serve the world...

Worship Set 1You Are Good
This is our second week with this song. It is so fun and upbeat. Lyrics (Brian Johnson & Jeremy Riddle, BETHEL MUSIC 2011)
Freedom is Here

Worship Set 2
Here For You (Matt Redman)
Always (Kristian Stanfill)

Message: serve the world...

Worship Set 3
Tear Down the Walls

Two focuses on our “serve the world...” Sunday.
One is our partnership with Windswept Academy. Gearing up for uur third trip to South Dakota
This is what we did last year
Building a fence 

Second, today we are partnering with another local church for a collection of food for a backpack buddy program here locally. This is one of the things I love about our people. A couple times a year, we hand out a list on Sunday morning and have people come back later in the day to drop off donations.

It's cool to see how people respond. We are a medium sized church with a big heart to help others.

This is being submitted to Sunday Set Lists @ theworshipcommunity.com

love others...

Well, our worship and tech team were fired up this morning. We spent Saturday night listening to Russell Fragar (of Hillsong fame). This week we had two worship leaders on stage. Each worship leader sort of has a niche. I categorize them into mostly “current”. “retro” and “vintage”. This week is a some current songs & vintage (hymns). We also had our violinist playing.

Worship Set 1
One Thing

Worship Set 2
You Are Good
Beauty of the Lord
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow


Message: “love others...”

Worship Set 3
In Christ Alone

How would you define your worship set lists?

This week for the stage design we obviously wanted to highlight the "love others" banner.

All this and more being posted over at the Sunday Set List @ worshipcommunity.com.

love God, not kidney stones...

I love our worship leaders! This week was part 2 in our series of “love God, love others, serve the world”... The message today was “love God” and our worship sets really highlighted the message.

Worship Set 1
Our Love is Loud

Worship Set 2
Our God
Revelation Song
Only You
Message: love God...

Worship Set 3
Awakening

We will be focusing a lot on this series, which is also our purpose statement at XC. Our banners arrived this week. Printed on foam core. Looked really nice.

O.k. Got the love God; but kidney stones? Yup! I have been battling kidney stones for awhile. Got the stage all set up, but then I had to leave because of the stones. (sadness).

This is being posted as part of Sunday Set Lists @ the Worship Community. See what people are singing today across the nation.

love God, love others, serve the world...

It has been a while since I have participated in the "Sunday Set List", at TheWorshipCommunity.com. So here goes...

Intro
Worship Set 1

Love Came Down

Worship Set 2

There is Nothing Like

I Love Your Presence

Always

Video: "This is Discipling" by Kelly Tshibaka at Foursquare Connection

Message: Love God, Love Others, Serve the World

Worship Set 3

Holding Nothing Back

Nice flow today. We have 4 worship leaders currently serving; one of them being a college student that lead today (home for the holidays).

For those of you who don't know me, I facilitate our creative team, produce, do the stage designs (for a mobile church) and I love worship. Our set was really laid back today since we were focusing on Vision Casting for the coming year.

love God, love others, serve the world…

China
This week's focus at XC was on "serve the world... "

Worship Set 1
Happy Day
Solution

Worship Set 2 -
Tear Down the Walls (Hillsong United)
Revelation Song (Jesus Culture) This is an amazing song. if you haven't heard it yet, I highly encourage you to listen.

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER

Song in Chinese: we learned and sang a popular Chinese worship song in Chinese.
Jesus I Love You

Message: Our missionary in China shared her journey to serving God in China.

Reflective Worship Song
Where You Go I Go (Jesus Culture)


The stage focus in on traditional Chinese colors red & black. We also used live cut bamboo at the entrance to the school, for the stage and on a shoji in the communion area

This is part of Sunday Set List at the Worship Community.

לקוות ...

Wild and crazy production weekend. While we try to do a creative piece each weekend; this last weekend was a magnificent tapestry woven together of many creative elements. I am simply blown away to be able to serve with our awesome teams.
These elements included the blowing of the Shofar, two original songs, a dance, a reading from Eli Weisel and last but certainly not least, 4 cantor elements with Rabbi Neal Surasky of Kehilat Sar Shalom.
For the stage set design we created a background screen of chiffon draped over two 1” x 2” x 10’ pieces of wood. They were painted black, and we drilled to holes on each end. Then each piece was suspended on the black curtains with fishing line and safety pins. Honestly I don’t know what I would do if we didn’t have fishing line and safety pins.
Sadly, I got so wrapped up in producing, that I failed to get enough pictures.
One last thought, part of what makes our team work so well together is we actually like to spend time together. We often go out to lunch after our Saturday set up/rehearsal and EVERY Sunday. This week Rabbi Neal and his amazing wife Kim joined the crew at Foster’s. It was an incredible time of laughter, learning and gnoshing.
ILML

Our Order of Service (and worship set list)
Blowing of the Shofar
Instrumental Opener

Worship Set 1
Freedom is Here

Bridge: Hope in difficult circumstances using illustration of God’s Chosen People.

Cantor Piece # 1 - Hatikvah - Rabbi Neal

Reading from Eli Weisel

“Israel’s Song“with dance (original song Desneige Eisenberg)

Cantor Piece # 2 - Rabbi Neal (In Hebrew, but words in English on the screen)

Reading of Psalm 42

Worship Set 2
“Psalm 42” (original song by Melanie Moore)

Message: Chris Eads interviewing Rabbi Neal

Cantor Piece # 3 - Rabbi Neal teaching a song to the congregation

Worship Set 3
I Surrender
Congregational Prayer
Better is One Day (Amazing Grace)

Cantor Piece # 4 - Rabbi Neal doing the Aaronic Benediction Blessing (Numbers 6)

imperfect church, imperfect pastors...

This is the last week in our series entitled "imperfect church". This has been one of the very best series since I have been going to CrossCurrent. Really great messages and super fun stage designs.

Instrumental Opener

Worship Set 1
Our Love is Loud
How Great Thou Art

Welcome & Greet Announcements

Worship Set 2
This is Our God
All I Need is You (Hillsong)


Drama: Too Hard
Video -Pastor Journal

imperfect pastors... from dorothy (vicar of vibe) on Vimeo.

Message - imperfect church, imperfect pastors...

Worship Set 3
The Stand/Chorus of Tear Down the Walls
We wound up not doing the last song.

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imperfect church...

Worship was sweet this morning.
Da' band just keeps growing. We have had a mandolin playing for the last two weeks. That's right, a mandolin! Talk about rocking, especially during "How Great Thou Art". So, we have had a bit of an explosion in da' band. Amazing what prayer will do. Close to 40 people on rotation now, 6-8 worship leaders, diversity in instruments. Praying for a banjo or fiddle...
God has been adding to other weekend teams also...I just love the way God works!

Instrumental opener

Worship Set 1
Let the Praises Ring
How Great Thou Art

Welcome & Greet

Worship Set 2
From the Inside Out
Only You

Video - Alone in the Crowd
Message: imperfect relationships

Special Song- Masquerade

Time of Reflection (instrumental)
To find out more about what others are singing across the world, check out Sunday Set List at Fred McKinnon's blog.

imperfect church (part 1)

Did you ever have one of those really, really great Sundays?

This was one of those days from start to finish - every single element flowed together in perfect harmony.
People came ready to worship today.
And the worship team, knocked it out of the house!!!!

We are started a new series, and the creative element was one of the best I've seen us do in-house. I hope to have it posted a little later this week. But you can get an idea from the promo video here.

But, the very best thing that happened is a wonderful friend has became a new believer! This is why we do what we do...nothing else matters in the scheme of things.


Worship Set 1

Our Love is Loud

Not to Us

Welcome & Greet

Video (creative element)

imperfect church

Special Song

Bring On the Wonder - Susan Enon

Message

Testimony

Worship Set 2

Better is One Day (On Fire chorus- Switchfoot)

Holy, Holy, Holy

Join in and check what other wl's are doing across the world at Fred McKinnon's Sunday Set List blog carnival.

change...

Intro:
Change -Taylor Swift

Worship Set 1
Let the Praises Ring

Welcome & Greet
Announcements & promo for "imperfect church" series

The Imperfect Church from CrossCurrent Ministries on Vimeo.

Message: was on freedom from fear through the gospel.

Worship Set 2
Only You
I Surrender
Be Thou My Vision
Overcome

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short and sweet...

Worship Set 1
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee

Welcome & Greet

Worship Set 2
Beautiful One
Only You

Message: was WoW!

Worship Set 3
I Surrender All
Blessed Be Your Name

I must say I am ever so grateful for the gift of faith.

I appreciate all of you who serve week, after week, after week. may your passion be magnified a hundred fold. See other worship recaps at Sunday Set list...

entice the skeptic, challenge the lukewarm and ignite passion in the believer (to go into the world)...

volunteers rock!!!!

TONS of tech issues and last minutes additions by the pastoral staff this week. I stepped into the producer role late this week and let me tell you, I simply can not say enough about the awesome weekend experience volunteers at our church. A lot of these people log in 15-25 hours a week, every single week. They stepped up and made everything happen.
School is about to start here so we had to do a complete load out this weekend. Afterwards several people jumped in to help.
OMGoodness, huge hugs to everyone!

Worship Set 1
Our Love Is Loud
Unchanging

Worship Set 2
I Will Exalt You (see below)
We Are Hungry

The newest Hillsong cd Faith + Hope + Love was released on August 4th and I got to hear Brooke sing "I Will Exalt You" live August 5th. Amazing! Also got to hear her at a couple of breakout sessions; she is so humble.

I Will Exalt You - Hillsong from Carlos Whittaker on Vimeo.

Worship Set 3
Jesus Paid it All (with a back ground video of the baptisms from last Sunday)

Have you heard Faith + Hope + Love? Tell me what you think of "I Will Exalt You"...

This is part of Sunday Set List blog carnival at Fred McKinnon's blog.

retro Sunday...

Kind of a retro Sunday today. This month we are concluding a year long series the “Jesus Experiment”. So I was going retro to the stage set we did when we started the series. Here...

But the stage design kind of exploded when we were doing set up yesterday. Cool. Which is also what sort of happened in worship today.

Particularly "Hungry" was off the charts. It was done with a Fleetwood Mac feel.

Worship Set 1
Fields of Grace
Happy Day

Welcome & Greet / Announcements
Highlight - Baby Dedications (Yippee!)

Worship Set 2
Hungry
Message: David Nicotra (our summer youth pastor intern gave the message today) He spoke about the responsibility of the body.

Special Song
Can Anybody Hear Her? (WoW!)

Worship Set 3
The Wonderful Cross
Happy Day

Loads of technical issues this weekend. We are seriously thinking about our worship presentation software. So many issues since we downloaded the newest version.

I also thought I’d include a vid that we did a few weeks ago, since they are never posted on Sunday. We have an awesome media and drama team.

This is church? You bet it is…

And since it is summer we get a little bit of a break and don't have to completely break down everything each week. Here is what the stage looked like when we left.

Yep, I love what I do... How about you?

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I LML

A lot has been going on this month. It’s been an exciting whirlwind.
As you may know, I spend a lot of time just hanging out at Starbucks, chatting with various people, developing relationships. Out of the blue about a month ago, one of my very sweet gals who I used to work and hang out with at Starbucks, hit me up on facebook and said she wanted to talk about God.
She is ready to start journeying back into a relationship with God. It has been fun and exciting to be on the journey with her!
What is also cool is that she loves theater. She has an amazing knack for stage design and has plugged right into the teams that serve on the weekend. Love it!

We also had about 50 people who had just returned from a local missions trip to Appalachia. So the place was buzzing with excited energy.

Worship was awesome this week. People came ready to worship. First song and everyone was “there”.

Man, I LML!

Worship Set 1
The Time Has Come

Small Group Highlight - Creative Team

Worship Set 2
Sing To the King
Tear Down the Walls
Message: Jesus, Beyond Space and Time

Worship Set 3
Til I See You
Overcome

A big shout out to at my WL peep’s at Fred McKinnon’s blog carnival. Check out what others are doing in worship across the world!

image...

About once a quarter our youth group, IMAGE take over the worship service.

They are amazing!

We have a thriving youth ministry. Our youth have their own monthly worship service, home neighborhood groups and they have several creative arts ministries themselves.
We also have youth that are being mentored in lights, Media Shout and as worship leaders.

Several youth are now being integrated into regular rotations in the band and tech.

We installed a summer intern youth minister last week.

This is just our high school and junior high school ministries.

Recently our elementary youth started their drama ministry called FREESTYLE.

Worship Set 1

Let the Praises Ring

Happy Day (Kim Walker; Jesus Culture)

Human Video to World So Cold (12 Stones)

Teen Testimonies

Both of these elements were extremly powerful...

Message: Playing for the End Game

Worship Set 2

Agnus Dei

Mighty to Save

Video and Honor Grads

Grads pray over congregation

After worship today, we had a cook-out. People were encouraged to invite friends and neighbors to worship this morning and then join us for lunch. We actually had to out and buy more food!!!

I have to say, I really love Agus Dei, it is so powerful and worshipful. What is your favorite worship song?

Come and see what worshipers are doing across the world at Sunday Set List 48 on Fred MacKinnon's blog.

love God, love others...

Wow! A big band today, 7 people in all. Well that was up until the last set. We had major technical difficulties at the beginning of "My Glorious " in the second set. One of the guitars stopped working and the keyboard starting acting up (playing random stuff).

So the last song was sung with just the djembe and the worship leader acapella. It was spectacular. Our worship leader was very emotional during the song. She could barely sing. God led. The people worshiped. I love when God does things like that.

Worship Set 1
Let the Praises Ring
Your Love Is Amazing
Highlight - Jessica (our missionary)
Video from her mission work

Worship Set 2
God of Wonders
My Glorious
Video - Love is Evangelism

Message: serve the world…

Worship Set 3
All Creatures of Our God and King
I have to admit, I particularly am drawn to this three week series “love God, love others, serve the world…” It is almost exactly what my life mission statement is (love God, love others, it’s simple…).
The message was really interesting part of it was about serving the world, by being willing to step into people's lives and being willing to get our hands dirty. Our pastor shared some books written by Frank Warren called "Post Secrets". Here is Warren's blog today. It's people sharing their secrets by postcards.
Frank Warren is a small business owner who started PostSecret.com as a community art project. Since November 2004 Warren has received more than 150,000 anonymous postcards.

(the postsecret.com website doesn't work anymore.)


Come join the excitement with worship leaders and others at Sunday Set List //47// at Fred Mckinnon's blog. You don't have to be a worship leader to come and play.

the deep...

I personally enjoy our service called "the deep".
It is a chance to just kick back and enter into a deeper space of worship without the time constraints of our Sunday morning experience. Two and a half hours of lightly scripted worship and prayer.

And pray and worship we did.

Tonight's sets:

We Are Hungry

Power in the Blood

Tis' So Sweet

Amazing Grace

Nothing But the Blood

On Bended Knee

My Heart Your Heart

Your Love is Deep

All Creatures of Our God and King

How Marvelous

When is the last time you were able to just kick back and worship with others for an extended amount of time?

This is contributed to Fred McKinnon's Sunday Set List.

Sunday Set List //46// love others...

We are focusing on "love God, love others, serve the world... "

Today we laughed and worshiped.

Worship Set 1
The Time Has Come
Marvelous Light

Video - Barbie’s House II - A House Without Love (see pt. 1 below)

Worship Set 2
Your Love is Deep
Amazed

Message: love others...

Worship Set 3
Till I See You/(reprise) Your Love Is Deep

This is Barbie's House Pt. 1, that we did over a year ago. We did Pt. 2 today. Really, truly, honestly it is for church. I hope to have it posted on the creative fuZion lab this Thursday.




I had the honor of producing for my first time AND running the lights for the first time (interesting combo). The greatest blessing for me is that I have been on a hard core journey recently of spending time just waiting on the Lord.

Now I am off to one of my granddaughter's birthday party. Then on to "the deep" this evening; our once a month deep worship service.

I appreciate all the worship leaders that gather and share over at Sunday Set List at Fred McKinnon's blog. Come see what others are doing in worship across the world.

Sunday Set List //19// the challenge...

We are on a journey from God, through our pastors, staff and leadership to get back to basics.

"love God, love other's, serve the word..."

I produced this weekend. Worship was wonderful, but what really seems to have our team on fire is our Saturday morning devotionals.
Very interesting.
Last week: bouncing ball of distraction...
This week: Poetry and silence (posting tomorrow)
See when we actually take the time to "seek God" first all the other things of life seem to fall into place.
So with that in mind, here are the songs we sang yesterday at XC.
Worship Set 1
You Are My God
Worship Set 2
The Time Has Come
Video - Swiffer Commercial (hysterical) waiting for a copy to post...
Worship Set 3
All I Want is You (Spoken Word)
From The Inside Out

I've also been hearing it in other worship leaders out there. When was the last time you took time to truly focus on simply resting in God? I challenge you to do so...
No really I mean it...

This post is in cooperation with other worship leaders and worshippers across the world at Sunday Set Lists on Fred McKinnon's blog. Come join us...

Sunday Set List// I am at a loss...

Words are completely failing me to describe this weekend's worship experience...

I am still working on it and will have to post later this week.

All I am able to say at this point is that God is

the most amazing thing that we have in our loves and He faithfully shows up, expecially when we carve out time for Him.

Worship Set 1

The Time Has Come

Bridge

Fields of Grace

Message 1

Worship Set 2

Indescribable

Hosanna

Message 2

Worship Set 3

Heart of Worship

I Surrender

Bridge message:

Worship Set 4

All Creature of Our God and King

Doxology

Take time to step into God this week...seriously!

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