US Holiday/WorshipGod 11 Conference - mission-focused meetings, instrument shopping, Sunday meeting

Mission-focused meetings

The final day of WorshipGod 11 had one last session, capping off a wonderful end to a wonderful few days. Craig Cabaniss taught us from 1 Peter 2:9, and cautioned against seeing our worship gatherings as a complete break from “the real mission” out there, and showing from Scripture that there is to some [...]

US Holiday/WorshipGod 11 Conference - edify, songwrite, organise, gather live

Day 3 of WorshipGod 11. One general session, two more seminars, and an evening of singing for a live album recording. We worship a generous King, showering kindness on us!

Edify

For the morning session, the worship was led by Sojourn Music. Their songs have a unique indie-folk sound to their songs, and lead using a neoliturgical [...]

US Holiday/WorshipGod 11 Conference - rehearse, seminars, NZ connection, Enfield, Thabiti

Day 2 of WorshipGod 11.

A full day of 2 general sessions and 2 seminars, as well as dinner with a family with strong NZ connections. Wow, thank you Lord for such an amazing day!

Rehearse

There was some more comedy from Mark Altrogge in the morning (it seems like a WorshipGod thing for Mark to encourage and [...]

US Holiday/WorshipGod 11 Conference - sing, meet, glory

Wednesday – Day 1 of WorshipGod 11.

Some miscellaneous observations to begin with first:

My USA driving skills have improved a bit, praise God! The weirdest thing here would definitely be the stop sign intersections. Instead of roundabouts, everyone has a stop sign in front of them, and whoever gets there first gets to drive first. Had [...]

Worship Leader's Redux: Easter Weekend 2010 Part 2

 

In my last post I covered some of the positives I drew from the services over Easter weekend. With time to reflect I’m sharing a few points that I could have done better on:

I didn’t write out all my chords for a new song we tried, “Completely Done“. This wasn’t too much of a problem [...]

Worship Leader's Redux: Easter Weekend 2010 Part 1

I’m sitting at home enjoying a scoop of cookies and cream ice-cream. Easter Monday is a public holiday in NZ and so I’m savouring this time to unwind and catch up on errands and jobs around the house. But as I sit here I’m reflecting on the Easter Friday and Sunday’s services at Howick Baptist [...]