FUEL: WHAT A GREAT NIGHT

Thank you for such a wonderful night of worship. I felt great peace in the house and on stage. Even in practice, there were great attitudes, hearts desiring to worship and plain ol' joy.

I hope you found as much refreshment and "FUEL" as I did. If you weren't on stage, I pray you were able to attend.

I look forward to great times!

FUEL: WHAT A GREAT NIGHT

Thank you for such a wonderful night of worship. I felt great peace in the house and on stage. Even in practice, there were great attitudes, hearts desiring to worship and plain ol' joy.

I hope you found as much refreshment and "FUEL" as I did. If you weren't on stage, I pray you were able to attend.

I look forward to great times!

SHOUT OUT!

This week's shout out goes to Mitch. Mitch plays drums and percussion. Last Friday, he came early with some of us and practiced the new song. Thanks, Mitch for that extra oomph!

A SECOND LAUGH

What do you call a person with no arms and no legs…
in your fireplace?
BERNIE

What do you call a person with no arms and no legs…
under a steamroller?
LANE

What do you call a person with no arms and no legs…
lying beside a carnival ride?
RALPH
"I'VE MET HIM!!"
What do you call a person with no arms and no legs…
with a history of wheelchair collisions?
REX

FREE SMOOTHIE

Sunday, please go to RC Coffee and order a smoothie or coffee drink on me. Please let them know you are on RC Creative Worship.

SHOUT OUT!

This week's shout out goes to Kat. She sings as a BGV and is going to lead Jr. High worship. Kat jumped in and took on leading the children from the Easter choir.

Kat, thank you for your faithfulness to the team and desire to improve. Thank you for coming to me and asking about choir details and agendas which really helped me download with ease! I also appreciate you supporting as I went and ministered at two places recently.

WANT TO WIN? CHIME IN!

I am considering doing an all request Fuel only this time giving people a list to choose from. Got any favs?

THANKS FOR HAVING THE CHILDREN ON STAGE

I just wanted to send you a quick note about some of the testimonies from Easter.

I had many families stop and call Todd and I both to tell us that their friends and family that would never, ever come to church came to see the children sing in the choir. Every person that came to us were so excited because their company loved every aspect of church. Some of them can't wait to come back. I just wanted to say that all the hard work paid off and seeds are growing as we speak! I am so excited! Just a huge confirmation that having a children's choir is a great opportunity to invite all who know them, and in that they are being blessed themselves! I am sure lives were saved just because they thought they were coming to see a child sing. :)

WEEKEND RECAP

Thank you for an incredible weekend and all the preparations you made gearing up!

We were able to count 48 people's hands raised for salvation. 14 of those stood up as first time salvations!!! It all goes to your heavenly accounts!

I am so proud of the team. There were many moving parts to this weekend...choir, new song, production, new stage, where to stand?, aviom funkiness, dark stage, three services, practice with kids, dance team accidentally stepping on gear, belts needed, snacking between services, drum door falling, family members coming for the first time, neighbors experiencing God for the first time (and loving Him), new people raising their hands in worship (glow-sticks and all), kids having a ball, proud parents of choir members, a full house, super message, fun yet God-focused back stage, new stage, new song and I know you have more!

Thank you to the BGV's for your leadership. I cannot do it all. At that, I did too much. But, the person who was to lead the choir got sick after we had announced and auditioned people so...bgv's and myself had to pull it together! Thank you Terryl and Zach for making the cd's and sheets for the choir. Zach and Rach, you were a tremendous lead, as well.

I apologize for the miscommunication or lack thereof and not talking about "God, Great God" the week before Easter. I appreciate all the flexibility and humility. I know we stomped all over the devil this weekend.

Through it all, God was so faithful to us. When it's just us, we can do nothing but through Christ, we can do all things! And we did MANY AND I MEAN MANY DIFFERENT ELEMENTS THIS WEEKEND! Nahshon met a guy in the bathroom after a service who was sobbing. He said he just walked in the worship center doors and was overwhelmed with the presence of God.

Enough said...this is what it is all about! Nice job. Thank you. I wish I could be so many different people at once so I could hug you all, right now and buy you a boat!

SHOUT OUT!

There was a special request to Shout Out to Aaron again this week. His positive attitude is infectious, and he always seems to find the "pocket" =). He never has to be asked to give 110%, he just gives it, and does it with a smile. He brings a joy to the entire team, and we are so blessed to have him.

I agree with this post. Aaron, your leadership inspires me and puts wind in my sails (for lack of a far better analogy!). Thank you again.

I want to give a Shout Out to Donnie. He is our bass player in Jr. High worship. I am excited for him to increase his skill level, commitment and involvement so we can see more of him in the RC Creative Arts Department! This young man has experienced such growth in the past few months. Terryl quotes, "He is a role model to the rest of the Junior High team and his actions on and off stage are exemplary as the great man of God he is becoming."

Thanks Donnie!

WANT TO WIN? CHIME IN!

The acoustic service went very well last week, any thoughts on different themed worship sets like that?

The themes typically come from the message series, however we could use ideas on how to portray them.

THANKS, TERRYL FOR POSTING THIS!

PRACTICE REMINDER

Reminder:

Friday:
We are doing a sound check at 7pm. We do not need bgv's. Terryl can check the guitars. Aaron, you may be the only who wants to be there to make sure the drums are dialed in.
Saturday:
The only practice on Saturday is at 5:30 pm.

YOU ROCK!

WHAT TO WEAR ON EASTER

If you are wanting to purchase something for Easter (NO PRESSURE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY ANYTHING NEW!), purchase a new pair of jeans. It's time for me to search for a new pair of jeans. If you haven't since our dress change, it's time for you, too!

The choir is wearing black with bue or yellow.
All others on stage...WEAR JEANS!

BGV's, please bring a choir outfit and an outfit with jeans as we are unsure of placement until the stage is completely finished.

WE WANT ALL BGV'S ON STAGE THIS SUNDAY!

RC Live

Jr. High Worship

So I thought that I would share with you all my experience with the first ever Jr. Worship. You ready for this? It was....AWESOME! So I was kind of nervous to do this being as how I would be the only person singing up there, dont get me wrong, I love leading songs and what not but usually there are multiple people singing on stage with me but Rachel told me a quote that said: "when I "feel" nervous, that it's not nerves, it's the anointing" and this helped me out a lot so props to her and her sound advice. Ok so back to the service, the first song we did was "For who you are" and the words weren't up on the screen so a lot of the kids had the "Deer in headlights" look going on just starring at me. I was like, uh oh, i hope this isnt how it's going to be the whole time. The second song was "The Stand" but before we went into it i said a prayer and spoke to the young people about worship and what it meant to worship God. When we went into the chorus of The Stand I opened my eyes and every student had either their hands lifted high or their eyes close giving God genuine worship. It was AMAZING! I wish you all could have been there to witness it. I am so excited for you other BGV's that will be leading a service soon, it's so much fun and I could tell that the young people were excited to have their own worship. Just wanted to share that with you all. Much Love.