Category: Shelter Rock Church


Great week…I was leading at our Syosset location.  One fun thing was having two acoustics in the band.  With the help of our friendly neighborhood capo it made for a nice, full sound.  The more acoustics the better!!

Here’s the set:

Sing to the King (Foote)

Mighty to Save (Fielding)

Hosanna (Fraser)

Hungry (Scott)

How He Loves (McMillan)

We used “How He Loves” as the song weaving through communion, offering, and as a closing song.  This worked really well.  We sang the first verse and pre chorus twice and then played under the pastor administering communion.  We then moved into the second verse as the offering was taken.  As they finished that I stood up the congregation to sing the chorus a couple of times as a nice, big ending.

Here’s the message series roll in video I put together for our new series “Defining Moments.”

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Today was a great day…I was at our Manhasset campus. It worked out that one of our new volunteer worship leaders was leading and we needed someone to run audio. That was me. I got to formally introduce Chris and encourage the congregation to support him. He did an amazing job and I’m so excited to see the Lord move powerfully in him.

It was a blast to mix the band. Mixing is such an art and it was fun to try my hand. I think it turned out pretty well. It also gives me great respect for our guys and gals who serve weekly. Between mixing and recording CDs it is not an easy job!

Here’s out setlist for the week at all three campuses:

Your Grace is Enough (Maher)

Better is One Day (Redman)

Revelation Song (Riddle)

Song of Freedom (Original)

Learn to Love (Off our summer intern Christa’s forthcoming EP)

Oh Taste and See (Johnson)

I also spent a good amount of time this week editing a testimony video for the services. Here it is as well…

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We had one combined service at our locations today at Shelter Rock because of our annual picnic.  I was in Syosset and had a guitar string break right at the beginning of the set…something that has never happened to me! All I could think about was my options: 1. Move to the piano, 2. Borrow our second acoustic player’s guitar.  We were in the middle of the set so there wasn’t a good time to do either.  I just decided to put my guitar down and lead instrumentless.  Something I hardly ever do.  I’m not used to having my hands free so it was nice to be able to clap and lift them up but it was a weird feeling.  I kept thinking of the worship leaders I like who do not lead from an instrument and what they do :) .

All in all it went well.  The team really stepped up and did a great job.  Note to self: Have another guitar available.

Here’s the set…

Opening: Nothing But the Blood (Christa Ciotti arrangement off her forthcoming album)

O Taste and See (Brian Johnson)

Hosanna (Brooke Fraser)

None But Jesus (Brooke Fraser)

Offering/Closing: By His Wounds w/Nothing but the Blood

Jimmy Costello did an awesome job with this!!

More setlists here: http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-99/

Easter Pics

Here’s a slideshow of pics from the service at the Tilles Center at Easter.  Thanks to Barbara Fiegas for taking and posting these!

2010 Shelter Rock Church Tilles Center

I had Monday off and Olivia did not, so I took one of our Chihuahuas, Belle, to my very junky office and we cleaned it out.  It was a treasure and trash trove.  I found a complete drumset, a set of handbells (with the white gloves!), even an ice scraper for the car :) .  It’s so clean and big now…it’s Olivia’s turn to make it look good:).

It was nice today to actually work in there.  There’s plenty to do.  I’m looking forward to a place where people want to hang out.

Especially me!