Sunday celebration Recap... 09-20

We're on a roll on Sundays lately.

This week we rolled the low end way up, and turned the volume up noticeably. I was a little worried that the complaints would out-weigh the compliments, but I was wrong. No one complained at all... But I had several tell me that it was the best sounding week yet... loud. rock. yes.

I love my church.

So we kicked it off with a little "Faithful" and "Beautiful One". Leonard did the "welcomes", and we continued on with "Happy Day" then a cool transition into "Mighty To Save", and then straight into Tomlin's "Awesome if the Lord Most High" (Which wins the award for "longest title" in the Bayside Central song catalog).

Leonard preached on Forgiveness (something we can all use a little of)and then we finished the service off with my song... "The Sound of Hope" which sounded better than ever, if I do say so myself.

The band: Walter Bere on lead electric, Eric Johnson on bass, Ty Oshiro on drums, and me on the mic and geeeter.

Great week again. If you get the chance to make it out to church this next week, do it. The message will be great, the music will be... loud, and we're playing my brand new song for the first time... "You Did, You Do, You Will"... Can't wait.

Love this...

Happy Wednesday

Sunday celebration Recap... 09-13

This is your Sunday Recap "FALL KICKOFF EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!"

Well, you kinda had to be there, but this is what happened.

"Bayside Radio" is back... This is where we do a cheesy (in a fun professional way) radio broadcast of everything coming up at church, and some new music that the congregation may have never heard. This plays for the fifteen minutes before the service, and ends with something like "Now stand up, 'cause it's time to sing..."

Anyway... it did that, and then we sang "All Because of Jesus". Well, that's why we sang, and it's what we sang. Ok, then we went right into my song, "Free".

There was a "Welcome to Bayside" moment, and then we had our video newscast called "The PULSE"... Oh yes, that's back too (because I know you all care).

then on with the music... "Salvation is Here", "Nothing Can Separate Us" (The new Todd Fields one that we played last week), and "Marvelous Light".

Leonard's Message was awesome... It was about Fear, and getting a hold of it... Good stuff. So, naturally, we closed the service with "Never Let Go".

Ty Oshiro was back on drums for the first time in about 150 years... Eric Johnson on electric Lead, Andy U. on the fat strings, and me on everything else.

After church was the best though. Five people were Baptized, and we got to grill out foot-long dogs in 75 degree, perfect California weather.

Great week!

Can't wait till next!

Sunday celebration Recap... 09-06

So this weekend was supposed to be a "down" Sunday... It was a holiday weekend after all. But "down" it was not. What an awesome service we had!

We started off with "Glory To God Forever" by Fee (His name is Steve Fee, but his band is simply Fee... Just thought I'd clear that up) Anyway, next was the classic Tomiln... "Forever". Then we played my new favorite called "Nothing Can Separate Us" by Todd Fields. First time we played it, and I LOVE it. Great message, but very, ummmm... current. I guess that's the best word for it.
Let's see... Hey look... another Tomlin song! "How Great Is Our God" Followed by... Hey look... another Todd Fields song! "Let Me Sing". We ended with "Jesus Paid It All", because evidently He did.
It was awesome. There were tears. That's a good thing. "Down" Sunday... HA!

We had Mr. Edwin Concha back on the drums again, Eric Johnson on the red beast (aka guitar), Mr. JT Clements on bass... an I jus be a sangin' every week.

Love you guys. Can't wait till Fall kick-off!

P.S. (That's next week) Be there! Bring your friends, neighbors, family... and even a few enemies. Leonard (the preacher) said God will love you if you show up.