You have to understand, Marylanders don't do snow well. I came from Long Island and we have a good snow there (a couple of feet) most winters. Ben our preacher comes from Minnesota and he says unless there's three feet of snow, it's not really snow, it's just flurries.
Anyway we got a snow storm this past Thursday. It started in the early afternoon and by 5:00 there was about 3 good inches on the ground. Big, wet flakes of snow, great for making snowballs!
Thursday is also our worship rehearsal night. Schools let out early and cancelled evening activities. This was also the first night our choir was to be back from their winter break. It was also the Thursday that the choir gets ready to lead worship on Sunday.
Do we cancel everything? Do we cancel choir and have the rest of the musicians still show up?
Bob and I set up the stage, with risers for the choir and mic's, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard, drums, percussion and the sound cart so everything would be ready for rehearsal.
The choir was leading all the congregational songs but they were not going to sing a special. Most of them took the music a couple of weeks ago, and had been listening and singing all the music. We make a music booklet of all the songs for that Sunday along with a cut sheet to guide them on how the song will be sung.
We first decided to cancel choir practice. The choir had the music, they were learning it on their own, so we thought we could cancel and just have them come at 7:26AM on Sunday morning to rehearse and we would be fine. We were still going to have the band members show up and go over the music. This way the band would know the music, and the choir would sing along. Real easy!
Well, then we decided that we should cancel all of the worship rehearsal including the band members and not have anyone come to the church.
So, NO REHEARSAL on Thursday for anyone.
I have to say, everyone was ready to go on Sunday morning. There were about 40 members, and all the band members ready to sing and play. I have to brag again! We have some great worship team people.
We had only an hour and 20 minutes to go over all the songs, get the tempo right, get the cuts and repeats right, get the words right. I was a bit nervous, but God was there all the time. As I look back now, I knew I was nervous, but not as much as I would have been in the past. I finally was relying more on the worship team (band and choir) knowing the music and letting the Holy Spirit work, and not so worried about how was I going to pull it all together.
God was there. It was a great service. The theme was on Koinonia and it really happened. We all banded together to lift our praises to the Lord.
I really can't wait for next week now. The theme is Proskuneo, Worship!!
John
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Let's see if I have this right.
You were there, the band was there, the choir was there, God was there.
But where was the preacher?????
It was a bit eerie though. We heard his voice but didn't see his body. It was like an 'out-of-body' experience.
Hmmm, I wonder who anonymous is? That's hilarious!
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