Song” in our life.  Rehearsals were a little rough this week, but God was good and blessed it anyways, allowing it all to come together.  Love it when you know it is God!

This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Worship Confessional: January 11, 2009

January 12, 2009 in monday, Service schedules, the church, Worship, Worship Confessional with 7 Comments

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I know I am taking a risk at sounding like a broken record, but we had probably one of the best services we have had at Glenville since I arrived.  The energy was just overwhelming!  People were singing out their praises to God without any reservation at all!  Our Pastor nailed it (again) with his message!  Everything was just incredible!   Here was the flow:

  • Better Than Life – Houghton/Cruse-Ratcliffe
  • Sing, Sing, Sing – Tomlin/Reeves/Gilder/Carson/Nunn

Our youth pastor welcomed everyone to the services, and gave a brief announcement.  We then showed a video about our Discipleship program, and our Discipleship Pastor  gave a brief announcement about our Connection Lunch next week (a dinner for those interested in membership).  We then went into our next set:

  • Open The Eyes Of My Heart – Baloche
  • All Because – Fee
  • Holy Is The Lord – Tomlin/Giglio

This was our first time doing All Because, and our people absolutely latched on to it!  We actually struggled a bit at the beginning, but it all smoothed out at the chorus and was just great from then on. This was the second week of our series “The Big D” (Delegation).  Our Pastor just nailed it as he talked about everyone finding where they are at in their process of discipleship.  It was more of a message aimed at us individually as far as God’s delegation to us in our spiritual journey.  Next week, we will again focus on the church as a whole, and encourage people to get involved in ministry.

It is so awesome to see God working in the lives of people!

This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Worship Confessional: December 21, 2008

December 22, 2008 in monday, Service schedules, Worship, Worship Confessional with 1 Comment

worship_confessionThis Sunday was our Christmas concert. We used a collection from Travis Cottrell, David Moffitt and Sue Smith called “Everything Glorious.” My choir did an absolutely amazing job. The tech teams were flawless during the service! The soloists sounded great! I really could not have asked for anything to go any better than what it did! We did not do any congregational music before hand. Our pastor welcomed everyone and then introduced the concert. I had the opportunity to give a brief message during the concert. We had a time of response and saw several people come forward to make decisions. I am not too sure what all those decisions were, but it is always cool to see the hearts of people being moved by God. At the end, we took the offering and that was it. People stayed around FOREVER talking with each other. I love watching our people build relationships. Things are so exciting here at Glenville right now! I am looking forward to see what God has for us in 2009! To all who read this, I hope you have a Merry Christmas! Oh… here is just a simple pic of the stage for the concert… nothing too elaborate, but it sure worked for this…

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This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Starbucks like the Church? What if?

December 19, 2008 in church philosophy and methods, humor, monday, people, the church with 0 Comments

Not sure if you have seen this or not, but this clip is humorous, yet gets it’s point across… Just thought I would share it with you today as some “food for thought!”

Worship Confessional: November 2, 2008

November 2, 2008 in monday, Service schedules, Uncategorized, Worship Confessional with 2 Comments

I started the day off wondering if I was even going to make it to services at all.  I came down with the flu Saturday morning, and it just got worse throughout the day.  By evening, I was almost positive I was gonna be staying home on Sunday, which has only happened one other time in my 18 years of leading worship.  Anyways, I got  pretty good nights sleep (I am sure the extra hour helped), and by the time I woke up Sunday morning, I was feeling like I could probably make it through the day, which I did.  I hate missing services!  As I write this here on Sunday night, I am sure that being in services today has helped me feel better!  Ok, on to the day!

We started our missions emphasis month today with a video and a testimony from an organization called House of Hope which provides support for relationship struggles in families.  This is a wonderful ministry, and certainly there are many that could benefit from an organization like this for restoring relationships.

First service, we then went in to the only set we had for that service which included:

  • Friend Of God – Gungor/Houghton
  • Beautiful One – Hughes

The second service opened up with:

  • Sing, Sing, Sing – Tomlin/Reeves/Gilder/Carson/Nunn
  • Better Than Life – Cruse-Ratcliffe/Houghton

After the opening songs in both services, our pastor spent a short time talking about our “theme” for missions conference and the next year, which is Connections: Loving God, Loving Others, Serving Both.  He also spent some time encouraging our people to bring visitors and friends for a special day we have coming up called “Connection Sunday.”

In the second service, we then had our second set of songs, which were the two we did in the first service:

  • Friend Of God – Gungor/Houghton
  • Beautiful One – Hughes

Our Assimilation and Discipleship Pastor was our speaker for the day, and brought us a great message about having the world view that God does for people.  It was a great way kick of our missions, and fit right in with where we are heading as a church in encouraging our people to be relational in all areas of life.

The energy for the music was incredible.  Our people are really liking Tomlin’s Sing, Sing, Sing.  The passion in their singing today was just contagious!

This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Worship Confessional: October 19, 2008

October 20, 2008 in monday, Service schedules, Uncategorized, Worship, Worship Confessional with 4 Comments

Today was an unusual day for us.  Every year a small town just south of Wichita called Haysville (I happen to live in this town as well) has a Fall Festival, and on Sunday Morning they have what they call “Church In The Park.”  Though there are a number of churches in Haysville, Glenville has had the opportunity to be the church that does the services for the last few years.  So, we had our first service at the church (I did not lead, I was already at the park), and our second service was moved to the park for the day.  It really was a neat opportunity for us to get involved in the community.  So, here is our song selections for the day:

  • You Are Good – Houghton
  • Friend Of God – Gungor/Houghton
  • Everlasting God – Brown/Riley
  • Marvelous Light – Hall

After that first set, our choir sang Holy, Holy, Holy from the Community Bible Church collection.  Then, one of our ladies sang Tomlin’s How Can I Keep From Singing.  She did an awesome job!  Our Pastor then gave a 15 minute message that was centered around the focus statement for our church – Loving God, Loving Others, Serving both.

After the message, we had another set of songs:

  • Hosanna – Baloche/Brown
  • How Great Is Our God – Tomlin/Reeves/Cash
  • Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) – Newton/Tomlin/Giglio

The choir did two more songs:

  • Jesus Messiah – Tomlin/Carson/Reeves/Cash
  • Orphans Of God - LaBar/Lindsey

The soloists on both songs did a fantastic job!  The wind was really strong during the service, so we had a few gusts that took some music away, knocked a couple stands over and messed with the mics, but over all, it was a great experience and an awesome opportunity to be out in the community.

This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Worship Confessional: October 12, 2008

October 13, 2008 in monday, Service schedules, Worship, Worship Confessional with 0 Comments

I am still in the process of getting settled in here at Glenville, but figured it was time to start posting my lists!  Attendance was steady here in Wichita.  All of our schools are in today, so we were not affected by the “holiday.”

We finished our series on “FEAR” that we have been in for the last 5 weeks.  Yesterday was on Fear of the Economy, so we started the service playing Pink Floyd’s “Money.”  (We did not actually play it live, we played the recording – sorry to get you too excited!)  We have done a secular song each week as our pre-service announcements are running.

We have a choir here at Glenville, so we opened up with Holy, Holy, Holy out of the Community Bible Church collection.  The choir did an awesome job!

Our congregational sets included:

1st Service

  • Your Grace Is Enough -Maher (Tomlin arrangement)
  • Enough – Tomlin/Giglio
  • Here I Am To Worship – Hughes

2nd Service

  • Today Is The Day – Brewster/Baloche
  • Sweeter – Houghten/Cruse-Ratcliff
  • Your Grace Is Enough -Maher (Tomlin arrangement)
  • Enough – Tomlin/Giglio
  • Here I Am To Worship – Hughes

We typically do 3-4 of the songs we are doing for the second service in the first service.  The volume is the difference between services for us.

This post is also part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

Monday Morning Musing

March 31, 2008 in monday with 4 Comments

tired.jpgWell, another Monday! Have you ever seen that commercial for Monster.com where it is a Monday morning and everyone realizes the sun is about to come up, and they rush around finding things to hold up to try and block the sun from the inevitable? That is kind of how I feel today… rainy and dreary here, so that does not help. It is another day to wake up and see what God has in store for us though. I an anxious to see what contacts I am able to make this week as far as finding a new position goes. Our people here have been so kind to encourage us in our journey. Many seem to be just as excited as we are to see where God leads us.

How were your services yesterday? Ours went well musically speaking. Last night is choir we actually started on Hillsong’s “From The Inside Out.” That is probably one of my favorite songs they do. The choir seemed to enjoy it, and the band was rockin… sounded real good, especially since we had a new electric guitar playing with us. He nailed the intro though and that just set the tone for the whole thing. Another weeks practice and we should be good on that one.

Well, I hope everyone has a good week. My plans for this blog are to focus more on worship than on my personal life. I will get to that, but until I get the whole blogging thing down.

I will leave you with one thing, get the book “Unchristian.” It will rock your world. I will post more on that later…