Songs for Sunday 31st July

Praise Him in the sanctuary (C)

The Riches of Your Grace (C)

Yours is the Kingdom (Fsharp)

You came to save the world (F)

God of this City (G)

There must be more than this (G)

Be still there is a healer (Ab)

Water You turned into wine (Chorus) (Ab)

I'm not backing down (Give us your courage) (G)

Band line-up for 31st July

Nick - lead vocal & acoustic guitar

Becky - backing vocal

Jo - backing vocal

Veronica - keyboard

Graham - bass

Max - lead guitar

Simon T - drums

Martin - Saxophone & flute

Song list to be confirmed on Saturday.

Essential Listening!

Hey Everyone,

Thought it would be useful to post some album recommendations here. These are the worship albums that I have been listening to recently - all fantastic, and we will be using a number of songs from them over the next few months. We have already introduced a few songs from some of them, but there are definitely others that I will be pulling in to our mix over the summer/autumn:

• Chris Tomlin - And If Our God is For Us
• Tim Hughes - Love Shine Through
• Hillsong - A Beautiful Exchange
• Matt Redman - 10,000 Reasons

Can I really encourage you to get hold of these albums, listen to them, be stirred by the songs and start to get familiar with them. They will really bless you and we need to thank God for the anointed song writers, musicians and worship leaders involved.

Happy listening,

Simon

Song List for Sunday 24th July

Hey Everyone,

Here is the song list and band line-up for this coming weekend.

Band:
Leading/Acoustic - Max
Bass - Nick C
Electric - Nic B
Keys - Veronica
Drums - Dan
Sax/Flute - Martin

Songs are:
Give Thanks to The Lord G
Here I Stand (Salvation) G
Amazing Grace G

- children out-

Water You Turned Into Wine A

- b + w...then preach -

After preach...

To God be the glory A
The splendour of a king A

Water You Turned Into Wine A

You Alone (He Shall Be) A


Please be ready and set up by 6pm sharp on Saturday evening, so that we can make a prompt start to our practice.

God bless,

Simon (on behalf of Max)

A post for all you vocalists out there! Blending.

Worship Set List for 17th July

Hi guys, here is the song list for this coming Sunday as it currently stands. Okay I may have gone a little over the top with the Key of B, but the themes flow nicely and I would love to cover the new song 'All Glory' as it really compliments the recent news we have had as a church. Jeremy Simpkins shall be preaching and Paul Mann anchoring the meeting. There are too many songs here and we won't do half, but better be prepared than under-prepared.

Please get to the Hastings Centre and set up ready for a 6 sharp start. It would be great if we could get sound checks sorted by 6:30 and have a good amount of time to pray. 

See previous blogs to check band line-up.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU VISIT THIS LINK AND LISTEN TO THE NEW SONG BEFORE SATURDAY EVENING.

Oh Lord my God (B)

Lord for all that You are (B)

To him who sits on the throne (B)

All Glory (B)

Our God reigns (refrain) (B)

Who Oh Lord, could save (B)

You chose the cross (B)

Befriended (C)

What a friend I’ve found (C)

Spirit of the Living God (C)

God bless and see you all soon.

Aled

How Much Does Our Worship Cost?

Hey Everyone,

I was reading 2 Samuel this week and have been challenged by the story in Ch 24:18-25. King David was building an altar to God and went to Araunah's home. Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped.” Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever pleases him and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. O king, Araunah gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the LORD your God accept you.”But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

David was utterly convinced that his offering to God should be costly to Him… and this has challenged me. Is my worship costing me anything? What am I sacrificing? If you think about it, there is a high cost in almost anything that has great value. I love the fact that David just can't bring himself to be cheap or stingy when it comes to his worship to God. The life of a worshiper doesn’t come cheap. It demands of us our, time, energy, passion, finances, determination, perseverance and faith.

As a worship team, we do work hard in serving our church, but I truly believe that God has got bigger plans for us. If we are to keep moving forward, perhaps we need to challenge ourselves and think about the following: How can we give more of our own time to practice and learn new songs ? How can we practice as a band more regularly - once every two weeks is not enough! Do we come well-prepared musically for rehearsals? How can we help encourage other musicians in the church to develop as worshipers? Are we praying constantly for our church? Are we contributing financially, faithfully to our church? Are we sacrificing time to read the scriptures? Are we diligent with thinking and praying about our song lists? The life that God has called us to is expensive. The good news is that the rewards always, always, always outweigh the cost of all that we pour out to God.

Let's be a generous, unrestrained, abundant and extravagant worship team!

Simon

Next Weeks Line-up - 17/07/11

Hi guys, just to confirm the line-up for next weeks Sunday morning worship:


Acoustic and lead vox - Aled Cousins
Drums - Simon Thurston
Lead - Nic Beaney
Bass - Nick Clark
Keys - Kevin Burford
BVs - Claire Burford and Becki Andrews


Look forward to seeing you all next Saturday at 6:00pm. Song list shall be up in due course!


G bless and have a good week.


Aled

Sunday 10th July

Hey Guys,

We have a very busy Sunday this coming week, with a lot of different things happening. We have our offering for Together on a Mission and Andrew Wilson is preaching, to name but two! Therefore we will need to keep very tightly to time and will probably have a shorter slot at the front end of the meeting, followed by another slot at the end of the meeting when we take the offering. Max will be leading and Graham is filling in on bass to cover him. Provisional song list is:

• I Am Chosen, I Am Free - A
  
• Let God Arise - A
• Jesus, Hope of the Nations - A
• I Lift My Hands - A
• Saviour King - C
• Though I Walk (You Reign) - C

For the offering:

• Psalm 40 - E
• In Jesus - E
• You Are So Good to Me - E

I have chord charts for songs 1 and 2, since these are in different keys to normal.

God Bless,
Simon

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