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CenterPoint Church 12/13/09

Opening Set
    -O Come O Come Emmanuel - Em - Traditional
    -O Come All Ye Faithful - G - Traditional
    -Counting On God - B - Jared Anderson
    -From The Inside Out - Bb - Joel Houston

Closing Song
    -You Are My King (Amazing Love) - E - Billy Foote

I'm late getting my set up this week... tis the season of business in the lives of worship leaders!  In any case, we had a great time of worship on Sunday!  Timon led worship this week, so I just got to be in the band.  I really enjoy that when it happens.  Nice to be able to focus just on my playing once in a while and not have to sing/lead.  It also gives me room to play around a little bit, hence my setup for the week:

Two basses (one detuned), keyboard, synth module, Kaoss Pad, click tracks... needless to say, I had a good time this weekend :-P  Seriously though, the band was really hitting this week.  In all honesty, it probably wasn't the cleanest service we've had recently, but we were playing really well together and there was just a great vibe in the service.  I think we ran just a little bit louder this Sunday, as well, which helps the energy level a lot as well.  We started to roll out a little Christmas music this week, which I'm ok with.  We've got a lot more coming up this Sunday.

This was the second week in Pastor Dave's Christmas Series about Journeys.  The title of the message was "Detours", and we were able to set up a really cool element as folks came into worship.  We have a member who works for AEP, and he was able to get us a bunch of traffic cones, stop signs, construction helmets, reflective vests, etc.  As people came into the building, they ran into a big detour sign preventing them from entering the worship center through the normal entrance.  Instead, they had to work their way through the building, with "workers" guiding them to worship.  Very cool example of how unexpected (and sometimes very frustrating!) detours can be in our lives.  On top of that, one of the main roads that leads to the church was unexpectedly closed on Sunday morning, so the effect was that much better!  Very cool!

The congregation was really responsive this week!  We had a good crowd (late... but good) and they were definitely into the music and the message.  An excellent week all around!