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Worship Recap- January 10, 2010

Had an awesome time in our worship service on Sunday. It was one of those Sundays where the different elements just fell into place and you could see people connecting.

Here is our complete list of songs…

So Good-

Sing Sing Sing-

Ancient of Days-

Wade in the Water-

Everlasting God-

Heart of worship

We also used this video called God’s Faithfulness from Worship House Media

This is what we did at our worship service. To see other worship leaders comments on their services go to this week’s Sunday Setlist #77 at theworshipcommunity.com

2009 Favorite Songs

I pulled our song information from Planning Center Online and was evaluating the songs we used for 2009

The number of times used is first and then the title.

After reading this below then let me know in the comments: What new songs should we do  in 2010? What songs should we do more? I’d love your input!

7 Days Of Elijah

7 How Great Is Our God

7 Today Is The Day

6 Everlasting God

6 Jesus Messiah

6 Revive Us Again

5 Ancient Of Days

5 Awaken our Hearts

5 Famous One

5 Meet With Me

5 Mighty to Save

5 Tell The World

5 You Never Let Go

4 All The Earth Will Sing Your Praises

4 Be Glorified

4 Every Move I Make

4 Forever

4 God Of Wonders

4 be the centre

3 Blessed Be Your Name

3 Brand New – chord chart

3 Everyday

3 Everywhere I Go

3 Friend Of God

3 He Reigns

3 I Will Not Forget You

3 Jesus Paid It All

3 Matchless

3 My Savior Lives

3 My Savior My God

3 Open The Eyes Of My Heart

3 Power Of Your love

3 Sing A Song

2 Alleluia

2 Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)

2 Breathe

2 Child Of God

2 Communion

2 Everybody Praise The Lord

2 Father Of Lights

2 Gloria

2 Hallelujah

2 I Am Who I Am

2 I Stand Amazed

2 I WIll Sing

2 I Will Rise

2 It’s My Joy

2 My Hope Is You

2 One Way

2 Our Great God

2 People Get Ready

2 Revelation Song

2 So Good

2 The Power Of Your Name

2 Trading My Sorrows

2 We Fall Down

2 Wonder of Your Love

2 You Are Good

1 All Creatures Of Our God And King

1 Anyone ButYOu

1 Away In A Manger

1 Bread Of Life

1 Breath Of Heaven

1 Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

1 Come Ye Sinners

1 Cover Us

1 Flower In The Field

1 Goodness and Mercy

1 Grace Like Rain

1 Happy Song

1 Here I Am Lord

1 Here I Am To Worship

1 Holy Is The Lord

1 How Great Thou Art

1 Hungry

1 I Just Want to Celebrate

1 I Pray On Christmas

1 If We Are The Body

1 In Christ Alone

1 In The Secret

1 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

1 Like A Child

1 Lord I Lift Your Name On High

1 Mary Did You Know

1 My Redeemer Lives

1 Nothing But The Blood

1 O Come All Ye Faithful

1 Offering

1 Only You

1 Praise To The Lord The Almighty

1 Salt And Light

1 Savior Like A Shepherd Lead Us

1 Sing Sing Sing

1 Strange way to save the world

1 The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power

1 The Heart Of Worship

1 This is my Song

1 What I Want For Christmas

1 Word Of God Speak

1 You Are My All In All

1 silent night

The Importance of Teaching

basic mathWhen working with my youth worship team I often find myself emphasizing rehearsing the songs. After all, we generally have one event or another to prepare for so that means creating a songlist, and working up that music to perform or lead with.
I have realized, however, that there is a huge benefit to teaching, and not just rehearsing. When I first started to teach guitar lessons I told myself that I wanted my students to learn why a chord was what it was, what the names of the notes they were paying etc… Instead of just “play this chord”
I believed by teaching them how to learn to play guitar, then they could continue to learn whether I was teaching them or not.
The same thing should be true for worship teams. We should work with them to teach the basics of chord structures, rhythms, balance, tone, song structure, etc… So that they begin to recognize these things.
What’s cool is that when your group starts to learn these things, they begin to play musically together. You don’t have to explain every part of every song, but they begin to feel it.
For us this has resulted in more productive rehearsals, and more enjoyable ones too.
So what basic lessons would you teach a beginning praise band?