what a week!!!
final Updates from Cambodia
Enjoy!
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Jubilee Church Coventry @ Jubilee Family Church Cambodia. Please read, enjoy, and pray – it’s been an amazing week for all concerned, and tomorrow is Easter day. Please pray that all who come will know the joy and power of the resurrection, and that lasting fruit will come forth in both churches.
Most of the team are pretending at acrobats in the pool and I can hear Hannah H’s distinctive laugh piercing through. This is after 2 Hannah’s jumped into the pool… fully clothed. As this is an entry by the other Han-Na, I leave you to make an educated guess. I think that pretty much sums up that wherever we go, we create LOTS of noise and make waves.
Mike, Chris and Paul had an early start by going to the Killing Fields in the morning – a rather more sober and reflective start to the day compared to the rest of the team. While Hannah S caught up on the gossip with an old uni friend at a coffee shop, Becci took the rest of us round the sauna, which is the Russian Market, for some shopping.
The thing about heat in the russian market is that it creeps up…
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Family, together, on a mission.
Doesn’t matter too much where you put the punctuation –
Here’s another update from my wife and brothers and sisters who are serving with Jubilee Family Church, phnomh penh, cambodia.
Please read, please pray, and please encourage them.
…Because I put the heating back on and will be reading my friends’ update from Cambodia – why not do the same???
It’s been a busy day….
so ateam of folks from jubilee church coventry (including my wonderful wife) are with jubilee family church, phnomhpenh (cambodia) looking to strengthen them in spiritual gifts and especially prophecy.
They’re keeping a blog of their exploits – please take a read and encourage them! and please pray!
Old pic of family – test
No, the worship team at my church haven’t found out my true identity and stolen my laptop to stop me blogging!!!
I just found my life full of other stuff. No apology, no guilt, no problem!
Still want to direct as many people as will go there to read my friend Matt Blick’s blog on worship (also songwriting) – also, his blog on the Beatle’s music is pretty epic: I’m amazed he has the time to do all he does – I may ask him one day!!!!
Will return to the series on ‘How to help the congregation to participate in corporate worship‘ when I work out the time to – the blog will then be turned over to the subjects of a worshipping and prophetic lifestyle. Should be fun!!!
Practice spontaneous contributions over and over again.
Matt Blick did a series on his blog on the subject of helping the congregation participate in our meetings, and I want to spend some time interacting with each of his twelve suggestions and see if I can squeeze out some more value from his ideas and share them as widely as I can. This is number five of twelve. (some more of my own may follow, depends on how many people are still reading at the end of the series!!!)
Practice spontaneous contributions over and over again
Ok, so I know you can’t squeeze out prophetic songs on demand at rehearsal, but how about getting the singers to start singing any random scriptures and try to jam along. You can get them to start a song without telling you which one they’re going to pick. You can even get ‘em to try to start it really out of key. You’re trying to practice the mechanics of it so that when it happens for real on a Sunday you don’t freak. All you’re aiming for is to be relaxed enough when the Spirit does start kicking off you can actually still strum a few chords.
This one was short enough to copy and paste – and I haven’t got much to add to Matt’s suggestions!! (Shock, horror!!!)
I especially like the idea of having someone start a random song at band practice, and just working out how to play along. It is vital to lock away the music books at this stage!
If you do go for this option, here are a couple of tips for starters – please feel free to add your own!
- Work out the key first – try singing what sounds like the root of the chord and work out the key
- First one to nail the key – tell the others!!! Sounds really simple, but I see so many bands miss this one – no need to leave the rest of the band floundering in the wake of your ninja skills, tell them so they can join in!
- Simply provide a framework for the individual or congregation to sing around. You are not trying to support this kind of contribution in quite the way you support congregational singing of a hymn or song – at least, not to start with. And bringing too much by way of ‘music’ early on is actually a great way to kill the contribution (along with any chance of others stepping out in this area) as ‘forcing’ a favourite chord structure on the person bringing a prophetic song can stifle the creative flow of the gift; and a musician setting a wonky tempo for a song that they don’t actually know (but the congregation are picking up OK from the person who started it) can really bring a meeting to a juddering halt. By a framework, I mean things like – guitarists choosing a very chilled strumming pattern of first beat of the bar only (to start with); keyboards, wait until you know how the contribution is building before you choose a funky synth or chilled string pad; drums, avoid playing a ‘beat’ until you know where this is going, but please play your instrumentsensitively until then; vocalists, if it is a prophetic song, please listen to it and remember key phrases so you can lead the congregation in joining in and responding.
- And my previous post on rehearsing is helpful in this area too.
I’m really interested in finding out how people practice these type of things at the moment, or any other ideas you may have – please comment!!!
Next – a post about song choices and releasing the pressure of aiming for an epic Sunday!
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