Music for Team/Rehearsal

This coming sunday we will be singing: Better Is One Day, Everything Glorious, Your Love Oh Lord, Your Love Is Extravagant, and Because Of Your Love. The theme for this week is "The Best Life Ever: The Life You've Only Imagined" Scripture-I Corinthians 13
If you have time please read through the scripture, listen and read through the words of the songs and think about how we need to help bring across the message of love that God has asked us to share and by doing that WE WILL have the "Best Life Ever." It is better to live in our Lord's house and to follow as he has instructed. As the scripture says, "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbal." As a vocalist and (an accidental musician) this phrase really resonates with me because if we aren't communicating in love as we help lead worship than what we are putting out there is like that loud gong or annoying cymbal. I know we are always going to have complaints about some things, that some are not going to understand or like a new style of worship, but that is human nature and a natural occurence. We work very hard at what we are doing and what we do comes from our hearts and that comes through to people. God's message is "resonating" with me and I truly feel and have been told by people that His message is coming through on sunday mornings. So when we come face to face with negativity or naysayers we must do as we are called to do and "turn the other cheek" and continue to spread His message of Love throughout our church and community!
We pray Lord, that we continue to keep true to Your message and let not our words be heard but that You be heard through us! Amen!

Concerns

Hey Everybody! I wanted to address some of your concerns about using a blog for our ministry. First if there are things that you would like to talk privately with me please feel free to do that by calling, e-mailing, or speaking face to face with me. There are times that emails don't get to people or it's more difficult to have a group discussion by email. I am hoping that we are able to use this as a place to open up healthy discussion for our ministy. You are always welcome to post something as anonymous, that is not a problem. I truly feel that this can be helpful if we work at it. Thanks for your concerns, because it means you are at least paying attention! :) Heidi

Praise Team

Hey everyone! I'm going to get started at trying this blog thing! Now I know I'm probably not using it correctly yet because I'm using it as an information center first. But i'm also hoping that we can start using it as a place to discuss our thoughts and ideas about contemporary worship and how to reach out to more of the community.
Practice on Sunday was a new start to practice we were able to use sound as we practiced and we are going to be teaching some of you how to work on the sound board so that we can work on our sound at practice rather than sunday morning. I felt we made a step in the right direction. We have lots of things to talk about and discuss but at least we're starting. I'll be back to write more later this evening.

God Bless,
Heidi:)

we're not quite there yet :)

hey everyone, it's kara. we're trying to get Heidi plugged in to the wonderful world of blogging, so strap on your helmets. it could be a bumpy ride.

[see, I can post things like this because Heidi doesn't know how to delete them yet. Yay me!]