(Advertisement)

Sunday Setlists #24 - First Recap of 2009

Posted on January 4th, 2009 in Church Life, Sunday Setlists, Worship Confessionals by Fred

ssl-11

Special thanks to Dorothy Holland for the “Sunday Set Lists” banner. If you’d like to submit a banner to use for “Sunday Setlists”, please send’em on!

Welcome to the first “Sunday Setlists” post of 2009 - our 24th consecutive week of sharing and collaborating reviews of our worship services.  How ’bout a big goal for 2009 - let’s get this thing where we have 100+ links every week?  Anybody think that’s do-able?  You’ll have to encourage everyone you know - local worship leaders, pastors, and other people who attend your church.

That’s where I’d really LOVE to see some growth … I’d love to see more “confessionals” and “recaps” from those who are OFF the platform/stage - a perspective from the pew, so to speak.

OK - so you know the rules (by now) - to participate you need to do the following:

  1. Post a blog about your worship service(s) this week.  (Don’t have a blog - you can have a free one created within minutes at wordpress.com, or just leave your review as a comment below!) Sometimes we make homemade videos - these are called “worship confessionals”.  Share what songs you used, and any other creative elements.  Don’t just share the good stuff - let us hear about the pitfalls, too - that’s why we call it a “confessional”.  Did you try a new arrangement?  Did a song not workout?  Let’s hear the details.
  2. It’s important that people who read your recap be able to come back to THIS POST so they can see the links to all the others.  So in the body of your post, please link back to today’s post (not my fredmckinnon.com homepage).  You may want to say something like “check out all the other setlists and reviews on the “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival at FredMcKinnon.Com”.  The address you should link to for this week is:
    http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/01/04/sunday-setlists-24
  3. After doing so, come back here and fill out the “Mister Linky” box below - in the “URL” field, you should put the link that goes directly to YOUR POST.  Don’t link to your homepage, link directly to your “Sunday Setlist” post.  If you’re not sure how to do this - after publishing your blog entry, click on the entry’s title, and copy that URL and paste it into the Mister Linky box below.
  4. Leave a comment, and then visit the other sites and see what others are doing.
  5. SPREAD THE WORD - use Twitter, FaceBook, mySpace, and all your social networking!

Here’s my setlist recap for St. Simons Community Church, Sunday January 4, 2009

What a great day at SSCC.  It was wonderful to be back with the people, leading worship after taking last weekend off.

Walk-in:  “Again I Say Rejoice” (Israel Houghton)
Opening Songs:
“For All You’ve Done” (Hillsong)
“Mighty To Save” and “The Stand” medley (Hillsong)

We did this great medley where after we’ve done the Bridge (shine your light …) on “Mighty to Save”, we go back to the Chorus and hold out the last note on “conquered the grave” … and then the band drops out and we get very quiet and move into the Pre-Chorus of “The Stand” (what can I say, what could I do ..)

Building on that Pre-Chorus, we go into the big Bridge of “The Stand”, and vamp it … it’s like a wave of passion that just starts going over the congregation as we do that, and then we medley directly back into the Bridge of “Mighty to Save”, and finally repeat the Chrorus to end the song.

After this opening set, the lights go black for a 30-second sermon intro video for our series, “Change is Coming”.  Then, we had a hilarious skit where our youth pastor, Jon Blankenship, came out dressed in a suit, and acted like he was going to “kick-start” the sermon for the Pastor.  He got all fired up like a gospel celebration, and I was hitting these B3 organ hits before Pastor David finally comes out from backstage and interrupts his act … I guess you had to be there, but it was hilarious.

Our closing set after the sermon was used during communion:
“Amazing Grace/My Chains Are Gone” (a slow version in E, sim. to the Chris Tomlin version)
“Center” (led by Kim Dixon)

We were going to close with “I Will Never Be” (Hillsong) but didn’t have time, so we just vamped “Center” as people were leaving.

I thought it was a great Sunday, and hope the people there took advantage of an opportunity to sing and worship God.

Let’s hear from you now!

Sunday Setlists #23 - Share Your Worship Experience

Posted on December 28th, 2008 in Sunday Setlists, Worship Confessionals, Worship Leadership by Fred

ssl-11

Special thanks to Dorothy Holland for the “Sunday Set Lists” banner.  If you’d like to submit a banner to use for “Sunday Setlists”, please send’em on!

Welcome to the 23rd edition of “Sunday Setlists” - a blog carnival where people share recaps of their worship services each week, link here for the master list (below) and the master list (below) hosts outbound links to some great blogs and sites featuring all the different themes, songs, and expressions of our worship encounters each week.

For the concept to work properly, please follow the rules below:

1.  Share a recap of your worship experiences this week.  It can be a written blog entry, a video worship confessional, or whatever you like.  You can post it on your blog, or in the blog-area of social networking sites - as long as you can link directly to your post.  You don’t have to be the worship leader to post - we’d love more recaps from folks who are just in the congregations!  Also - if you don’t have a blog or a way to post an entry, just share your recap in the comments section at the bottom of this post!

2.  In your recap, please indicate that you are participating in “Sunday Setlists at FredMcKinnon.Com” and link back to THIS SPECIFIC POST BELOW.  Please don’t just link back to my homepage (fredmckinnon.com), as people on your blog may click over a few days or weeks from now, and they will find whatever I’ve most recently posted … not this “Sunday Setlists” #23 blog carnival entry:
http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2008/12/28/sunday-setlists-23/

3.  After publishing your recap, including a link to this entry, fill out the “Mister Linky” form below.  In the “URL” field, be sure to enter the URL that goes directly to your entry - not your homepage.  Not sure how to do this?  After publishing your blog entry, click on the title of your entry, and it will take you to the actual “single post” page for that specific blog entry.  This is the URL you should copy and paste into the “Mister Linky” below.

*** After 23 weeks, there are plenty of folks who still don’t get #2 and #3 right.  Why are they important?  This is why …

*On YOUR blog:  the concept of “Sunday Setlists” is to share and collaborate with others.  So it’s important you do #2 so that those people who read YOUR BLOG will see the link to Sunday Setlists here on FredMcKinnon.Com, so that they can access the Master Links down in the Mister Linky area.

*On THIS blog:  having the correct URL is important, because if you link to your homepage, people may be reading this entry several weeks later, and when they click that link, they’ll find whatever the most recent post is on your blog, and NOT the “Sunday Setlist” post that you’d entered a few weeks ago.

4.  Leave a comment below, say “hello” to everyone, share the love, and then visit the other links …

5.  Please encourage everyone that you know who blogs (and attends a worship service) to participate.  Again - let’s get some folks who are NOT worship leaders … regular attenders.  Let’s get their perspectives.  So hit your blogroll - encourage them to participate.  Twitter it.  FaceBook it.  MySpace it. (are those verbs now?).  Yes, spread the word.

*** Sunday Setlist for St. Simons Community Church, Dec 28, 2009 ***

Here’s an interesting one … I have no Setlist.  The last Sunday of every year is what we call “Church in the Home”.  We encourage families to stay home and worship together.  For me, we’re out of town at my in-laws.  We’re going to pack up and go visit Joy’s uncle, who for the most part, stays shut in his home up in N. Georgia.  We are going to worship by showing him some love, companionship, and affection.  We’re taking up a few plates of leftovers from our Christmas dinners.  We’ll talk about  Christ, what He’s done for us, and sing some songs along the way.

I’ll enjoy the day off … but will be constantly reminded that “worship” is so much more than the rituals we go through in our buildings that we call church.  And that’s a “revelation” that needs to be remembered again and again.

Let’s hear about your worship services!

Sunday Setlists #22 - Merry Christmas

Posted on December 21st, 2008 in Church Life, Faith, Sunday Setlists, Worship Confessionals, Worship Leadership by Fred

sunday-setlists

Hey Everybody - Welcome to the 22nd week of Sunday Setlists - where you share your own recap, textfessional, or “Worship Confessional’ of your worship experience this week.

Lots of worship leaders participate, and we’d love to have lots more people chime in who just attended a worship service.

Here’s the simple rules:

1 - Blog about your worship service today - share about the songs, what you loved, what God spoke to you, sermon series, creative elements, etc.,  Just give us all a glimpse into your worship service.

2 - In your blog, link back to this post, so that those who read YOUR BLOG will come here and see the links to all the other recaps.  You might want to say something like “Today’s recap is a part of the “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival hosted at FredMcKinnon.Com” and link back to:
http://www.fredmckinnonl.com/myblog/2008/12/21/sunday-setlists-22

3 - After completing Steps 1 & 2 above, fill out the “Mister Linky” form below.  In the “URL” field, be sure to put the URL to YOUR BLOG POST, and not your blog’s homepage.  (Homepage Links will be removed).

4 - Leave a comment, and then visit all the other sites and check out what others are doing!

*** Worship Confessional for St. Simons Community Church, Dec 21 - 2008 ****

Ok, well honestly, I can’t say a lot because truth is .. I wasn’t in the main auditorium.  I’ve been backstage all day in our Kid’s Clubhouse Theater preparing for the “Jingle Jam” event, which is our rendition of a “Charlie Brown Christmas”.  However, Harriet Jones led worship, and she brings years of experience, passion, and insight for leading at this church.

They opened up with “Glory to God in the Highest” (Buddy Greene) and “Angels We Have Heard on High”
After a welcome and announcements, they did “Mary Did You Know”, “In Christ Alone”, and we had the awesome privilege of having Todd Hendrix come back and sing “Mary Did You Know” as the special.  This was an awesome moment because Todd was recently diagnosed with a cancerous tumor under his knee, and had substantial surgery which has had him off the platform for a while.  He had to come up on crutches and sit down, but it was an incredible moment to see his worshiping in the midst of his trial.

The closer was “Here I Am To Worship”.  From the bits and pieces I heard, and from what I’ve been hearing from those who attended, it was an incredible day.

Meanwhile, we were preparing for “Jingle Jam” which is a blast.  We’ve already finished the 4:00 showing, which was jam-packed, and I’m typing this from the Kid’s Clubhouse Theater “backstage” where we’re preparing for the 6:30 showing.

In closing, here’s a quick “cell-phone” video clip of the chaos happening backstage just before the 4:00 showing.

Charlie Brown Christmas BackStage Pass from Fred McKinnon on Vimeo.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Fred

Sunday Setlists #21 - Share Your Worship Recap

Posted on December 14th, 2008 in Church Life, Faith, Sunday Setlists, Worship Confessionals by Fred

Hey Everybody -

It’s the 21st consecutive week for “Sunday Setlists” here on the blog.  Thanks to those who have participated and been a part of spreading the news.  Here’s how you participate:

1.  Write a blog post recapping your worship services this week.  Share everything you can from song selection, sermon series, creative elements, etc.  Don’t have a blog?  You can still participate - post your info as a comment, or post on your social networking sites.

2.  In the blog post that you write, you must link back to THIS ENTRY.  Some folks say something like “This entry is a part of “Sunday Setlists” - visit all the other recaps at FredMcKinnon.Com”, and be sure and use this link:
http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2008/12/14/sunday-setlists-21/

3.  Fill out the “Mister Linky” form below.  In the URL field, put the URL address of your recap … don’t put your blog’s homepage, but the actual link where your entry is .. homepage links will be deleted.
*UPDATE: as of Monday, 12/15 - the server that hosts the Mr. Linky code is shut down, so the Mr. Linky isn’t appearing .. so be sure and put a link to your sunday setlist post in the blog comments below instead, until Mr. Linky re-appears!)

4.  Leave a comment and start spreading the word.  Be sure and visit some of the other sites and leave comments for them as well!

**** Sunday Setlists for St. Simons Community Church, Dec 14, 2008 ******

Sermon Intro Video:

Constructing Christmas Intro Video from SSCC on Vimeo.

Today was my LAST SUNDAY leading worship at SSCC this year.  Next Sunday I’ll be part of our “Jingle Jam” performance of “Charlie Brown Christmas”, so I’ll be back in the Kid’s Clubhouse Theater the whole time.

Pre-Service Jam:
“Go Tell It On the Mountain” - I worked up a light jazz arrangement of this tune, and the rhythm section did an awesome job learning it as the last minute … we were swinging away, enjoying playing this song before our walk-in.  We started this at :10 till service time.

Walk In Song:
“Silent Night” - Mercy Me version.  Gary, our bassist switched to mandolin to start this song out and it was very cool to have that.

Opening Set:
“No Other Name” (Todd Fields, Northpoint Live version)
“Hark the Herald Angels Sing” (Traditional Version, added my “Doxology” verse)

Second Set:
“O Holy Night” - this was a special, with Amy, one of our new singers.  I just played it traditional-style from the grand piano while Amy sang.  Elizabeth came in on the second time through with the strings and it made it sound even better!  There was a short silence afterwards, then great applause for this Christmas favorite.

“WIth All I Am” - Hilllsong Version

Sermon:
Constructing Christmas, Part 2 - Pastor David Yarborough led us through the Old Testament with numerous examples of how God was constructing and planning the birth of Christ from the fall of man.

Closer:
“You Are My King” (Amazing Love)

It was a great day, and I felt good about both services.  We made several transitional changes in between our 9:00 and 11:00 services that helped the flow.

Your Turn!

Sunday Setlists #20 - Worship Service Recaps

Posted on December 7th, 2008 in Church Life, Faith, Sunday Setlists, Worship Confessionals, Worship Leadership by Fred

(And we have a winner!  Thanks to Michelle Weger for creating this week’s Sunday Setlists logo. Make sure you visit her blog!  If you’d like to submit a banner/logo for “Sunday Setlists”, please email it to me, and we’ll feature you and your blog in this spot!)

Hey Everyone -

WOW - so we’re (20) TWENTY FULL WEEKS into this “Sunday Setlists” thing.  I was thinking to myself “the last thing anybody needs is yet another blog carnival”.  Well, this has done a whole lot for helping us network and learn about other worship services, styles, and song selections.  Thanks for being a part!

To participate, just follow these simple rules.  (They are simple, yet each week scores of folks seem to not figure it out!?)

1.  Share a recap of your worship service on your blog!  (don’t have a blog, just put it in the comments box, or on FaceBook, or any other social networking site that you can link to)

2.  In the recap, mention that you are participating in “Sunday Setlists” and link back to THIS POST.
(link to http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2008/12/07/sunday-setlists-20/

3.  Fill out the “Mister Linky” form below.  In the “URL” field, enter the URL to YOUR blog post or the page on the web that has YOUR review.  Don’t link to your homepage - link to the actual page or blog entry that you have this week’s setlist on.  (Homepage links will be removed).

4.  Leave a comment below, and visit the other sites!

That’s it - plain and simple!

Here’s our recap for St. Simons Community Church, Sunday Dec. 7, 2008
(with iTunes links where appropriate)

Walk-In:  Gloria (Mercy Me)

Song #1:  Love the Lord (Lincoln Brewster Version, w/o the LB guitar, though!)

(add-on in 2nd service):  O Come, All Ye Faithful (see below)
Song #2:  Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing)
(*this is a new arrangement from Brian Doerkson’s new CD, do yourself a favor and check out the link to iTunes, it really brings this song back to life)

Song #3:  Mighty to Save (Hillsong)
Song #4:  The Stand (Chorus only)
Song#5:  Medley back to Mighty to Save

Closer:  Hosanna (Hillsong)

*Add-On:  After the first service at 9:00, I was talking with one of our elders and he said he really missed the fact that we hadn’t done any Christmas music in the service.  “Gloria” didn’t really count for him because it was a “walk-in”, and it wasn’t the one that you would sing along with.  I struggle with that in the early part of December - as much as I love the Christmas carols, I would rather sing them at parties and at Christmas Eve services, and a little closer to Christmas … it’s hard for me to feel like I’m really “worshiping” singing most of those “story songs”.  C’mon, don’t shoot me.  Anyway, I knew he was probably right, so I managed to squeeze in one verse and Chorus of “O Come, All Ye Faithful” after the Announcements/Prayer to setup “Your Love is Amazing”, and it was beautiful.

Sermon:  “Construction Christmas”, Part 1
We are starting a series called “Constructing Christmas” which tells the “story behind His story” of how God was “constructing” or laying out the Christmas birth of Christ from the beginning.

Here’s a video open we’re using for the sermon.  Kudos to Chris and Travis for their tech-genuis artistic skills.  (more info on both of their sites regarding the creation details)

Constructing Christmas Intro Video from SSCC on Vimeo.

YOUR TURN TO SHARE!

Next Page »