brent(inWorship)

This post is a part of “Sunday Setlists”

This weekend was a bit different for me. I had the weekend off from leading worship and instead went camping with my son Dakota. Every year, our church holds an event called “Fish Camp”. It is a “guys” only event and we encourage dads and sons to participate. We also have grandparents with grandkids and neighbors with family friends. It is always a blast. The food is incredible and it is such a peaceful and relaxing time. It is held at a camp our church manages for the county called “Camp Apserkaha”. It is right on the shores of a Howard Prairie Lake. Absolutely beautiful!

A shot from the camp shore…

Here’s the fish Dakota caught!

When we got home last night, we came home to this…

A crazy thunder storm. It was awesome! We don’t get them a lot in Southern Oregon, but when do, they remind me of the days we used to visit family in the midwest. I love me a good thunderstorm. Of course, what does the “in” family do when there is lightning and thunder? We grab all our electronics and grab pics/video and audio

A little audio of the thunder…

A little video on the lightning…By the way, we run back into the house at the end of this clip to get the computer out of the rain

Weekend wrap-up is a part of “Sunday Setlist”

My buddy Joshua White is in town. He’s out here looking for work. If you have something for him. Let us know! You can check his info/resume/demo reel here

Mother’s Day. I always wonder what we could do to spark up the service for Mother’s Day. Number 1, I want them to be recognized. We had a chance to speak to them a couple of times. Also, we ran a simple video this year called Mom’s 101. The church really enjoyed it.

We started a new series today. We go book by book through the Bible, but we take sections of the books and focus them better with a series of message. We started into 1 Peter 2 this week at Table Rock,with a series called “Identity”. The whole purpose is to evaluate who we are in Christ and that apart from Him, we have no true identity. As our creator, he has planned our purpose and has created desires that lead us to serve and worship him. To know who we are, we need to first know who Jesus is.

Favorite quote – “Jesus is not an aesthetic, He IS the design.” Pastor Ron spoke to how we often treat Jesus as an addition to our lives, instead of the foundation.

This was my view this weekend. I wore the sound man hat.

I love to run sound. It is a passion of mine. I managed a recording studio for about 5 years and I’ve run live sound in different capacities, for the last 20 years. each year I do some side work for a local sound company and Love It!

Jim, my co-leader led this weekend. The poor guy fought a head and chest cold all week, but still made it through. He’s awesome and has a killer heart to lead people to the throne.

The set list this week was…

I Will Boast by Paul balcoche
Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman
Born To Worship by Lenny LaBlanc
You Are The One by Lincoln Brewster
At The Foot Of The Cross by Kathryn Scott

My amazing wife Tammy led At The Foot Of The Cross and she nailed it! I love to hear her sing that style of song. She has such a smooth voice.

On the technical end of things, we had one major issue with Ron’s mic. I noticed during our middle service today, that his mic was popping. It sounded like it was getting some air from the way he was talking, but I wasn’t sure. Eventually, it started getting worse and worse. I finally had to run a new mic up to him in the middle of his message to fix the problem. Normally, I would allow minor things to go on, so as not to create a greater distraction. but it got bad, so it was more distracting not to fix it.

Also, we continue to use Mogulus for our live streaming. We had a handful of people at each service this week and I had zero concerns over the video stalling or glitching. Not sure why last week was an issue, but it was smooth this time. If you joined us Saturday night for the live feed, you had the privilege of Joshua moderating the chat. Love the Tigers hat

If you haven’t read this post yet, you need to. It will make you aware of my new blog schedule. My beautiful wife Tam helped me put a schedule together that will encourage me to write more and stay consistent with it.

So, first and foremost, I need a name for my Monday post. Each Monday, I will recap the weekend at church. I will speak to each aspect of it. The theme, music, tech and anything else I can think of. I am going to attach these to Fred’s great series of posts called Sunday Setlists. So, help me out with a name! Now to the good stuff…

If you are newer to the blog, I am the Worship and Media Pastor for Table Rock Fellowship in a smaller community in Southern Oregon. My weekly responsibilities include everything from service planning to tech team direction, worship leading to IT management. It can get busy, but I love what I get to do.

This weekend was the final week in a series called “Holy Fire”. We are going through the book of 1 Peter. Chapter 1 focused on hope. And this week dealt with finding hope beyond hypocrisy. Hypocrisy, is to believe one way and to live another. To play the part. This is what the life of religion is. Pastor Tom spoke to 3 ways of being freed from a life of hypocrisy or in this case religion.
#1 You hear God’s Word
#2 You experience a new birth
#3 You respond by changing the way you live

My favorite quote of the weekend was “Evidence of new birth, is your desire to change.” And my favorite verses from the weekend were [youversion]Hebrews 12:1-2[/youversion]

Next week we dig into 1 Peter 2 and discuss our Identity in Christ.

The setlist for this weekend was…

(opening Set)
Happy Day by Tim Hughes
All Creatures Of Our God and King – David Crowder version
Beautiful The Blood by Steve Fee
(Offering)
Praise Awaits You by Matt Redman
(Communion)
Never Lose The Wonder by Tim Hughes
(Theme Song)
Holy Fire by Jon Shirley
We closed the service with a simple version of Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Two songs we did this week, we haven’t done for quite a while. Praise Awaits You and Never Lose The Wonder. I really enjoyed both of them, but I did notice that with the growth our church has seen over the last couple of years, both were pretty new songs to the congregation. I didn’t take that into consideration. I guess that’s a good problem. Holy Fire, by Jon Shirley was a song I found when looking for a them song for this series. When I first heard the song, I was sold. Loved it! Worshipful, powerfully dynamic and had a great lyric that really places at the heart, that we want the Spirit to come and change us. We want to be made new. Changed!

Technically, things went fine this weekend. The band missed a couple of cues on Saturday night, but we ironed things out through the Sunday services. I haven’t sung for 2 weeks and have been fighting a cold, so after Saturday’s rehearsal and service, I was fried. Thankfully, I warmed up Sunday AM and was able to make it through just fine. No issues with sound or video. I did notice however, that during our first service today, half the lighting on the vocalists had died. we may have blown a fuse in the dimmer pack. I wasn’t too concerned however, because we don’t have a light show and tend to keep the room fairly dark during music. The light still worked on me, so I left it alone to worry about on Monday.

We have begun streaming our services live. I am really excited about this, because we are asked for this, all the time. We aren’t an internet campus like something you’d see with Newspring or Lifechurch. Many people are sick or traveling and they want to participate in the weekend services. This will allows for that. We haven’t advertised to the church body in general yet, because we are still kind of testing it out. I am using Mogulus right now, but I am finding that Mogulus needs a pretty stable service at about 1.5mbps to work properly for the people watching the service. Our feed to you is fed with a 40mbps service, so we transmit it fine, but it seems to be very glitchy and stutters a lot for those on the other end. I want to find something stable, but also realize that I can’t make it perfect for everyone. Over the next couple of weeks I may try Ustream and see what happens. You, the end user is the one that needs to win in this. So we will make it right. Another aspect of this is that we will be setting up an audio feed soon. Right now it is just the mic off the camera. I am going to rig one of our Aviom units to push audio to the feed. We’ve been running audio for video it this way for any video venues we do on campus and I really like it. If you have any suggestions regarding streaming, let me know.

A final note. As I write out my thoughts from the weekend, I also want to hear from you. What would you like to know. What are you interested in hearing here. Also, I would love to hear about your weekend. You can leave that in the comment or give us a link t your blog if you’ve written about it!

My buddy Fred McKinnon has this crazy circus called Sunday Set list. A chance for bloggers to talk about their Sunday morning services. I had the privilege of meeting Fred this week at Re:Create. What and awesome guy. Tam and I have been in Nashville all week for the onference and also to hang out with great friends. Fred twittered me this AM and bugged me to do a Sunday Set List, based on being a visitor at a local church here in Nashville. I agree.

This morning Tam and I attended Crosspoint.tv Awesome! We have had the privilege of staying with teaching Pastor of Crosspoint Pete and his awesome wife Brandi. We have blessed to get to know them and their kids better and have been blown away by their hospitality this week.

I had the chance to get to hang out with Jarrod Morris, worship pastor at Crosspoint this morning. He picked me up at 5:30am to head to rehearsals and run throughs. By the way, that would be 3:30am my time!!! I had a chacne to meet a bunch of the volunteers and crew and meet many of the blog friends that I have knownw from a distance, but now have had a chance to meet face to face. I stayed through all 3 services and soaked it all in. Crosspoint is a beautiful image of church to me. It was full of people working hard, volunteering at what they did and doing it because they loved what they did. The message was clear. The worship/music time was powerful and purposeful. And all the elements were just right. there is so much on the tehnical end that I loved, but won’t get into. I thouroughly enjoyed my time with Crosspoint church this morning.

So, for the set list. It was a blessing to be 2000 miles away from home, without any distractions. I was able to just stop thinking and listen, pray, sing and enjoy. It was a blessing. And just one small part of the huge, refreshing week this has been. Here’s the setlist and service order.

Pre-Service:
The band played R.E.M.’s “End Of the World As we Know It”.

Music:
Let God Arise, by Chris Tomlin
How Great Is Our God, by Chris Tomlin
Came To My rescue(be Lifted high), by Hillsong United
Let Me Sing, by Todd Fields

Greeting Time with the campus Pastor

After the greeting time, Matthew Paul Tuner did a special reading on a piece he did on fear. It was awesome. Funny, intelligent and hopeful.

Message time: Crosspoint is in a series called, “Paralyzed” right now. This week they focused on Fear. One’ of Pete’s statements was, “We are inwardly fashioned for faith, not fear.” Matthew 6 says that we worry and are of little faith. Our problem is not that we fear, it is that we lack faith. Great stuff.

Special:
Shadowfeet, by Brooke Fraser. All I have to say is Wow! This lady that sang this can sing!!! Beautiful!

So, the typical Sunday for me, as well as for most of you, is a busy one.

This weekend however was a bit different for me. About 2-3 times a year I take a weekend to disappear. This weekend was just that. I have done nothing but sit in front of a fire, drink coffee, watch movies and soak up the Twitter world. Tonight we are going to check out Newspring’s new online internet campus. And later, more fire, coffee (or beer), movies and twittering.

Beautiful!

I think there is something very Biblical about rest. We can get so consumed with the Organization, that we get burned out and overwhelmed. Then our families suffer. Our passions suffer. And the people we serve, suffer. Not good.

So, I encourage you guys to take a weekend every once in a while and just relax. Enjoy your family and rest.

Happy Sunday!

This post is a part of Sundy Setlist over at Fred’s place.

This weekend was really cool at Table Rock. Attendance was way up. I expect that many people are back from Christmas vacation, as well as many that may have made new resolutions to attend more, or even to attend for the first time. Frankly, I am not concerned over the reason. I am just very grateful that people came this weekend.

We started a new series called “Chasing Daylight”. Erwin McManus wrote a great book called, “Chasing Daylight”. The emphasis of his book is to live with passion and seize every moment. To never miss out on great opportunities God may be placing in front of you. It is not a “better living” thing. It is a “God is working” thing and we should see it and be a part of it. We have taken that “seize the moment” aspect, but have placed it into focusing on the book of Proverbs. Seizing every opportunity, but doing it with the guide of God’s wisdom. Today was awesome and I expect the rest of this series to be great.

Technically, things went well, considering we reset the stage an hour before rehearsal on Saturday. We found a few issues, but once everything was patched, tech was smooth. Most importantly, people came to participate this weekend. it was awesome to watch and hear people get involved with everything going on. Very responsive crowd of people this weekend.

We sat in a far section of the worship center today and it was really difficult for me not to see a lot of things that needed to be worked on. New perspective, new issues. I have trouble going to church services and not critiquing them. It is my own fault, but also part of my job. Regardless, the message was great and communion time was incredible as always.

Here’s the set list…

All Because Of Jesus by Steve Fee
Amazing by Matt Redman
Mighty To Save by Hillsongs
Praise To The Lord, The Almighty by Passion
Revelation Song by Gateway Worship

On a side not, I have been using the churches new Flip Mino HD camera the last couple of weeks. I love how compact and easy it is to use. But, after putting it through the paces the last couple of weeks, I have decided to return it to Amazon. It has some issues. Crashes a lot. Sound is terrible! And video is pretty blown out. I’ve done some comparing and I will be picking up a Kodak Zi6 instead. Similar package and price, but some comparison’s have been made and it is proving itself to be better.

With all that said, here is one of the tunes we did this AM. It is a song called “Revelation Song”. It is originally performed by Kari Jobe at Gateway Church. We do this song very simple, but vocalists Vanessa and Jonathan really sound great together. It is a very moving and powerful song for me. But, like I said, a bit blown out and sound quality stinks…

Revelation Song – tablerockfellowship.org from Brent Hodge on Vimeo.

This post is a part of Sunday Set lists!