Sunday Unwound #4 – Ukulele Style
Nope, didn’t have a ukulele in worship this Sunday, but it made you read this, huh?!
It’s ukulele style because, like a ukulele, its short. I’ve missed the past two worship reviews in the Sunday Setlist weeks and wanted to get SOMETHING up.
This Sunday we had another worship team lead. The daughter of one of our members spoke on Mother’s Day, and she brought her friends to lead worship. First of all, I am a HUGE fan of the idea of bringing other worship teams in to lead worship. I think there’s a freshness in different faces on the platform and different ways of doing things that allow us to stretch in worship. I’d like to do more of that in the future.
That said, this team was phenomenal. They had a full band, including electric guitar (oh, how I want an electric guitar player…) and organ (Sherri, we might be bringing back the keyboard stack!) They used songs from our regular rotation and also brought a couple of new songs to our body that I’ll probably pick up and start doing. And after hearing them do “Revelation Song”, I know I’ll never do it the way I’ve been doing it again!
It was such a great time of worship and a real blessing to be able to be in the congregation during a worship service instead of on the platform (although it would have been a BLAST to play with them). Our congregation worshipped with enthusiasm and energy and our speaker had an encouraging message about God’s faithfulness in uncertain circumstances.
I also got to play sound guy, which I haven’t done in YEARS. I wrestled control of the drums from Gary and got to tweak them throughout the service. I forgot how much fun it is to run sound.
I also got to pick Chad’s (the drummer’s) brain about how to improve our monitor sounds and how to tweek the drum settings to get the best sound. I’ll probably be playing with that this week!
Next week I’ll be playing bass and Janelle will be leading. I love to switch it up and play different instruments on the platform. Plus its the last few weeks of school, and it’s nice not to have to worry about planning the set!
Were you at service this week? What did you think? Have you ever had another band lead worship at your service? What was that experience like? Talk to me…
Sherri Mickelsen said,
May 11, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Sounds like I chose the wrong Sunday to be gone! I would have liked to be there and experience the new band. We had a great time where we were, and it was good to be with my mother and daughter for Mother’s Day, but….