It’s been a month

WOW! just realized it’s been over a month since my last post. I have had a lot going on and just haven’t been in the mood to blog. I hope to get back in the swing of things soon.

The Power of One

NEWS RELEASE:

Integrity Music Releases The Power of One – Worship Leader Edition
from GRAMMY Winning Worship Artist Israel Houghton

New DVD/CD Resource Features original full album PLUS Live, Acoustic Video & Audio Performances, Instructional Videos, Song Stories, Chord Charts and More!

MOBILE, Alabama (June 9, 2009) – Integrity Music announces the release of The Power Of One – Worship Leader Edition, a new product for worship leaders and musicians that features music, video and a variety of resource materials from GRAMMY, Stellar and Dove Award winning worship artist Israel Houghton.

The new, 3-disc Worship Leader Edition of Houghton’s critically-acclaimed project features the original, full album for The Power of One plus a DVD and a resource-packed, enhanced CD that includes acoustic versions of 11 songs from the original album.

The DVD contains a live performance of acoustic versions of songs from the album. The intimate setting features Houghton on lead vocals/guitar/piano backed by Aaron Lindsey on piano, Akil Thompson on bass and Javier Solis on percussion. In addition, the DVD contains song stories and guitar instructional tutorials hosted by Houghton.

The Worship Leader Edition enhanced CD contains matching, acoustic audio from the DVD plus sheet music, chord charts and lyric text files for all songs.*

“This is an incredible resource for churches, small groups. anyone who wants to translate Israel’s songs into a small to medium worship setting,” says Jay King, Vice President of Artist Development/A&R. “It’s a ‘must have’.”

To help promote this new resource, Integrity is offering free copies of the Worship Leader Edition to worship leaders through a Twitter contest. Additional details are available at http://twitter.com/integritymusic.

The Power Of One Worship Leader Edition is available in Christian Retail stores through Provident-Integrity Distribution and also on line at http://www.integritydirect.com and http://www.worshipkitchen.com/. (The UPC for the product is 000768455105, U.S. Retail $29.95.)

Israel Houghton is a multi-award winning, gold selling artist and a worship leader at Houston’s Lakewood Church. He has written or co-written 11 CCLI Top 500 favorites, served as worship leader at Hillsong conferences, Franklin Graham crusades and is a featured CompassionArt songwriter and artist. Houghton also ministers through concerts in the U.S. and around the world. He is signed to Integrity Music, distributed to Christian retail by Provident-Integrity Distribution and to the general market by Columbia Records/Sony Distribution. Additional information is available at www.israelhoughton.net or www.integritymusic.com.

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*The CD-ROM will run on computers based on Mac OS X or Windows XP or later. The menu requires an Internet browser with the Adobe Flash Player 8.x or later installed. For best results, Internet Explorer 6.x or later (for Windows machines), and Safari 2.x or later (for Mac OSX machines) is recommended.

Sunday Recap/Setlist 03.29.2009

Setlist:

1.  King of Majesty (Hillsong) – It’s been awhile since we have done this one.  It went well, but I think this one will be archived.  We did the Hillsong London arrangement (I think) which was a nice change.  

2.  Here In Your Presence (New Life Worship) – our second song was supposed to have been “Your Grace Is Enough” but during sound check this morning it just didn’t click, so we X’d it.  We started “Here In Your Presence” with the bridge…. We started soft and then built into the chorus and then went into the intro, chorus, then back to the bridge.  I think it flowed really well and was a nice change up.  

3.  Amazed (Jared Anderson) – we went straight into the chorus of “Amazed” after we ended “Here In Your Presence” again, I think it flowed really well.  This was the first time we have done this song.  It really went well and I think the people caught onto it very quickly.  

I am so honored that God allows me to lead people into His presence each week through music.  

Go check out what others did this Sunday @ Fred Mckinnon’s blog.  

How was your Sunday?

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Sunday Recap 3.22.2009

1.  Trading My Sorrows (Darrell Evans) – It has been a LONG time since I have done this one.  We had half of our team out of town for Spring Break so we decided to change things up a bit.  We didn’t do it the traditional way, it was more like an Israel Houghton feel (200 bpm, exaggerated).  I think it went well and it was a nice change up.

2.  Salvation Is Here (Hillsong) – Great song and it went well!

3.  You Are My King (Foote) – Again, long time since we have done this one.  We are in the middle of a series called “Amazing Life” and this week’s message was about Amazing Love so we thought it would be fitting to bring back this song.  Went well, Tonia did a great job on the verse!!!

4.  Let God Arise (Tomlin) – Fun song to sing! 

We really had a great Sunday!  How was yours?

Go check out other Setlists @ Fred’s blog.

Sunday Recap 3.15.2009

1.  My Savior Lives (New Life Worship) – Had a different drummer this week, but everything went well.  Good job Jamie!!!  This is a great song and we have done it A LOT!!!!!  I am ready to archive it though……

2.  Our God Saves (Baloche) – I was concerned about the tempo on this one because during sound check it was up and down…… but it really flowed well during worship!  The anointing makes a HUGE difference.

3.  From the Inside Out (Hillsong) – Same thing with this one, tempo was terrible during sound check!  I really thought about X’ing this one, but it really went well during worship.  Glad we did it!

**We normally use a click, but we didn’t have it this week because Lee (drummer) had the week off.**

How was your Sunday?

Check out other setlists here.

Sunday Recap 3.8.2009

Setlist:

1.  You, You Are God (Gateway) – I think it’s about time to put this one away for awhile.  Great song, but we have been doing it for a few years now…. time to move on.

2.  Let God Arise (Chris Tomlin) – I’ve done this one before, but never with the whole team.  I think it went well!  Great energy song!

3.  Healer (Mike Guglielmucci) – Great song! 

4.  There Is A River (Jessie Rodgers) – We did this one during offering, I like to throw this one in from time to time because it’s really a different style for us.  Great song!

Go join the craziness over at Fred’s blog.  

How was your Sunday?

Sunday Recap 2.22.2009

Go check out more setlists @ Fred’s blog.

Don’t have a lot of time right now, here is our setlist:

1.  Take It All  - Hillsong

2.  Promises – New Life Worship

3.  Here In Your Presence – New Life Worship

Good Worship Service!

How was your Sunday?

Sunday Recap 2.15.2009

Setlist/Recap:

1.  Kingdom Come (Hillsong United) – We begin each week with a 5 min countdown, usually when we start the first song a lot of people aren’t there.  We decided to change it up a bit, we started playing the first song with 2 mins left on the countdown to see if it would make everyone realize we were about to start.  I think it worked ok, but we had the smallest crowd we have ever had. 

2.  I Will Boast (Baloche) – This is a great occasional song for us.  I think it is a good song, but I think it would get old (very quickly) if we did it a lot.  For some reason the click wasn’t working and this song felt like it was in slow motion.  I didn’t know the click wasn’t working, but I knew something wasn’t right. Needless to say, I couldn’t end this song quick enough.  Wasn’t good!!! 

3.  Revelation Song (Jenni Riddle) – Great song and it went well!

Go check out other setlists @ Fred’s blog.

Sunday Recap 2.8.2009

Setlist:

1.  Glorious One (Steve Fee) – It’s been awhile since we have done this one, great song!  It went well, just a bit too high for me. 

2.  Hosanna (Paul Baloche) – Tyler (Vocalist) sings the 1st verse as a solo and for some reason he didn’t start on the right beat of the song.  It was like he was singing on the upbeat, so the first part of the song was a bit weird, but it worked out well.  Great job Tyler!

3.  For Who You Are (Hillsong) – Again, been awhile since we have done this one.  Very good song for the people to sing along with. 

4.  Revelation Song (Jennie Riddle) – This was suppose to be our 4th song, but we didn’t sing it.  Here’s why:  1.)  My mic was cutting in and out because the battery wasn’t connected good. 2.) I didn’t want to prolong the service because we had another song to sing. 3.) God said don’t do it, enough said!

It felt weird during servie this week.  Emma described it last night @ practice like we were in a bubble, people could see us but couldn’t hear us.  It was just weird, I can’t really explain it.  I have been trying hard to make sure we pick songs that people can connect with and sing along with, but I don’t think it worked this week.  Have I mentioned, it just felt weird???

How was your Sunday?

Go check out more setlists @ Fred’s blog.