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A chance to be in a video AND win free stuff. And the two are completely unrelated. But how can you say no?

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1) I’ve already gotten in a few video/picture entries for “I am _______.” But where’s yours? Send it to me (see below) by Friday. Remember when y’all all wished you’d been a part of the dance party after you saw the video? uh huh… This is much less embarrassing. So do it. Who’s in?

2) All you church people are gonna like this, because my buddies at Integrity and Logos are hosting this MASSIVE giveaway to celebrate a new software release called “Proclaim.” The prizes all center around one thing—creating powerful worship services. Raise your hand if you could use some of these prizes: a new and professionally church created website, hosted free for a year, a year of expert video and audio podcasting, $100s in gift cards for worship music, subscriptions to the top worship planning site, membership to top worship media sites, downloadable music lessons, an acoustic guitar (hello!!), tickets to some of the premier worship leader and music conference, and much more! To enter watch the video at http://proclaimonline.com and at the end there is a list of ways to enter the giveaway. There are several one-time ways to enter and a couple ways to enter every day!

Everybody likes free stuff, right? And, today you’ve got a chance to be in the latest greatest blog-community video [AHEM], AND win some cool stuff! Or just pick one of the two. They are highly unrelated. But equally fabulous.

Somebody oughta thank me–by sending in their part of the group video… ;)

Book “The All-Girls”

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We rallied for a women’s conference this past weekend. And dare I say this is the best worship band I’ve ever played with? It’s pretty dang close, for sure. The unity among the group was unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The vocals were stunning. Keys inspiring. The bass player had serious passion. And, well, they let me play the drums.

If you’re in the south and could really use a worship team for your next women’s event, we’re your band. Give me a holler.

 

There’s no box at my church.

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I’ve never typed a blog post as fast as I’m typing this one. I’ve got way too much going on this week. On Sunday, we’re starting a 3rd service at The Chapel. This means I’m working my butt off. But, hey, I love my job, so that’s that!

About the box. Well. We’ve been struggling since early summer to find a way to create more space, more seats, more stewardship of souls who enter our campus. We considered a Sunday night service, a Saturday night service, an earlier Sunday morning service, a family service, a separate service with totally different tone and teaching, etc…

We considered meeting times, life schedules of our congregation, life schedules of our leadership, resources, avoiding congregational “favorites” of teachers and musicians, etc.

BUT, our major factor of consideration is what would be best for those who may enter our church for the first time. How do we free up seats for them?

And, what we settled on is quite unconventional, very “out-of-the-box.”

We have two fantastic teachers here: the head pastor (Jay) and my husband (Drew). We have a number of skilled worship leaders. And we have a second large space for meetings. And the bulk of church-goers prefer the late morning service.

So, along with our regular 9am service, we’ll now have two simultaneous services at 10:45 in different worship spaces, one of which in the middle of a two-week renovation overhaul. We’ll all be going through a series together, with Drew teaching his half in one space, and Jay teaching his half in the other space. Then they’ll switch to teach their halves in the other spaces. The whole church gets the same teaching. They just get it at different times. And the musicians will rotate with the teachers. And we’re still one big happy family with 50% more seats at our prime worship time.

Man. I love this church.