Sunday Rundown 12.28.08.

2008 December 28

by Tyler

Today I led worship for the 11am service at Sunset. Jill led the 9am and did a great job.

Here was our set for the morning:

Cannons (E, Wickham)
You are Here (The Same Power) (B, Hillsong)
The Stand (A, Hillsong)
Everlasting God (A, Brown)
A message by Barb on Habakkuk
Jesus Paid it All (B)
Beautiful Mystery (F, White)

We did a lot of my favorite worship songs in the set which was pretty cool. In fact, there wasn’t any song that I wasn’t excited to sing and play.

The book of Habakkuk is probably my favorite Old Testament book outside of Psalms, so it was cool to hear a message on it.

You are Here (The Same Power), was a new song for us and I think it went over well, but probably would have fit better at the end of a set instead of in the middle.

We always take an offering at some point in our services and often it happens while we play a song. As much as I prefer to always sing congregational worship songs, it is hard to lead a worship song while people are seated and passing the offering buckets around. I just feel like peopel are staring at me instead of worshiping. I wish there was a better way to do that.

All in all, a great morning. A large group of the church had not been to church in almost a month because of weather, so it was just great to be together again.

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dorothy (vicar of vibe)

Hi Tyler,
How cool, I really like the book of Habakkuk also. I am constantly being drawn back to it.
I also love when a set is is full of my favorites. hee, hee.
Just passing on. We don’t “do” offering. We have (locked) boxes inside both doors to the auditorium. It is in the bulletin about location, etc. and our members all know where to place their tithes. We choose from the beginning to not “pass” since we are really focused on the skeptic. That’s how we handle it.
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

I’ve seen that work at some churches. Don’t get me wrong I think the offering can be used to continue to draw people in, but for whatever reason…today it felt like people were staring and not worshiping with a song that I know they know.
http://www.aworshipfulheart.typepad.com janowen

We do the offering at the very end of the service and lead into a brief announcement with it. We’ve tried it in 4 or 5 different places and I’m never happy!

I love your set list for the day. We are going to learn “Cannons” in February. Do you happen to have a vocal chart done for it? I can’t find one anywhere and I’d rather not start from scratch if I could help it. Not my strong suit. Anyway, if you have it, if you’d be willing to email it to me I’d appreciate it.

Have a wonderful trip to Alaska, Tyler!
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

not sure i know what a vocal chart is? would that be the same as a lead chart or piano chart?
http://steffanieoltmans.blogspot.com/2008/12/sunday-set-list-december-28-2008.html Steffanie Oltmans

I want to learn “Cannons” soon!

Our service order usually looks like this
Worship
Prayer time
Guest welcome
offering
Announcement video (The Buzz) while offering plates are passed
Meet & Greet
Sermon
Prayer and invitation

We have found that the time while the offering is being passed is the perfect time to show our weekly announcement video.
http://www.aworshipfulheart.typepad.com janowen

just a chart that shows the melody line on it, piano would work. All I have are chords so far….thanks.
http://threebellchime.blogspot.com Ben

I too liked the set. I think the set lists have been improving a ton over the past few months. I think you and Jay and whoever are putting together the lists are getting into a good rut. I love that you guys are always analyzing and seeing how we can make things smoother as well. If people are striving to continually make things better…good things happen.