Next week comes one of my favorite weeks of the year. I have been asked again to lead music for College UM ARMY. During this week teams of college students, from all over, spend a week working on houses in the Houston area. This will be at least the fourth time I have had the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘songlists’
Sunday Setlist 3/29/09
March 29th, 2009
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Our worship service went great this week. I tweeted at the beginning that I could feel the excitment and engergy in the crowd even as they were entering in the doors. We had a good crowd, full stage and great songlist. Really had no hitches with A/V or anything else. We missed having Kerri but [...]
Sunday Songlists- 3/1/09
March 5th, 2009
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This past Sunday was an interesting one. I thought that the band and vocals sounded great, were tight and was over all an awesome Sunday. Unfortunately there were many other events this weekend that hindered our Sunday morning attendance. I do have to give props to our ladies who do the stage decorations each week. [...]
Why We Don’t Rehearse Every Week
February 21st, 2009
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How It Was
We used to reserve every Wednesday night for an hour and a half rehearsal. We showed up at 6:30 and rehearsed until 8:00. Then we would show up again at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday mornings for an hour to rehearse and soundcheck before Sunday School and our service at 10:30 am. That all [...]
What I’m Singing for the Next 6 Weeks
February 17th, 2009
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Yes you read the title correctly. I just finished our songlists through the end of May. I can tell you though that it has not always been this way. There was a time when my songlist compiling was a week by week, even night of basis. Before you say “Hey that’s how I do it, [...]
Choosing Songlists: Christmas Vs Advent?
December 16th, 2008
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It seems every year that I come across the same delimma when choosing songs for this season. It stems from the fact that what the stores and media call the Christmas season is, for our church, Advent, or the 4 Sundays immediately before Christmas Eve. Most of the traditional carols that people expect to hear, [...]
Favorite “Go To” Songs
October 23rd, 2008
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Sometimes you have a worship set planned and rehearsed but something happens before time to lead. Maybe someone gets sick, or doesn’t show up. Whatever the reason you now have no time to rehearse but have to choose a setlist your team can lead, basically from memory with their eyes closed…
Give me three songs that [...]
Sunday Setlist 9/28/08
September 28th, 2008
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This week was really nothing out of the ordinary. We have begun trying to do songs more frequently so that the congregation can learn and participate better. Before I came the idea was to do new songs that were cool, now we are focusing on congregation participation and songs that fit the theme or message [...]
A Time to Be Still
September 9th, 2008
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As I sit and type this post I can look over to my left and see a big brown and white dog name Mia. Mia is about two or three years old, still very much a puppy. Still being very puppy like Mia is constantly running, and jumping and licking. She is constantly on the [...]
How To Organize Your Worship Song Libraries
August 7th, 2008
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Something I have run across when working with youth and adult worship teams is to maintain a balance between songs we know well, songs that are getting old and new songs we should be working on. We keep a list of the songs we have done each week on google docs spreadsheet and that helps [...]
