BREATHE SONG

Hello!

Terryl will be leading "Mighty to Save" at Breathe on Saturday.

Lori Nelson will do the opener and transition. After the transition, if I am not there, I will do a live hello! Then, Rachel will explain workshops and pamper zone, lunch, etc. I am so excited for Saturday!

Sound Check will be at 9:00 am. Service begins at 9:30 am.

So, after Lori, the band will strike it up and rock the flock (as Aaron would say).

Thank you for holding up the fort while I am away. I have such confidence in you all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RACHEL!

This weekend is Rachel's birthday.

Rachel, I am so blessed to have you on our team. I am blessed by your leadership and fantastic attitute. I always say, you are contageous! In a GOOD way!

Thank you for your passion to worship God, our team and His vision! I love you!

NOVEMBER SCHEDULE

AGAIN: LET ME KNOW IF SOMETHING IS INCORRECT. THANKS FOR YOU!

November 3rd: Breathe Worship at 9:30, Sound Check at 9am
Drums: Robin
Electric: Terryl
Bass: Chris (thank you!)
Acoustic: Karen
Keys: Mel
BGV: Rach, Gia, Naomi, Heather
Song: Mighty to Save. Maybe: Glorious One

November 4th
Drums: Mitch
Electric: Terryl
Acoustic: (sun) Travis (sat) Zach
Keys: Nash
Bass: Kevin
BGV: Heather, Gia, Dan, Rachel
Color: Black with White
Jr. High: Naomi (post songs with set lists)


November 11th
Drums: Aaron (sun) Robin (sat)
Electric: Terryl and Dan
Acoustic: (sun) Travis (sat) Karen
Keys: Nash
Bass: Chris
BGV: Naomi, Gia, Dan, Rachel
Color: Navy/Dark colors
Jr. High: Zach (post songs with set lists)

November 18th
Drums: Aaron (sun) Robin (sat)
Electric: Terryl and Dan
Acoustic: (sun) Travis (sat) Zach
Keys: Nash
Bass: Kevin
BGV: Heather, Dan, Rachel, Gia
Color: Navy/Dark colors
Jr. High: Zach (post songs with set lists)

November 25th
Drums: Aaron (sun) Robin (sat)
Electric: Terryl
Acoustic: (sun) Travis (sat) Zach
Keys: Nash
Bass: Chris
BGV: Heather, Gia, Rachel, Zach
Color: Black with color
Jr. High: Dan (post songs with set lists), Karen to play acoustic

November 28th FUEL
NO RC WORSHIP. CONCERT!

PRAISE GOD FOR OUR SAFETY CONSCIOUS PRODUCTION TEAM!!

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JAM COSTUME?

You are welcome to dress up for Fuel in a costume or wear purple or black.

Wahooo! It is going to be a blast. We are raising up the next generation of worshippers!
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OCTOBER FUEL

Thank you for such a fantastic job well done on Sunday! You were energetic and really worked well as a team.

Here is the updated FUEL list:
10.24 Fuel
Point of Difference
History Maker without "Holy is the Lord"
Presence: Gia lead Mel's part

Rachel will lead sound check and pray prior to Presence.

Love you all!

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES: HOT OFF THE PRESS!

For your family planning and calendars...the Christmas Eve services will be held on 12/24 at 5, 6:30 and 8 pm. Each service will be an hour long. We will have food here for you.

Let your families and friends know so they can plan on attending and making room for you! This is going to be a huge year for salvations. We are going to have television commercials for the entire month!

REASONS FOR A DRAGGING SERVICE

I want to start some dialogue on services that resemble a caterpillar dragging itself through rubber cement.

I have been praying and believe I have a word from the Lord as to the main reason...

As we enter this discussion, it is important to recognize and remember our ways are not the Lord's ways and at times, He will direct the service in a way we don't particularly feel comfortable with. But, that doesn't mean it is not God! As well, there is no formula or definition of the "perfect service." And, the huge ministry moment typically happens with the word/alter. If it happens during worship, "WOW" but then know it most likely won't happen during the word. We are discussing perspectives.

That said, I have a few thoughts on a dragging service the first of which is most important AND the most prevalent...
1. All HELL IS AGAINST GOD MOVING!!! Even though we know that "greater is He that is in us than He who is in this world," we are all human and at times feel it is our fault and entirely miss the spiritual battle we must fight.
2. We are not prepared and are not practiced in a song or our parts. When this happens, we play with hesitation, therefore missing any opportunity to worship or allow the Lord to direct us.
3. The audio mix is not right in the worship center. We, as a team have no idea when this happens (except for the faces) because what is in our mix or heard on stage is NOTHING like the house mix.
4. The words are not correct or present on the screen. This is why they must practice with us.
5. We are not leading from a place of faith. We cannot lead the people from the same position as the people. We must live where we want to be.
6. The team on stage is not BIG with showing thanksgiving and adoration to God.
7. Any of the evaluation points are avoided.
8. The people are oppressed, stressed, preoccupied.
9. Did I say the people? (-:

This leads me to the final (although the reasons are limitless)and crucial potential reason for a blahze service...

10. Pride on the stage. I have been convicted of this point and believe our team has been a victim of this. When I say pride, I don't mean an obvious arrogance but I mean a lack of dependence on God. With all I have been preparing, moving, traveling, healing, training for the internship starting, home studies and moving again, I have found myself in a mode of "I can (HAVE TO) get this all done." I have, at times, found myself drained before practice and easily frustrated or unprepared. Well, I know I CANNOT get it done successfully without the grace of God wisdom. This comes from an infilling of DAILY word AND prayer. I have been walking in P-R-I-D-E. For this, I am truly sorry. While in pride, it is difficult to lead others to not fall into the same place. Sure, I have been getting daily prayer in but not prayer and word to the extent I need to be for us to go to another level.

When I show up for practice and service, I need to show up with six days of prayer and word under my belt. I need to show up with an attitude of thanksgiving, praise and being mindful of all Christ has done for me. When I do this, I will not even blink at being full of passion on stage. I won't be moved by peoples' faces or a blahze atmosphere. I will KNOW that my God will move in the service and that no matter what I feel...HE IS MOVING! My will has to be aligned with the will of God.

Every one of you MUST get your daily dose, too! I am going to start a Thanksgiving journal. One in which I give thanks every day for what the Lord has done. In doing this, a true heart of worship and humility is cultivated. Will you join me in humbly worshiping God and meeting Him...every day?

SERVICE AND PRACTICE EVALUATION

Hey Team! What a fantastic weekend. Thank you for your dedication and incredible passion for the next level. Here is a list of Service and Practice Evaluation points. Please review these and add or alter any I have listed. I will then post in the green room.

SERVICE/PRACTICE EVALUATION

Were you personally prepared and practiced on the new song?
Were you prepared spiritually for service?
Were you physically rested and ready?
Flow between songs
Syncopation
Musos Stage presence: smile, big moves in chorus, energy, attitude
BGV’s Stage presence: smile, big clapping hands, energy, attitude, when moving, reach destination on first word of line
Connection with people:
-point, face, sing to, invite with hands
Connection with band:
-point, face, sing to, jump, move to each other
Texture/musical space:
Dynamics (large/small moments, crispness)
Communication with leader of song/worship leader
Did we lead from a place of faith?
Perform or Worship?

Audio Schedule

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KEVIN

Did you know it was Kevin's birthday this week?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KEVIN!

You are such an incredible man of God. Thank you for living a life of passion, support and pursuit of God's best for yourself and others! I look forward to your jokes, your laugh and you know...just looking at you makes me laugh! But not because you look funny! Because you are so full of life!

I appreciate you!

CALL ME A BULLDOG WITH LIPSTICK!

Greetings Team!

I am very excited about what God is doing in our midst and for us. Justin, myself and some others are going to spend the next week or so cleaning up, re-gridding and organizing the stage and audio equipment.

If you are an organizational genius, please get a hold of me because we can use you! We are developing systems for putting things back after using, keeping track of microphones, which ones go to the speaker and which ones DON'T, finding out what we have and organizing it...the list goes on.

I will be bringing everyone on the same page as to what "being ready for practice" as well as "having the stage set for practice" means. When everyone is on the same page, things go smoothly AND practice begins on time.

I will also be posting the evaluation points. We can use these for practice as well as services. Love it!!! Cannot know where you have improved lest you know where you have been AND not forgotten.

I am very excited about Ryan who has joined our sound team. He has not had a good chance to "feel out" our stage and where everything plugs in. This is going to help him a lot. He has the ability to raise our audio to another level. Let him know you appreciate him.

Team, thank you for your patience.

I am a bulldog with lipstick on, right now! I will be fasting Breakfast and Lunch on Tuesday. If you want to join me, do it. Let's grab on to ALL God has for us!

NEW PRACTICE SCHEDULE!!

Beginning October 6th, we will begin starting practice at 5:00 PM. This will enable us to worship, avoid the practice rush and really enjoy it all!

Not THIS weekend but NEXT weekend we will begin practice at 5pm!

OCTOBER SCHEDULE

Check to be sure I got your vacation correct!

October 21st
Drums: Robin
Electric: Terryl
Acoustic (sun)Travis (Sat) Zach
Keys: Nash
Bass: Kevin
BGV: Naomi, Michael, Rachel, Dan
Color: tan/orange/green-ish
Jr. High: Gia (post songs with set lists)

NO Fuel practice
Fuel: 10/24: same lineup as 10/21st

October 28th
Drums: Mitch
Electric: Terryl and Dan
Acoustic: (sun) Travis (sat) Zach
Keys: Nash
Bass: Chris
BGV: Heather, Gia, Michael, Rachel
Color: Navy/Dark colors
Jr. High: Dan (post songs with set lists)

Practice on Tuesday, 10/30 at 6:30 pm (with kids!)
Jam: 10/31: same lineup as 10/28th (with no Dan H. and Robin on Drums)

SONG LISTS

10.24 Fuel
Point of Difference
History Maker
Presence: Gia lead Mel's part,
Rach lead sound check and pray prior to Presence


10.27.28
Salvation is here
Gia encourage all to join in!
Kingdom Come
Presence (Gia sing Mel's part)
Rachel prayer prior while next song begins
Glorious One (Gia lead melody with Terryl)

Jr. High: Salvation is Here, Glorious One

10.31 Jam: Terryl, take one fast song out
I am Free: Brianna lead verses so will hold microphone entire time
Tell the World
The Stand: Cheyenne lead so will hold microphone entire time
**All bgv's walk around with microphones for kids to sing (you hold them)**

11.3.4
Chris Hill here! Three songs:
Look to You
There is nothing like (bgv, please show Rachel we sing entire song which is different from her notes)
Glory in the highest without bridge in beginning (Gia sing p. mel parts)

Jr. high: Look to You, Glory in the highest

11.9.10
In Your Freedom