From the lips of a 5 year old (trumpet player)

If you don't play trumpet, then I'll simply tell you - be amazed. Be very amazed.

TBC team prays for you every Tuesday morning

TBC Worship Rewind: July 5, 2009 #sundaysetlist #sundaysetlists

Rewind:
It was nice to have our newest Acoustic Guitar player (Armand Heyns) play Mandolin for several of the songs. Thanks to my Line 6 Variax guitar and PODxt Live to be able to switch to acoustic when the mandolin was up to bat. I learned yesterday that the click/met track should NOT have any slow-ups/ritards at the end of the songs so that the Main Auditorium (MA) and Lower Auditorium (LA) bands can simply ends them unsyncrohniazed...then start the next song by itself. It was also nice in the Main Auditorium (MA) to have the Blasi trio lead on vocals so I could lead the band and enjoy the Electric Guitar role without leading. One of the things I dislike about the whole synchronized Main Auditorium (MA) and Lower Auditorium (LA) is the fact that I don't really know how things are going downstairs. I'm relying on 2nd hand information. Thankfully, we have capable musicians in both places - so I'm not worried too much about it.

Watch/listen to last weekend's message

Set List:

• Mighty to Save>Hillsong
• You Shine>Brian Doerksen
• Oh the Deep, Deep Love>Sovereign Grace Music
• Your Name>Paul Baloche
• The Old Rugged Cross>Brad Paisley
• Holy is the Lord >Chris Tomlin
  

Links to other setlists:

• Fred McKinnon
• Rick Kirkpatrick
• Twitter #sundaysetlists or #sundaysetlist
  

Success failure on Topeka Sign

Don't think the S fell off - they didn't leave a space for it.

TBC Aquires a Pope-Mobile

Minus bullet proof glass and security detail.

In case you forgot why we ended up celebrating today

Thanks to my friend Kelly Dolan for sharing this.

Topeka Bible Church June 2009 Baptism Video

LA worship location packed today

LA was packed today. And the main auditorium was pretty full as well.
Leading *people* to life in Christ requires seats for one of the most
important components of the mission - people.

Create nice blown up musician floor worship outlines using Planning Center Online

As a musician, maybe you need bigger font/keys if you aren't using music, music stand, or you place it on the floor. If you use www.planningcenteronline.com and you've wanted an outline that you can put on the floor to see the songs and keys in bold...here's what you've been looking for. Thanks to the awesome people at www.planningcenteronline.com for the great tool they've created for us.

The coding file can be found here.

And a PDF example can be found here.

Email me with questions on implementation.

Results of "Have It Your Way" worship

Last Sunday at Topeka Bible Church, we took requests from worshipers, then voted with the applause-o-meter. Want to know the results?







8:00am

• Blessed Be Your Name (beat out A Mighty Fortress Is Our God)
• I'll Fly Away (beat our Amazing Grace)
• Days of Elijah (beat out Victory In Jesus)
• How Great Thou Art (beat out Wonderful Grace of Jesus)

9:30am

• I Can Only Imagine (beat out Days of Elijah)
• Made Me Glad (beat out Give Me Your Eyes)
• Jesus Messiah (beat out Shine, Jesus Shine)
• Amazing Grace [My Chains Are Gone] (beat out In the Garden)
• In Christ Alone (beat out The Power of the Cross)

11:00am

• Days of Elijah (beat out Majesty)
• In Christ Alone (beat out Above All)
• Hosanna (beat out Say So)
• Your Grace Is Enough (beat out Lord, I Lift Your Name on High)
• *Untitled Hymn [Come to Jesus] (beat out Give Me Your Eyes)

* We will sing this song this upcoming Sunday, June 28th at Topeka Bible Church because Jim Congdon requested it to be sung as a part of his message.

You might be wondering how we worked this with our synchronized location " Lower Auditorium (LA) ". We took two requests from Lower Auditorium (LA) to generate the list. Then we asked Lower Auditorium (LA) to be the tie breakers if the applause from Main Auditorium (MA) was too close to call. Thanks to Lower Auditorium (LA) - we needed two tie breakers.

So which ones where you glad that got beat out? Which ones were upsets for you?

How to get feedback from your worship arts family

What's the best way to get feedback from your ministry? Ask them. So that's what happened with our Spring 2009 Worship Arts Survey. If you've never used surveymonkey.com for online surveys - give it a look. Very helpful in collection and analyzing the results. So easy - even a monkey can use it.

Want to know the results from the 81 people who took it? See the results (without names) here.

Other good ways to find feedback - take someone to lunch, watch the worshippers (are they sleeping or have their arms folded), or create an approachable open door culture (like, is your office door open or shut most of the time?).