Worship Ministry Update: 3/24/09

2009 Vision: impacting the community through the arts and acts of kindness

 

   I am very excited about some special events coming up!  As you know, the choir and orchestra will be performing at the Right to Life Banquet.  This will be an enormous event attended by over 2000 people.  There will be lots of media coverage since Sara Palin will be speaking.  Looks like God has really moved to get the people there!

 

    Remember why we are doing this: we'll perform some good music and then invite them to a worship service here at FCCN.  Who knows the amount of people who will eventually become fully devoted followers of Jesus because we first went to them, just like Jesus!

 Choir & Orchestra  

    Sunday, March 29 is the last chance to join the choir and orchestra for Easter and the Right to Life Banquet.  Come on out on March 29 and we'll get you involved!  No tryout is needed and childcare is provided for every practice.

     This Sunday night, we will be working on "God is in the House," "If You are an American" and "Christ the Lord is Risen Today."  Unless the vocal equippers object, I'd like to handle the full practice with the choir instead of breaking up into sectionals.  We've already sung these songs before, so I think we'll be able to knock it out as a full choir.  Here's what the evening will look like:

    6:00-6:10: opening prayer and value of the month!

    6:10-6:50 Choir practices in the chapel, orchestra practices in the worship center

    6:50-7:10 Prayer groups

    7:05-7:30 Everyone practices in the worship center

Painting a Closet

    We're using a closet for this Sunday's message.  Is anyone out there bored during spring break, and interested in painting the outside white and the inside black?  Let me know.  It shouldn't take too long.

Value of the Month: Excellence

   We define excellence as "doing the very best you can with what you have."    

    Excellence never happens by accident.  Jim Collins, in his leadership classic "Good to Great," proves this point very well.  His team executes a rigorous study of countless organizations to find out what moves a good organization a great organization.  The results are pretty simple: it does not happen by luck.  In Collin's own words, "greatness is not a function of circumstance.  Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline."

    FCCN worship ministry, let's have the discipline and make the conscious choice to work toward excellence!

    God bless,

        Phill