Beside Still Waters Ministries

Hopefully now I’ll be back on track with my blogging schedule, though with working during the week at a CPA firm during tax season I may not keep up.  It is getting to crunch time…big time. 

I took my new Yamaha YPG-225 today, to try it out because I already planned to bring it next week for Easter and I wanted to make sure it worked out okay.  It sounded fine before the service, but people in the sanctuary really changes the acoustics. Apparently a tiny adjustment on the sound-system slider for the keyboard’s volume made a big difference, so to keep it from overpowering he had it so low that I couldn’t hardly hear it. We need monitors. Bad. I couldn’t stand it after the 2nd song, and switched over to the acoustic piano where I could at least hear what I was playing. We’ll try again next week with turning down the master volume on the keyboard and seeing if that helps, and I’m going to see if my dad can loan us some speakers and help us get some kind of monitor so we can hear up front.

Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
Blessed Be The Name of the Lord (Utterbach)
All Glory Laud and Honor

Offertory: How Great Is Our God (since I didn’t get to do it last week) – I also did a risky thing by having the congregation stand and join me singing the last chorus after the bridge and then the chorus of “How Great Thou Art”, and I asked the ushers before the service to come up at that time as well. So I didn’t do the Doxology. And they didn’t hang me afterwards!

Message: Celebration Faith – the disciples on Palm Sunday

Hosanna, Loud Hosanna

The toughest part of this week and next week is that there are certain hymns traditional churches expect to sing on these particular Sundays, and I’m not sure how much I can push the envelope. We have to, though, because we can’t miss the opportunity if there are C ‘n E er’s there that we can reach. We just got all the money and approval to get a projector, but we won’t be able to get it installed in time. Maybe for Pentecost/Mother’s Day we can do something really special.