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Say Hello to the Sound Guy

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June 20, 2010

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…

Check out more setlists here.

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Youth Service

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March 22, 2010

This is a pic from a youth service I led last week at our Syosset campus.  So great to lead students in worship.  When they catch a vision of what it means to worship, they are unstoppable.  May it be so at Shelter Rock!

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Sunday Setlist 2-7-10

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February 10, 2010

We had  a powerful time on Sunday.  We introduced “How He Loves” and the people responded.  I led at our Syosset campus and we had an extended time during that song where the Lord gave us Psalm 46:10 (Be still and know that I am God).  A hush came over us and it was so sweet to just stand for a few moments in His presence as children of the Father.

Here are the songs:

Sing, Sing, Sing (Carson, Gilder, Nunn, Reeves, Tomlin)

Indescribable (Story)

Salvation Belongs to Our God (Howard, Turner)

How He Loves (McMillan)

Happy Day (Cantelon, Hughes)

See more setlists here: http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-81/

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Sunday Setlist 1-31-10

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February 1, 2010

So here are the songs we worshiped with this week at Shelter Rock Church in Manhasset and Syosset, NY…

The Lord moved and I felt there were two things He emphasized: 1) He delights in us as we delight in Him 2) In the presence of the Lord is fullness of joy.

Blessed be Your Name (Redman)

Your Grace is Enough (Maher)

In Christ Alone (Getty/Townsend)

Hosanna (Fraser)

After message…

Here I am to Worship (Hughes) (new verse harmony written with Harold Greene):

D /  [A/C#] /     C  / [G/B]  [Gm/Bb]     [D/A] / [E/G#] /     G [D/F#] Em /

Closed with “You are Good” (Houghton)

Check out more setlists at http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-80/

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Come Home

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January 7, 2010

Here’s a new video from Christmas Eve.  I was so happy to have Olivia singing with me!  I wrote this song back in 2007…enjoy.

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How Far, How Far

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December 31, 2009

Just a few hours left of 2009 here in New York City.  We’re going to celebrate with friends in Queens.  I was thinking today as I drove back from the church in Syosset how many things changed and happened this past year.

When the year began we had only moved to the city a couple months earlier.  Neither Olivia nor I had a job yet and our savings were pretty much gone.  I had interviewed at on church, but it didn’t work out — all we could say was, “Lord, do what You will.”

Olivia got a job at a doctor’s office almost right away.  I interviewed with another church (that one wasn’t it either!) and got ready to do some temp office work.  In the meantime I walked pretty much all the neighborhoods in New York just praying and trying to hear what He was saying for us.  (This was one of the most wonderful seasons yet in my walk with the Lord:)  I finally got a temp job at an office and then another at the NFL.

Olivia found a new opera coach that turned out to be a great help to her as she gets ready to go to the next level in her career.

I went back and forth as to what the Lord wanted from me…did He want me leading worship in a church?…did He want me to go back into songwriting?…did He want me to pursue business at the NFL and lead worship part-time?

Towards the end of 2009 the Lord revealed what He had here for me.  I was called as the worship pastor of Shelter Rock Church on Long Island.  I started a couple weeks ago and He’s already doing wonderful things.

So, here comes 2010.  I’m beginning to see that I need to stop making all these elaborate plans and just follow Jesus. The Spirit will order my steps.  He will lead me on a an adventure that I could never come up with on my own.

Lord, I give You 2010.  It is Yours, I am Yours.  I rejoice in Your presence and Your ways.

(Check out the archives for more details on all our happenings!)

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Worship Setlist 9-27-09

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September 28, 2009

FredMckinnon.Com has a great place to recap your Sunday worship set called, appropriately enough, Sunday Setlists.  I was the guest worship leader yesterday at Shelter Rock Church in Syosset, NY so I thought I’d throw my hat in the ring :) .

Thanks to the worship team: Beth, David, Sara, Warren, Joe, and Brian…thanks for making me welcome and letting me lead!

Thanks Pastors Steve and Jerry for having me as well.

The Spirit was strong and there’s nothing more wonderful than just basking in the Lord’s presence together.

Setlist:

Your Grace is Enough
Everlasting God
Revelation Song
I Surrender All (Hymn)
Mover of Mountains (Original)

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God of this City

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