The worship this weekend was really special.  We changed up the instrumentation by adding a violin, mandolin and percussion.  It gave a different feel to our normal rock-oriented worship.  I felt like God revealed himself in a sweet yet powerful way.  As it turned out, the entire worship package centered around the names of God.  Even during the 9 AM service as Pastor Todd prayed over the people, there was the recounting of the God’s names.  I just believe that God loves when we sing and speak His name.  It was awesome.

So, here are the songs that we sang.  We started with Hillsong’s “For Who You Are” as the link-up song between all the campuses.   This is always a congregational favorite.  After a time of welcome from Pastor Todd, we went into Paul Baloche and Brenton Brown’s “Rock of Ages You Will Stand”.  This is a cool take on the old gospel song “Rock of Ages”.  It sounded stellar with the mandolin and violin carrying the hook.  From there, I took a little time to pray and exhort and then into “Your Name” by Paul Baloche and Glenn Packiam.  What a fantastic song.  I split the vocal leadership on this song with Belinda Telemague, who just knows how to lead people in worship.  From here we went into Charlie Hall’s arrangement of “How Great Thou Art”

The highlight of the musical side of worship was our offering moment.  We did a song called “Names of God” by Laurell Hubick.  I had never heard this song until one of the ladies from our dance ministry brought it to me.  Let me just say, it was powerful.  Kristin Neumann started the moment with an awesome scripture monologue, Ansley Kicklighter did an amazing job singing the song, Emily Baird and Novik Inge Hier created a beautiful choreographed dance piece to go along with it, Peter Licata from our creative media team created a great video piece for it and then the simplicity of the piano, violin and percussion created a perfect setting for the song.  I posted a video so you can see it.

Well, that was the set list.  I have included links on Amazon so that you can add the music to your own personal worship play list.  Thanks for taking a look at this post.  Check out theWorshipCommunity site and the Sunday Set List blog to see what other leaders are doing around the globe.

The Gardens campus worship experience was huge with a fantastic worship team that consisted of full band, brass section, huge worship choir, vocal team, and dancers.  It was pure energy.

So, here is how it all went down.  The service started with a new instrumental arrangement of the old Hillsong tune “My Redeemer Lives”.  Very high energy with a killer sax solo.  Right out of the opener we launched into Chris Tomlin’s “Let God Arise”.  and then into the CF original song “Set Free”.  Greg Reade, who wrote the song led out and did a great job.

After a welcome from our Lead Pastors, Tom and Todd Mullins, we did Lincoln Brewster’s “Give Him Praise”.  Very Fun! Charbel Khadij and Belienda Telemaque and the choir rocked it out. The choir loved doing a little rockspel (a cross between rock and gospel).  Our dance team came out  half way through the song and busted it.

Next, we had a student read a series of scriptures to set up the next worship package of “The Stand” by Hillsong United and a couple choruses and bridges of Chris Tomlin’s “How Great is Our God”.  “The Stand” is a perfect worship song for Easter as the lyrics declare a response of complete surrender for the cross of Christ.

Finally, after a brief promo video for our new message series “Doubters Anonymous”, the choir performed a Harold Ross arrangement of Chris Tomlin’s song “I Will Rise” medlied with the chorus of Hillsong’s “Worthy is the Lamb”.  This is just an amazing choir song.

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Photography by Nathan Carrol and CJ Lanier

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I felt like there was a real nice mix of new music with some older worship tunes as well.  We started with “EVERYONE” as the link-up tune (all 4 campuses sing the first song together).  This is a simple song that is very easy to sing.  The congregation seems to connect with it every time we sing it.  We did the song in the key of G.

After the welcome/greeting time, we launched into a Christ Fellowship original song “SET FREE” in the key of B.  This song will be released on the new live worship project from our City Place Ascent service in May.  From here I transitioned with a short exhortation/prayer into another Christ Fellowship original song, “YOU WILL REIGN” in the key of D.  This was the second week that we sang this song at the Gardens campus.  It seems like the congregation is beginning to catch on to it.  I love this song!  It will be released on the new CD in May as well.  At the end of this song, we went into a stripped down version of “THE HEART OF WORSHIP” in the key of D.  Finally, after the offering set-up we sang “ALL I NEED MEDLEY” in the key of D.  This is a combination of the old song, “I Need The Every Hour” and Hillsong’s “All I Need is You”.  We recorded this arrangement on our worship project “In Your Love”.  This is always a home run and a great way to mix the old with the new.

So, there it is for this weekend.  hope you enjoyed.  Check out theWorshipCommunity site and the Sunday Set List blog to see what other leaders are doing around the globe.