ht: Steve McCoy…

worship text-fessional for Sunday, November 25 2007 at Fuel student ministry’s Ignite Senior High service.
Last week (the 18th) was horrid. So I didn’t want to talk about it. Basically the volume in the house was changed from practice and while the stage sounded fine, the mains hummed / distorted the whole time. I was oblivious to it until the last song when it broke down to just [...]

In doing research for my Comp II thesis I came across who has become one of my new favorite poets, Taylor Mali. This particular poem has made its rounds in spam mail, altered and such (he has the story about it on his site), but here is the original poem, by the original artist… (PG-13 rating for “ass-kicking” and giving the finger along with one “G-D”…. but, [...]

I have to admit. Slaving over all this work is tough business. I must take a break from time to time…. One of the things we like to do here is take dancing breaks. I know it’s weird, but it’s very theraputic.
Like the time Josh and I went to his church’s 70s flashback dance:

Or the trip Mark and I took to Hawaii:

(whatever you do, at LEAST read my second point down below…)
Manchester United (premier futbol club in England) has signed 9 year old Rhain Davis. Don’t worry, this happens all the time… soccer clubs have Academies that sign young players yearly in order to train them in hopes they turn into the next great thing. We do it in America too, so not that big of [...]

First of all, i think it’s a bit ridiculous. The craze that is… Don’t get me wrong, i’d take one for free over what I have. But, it’s a freakin’ phone. Nonetheless these national crazes always produce some sort of GOLD… this one came straight out of my backyard basically (nationally speaking i guess)…

(ht: Bob Hyatt)

How do you and /or  your church get the message out about your core values? Mission / vision statements? Series covering the core thoughts? T-Shirts? This is our church’s vision, i like it for the most part:
The Vision of Firewheel Bible Fellowshipis to give every un-churched, de-churched, or badly churched man, woman, and child in the Firewheel Corridor the chance to experience the life changing power [...]

Another week down, and things continue to improve. There was a lot more energy this week from the band (including myself) and the students. This is a good thing with one exception… The energy got the best of me and at times I ignored everything I learned about singing and it was a bit “yell-ish.” Especially on Sweep Me Away, which is disappointing, but alas, [...]

Worship Confessional for June 10th, 2007.
I actually kept it under 6 Minutes! With service clips and everything!

Couple of things I didn’t get in the video for various reasons:
* So, the weird thing is that it looks like we only have two people in our youth room at the time, but alas, we had about 20 when we started and 35-40 when worship was over. So why only [...]

Okay, so, I video’d. It didn’t turn out great, but it did give me some things to work on and allow me to critique the set / band / myself. So I do mix some in here, but please realize that this is at the back of a warehouse-style room with a consumer line video camera and as you can see, the mix doesn’t always… [...]