First one out of the way

Well the first game is out of the way and now its time to get down to business. Taylor appeared to be a bit nervous at first last night but as the game went on all of the cheerleaders got more comfortable and louder, which with Taylor is good because alot of times she can be quiet but I could actually hear her last night. There were a few times when they were watching each other and one would mess up causing the others to mess up as well but as the game went on they all did a great job. Now its on to Thursday for the next one, I'll be a bit late for that one.

It was fun watching both the 7th and 8th graders play especially since there were 7 or 8 of them that go to youth group or church and I've kinda got to know some of them and hang out with them so it was good to support them, plus The Rick (aka Rick Brown) is coaching the 8th graders so there is alot of FFC connections during these games.

Just couldn't wait...

In case you didn't notice yesterday, but I think it was pretty obvious, I couldn't wait to hit that one chord on the first song. Couldn't wait so I hit it a line too early. That was the one chord I was looking forward to playing the most yesterday and I just couldn't contain my excitement so I just had to get it out there. I think though that we recovered nicely. Good song set yesterday and like I told Brent I really liked the ending where we all, for whatever reason just stopped playing and let everyone sing, awesome stuff. Tried something different yesterday, I had some earphones plugged in to the back of my foot pedal, I dug that, still getting used to it but I can really hear myself with that and still hear everyone else through the monitors. Youth was fun playing a little basket-dodgeball or was it dodge-basketball? Good times. Taylor has her first ballgame tonight and shes a tad nervous and excited at the same time. She took a year off from cheerleading but has really dug in this year so if you can say a quick prayer for her and her nervousness. Thanks.

Sunday set list
All We Need - Charlie Hall
Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman/Tree63
He Reigns - Newsboys
Undo - Rush Of Fools
Let My Words Be Few - Matt Redman
Healing Rain - Micheal W. Smith
Jesus Draw Me Close-You Are My All In All - Rick Founds & Dennis Jernigan
Above All - Lenny LeBlanc & Paul Baloche

Solid Rock recap with special guest

It was a fun night on Solid Rock Friday Night, not only did I get some extra time, I also had a guest host, Tyson. He had alot of fun and I don't think he was very nervous, he just went in and took care of business. Tammy recorded him and he got to hear himself a little bit when we got home and you should have seen the smile. It was fun having both of my kids have a little guest hosting and even let both of them take control for a segment or two on their nights in the studio. Thanks for listening if you were able to, I hope we kept you entertained and we'll do it again sometime.

Song List:
Relient K - The Last, The Lost, The Least
Kids In The Way - Fiction
Worth Dying For - Let It Out
Decemberadio - Better Man (For Tammy)
Big Dismal - Running Through My Mind
Kutless - The Feeling
Homeless J - B-Fly
Aiming For Aurora - Vaudeville Killed The Talkie Pictures
P.O.D. - Boom
Family Force 5 - Dance Or Die (For Taylor)
Disciple - 321
After Edmund - It's Alright
12 Stones - Broken
Apologetix - Psum 14 (Gave away a cd)
Anberlin - Feel Good Drag
Day Of Fire - Love
Guardian - Curiosity Killed The Cat
Underoath - A Moment Suspended In Time (For Alex in Indiana somewhere wouldn't tell me where)
Pillar - Frontline (For James in Greenville)
Since October - My Heart
Flyleaf - Breathe Today (For some guy who called in last week and for PK who twittered this last week)
Stryper - Reborn
Red - Wasting Time
Ilia - This Is Only The Beginning
Demon Hunter - Undying (For Chad Rector from last week)

We rocked it out, end of story.

Quick update

Got a call tonight after worship practice, which by the way was way cool, and myself and Tyson will be on the radio tomorrow night, Friday the 14th from 9:30 to 11:00 pm. Now for the same old same old it is on 88.9 or 94.5 or 97.7 on your fm dial or check us out online at 889joyfm.com. Either way come join us if you can as we rock it up a bit.

Fun couple of days

The last few days were a blast and I am thankful that I got the opportunity to go to The Sticks Conference. It was cool and it had some amazing speakers. It was alot of fun hanging out with a couple of the pastors from church and learning things about them and just hanging out. Even tried my very first Starbucks or as I like to put it *$'s. This little thingy * looked more like a star on my phone than it does my computer though. All in all it was a great time. Tuesday we heard from Mark Batterson, Barry Wochester and Charles Hill. All 3 brought something different to the table and each one was good. I really enjoyed Charles Hill, his church was the one hosting. The breakouts were good and got to talk tech with the worship leader there at New Hope (in ear monitors was the basis of our discussion). Yesterday we heard from Tim Stevens, Shannon O'dell, and Dwight Mason. Once again these 3 brought it, each one something different. I had Tim Stevens in a breakout session and enjoyed him more there but Shannon just flat out brought it and I'll be watching him and Charles Hill on dvd probably tonight.

This was my first conference so I didn't know what all to expect but it was a very enjoyable experience and there were a couple of WOW moments like the communion on Tuesday and the Youth Band from New Hope yesterday. They did a song that I don't know if they wrote or not but it was pretty good and looking around the room I don't know if alot of the people were getting it or not. Then they busted into Mighty To Save and worship broke out in a BIG way. That was one of the biggest highlights for me. Good times and a great conference now I'm ready for the next one, say maybe Catalyst.....hmmm.

Headed to the STIX's

In just a few short hours I'll be headed to the STIX's with a 4 of our pastors. What is the Stix's you ask, it's a conference for smaller sized churches in little towns. It looks like its gonna be fun and I am excited to go and pick up some info and knowledge and bring it back and put it to use. Just a half day here at work then off to see Tammy's new office digs then to the church then off to Loundonville for the conference.

This weekend we had alot on our plate of things that we needed to get done, especially on Saturday but instead of doing all of them we kind of just lounged around the house and just took it easy. It was alot of fun but still need to get them done. We did go out to the church and seperate the toys that were brought in and got everything ready for Sunday morning. There was alot of stuff there and Tammy was thinking we might get 50 or 60 boxes out, WRONG. I think the last total was around the 110 to 120 range. She said it reminded her of the story of Jesus feeding 5,000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, the kids just kept going around and around filling the boxes. Only God can do that and I know that we are gonna be blessing alot of children this Christmas.

Thanks also to all of you with the compliments about the worship time yesterday, its cool to hear those things even though I get a little embarassed by them. I'm just doing my part in serving the Lord, cause I couldn't do it on my own. Speaking of yesterday here is a look at the songs:

How Awesome Is The Lord Most High - Chris Tomlin (Could actually hear myself this weekend and this one started off the service with a bang.)
Holy Is The Lord - Chris Tomlin
How Great Is Our God - Chris Tomlin
Glorious - Chris Tomlin (I really liked this one with the switching of lead vocals in the verses)
Mighty To Save - Hillsong (Did this one just a bit different but it still packs a powerful punch)
Let God Arise - Chris Tomlin (This has turned into a personal favorite. Messed up in the bridge section though, I came in later than I was supposed to. Fun song to let loose on)

Rocked what I got.

Well I rocked it out tonight a bit and had alot of fun with the liners, yes I played them all so that took away some talking. Started out with a couple of left over requests that the others didn't have so I took care of that and I also got the 2nd ever twitter request for some Pillar for PK. Hope you enjoyed it. Just alot of fun and I'll let you know when I'll be back over there, basketball is getting ready to start in Dec and runs through Feb. I must have rocked it up so much that it wore Tammy and Taylor out as they were both zonked when I got home, I know it couldn't have been that I bored them. Here is the songs:

DC Talk - Jesus Freak
Underoath - A Moment Suspended In Time (These first 2 were the requests)
Anberlin - The Resistance
Falling Up - Moonlit
Pillar - For The Love Of The Game (Twitter request for PK)
Whitecross - Attention Please
Seventh Day Slumber - Burning Bridges
Jeremy Camp - Take My Life
Disciple - Stripped Away
Superchick - Rock What You Got
Fireflight - Waiting
Project 86 - Illuminate
Fear Not - We Have A God
Guardian - Fire And Love
Since October -Disaster
12 Stones - The Last Song