Beside Still Waters Ministries

I really think that this was my strongest Sunday so far, and I hope that the congregation was able to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.  Being mostly older people, they aren’t very demonstrative and so it is hard to tell.  I was able to modulate up a half step or two on the last verses of some of the hymns, so that was pretty cool because most of the time I can’t do that because either I don’t think of it ahead of time in order to fix the chord chart and practice or because most of the guitarists I’ve played with don’t know enough chords in order to do that, too.

My guitarist didn’t play this Sunday because he was sick part of the week, and the hymns weren’t very conducive to being played on a guitar.  However, I did get to sing “In Christ Alone” as a special music with one lady from my church, and God gave me two great ideas to make it really work well – one was to record the piano part into my keyboard ahead of time so I could play a flute part on it live, and the other was to take my little Behringer mixer and small amp so that I could solve the issue with not having proper monitors from the sound system and therefore not being able to hear the keyboard.  It was SO much better being able to hear the keyboard directly!!!

Easter “Sunrise” 8:15 Service:
Lord I Lift Your Name on High by Rick Founds
I Love You Lord by Laurie Klein
He Is Exalted by Twila Paris
He Lives

Regular 10:30 Service:
Christ The Lord Is Risen Today (Lyra tune)
Shout To The Lord by Darlene Zschech
Awesome God by Rich Mullins 
Special Music: In Christ Alone by Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
Message: Celebration Faith – Pastor Curt shared his testimony, and the amazement of the resurrection
Crown Him With Many Crowns

The links are either to the songwriter’s website or to an article about the song or hymn (such as at cyberhymnal.org). For now, that is what I decided to do. Perhaps as we do more contemporary music I will link to iTunes or some other type of online music retailer.