This week at Chase Valley:
- Jesus Paid It All – Kristian Stanfill
- Come Thou Font – Billy Chia
- Everlasting God – Brenton Brown
- Hosanna - Brooke Fraser
- From the Inside Out – Joel Houston
These are the same songs I did at Trinity last week. The same team played also. This was a great way to leverage that rehearsal time. It made for a light practice week for everyone but resulted in a tighter, more confident band on Sunday morning.
I was geeked about some nice lead lines I’d get to play in Hosanna and Inside Out. Last week, I broke a guitar string and didn’t get to play them.
This week my guitar just died.
It ended up being a loose connection. This is the 3rd Sunday in a row we’ve had serious sound issues due to faulty equipment. It’s pretty frustrating. We need to replace sound equipment that is broken or breaking. There’s no money to do so.
There were also issues with personell scheduling. We’ll be starting to use Planning Center Online next week – that should help these types of issue tremendously. Chris helped me get up an running and I’m pretty excited about what PCO can do for our ministry.
The cool part is that despite some pretty big hang ups the band did a great job and a ton of people just worshipped despite. It was awesome to see people engaged in worship and not allowing themselves to be distracted.
This post is part of Setlist Sundays.
Is Come Thou Fount a rewrite of the hymn or your own lyrics or a hybrid? I think we all can relate to those frustrating equipment failure moments. Have a great week.
It is great to hear that despite all the hang-ups, you were still able to go forth in worship and bless people’s spirit.
Stay Bless!!
We played “From the Inside Out” at our national meeting on Saturday. So I played the lead lines for you!
Today I broke a string on the last chord of the last song. It NEVER works out that well!
great set. we did hosanna today as well.
Wind,
We do a version of this version of the lyrics along with a chorus that I wrote. I also wrote the chord arrangement.
Mike,
I’m glad someone got to play it
We have a lot of sound issues at our church too. Our “snake” has a bunch of red tape for the inputs that don’t work. And let me tell you that a lot of them don’t work. But the funny thing is that the only people is seems to bother is us, the worship leaders.
Oh Man, we’ve got a bass player who always seems to have some sort of buzz when he plays (from the guitar – not him). It seems that more often than not, we’re spending the first few minutes of rehearsal trying to get rid of the buzz.
We use PCO and it’s the absolute best admin program available. I don’t know how we did ministry before it. It takes all of the 8 or 10 tasks that used to be involved in planning personnel and puts them into one. SWEET!
Sorry about the guitar probs mate… there can be nothing more frustrating!!!
Peter,
I get TONS of comments about our sound – People might not understand that the ISSUE is with our sound/monitoring system but they complain about the results –
- guitar too loud/too soft
- drums too loud
- vocals off pitch
- wrong notes/lack of cohesiveness with the band
- worship leader trying to signal the tech booth instead of leading worship
I’ve just trained in 3 brand new sound techs, one of which has previous sound experience. So, my hope is that many of these issues with begin to lessen.
Unfortunately until we get better equipment there’s nothing that even the most trained tech in the world could do.
What?! Do I sound like I’m still ticked? Who’s says I’m ticked? (…yeah, I’m totally still ticked.)
Sound problems… uugghh!!! If only we could do this without equipment. If you have a good way of communicating to the “complainers” that the issues are equipment related, I’d like to hear it as we are in a similar position.
Billy,
I was at your worship service and thought it was one of the best ones yet! I was totally involved and enjoyed my personal experience with God through your music. Keep up the GREAT work!!
Donnie,
Thanks for the kind words!
Steve,
I have found that complainers don’t really complain because of the thing they complain about. ie – sound issues are NOT the problem.
Complaining is usually a sign of deeper dissonance. They way to get people to stop complaining isn’t to fix what they are complaining about. (in fact that usually ENCOURAGES them to complain more!) Complainers need be involved in Kingdom work. When they get passionate about fighting against the gates of hell they are typically too busy too complain.
Hey man – I’m glad your little journey through PCO was helpful