This Sunday had to be one of the most powerful communion services I have been a part of. When it started though I wasn’t sure if it would work at all. We celebrate communion on the third Sunday of every month. This week we had a retired pastor who was leading the communion part of [...]
In my first Simple Worship Stage Ideas post I shared a stage design based on water and sails. Here is another idea that we did for our Christmas set. This idea is based on the design Starry Night from churchstagedesignideas.com. Having a much smaller stage we had to adapt the idea.. but I think [...]
We started the advent season this week in the Xperience Service. Advent is the four Sundays leading up to Christmas Eve. Though there is some debate on whether you should sing Christmas songs during Advent or not, we usually begin to slip a few Christmas carols in along with other songs that go along with [...]
I used to choose songs the week before, night before or even sometimes the morning of our weekly worship service. I used to think that was the way to do it because I could get a feel for where the Holy Spirit was leading that week. Over time I have come to learn that, while [...]
For 4 years now I have been leading our Youth Worship team at the church, and for 4 years we have been nameless. This has not really been an issue for a while, except we are now getting requests to come play for different groups, camps, retreats, etc.. and we really are needing a name.
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I have been working with our youth worship team for a little over 4 years now. In that time we have mostly played for our own youth evening programs and a few Sunday Mornings. This past summer that began to change. In June we had a District Youth Week. Several churches volunteered to sponsor a [...]
Our youth program, like many others, takes on a different schedule for the summer. With all the trips and unusual schedule we found it hard to keep up with our Youth Band over that same period of time. Now summer has come to an end and it’s time to get going again.
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In one week the 50 free worship backgrounds became the #5 post of all time. Here are those that occupy the #1-#4 slots.
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50 Free Worship Backgrounds 1,044 (7-13-10)
You may think that designing the background for your worship stage, platform, or venue takes a lot of know how, and a lot of money. Over the past few years we have found neither of those things to be true. We have found that by shopping and finding some material on sale or for free, [...]
Here is a set of 56 free photos that you can use as worship backgrounds. Each one has been cropped to 4:3 ratio for use with your worship slides. Just click the following link which takes you to my flickr site.
4:3 Worship Backgrounds
While there feel free to check out these other photos you might be [...]
