BIG WEEK AHEAD

As I am sitting with our songlist and asking God to refine or alter it as He wishes, I have our big week on my mind and heart.

Tomorrow, the series title is "Commonly Asked Questions." The response for questions has been phenominal! This only means there will be people seeking answers. People will be at church tomorrow looking to see if this "God thing" is really real. As a result, we have a great opportunity to share our passion and true heart for Christ in our worship, on our faces, through our excellence factor as well as through our connection.

It would be a good idea for all of us to spread out in the worship center and talk to people we don't know well or have never met before. This way, they will have a connection and when we walk on stage, they will say, "Wow, I didn't know someone so real and nice was a leader! And look at their worship!?!"

Tuesday, some of the team will be heading down to the Regioinal MFI Conference with me. It is held at The City Church. We will be leading other members, pastors and leaders of MFI in worship. Please keep us in your prayers. Pray for wisdom for me, grace to lead for all of us and joy to be very prevelant on our faces!

Wednesday is our first JAM Family Service. Yeah! Bibleman will be with us for the evening. Todd, Keri and six children will be joining us on stage. The bgvs along with this crew will be doing motions to the songs. Let's be big and help them feel comfortable doing wild things on stage!

I am very excited for this week and the amazing team I am a part of. I thank God each day for you all!

Valued Audio Team

Last Saturday, Aaron and I had a great meeting with our audio team. We talked about the new drum cage, communication between the stage along with other important items.

Wow, what a great audio team we have! Their desire is to serve the Pastors and vision of The Rock Church first and foremost (doing that through serving the worship team and allowing the good news to come across clearly and beautifully). You see them running around, changing batteries, purchasing french fries (Cris wouldn't let me pay him for them), setting up and tearing down equipment, perfecting the drumcage, making notes for each song (just like we do so they know have notes on mixing sound), and lot more...all with a smile and a kind reply!

As a result of our meeting and their hard work on Saturday and Sunday, Sunday's worship sounded phenomenal! Agree with me as we pray for them today and ask God's to pour His grace and blessing on them. Lord, refresh their joy, refire their passion and prosper all they put their hands to. Amen!

We are very good at working with our audio techs. As a reminder, all requests to them go through the worship leader or appointed person for that particular service. Thank you for making history!

Next Sunday January 21st

Next Sunday is the day we will break the fast!!! As a result, we will be having communion and doing music for the entire service. I have a phenominal worship song (about the cross) that is fairly easy. I don't want to introducte too many new songs. What would you think about doing this new worship song for next Sunday? We could do "Grace Like Rain" for Fuel instead of "It's a New Day."

I haven't thought it through but would like to know your thoughts.
Blessings!
Mel

Practice tonight

Wow, what a great practice! Thank you for practicing the new song prior to practice. It made a HUGE difference. I believe the grace of God was so present, as well. If you are unable to retrieve the songs (for whatever reason) call, e-mail...let me know so we can get these to you. We are at another level and I want everyone in the loop and on board! I also want to be able to call on you to lead or step up and you can't if you don't know it.

I anticipate a real move of God tomorrow. We prayerd for the prophetic to flow, this year. I believe tomorrow will be a great service for this. 1 Chronicles 25:1 speaks of David and the captains of the army separating for the service those who would prophesy on the instruments. These also were skillful on their instrument. We do a fantastic job of worshiping with the song and listening for one another. I believe this will be a year when we will invest in our relationships as a team so to 'read' each other even better. Also, one of delving into worship. There's nothing like a team that plays together, too! (Like fun play...well, I mean games, adrenaline, etc.)

I believe some of you are even now making a renewed commitment to the team and to your service in the Lord. Go for it! Jump in. I know, sometimes as girls, we don't always want to get our hair wet 'cause if might get messed up. We can all get that way with God. Well, GET YOUR HAIR WET!!!

Love you all!

opening the new song

I just tried opening the new song Grace Like Rain, and when I clicked on listen,
it said my computer isnt authorized to play it, it then asks for a user name
for the account that purchased the song, is there a password we need to listen to it?

Fasting

Hey!

How's the fast coming? I am really excited about it but really want to filet mignon! (-:

I would like to schedule a day or a chunk of a day for a fasting/prayer/game/whatever time with the team.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Mel

How can we best use this blog?

Before we release this blog, please give me your ideas on how we can best use this? Shall we have a set list of questions and those who played can answer? I think parameters will be good. Ideas on questions, parameters, etc?

You Give Me Joy

I thought the song went well. I was very happy that the team had practiced. I figure I was not clear to some on what specifically I wanted them to practice. Nash, it sounds like you practiced your part! Cool!

Aaron, great feedback.

Well, that is all for now as I want to see what this will look like!