I am sitting here tonight just totally blown away by how good God is.  We had an incredible day at Glenville.  And I am not even talking about the music!  God showed up big!

In our first service, the people were a little more alive than normal.  They sang well, and were engaged with the pastor as he preached.  We started out the service with:

• Open The Eyes Of My Heart – Baloche
• Shout To The Lord – Zschech
• Above All – LeBlanc/Baloche

Second service, we used the following sets:

First set

• Open The Eyes Of My Heart – Baloche
• A New Hallelujah – Smith

Second set

• Shout To The Lord – Zschech
• Above All – LeBlanc/Baloche
• Mighty To Save – Fielding/Morgan

I love the song, ” A New Hallelujah.”  This was our first time doing it, and it was a little rough, but the people seemed to get it pretty good, and we are doing it three weeks in a row as a sort of “theme” song for our missions emphasis.  Great song with a lot of energy.

One of my favorites is Mighty To Save.  Just love the song.  Ok, I love a lot of Hillsong stuff, but this one is one of my favorites right now.

In both services, I was given the opportunity to talk about our upcoming special day, called Connection Sunday.  We are setting an attendance goal of 1200 (double our average attendance), and are planning on having 2 identical services.  We are doing this the first week of December.  Crazy for us to do this in December?  Maybe… we will see in a few weeks!

We are in our missions emphasis month, and were able to have a missionary with us.  He and his wife gave us a short report and showed a short video.  Sharp couple!

Our missions theme, and theme for net year, is Connections: Loving God – Loving Others – Serving both.  We have really been talking this up and trying to get people to see how important it is to connect with God first in relationship, and then to take what we have in that relationship and connect with others, helping them take their next step towards Christ.  I really believe our people are ready to see God do something big!  They are really getting excited about connecting, and I know God will bless that!

Our pastor spoke on “Disconnect” today.  Awesome message on why some people feel disconnected from God and the church.  (hint: it is because they are!)  People responded greatly during the invitation.  We also handed out wristbands that have our theme on them, and asked our people to commit to inviting people to our special day in December.  (We had cards made for this purpose)

Overall, I would have to say that I felt the people were totally engaged in all that was going on today.  There is an excitement that is totally evident in our people.  It is so exciting to be a part of that!  The energy in the singing was great today as well, even in the older songs, people were singing from their heart and so free in their worship… very refreshing to be a part of that as well.

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