Easter Wrap-up

Yesterday (Easter Sunday) was an amazing day!

We've been taking part in a 21 day fast leading up to Easter and had an awesome worship experience Saturday night. where we celebrated with the Lord's supper.

Steven and Jonathon did a fantastic job leading worship.

Then yesterday was....

Setlist:
Oh happy day
Happy day

All around the world

Grace flows down
Amazing Grace
Lift high
Jesus paid it all

*You found me

Glory in the highest.


One of our band members happens to own a Hammond Organ, So the service kicked off with some ocking organ right into Oh happy day, from which we flowed directly into happy day.

All around the world is a rocking worship song from Elevation Worship, and having the organ in it just added another layer of depth to the song.

Grace flows down was a new one to me, but an amazing worship song, followed by the first verse of Amazing grace which led into Lift High which we cut short and then went right into Jesus paid it all. <- This was such a powerful moment the whole band dropped out and out four worship leaders all proclaming "Oh praise the One who paid my debt and raised this life out from the dead"


You found me served a double purpose, we used it over offering, but also as part of our promotional package for the service we had a video shoot with Jonathon (who co-led worship the night before) to this song so it was a tie-in for people who had seen it.


Finally we closed out the service with Glory in the highest, complete a team of volunteers foring a choir, another very powerful moment, about midway through the song when he choir came out, people everywhere stood up and joined us in worship, it was such an inspiring moment.

I was just humbled (and giddy, truth be known) that God allowed me to take part in this service (as I was originally scheduled to have off, I'm so glad it ended up working out the way it did).

Worship team:
Mia, Jeremy, Tom, Tammie, Elizabeth, Me, Ben, John, Bill + Choir
Sorry Choir, (I'm going to name who I can remember, but if I missed you i'm terribly sorry!) Jeanie, Dave, Willie, Tiffany, Leigh, Holly, Phil, Tim.

Are you ready?

Lifepoint's first Staff Songwriters retreat is this weekend, getting ready for some exciting music projects very soon.

Spring errr... Winter cleaning....

Sorry for long lack of posts, though my personal blog hasn't fared that much better, going to be doing some cleaning and re-organizing around here, and I'm planning to keep this blog here, even though I've been debating migrating my personal one over to wordpress with blogger as a mirror, still trying to figure out design before i do any major jumps like that... also Lifepoint worship has been doing some restructuring (in a good way)

Missing Set lists:

Sorry I've been rather busy as of late and I'm afraid I've got a spot of catching up to do, so here's our set lists from the last few weeks:

Set List Sept 14"
We Shine
Salvation's Chorus
How He Loves
Performance song opener: Not My time by 3 doors down

We had an interesting day this day, due to a medical emergency we had to switch worship leaders last minute (like the night before) and the team did an awesome job dealing any problems that might have cropped up as a result.
Band: Tom(WL), John(D), Ronnie (EG), Dave(K), Elizabeth(P), Ricky(B)


Set list: Sept 21
Point of Difference
Everlasting God
Let me Sing
Performance Song opener: 100 years by Five for fighting

Band: Jeremy(WL), Steven(K), Elizabeth(P), Bill(B), Anne(V), Ronnie(EG), Matt(D)


Set list: Sept 28
We Cry Out
Sing to the King
Famous One
Performance Song: Live like you were dying (Vocals by Steven)
This was the week or our Elevation trip, so I sad-to-say missed the service, however I did get to attend the practice so I know it had to be amazing!
Band: Tammie(WL), John(D), Bill(B), Ronnie(EG), Dave(K), Elizabeth(P), Steven(AG), Jeanie(V), Mia(V)

Set List Oct 5:
Happy Day
Breathe on Me
Your Grace is enough
Band: Jeremy(WL), Elizabeth(P), Dave(K), Matt(D), Bill(B)

Set list Oct 12:

Salvation's Chorus
Let Me Sing
Glorious One
Lift High

I know what you're thinking, you're thinking Matt it looks like you did a song set from the Louder than Creation CD fro Northpoint... well we did. Why? Two words, multi tracks.... ok perhaps a bit more explanation is required here. We had a scheduling conflict with the drummer who was going o play that day, (and I was out of state for a conference), so I started looking for another drummer to fill in for us, seven people later I had five no's and two no-call backs, so we re-planned the worship to one that we had multi-tracks for (blog post on those to follow at later point), I was praying that God would provide a drummer, but I wasn't going to just sit idle at the same time, perhaps it was a lack of faith on my part, I'm not sure.

Anyway to make a long story ever longer... (sorry I'm verbose I know!) He did provide and Glenn Williams? (memo to self, get the name from Jeremy) did an awesome job on the drums last week, Thanks Glenn! Rest of the Band: Jeremy(WL), Bill(B), Ronnie(EG), Elizabeth(P) and Mia(V).

Set list 09/08/08

Central:
Solid Rock
Lift High
Breathe on me
One life to love (Performance song by 33 miles) - Okay THIS was awesome!

Band:
Bill, Justin, Dave, Elizabeth, Jeremy, Matt, Jessica

Downtown:
Salvation's Chorus
Amazing Love (You Are My King)
Amazing Grace
Band:
Ricky, Ronnie, John, Mia

Set List 08/31/08

Ha! Went ahead and got this post done ahead of schedule so all that's left is to tweak any comments I may need to make about it.

So Downtown's got a drummer now (other than me), but I like the idea of all of our worship sets in one convenient location (helps me fill out CCLI reports), so I'll probably still continue posting both campuses sets here (or I'll get one of the guys from downtown to post them here)


Set List: Lifepoint:
Salvation's Chorus
Breathe on Me - (Todd Fields) This is one of my favorite worship songs... (come to think of it I think I've said that about every song on the Northpoint's Louder Than Creation)
How He Loves
Lay it down
Let Me Sing
Band: Jeremy, Ronnie, Tammie, Bill, Elizabeth, Leigh, Mia, Me

Set List: Lifepoint Down Town:
Mighty To Save
Salvation's Chorus
How He Loves
You Alone
Band: Mia, Ronnie, Tammie, Ricky, Me

Set list 08/24/08

Well starting next week I'll have a little less commentary about our worship songs (unless something strikes me) unless we're introducing a new song (Oh yeah, we are how about that...), anyway this was Brandon's last week of leading worship at our Downtown Campus and so I'll be posting worship sets for both campuses for the time being, but that won't start until next week. I'm really looking forward to what God's been doing both at Main Campus and Downtown Campus, it's been an awesome adventure and it's going to get even better.

Right, before I jump into the set lists' wanted to say welcome back to Jeremy (Our admin and worship arts Pastor) who's been on vacation and wearing other hats for the last three weeks (working with host team, preaching, you know little things like that).

Set List:
Performance Song: Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield) - When we started there where it all began the premise was simple, The Church didn't start with hundreds of people it started with Jesus and his disciples, but we wanted to make the point that the story of the church was still going on today, so of course, "The rest is still unwritten." (At least until we get to Revelations, but that's another subject matter entirely).

You Are (Todd Fields) - One of my favorite faster paced worship songs, there is so much truth in this song. This one is from the Nothpoint Live Album

Lord of All (Kristian Stanfill) - We did this song for the first time the last time Jeremy lead worship, it's another awesome song from the Louder than Creation worship album (Northpoint).

God of This City (Andrew McCann, Boyd Aaron, Ian Jordan, Peter Comfort, , Peter Kernaghan, Richard Bleakley... We did the Passion'08 arrangement of the song) - Theme Worship song... kinda funny in the 4 weeks we've done this song we haven't done it the same way once, thought I think this last week (literally, as the series is over) was the most fun I've had with it.

Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone (Traditional/Tomlin) - This followed the "Fix You" video, wanting to add some amazing worship to follow that amazing video.

Other Elements: The Fix You (Coldplay) Video: Josh (Our Downtown campus pastor and video/graphic arts director) designed an AWESOME testimonial video with snippets from letters we've received interviews we did and audio clips from the other sermons in this series, the end result was a heart stirring video that I HOPE he puts up for Creative Chaos tomorrow so I can link it.

EDIT: It's up and available for view HERE

Just an AWESOME worship set, Thank you God for letting me be a part of this movement to reach people far from You.

Band: Jeremy, Ronnie, Steven (Keys this week), Bill, Elizabeth, Me, Vocals: Tammie and Kimberli (Nee-san!)

No gear broke, but I've "retired" the JAck Dejohnette sticks I were using a bit to loud when I play aggressive and switched to the Dennis Chamber series.