Lesson's Learned from yesterday

First of all, thank you all again for all your hard efforts this weekend in being a part of something beautiful for our Lord Jesus. I believe His name was lifted up and His people were encouraged, I know I was...I also believe others that don't know Him may have been drawn as well.

While still fresh in mind, I wanted to note a few things we can do for future to continue to improve and magnify and honor God through this ministry.

First and foremost, we should always, especially in our private prayer times, be lifting eachother and everything we do up to God. We should offer ourselves as living sacrifices asking God to do His work through us with His annointing. If God has given us the privledge of leading others in worship of Him, then we should do it with excellence (all that we can bring to the the altar on the practical side of things...practicing, top notch equipment, preparation, memorizing songs for example) and His annointing ( all that He is wants to through us, through His power and grace that we ask for in advance through prayer and this all through Jesus.)

I was reminded of this yesterday by another pastor who there. His remindar to me helped put God back in control knowing that if we put all our effort out there with our motive to honor God and our prayer giving it all up to Him, He would work through us...I believe He did just that.

I also want to thank God for answered prayer that He would receive all the glory He deserves...as a good sister shared with me yesterday...she prayed that morning that God would hold the rain off through the morning so that His name would be honored in a public place and that after the service, it could rain all it wanted to...that my bro's and sises is exactly what occurred! To the praise and glory of God...let's not be afraid to ask God just like this in the future.

And on some practical notes -

Pre-preparation and planning on the sound system paid off big time...thanks Don

One should listen to a brother who wanted to avoid papers blowing all over the place...sorry Brian...please forgive me...you were right...Vince

Let memorizing songs be our goal for the remainder of this year ( for musicians especially ) this would eliminate alot of difficulty we had yesterday and as Jason pointed out earlier this week, if bar bands can do it, should we do no less as we our serving God through this ministry?

Christ Peace in your hearts,

Vince

Painesville PIP Song list

Well, here it is...

Song Key
Love the Lord your God - G
Fields of Grace - E
Marvelous Light - A
Everything Glorious - C
Creed - G
How Firm a Foundation - G
Lean on Me - G
If we are the body - E - Capo on 2cnd fret
Not by might - Vince only - There is no other name - G
All bow down - B
Amazing Grace - F

There are 11 songs here...I tried to pick stuff Jason has already been working on and other songs we could do without much trouble. The arrangements for the ones we know will be the same as we have been practicing with room for a little fine tuning as necessary - flowing from one song to another, for example.

I would like to practice How firm a foundation, Lean on Me, If we are the body and There is no other name with you all prior to thursday. Is this possible on Sunday? Can we maybe get together a little earlier on sunday if necessary? Please give me your input on this...

Thanks,

Vince

SONG CHANGE ALERT!!!

Do not be alarmed, do not be frightened...but, we are going to change our opening song for this week!

Yes, by an overwhelming, hit between the eyes, smack in the face encouragement, we will be doing a song called, " Fields of Grace" as an opener this sunday.

The sheet music is on the CCLI site, already added to our favorites.

To listen to this, you can visit youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HalpbqoVwYQ and play the Big Daddy Weave version of the song.

It is perfect fit for what we have been talking about in Romans that is as being "Adopted" you will see what I mean when you listen to the song.

If you have not guessed, I am very excited about this...let me know if you all have any questions.

God Bless,

Vince

Songs for Sunday

Please see the song list for sunday 6/13/08. We will try and open with "In Me"...

Let me know if you all have any questions...great job yesterday and welcome back again Jason and Amy.

Feel free to drop comments on the blog so we can discuss on thursday...


Have a great week,


God bless you all,


Vince

Song Layouts

Wow! what a great practice we had last night and what a blessing to have Jason and Amy back! In addition, what a great job Shane is doing, it's exciting to see how God is putting this all together.

As requested, here is the song layouts for sunday with special notes as indicted...please practice accordingly and have a great 4th of july...

Creed - Verse, Chorus, Verse 2 ( don't forget the stop on " and on the third day, He rose again", Chorus, Instrumental Verse, Verse 3, Chorus - (repeat I did not make it no it is making me 3 times on last chorus) Bridge to end song...

Love the Lord Your God - Verse (2 times) - Instrumental only...Brian starts with heavy rythm guitar, we all join in on 2cnd time through on verse..Singers start singing first verse pause at end of verse before going into chorus...Chorus...Verse 2....Chorus...Instrumental verse & Chorus - Brian (Shane) does solo thru whole section...Drop down...play on G and go into Bridge...Verse 3 - 3 times ( last time retard "I will love you Lord with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind and all my strength"

Unfailing Love - G and C chord intro 4 bars acoustic only vocals start - Vince only on vocals first verse only...drum roll into Chorus...Verse 2...Chorus...repeat Chorus...Verse - Instrumental for first 4 lines...vocals come back in on "And everything...drum roll into chorus and all drop out execept for acoustic and vocals...chorus - gradual build here...Chorus 3 strong build...end song with repeat of "unfailing love" stay on G and C chord as an outro...

Enough - Intro will flow from outro from previous song, Chorus - vocals at slower tempo... Verse 1 - Nate will lead us into this at faster tempo...Chorus...Verse 2...Chorus...Verse 3 Instrumental - Brian does lead here...all drop out at end of verse...Bridge...acoustic and vocals first half of bridge bass join on second half...building throughout bridge into final chorus repeat "more than enough 3 times and end song...

Communion - This is the only song I am planning to capo...Chords are in the key of G played on the third fret...Chorus...Verse...Instrumental (2 times - Brian play lead here) Bridge...Chorus 2 times...last time acoustic and vocals only on chorus...

Hopefully all this makes sense and helps...let me know if you all have any questions....


God Bless,


Vince

It's all about the fish!

Well, not really but fishing is pretty cool. I like fishing...I like it a lot. My boys seem to have been bitten by the angler bug lately as well. We have perused the local fishin holes from some dandy bass action and as you can see from the screen shot...at least one did not get away. (Until we released him so he would grow to be bigger bass). Of course, I had nothing to do with the actual catching of the fish, that belonged to a young man who really enjoyed catching that dandy!

I can't say what it is that we like about fishing so much...maybe it's being out in nature? Maybe it's the excitement of getting that great big fish on our line...feeling the tug...hearing your drag let out...maybe because it's relaxing or just plain fun.

So this leads me to think about what Jesus said, " Come and I will make you fisher's of men" Could it be that the same excitement and experience one gets from fishing could be the same as bringing someone to Christ? Have we ever thought of sharing our faith with someone as a means to "catch" that person for God's kingdom. Have we ever considered that all we do everyday is either helping bring people into God's net or driving them away? That's a scary thought.

Here's a better question, have you been caught yet? Does Jesus have you in his net? If so, maybe ask Him to show you how you be a better fisher of men.


Vince

Sunday July 6th, 2008

Greetings,

I hope you enjoyed last week's anniversery celebration...I hope we continue to grow together in love as we grow together in Christ.

Here are this weeks songs...the opening song is still undetermined as I would like to talk to Pastor Jeff and get a little more clarification on his message. Communion is a song we have done before, by third day.

I would encourage everyone to read Pastor's blog and respond...answer the questions he poses and we will discuss this ourselves for our devotion on thursday p.m.

I look forward to seeing you all then and we may have some surprises in store which I am looking forward to.

God Bless you all,


Vince