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Centerpoint Church 5/24/09
Opening Set
-I Am Free - C - (Jon Egan)
-Holy Is The Lord - G - (Chris Tomlin, Louie Giglio)
-Unashamed Love - G - (Lamont Hiebert)
Closing Song
-You Said - G to A - (Reuben Morgan)
What a powerful time of worship we had yesterday! We're one week away from the end of our 1 Peter series, and yesterday's theme was "Dare I Hope to Make a Difference?" Really great stuff from Dave, and all of our other service elements tied in very well. We opened the message with a clip from "Pay It Forward" (the classroom scene where Kevin Spacey's character first gives the class their assignment), it was a great set up.
From a music perspective, things were pretty different yesterday. I'm all about new technologies and the benefits they bring to worship. In-Ear monitors and loops are great, and modern guitar processing has gotten really good. I think the sounds that we're able to produce on Sunday's are really great. Having said that, I also think that those technologies can pretty easily become a distraction and/or barrier to our worship sometimes. For that reason, I like to get away from them once in a while, and that's what we did yesterday morning. We used an acoustic setup (2 guitars, 3 vocals, and I switched around between harmonica, ukulele & percussion). No Avioms, just two old-fashioned stage wedges out front. First off, I need to say that this wouldn't work nearly as well as it did if I didn't have the team of musicians that I have. They were right on top of it and everything sounded great. Our congregation really gets into it when we do these acoustic weeks from time to time, and yesterday was no exception. Folks were worshipping passionately and openly, very refreshing to see and hear from the stage. Great stuff.
Technically, we had a very smooth morning. We did have to reset our projector during rehearsal, but now that we have a lift at the church all the time, that has gotten to be a fairly routine task. The only irritating thing about it is having to line the projection back up when it's done! The mix was great & the monitors were solid (no small task in that room to accomplish both of those things!) I do think that we can still do a little better with the flow of our video elements. As soon as the offering song fades, the video can start... we don't want to leave the congregation sitting awkwardly in the dark.
All in all, a really great morning... couldn't be happier!
