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Sunridge Worship Team Behind the Scenes – July 19 #sundaysetlists

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:57 +0000

Here is a little peak behind the scenes from our worship team.

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Worship VIDEO, Recap, Set List & Links: July 19, 2009 #sundaysetlists

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:15:47 +0000

Recap: With Greg’s “Game of Life” series we gave another board game out–Clue. John Gaskins also threw baseballs out to the crowd, giving away free Storm tickets for our church outing on July 26. And, once again “Fun-ridge” was the word. I like Sunridge as a name, but FUN-ridge is pretty cool.

In all seriousness, our hope with the worship set was to present how walking with Jesus requires much, but that He is with us all the way! I sure hope folks who sang with us or listened were encouraged by that thought.

Set List:

All Because of Jesus – Steve Fee
I Will Boast – Paul Baloche
Came to My Rescue – Hillsongs United
Surrender – Marc James
All We Need – Charlie Hall

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Share your experience this weekend with us, please.

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American Idols Live Concert: A family experience

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:47:09 +0000

My family enjoyed the American Idols Live concert in Ontario last night. What was interesting is that this concert’s demographics included: middle-aged single ladies with Adam Lambert signs, kids with parents, a scattering of teens and an interesting number of people well over 50-60 screaming like they are teens themselves.

American Idol seems to have ignited some oldies from Led Zeppelin to Journey. Dueling pianos with Scott and Matt added interest. The volume was not loud enough to cover the screams of girls of all ages. My girls loved screaming for Danny. Adam was as glamorous and shouty as I expected. Kris Allen looked smaller in person!

My son began enjoying the show more as we got to the top 5 singers. And the finale with Journey’s “Can’t Stop Believing” even got Ethan and I to join my ladies standing and clapping. The mirror balls were a bit corny, but corny worked well in this environment, reminding me of the skating rink in Jr. High School. The Ontario, CA concert was a family experience. That was surely a cool thing.
**UPDATE: I am quoted in Press Enterprise blog. Was fun to follow Vanessa Franko’s live commentary on twitter (@pecom_audiofile) Here is a recap Vanessa gives on the event.

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Worship Mythbusters: Ten things that damage a worship ministry and hamper worship in a church

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:11:23 +0000

Church politics: not everyone can or will be “pleased” by the style of worship at a church, no matter how many services, styles, video venues or times for worship. Pleasing people in general is a bad idea, right?
Biblical illiteracy: a worship ministry that does not commit to biblically presenting a complete Jesus or filter song choice or content biblically will risk teaching the congregation a lessor picture of Jesus.
Utility over Artistry: a demand to see music, and other expressions of worship as utility and not understand art hurts the ability to actually authentically express. It makes worship a means to something rather than the end.
Church politics: not everyone has gifts to lead or can be in front all the time. The goal in worship leadership is to serve the church, not your own desire to be leading upfront or showcasing talent. When personalities clamor for the stage, it hurts our worship expression.
Not letting the kids take over: keeping worship for my generation and not giving the younger mentorship, exposure and leadership opportunities in worship means the church loses the future. Remember, they are not the church of the future, they are the church.
Worshiping excellence: pushing the worship team to be so non-inclusive that only a small elite become the musicians, singers and tech might hurt the church since losing one of these individuals means a huge hole and loss of excellence.
Lack of Excellence: if music, lighting, speaking and whatever is available is not done well, the church loses gifted people who would rather not subjugate their gifting to poor planning, execution or leadership. (So, with 6 & 7 there is a sweet spot each church has to find–value doing your best, while not making it a club!)
Christian subculture: when music selection is limited to only a small group of writers from a couple publishers and there is one radio station in town your veteran church members listen to, we live in a ghetto. The goal is not to keep our worship expression in a bubble but to reach the world. Make worship style indigenous to reach and reflect your community, not the choice of Christian publishers marketing to veteran Christians.
Church politics: song selection, use of drums, volume, personalities, who gets to play, friends, complaint cards…
Me, myself and I: the trinity of selfishness perhaps is the root cause of all of these. Worship in a local church is “us” worshiping our God. Even when we feel our personal need to worship is important, gathering with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of worshipers is something special and not about me or you in that moment.

Which of these is the worst offender, you think?

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Worship VIDEO, Recap & Setlist: July 12, ‘09 – My daughter & nephew lead #sundaysetlists

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:25:00 +0000

Recap: What a cool life highlight for me to lead worship with both my daughter and nephew this morning. My 16-year-old nephew, Kyle Kirkpatrick, is staying with us for a week and played drums and cello in our worship team this weekend. He did great! Also, Emilie, my 15-year-old daughter, led worship with me as well on vocals and guitar. Part of my vision as a worship pastor is to build up the next generation and that includes my own family, of course!

Our worship and production team is great. Having Joey as a production intern, and other teens and young adults running things on stage, behind the scenes and in decision making roles in production and video makes this ministry at Sunridge worth much my personal life investment. The fruit will be huge in years to come. Thanks to our leadership and people for seeing our younger people as not the “future church” but part of the church right now.

Greg’s message of RISK was the first in a 5-part series “The Game of Life” where we are using board game titles to bounce of our topics. We gave away a board game today. I believe this series is going to deeply speak to our people.

Set List:

Let God Arise – Chris Tomlin
Today is The Day – Lincoln Brewster
O Worship The King – Chris Tomlin
Hosanna – Brooke Fraiser
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) – Chris Tomlin
OFFERING: Be Thou My Vision (cello)

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How was your Sunday? What inspired you, challenged you?

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Picture Caption PLEASE!!

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:34:03 +0000

OK, please share your caption. We did have a blast at the Carlsbad beach and obviously something is going on in this picture.

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Worship Meetup, Tweetup, etc. in K.C.!

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:18:24 +0000

I am excited about going to Kansas City area and attending the National Worship Leaders Conference this year and seeing some of my blogging, twitter and worship leading friends there! I will be hanging out there with Ben, Wisdom and Fred and hopefully you, too.

The event is being hosted by TheWorshipCommunity.Com, AllAboutWorship.Com, and PlanningCenterOnline.Com. Because they are printing free T-Shirts to the first 50 attendees and hope to have some food, they need you to RSVP if you’re attending – ASAP.

When: Tuesday, July 21, 9:30PM
(immediately after the Tuesday PM session at the National Worship Leader Conference)
Where:
Grace Church
8500 W. 159th St
Overland Park, KS 66223

RSVP at Evite.Com

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Doodle of the Week: Do we see what’s behind the clouds?

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:26:24 +0000

Sometimes its hard to see the answer. The happy face knows what to do…spread the happy!

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Worship VIDEO, Recap & Set List: July 5, 2009 #sundaysets, #sundaysetlists

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:57:36 +0000

Recap: It was nice to be back in the saddle after a weekend off the previous Sunday. I love this team! We had to deal with rehearsal being canceled due to a brush fire near our building that caused us to be evacuated and the holiday weekend. The powerhouse nature of our music team, video, lighting and audio people allowed our services to come off relatively smoothly given our challenges. We even had to strike the stage and it was done within 25 minutes! Did I say I love this team already?

Our set included a response songs to Britt’s message “May the Words of My Mouth” which was a good change. I “officiated” the communion time and did better the second service. Don’t we all do better second service?

Set List:

All To You – Lincoln Brewster
Because of Your Love – Paul Baloche
Beautiful the Blood – Steve Fee
Came to My Rescue – United Hillsongs
May the Words of My Mouth – Tim Hughes

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How was your worship weekend? I sure would love to hear from you and any thoughts about our worship service shown on the above video.

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SPECIAL VIDEO: Behind the Scenes with the Sunridge Worship Team!

rkweblog@gmail.com (Rich Kirkpatrick) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:24:42 +0000

I love our worship team at Sunridge Church! This rare behind the scenes footage shows how much fun we really have each week! These are servants who put in hours and dedicate much so that hundreds can worship. The funniest thing is the last words on the on the tape…don’t miss that.

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