Stuck in a Rut…

8 08 2009

The current economic climate is not good for anyone.
I know that.
And I know you know that.
But some of us are feeling it worse than others.

Take Desi and I for example…

We bought this house in February of 2008.
Then moved out in June that same year.
We didn’t lose the house or anything; we still own it.
We moved to Charlotte, NC, and somehow were able to pay both our rent in Charlotte and the mortgage in Atlanta.
We eventually rented the house, then moved back to Georgia.
We haven’t been able to find good, steady jobs since we’ve been here.

So in March of this year, we moved into my parents’ house.
5 months later, we’re still here.

We barely make enough money to pay our bills.
We have enough extra to go out to eat together about once a month.
We have no rent, other than what’s left on the mortgage after our renter pays.
We have no utilities.
We only have to pay for our cars, insurance, gas, credit cards, cell phones, and about $300 each month on the mortgage.
Honestly, we’re lucky to be able to pay all the bills each month.

So that’s our sad story.

If you’re comfortable, tell us yours.


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Creating Chemistry: The Solution

7 08 2009

Yesterday we talked about some of the things that make hard to create chemistry between band members when you have a lot of different musicians playing at different times.

At Crossroads, we’re trying to put some things in place to help us create chemistry between our different band members.

Probably the most important thing you can do to create chemistry in your band is make sure you have the right people paired together. At Crossroads, we will NEVER book 2 lead guitarists. Well, this actually happened recently. Cody Preston was booked, as the lead guitarist actually, and another guitarist, who was booked at the request of the worship leader, was supposed to play rhythm. Well, Cody and the other guy are both lead guitarists, so this caused some issues, not between the 2 guitarists, but just in the sound, and musicians know when it doesn’t sound it good. Having 2 lead guitarists means that neither one really knows what the other is going to do in a song. They’re both guessing as to which part the other is going to play. I think you can figure the rest out from there. This really doesn’t sit well with anyone in the band. Every band member is there to help the music sound good, and when it doesn’t, frustration ensues. Obviously, frustration takes away from chemistry.

One of the first things we’re doing is figuring out our Dream Team. We are figuring out who our top players are in each position. Fortunately, we’re in a position now that we are finding that we actually more than one top musician for a couple of spots. Now, just because we have our Dream Team in mind doesn’t mean we always try to book them first. The idea of naming our top players is to be sure that at least one of them is playing every week. It’s always best to have one of your top players there every week because those guys are usually leaders in the eyes of your 2nd and 3rd string musicians.

Another part that I am actually experimenting with, is letting the worship leader lead the band, or for me to do it. There are benefits to both that I can come up with. If I lead the band, then the leader will always stay the same no matter who is leading worship. There are obvious benefits to having a stable leader. Or, if the worship leader leads the band, it helps the band understand the worship leader better. It’s always important for the band to understand the worship leaders style. That way, they can get a better feeling for what kind of mood and such the worship leader is trying to create in the middle of a set. But some worship leaders need a little help in keeping rehearsal going and not getting distracted. Like I said, this is one that we’re experimenting with. We’re doing it differently every week to see which might work better for us, and for each worship leader too..

Probably the best thing I can do as the music director to help create chemistry between the band is being up front and honest with them. This really starts with choosing players who are confident with their instrument, but has a real heart for helping people worship. If I’m honest with the band about who plays what part, who leads what, if a certain part sounds good or not, and if they need to not do something, it creates trust between myself, and the band. But, if the musician doesn’t have a heart for worship, they won’t care what I, or anyone else in the band, have to say about it. See, we don’t just hire the best musicians. We have to hire the right musicians. And when we have the right musicians in place, they know they can trust each other. And that trust is the most important part of chemistry.

So there you have it. Or you at least have my opinion. I hope this helps as you take on the challenge of helping create chemistry in your band.


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Creating Chemistry: The Obstacles

6 08 2009

Chemistry is an important thing in any relationship. Especially when it comes to your band members in your church. You can never overestimate the power that is added to the music when the band gets along, works well together, and enjoys playing with each other.

I’ve discovered that this can a little more difficult to achieve at Crossroads. At Crossroads we have a list of musicians we use, and we hire them out, meaning we pay them. This is my first experience being in a church that hires musicians as opposed to having volunteers in the church play.

Now, you might be thinking, “Well that would be great. I’d love to be able to pay musicians. Maybe then we could have some real high quality music.” Yeah, I thought the same thing.

While the quality of the music might, and I stress MIGHT, be better, there are some things that come with paying musicians that I did not anticipate.

The main thing was creating chemistry between the band members.

Chemistry is something that I value very highly in ministry. But when you have a list of 10 different guitarist, 5 different drummers, 8 different worship leaders, 4 different backup singers, 4 bass players, and then you throw in the audio volunteers, well you have literally hundreds of different personnel combinations. Then you add in thee fact that your pastor wants a different worship leader every week. And you’re top 2 guitarists can only play every other week. And then you find out that all of your drummers are not available on the same week so you have to bring in someone you’ve never really heard before. And…

Ugh!

It’s enough to drive you absolutely insane.

So I feel it’s very difficult to get the chemistry that I would like to see between band members. Now, let me stress one very important thing…

Competence does NOT equal chemistry.

Just because you have a bunch of very talented musicians does mean that they will have chemistry. Chemistry doesn’t come from just being able to show up on time and play your parts correctly and with the right timing.

Chemistry is about each player knowing one another’s skills, being able to compliment each other, and knowing they don’t have to worry about the other playing their part in the band. They also need to learn how each other communicates, and how to properly communicate with to another band member.

Now do you see why chemistry is so hard to come by when you have so many different musicians? Having a lot of different musicians means you have a lot of different personalities. And let’s be honest, some personalities just don’t work well together, especially when you’re talking about musicians.

Ok, now that you know some of the obstacles having a lot of band members can create, tomorrow we’ll talk about some of the things we’re doing to try to get over those obstacles.


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Paid vs. Volunteer Musicians

5 08 2009

This is a very tricky subject. The reason I say it’s tricky is because nearly 100% of churches don’t and honestly can’t pay band members. With that being said, let me tell you that this is not a post about why you should or shouldn’t pay band members. Crossroads is the first church I’ve ever been a part of that paid band members. The idea of this post is to explain why we at Crossroads do pay band members. Hopefully this will also help you as you decide whether or not you want to pay band members.

We have some very high expectations for our band at Crossroads. It’s because of those expectations that we have decided to pay band members.

We expect a high quality of music, a high degree of ability and competence from band members, we expect strong vocal (and I mean not afraid to talk, not vocal ability), and proven leadership abilities from worship leaders, we expect each musician and vocalist to know their parts precisely, we expect our band to need very little to no assistance from us when it comes to actually performing the songs, and we expect everyone to represent Crossroads Church in a good way.

It’s because of those high expectations that we need a very high quality musician. Many of the musicians, in fact all of the worship leaders, we hire are professionals who perform and lead worship for a living. They spend their entire days honing their abilities with their instrument and preparing for the next time they play. They’ve been doing it for years and are some of the best at what they do. I don’t know of a single volunteer who has the time to practice every day, work on their guitar’s tone every day, or even practice for next weekend’s set every day.

Anyways, let’s look at each of the expectations we have for our band, and let me quickly explain what I mean by each one.

High Quality of Music

Music is universal. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like music. And I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t a critic of music. We want to create as few critics of our music as possible. This isn’t so that we can brag about having the best band in town. It’s so that people who come into our church for the first time don’t get the feeling that we don’t care about doing things the best way we can. And we want to create as few distractions as possible for those who are worshipping God, and it’s easier for people to learn new songs when they aren’t hearing a wrong chord every time the chorus rolls around.

High Degree of Ability and Competence from Musicians

This is what helps us achieve a high quality of music. We want to have a radio sound from our band. Because of that desire we want each song to sound just like the cd from the original artist. So just being able to play some of these guitar parts requires a very talented guitarist. It’s also very easy to notice when a singer isn’t a very good singer. Sorry, but it’s the truth.

Strong Vocal and leadership abilities from Worship Leaders

We want worship leaders who will get on stage and really point people to God and boldly lead them to worship Him. Vocal abilities are important, but we also want our worship leaders to, well, as the title implies, lead!

Know Their Parts

I’ll be honest; I don’t have the time or the patience to go out a write out every single guitar part for every single song we do every weekend. We expect each musician and singer to be able to listen to the cd and either figure out their parts for themselves or be able to find it written out online so that they can perform it just like the cd. I don’t tolerate “guitarist A” asking “guitarist B” how to play a lead part “guitarist A” is already supposed to know. That won’t be getting you booked again any time soon.

Not Needing Assistance from Us

When a band member gets to Crossroads on Sunday, they shouldn’t need anyone else’s help doing anything whether it’s setting up, learning a part like I said earlier, or just being able to do what we pay them to do. Now, that doesn’t mean that if a guitarist shows up and is playing for the first time that I expect him to know where the amp boxes are. That would be just a little ridiculous. If someone has never played at your church before, you have to expect them to know nothing about where anything is or even what they’re supposed to do before they actually start playing.

Representing Crossroads Church

Basically, we expect our musicians, and obviously worship leaders, to have a relationship with Christ, and have good character. A few weeks ago, we had a musician, who had been playing with us for some time, walk into the green room and start cussing up a storm. I don’t care if you’re mad or whatever, that doesn’t happen here. Let’s just say that guy won’t be playing at Crossroads again any time soon. We pay our musicians, so we consider them staff. So guess what, we expect them to behave like staff.

Ok, well, now that you know what we expect out of our band and why we pay them, tomorrow we’ll talk about an even more important aspect of the band that is also the most elusive…

Chemistry.


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Noisemakers Experiment Recap

4 08 2009

What a great weekend, and it all started with serving at The Pantry – Douglas County.

It was great to open up the Noisemakers Experiment by serving at a great place that Crossroads has partnered with. The Pantry is a very well oiled machine; everyone there really knew what they were doing. And if you didn’t know what you were doing, you were teamed up with some one who could show you what to do.

The Pantry is a food pantry that gives free meals to people who qualify for government assisted food programs. Basically, if you make below x-amount of money a year, you can get government coupons for food, sort of like food stamps only a little different. So what The Pantry does is have food donated to their organization, then they package it all each Saturday morning to be handed out to those who come. Every person comes in the front door, fills out some paperwork and an “order” which tell those is the warehouse where the food is stored what each person needs. There are basic things like canned corn and other veggies, loafs of bread, soup, other stuff. But, if someone in your family is having a bitrhday, you can even get a cake for them!

Desi and I served as “runners”. What does a runner do? Good question…

When each persons order form is filled out, it is given to someone in the warehouse who gets the right food together for that person. When the order is filled a team of runners, ususally 2 people, will grab the bags, walk out into the waiting room, call the persons name, and walk the food out to the car for them. It’s an easy job, but it’s great because we got to actually interact with the people there a lot more. I say it’s easy, but our legs were dragging by the end of the day.

One person that I remember the most is Mitchel Barrington. Mitchel was an older guy, probably in his mid-60’s, who was coming to get food from The Pantry for the first time. Desi and I walked his food out to his car for him and asked if there was anything that we could pray about for him. He said no with a smile, then he said something that I didn’t expect. When I asked if we could pray for him, he said, “No, that’s ok. But I really like what you guys do here, so I’m going to come back next Saturday and help serve with you guys.”

What!?

That’s absolutely incredible. Here this guy who is on a government assisted food program, and HE wants to come serve food to other people who are on in need! That’s absolutely incredible! This guy needs help, but he wants to help! It seriously blows my mind. I still can’t get over that. I hope I never forget it.

We heard other stories about people who last week didn’t have a job. They prayed with some of the people at The Pantry, and by the next week, they had jobs. Other people had just lost a job and were still looking and couldn’t stop saying thank you to us as we carried their food to their car for them. There were a few young women raising their children on their own. Lots of hurting people we were so fortunate to bring a little bit of happiness to.

So it was a great day, but it also revealed something to me.

Doing a service like that once a week is too much.

It really is. Just to be honest with you about it. It was very rewarding, but also very draining. I give huge props to the people who are at The Pantry every weekend. I just can’t do it. It’s not that I can’t do it because it’s hard work; I just don’t have the time. I have a wife and a job that take up most of my time. I wish there was more tim in the day, as we all do I’m sure, but there ust isn’t. There isn’t enough of me to go around to everything that wants a piece of me. So here’s what we’re going to do.

Instead of doing a service once a week, we’re going to do it once a month. Probably the first week of every month. That just seems to be much more realistic than serving every weekend for me right now.

I hope you understand. Actually, I don’t care if you “understand” or not. I took some time to pray about it and really feel like this is the right decision. If you want to complain about it, then go right ahead, just know I probably won’t read it. But I think this will give more people an better opportunity to get involved. Most people don’t have every Saturday to offer because it’s the one day a week most of us get to spend the whole day with our family.

So that’s the deal. I’ll let you know more details soon, when I figure them out. Thanks for reading, and have a great day!


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Sunday Set List: 8/2/09

3 08 2009

My first blog since Thursday!

It feels so good to be back. Let’s get started.

This past Sunday was a GREAT one! Chris Moerman was back with us for the second week in a row. It was good to have him with us back-to-back weekends since he is becoming a once a month guy for us. Anyways, July 26, Chris did a great job, and he did another great job this past weekend. Let me tell you what went on…

This weekend was sort of an acoustic set. It wasn’t entirely acoustic in that Cody Preston played some lead with a sweet Stratocaster running through his Vox AC30 and an amazing vintage Fender amp his dad used in the 60’s. And Ty Faulk was on keys, and he brought a nice Rhodes which he played through a Fender Deluxe, and his usual keyboard he plays through Reason, I think it what he uses. The only other guy on stage was Doug singing background for Chris. A little side note about Doug. He is the ONLY volunteer in the band. Yeah, he’s that good!

For this weekend we actually took EVERYTHING off the stage except what was absolutely minimally necessary. In other words, there were just avioms, amps, and guitar stands. We did put the amps on stage this weekend which really added a cool look to it. We have 2 amp boxes backstage that we always put them in, but for this weekend it just seemed right, and it looked cool. I’d like to try that some more in the future too. So the stage was very bare, and the worship set was very intimate.

We started off playing “Jesus Messiah” by Chris Tomlin. Chris Moerman led this song for us for the first time last weekend and the people really caught on. It was great to have Chris lead us in that song again this weekend. Like I said before, he really knows how to explain a song and make it easy for everyone to worship through it.

After “Jesus Messiah” Chris took some time to really invite people to worship. One thing he said that I loved is that we wanted to do something very simple with the music and clear out he stage to help create space for everyone to worship. It was beautiful and spot on to what God was getting ready to do through yesterdays worship.

One thing a lot of worship leaders forget is that they don’t have a lot of time to talk, so every word they say is very important. Chris gets this better than nearly anyone I’ve ever heard lead worship. He doesn’t say a lot, but he says it just right. I think I have a man-crush on Chris.

We then went into “How He Loves” by John Mark McMillan. If you don’t know this song, you should. Nothing against David Crowder Band; I love their music, but they don’t have the best version of this song out there. Check out John Mark McMillan or Eddie Kirkland’s arrangement. We do the Kirkland because it’s my personal favorite. But this is a beautiful song and Ty’s Rhodes sounded AMAZING on this song. He played all the lead parts and Cody actually just played rhythm. If you ever do this song, find a guy with a Rhodes to do it, trust me. Also, Doug sounded great on this song too. He hit those high melodies like he was their daddy! His range always impresses me.

Next we sang “It is Well with My Soul” the hymn by Phillip Paul Bliss I believe is the guy’s name. We did the arrangement Shane and Shane did on the Passion:How Great is Our God album. It’s just such a beautiful song, and it was specially requested by Chris. A little side note here: Brian Preston and I do most all of the planning of the worship sets, but I always talk to the worship leader to get their ideas on the set and make sure they’re cool with each of the songs. So Chris asked if we could do this one, and it went off in that place! It was great to see people worshiping like mad to a great song, especially the second verse that talks about our sin being “nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord oh my soul.” Yeah, it was sick.

After the main part of the worship set in the first service, we did a couple of baptisms. We started doing videos for every person who gets baptized to tell their story of how they came to give their life to Christ. We got to hear two amazing stories of how God redeemed two people yesterday. I love that we did that.

After that, Greg came and gave a great message about serving. I can’t tell you all the great stuff in there, you need to hear it yourself. He talked a lot about our “Give Love Away” we do at Crossroads, which is all about loving those in our community and expecting nothing in return. You can find out more about that at giveloveaway.net.

To end the service we sang “God of this City” which was written by Richard Bleakley but we did the live arrangement of it recorded by Chris Tomlin. This song just really speaks to the heart of Greg’s message. The song is all about how God still has great things in store for our world. This is another song that if you don’t know, all I can say is shame on you. And this is another song that sounded great with Ty on the Rhodes.

So that was our set list for August 2, 2009. So glad we got to do a very intimate acoustic-esque worship set. It was a lot of fun and sounded great!


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Bible Blog: Using Others

30 07 2009

July 30, 2009

Mark 12:1-12

“they were afraid of the crowd…” -Mark 12:12

This is the 3rd time in 2 chapters that Scripture says the pharisees or whoever left Jesus alone because they feared what the people would do. That’s very interesting. God was using the crowd to protect Jesus. See, it wasn’t time for Jesus to be arrested; there was still more God wanted to do with Jesus. So God was using the crowd to help fulfill all of His plans for Jesus. God used those around Jesus for His purposes.

I have to admit that I’m terrible at listening to people around me. I have no doubt that God can use those around me to help me fulfill my purpose; I guess I just haven’t seen it happen yet in my life. That’s kind of sad isn’t it?

Actually, I totally take that entire statement back. I can name lots of people God has used that way in my life: Danny Myers, Gary Kelley, Jeff Wilkerson, my parents(lost of times!), Tommy Adams, Chad Clifton, Brian Preston, Greg McGaha, Algernon Tenison, Kevin Campbell, and even more! And now that I can actually think about it, I can tell you how God specifically used each of these people.

I’m so thankful to all of these people for being willing to be used by God, although a couple of them in my mind were actually used as examples of what NOT to do! I can’t imagine they’d be happy to know that God used in a seemingly negative way in my life! But this really inspires me to do a couple of things.

First, I want to write a letter to each person God has used in my life thanking them for how God specifically used them, except the negative ones of course. I don’t want them to think that anything they tried to do for me was in vein, some of them I haven’t seen in years, and they haven’t seen the fruit from the seed they planted in me. So I want them to know how much I appreciate it and that they didn’t waste their time!

Second, it inspires me to be used by God in someone else’s life. This has been on my mind a lot recently, so it’s time to do it. I want to be used to help someone reach their full potential in God. Not that I could take them to the highest level, but it could at least be a good starting point. I mean I’m not there yet myself.

So that’s what I’m going to do. I have a feeling I’m going to be writing a lot of letters!


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Bible Blog: The Hard Facts

28 07 2009

July 28, 2009

Mark 11:27-33

I love what Jesus does here. He forces these guys to face the facts. The point of this encounter is not for Jesus to prove his divinity, but for those other guys to face the facts of his divinity. See, the elders’ answer was also Jesus’ answer. They knew the answer was that John’s baptisms were from heaven, but the also knew they couldn’t say it or they would have to face the hard facts, that Jesus got his authority from heaven.

A lot of times the facts really are hard, aren’t they? I know I’ve had a hard time facing the facts lately. There have been some things that have come up that I honestly just don’t want to deal with. I don’t like dealing with our job and financial situation, but the is I have to deal with it. I don’t like some of the arguments that come up in my marriage, but the fact is I was wrong and need to make a change. I don’t like that Desi and I are still living in my parents house, but the fact is that our decisions are the reason we’re here. There are a lot of other things I don’t like, but I still have to deal with the facts.

I know we’re not the only ones in this situation. I don’t know anyone who isn’t effected by current affairs. A lot of people all around the world are dealing with some hard facts which are causing other hard facts to be brought to the surface. I just hope that we can take this opportunity to face the facts and come to a conclusion of truth, as I think some of the elders in Mark 11:27-33 did.

After that encounter with Jesus, I’m sure there were some who walked away after dealing with the hard facts of Jesus’ divinity and found the truth of his divinity. They dealt with the facts and walked away stronger and better people than they were when they got there.


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Sunday Set List: 7/26/09

28 07 2009

So this past Sunday was a GREAT one musically. Why don’t we just jump right into it.

This past weekend we finished up our “Epic” series by telling the end of God’s story, the part where Jesus comes back and a new heaven and new earth are created. Justin Craig brought the Word. The whole idea of the weekend was the hope we have that this world will be completely restored through Christ one day. It was about the hope of better things to come. So with i being about the end times, we kicked it off with a huge freaking bang…

We kicked the service off by playing “It’s the End of the World as We Know It(And I feel Fine)” by REM and Chris KILLED IT! Chris Moerman is a guy out of the Hillsong school thing who recently moved to Atlanta from Chattanooga. Great guy and great worship leader. He’s actually from Australia and everyone at Crossroads loves him. Anyways, he nailed every single lyric of that song. When I first told him we wanted to do it, he didn’t shy away from the challenge one bit. So that was killer.

We then rolled into “Song of Hope(Heaven Come Down)” by the Robby Seay Band(pronounced “see”). This is another one that’s been new to us this summer that everyone seems to really enjoy. It’s a great high energy song about the hope we have in Christ to come again. Chris did a great job telling the story of the song and telling people about the hope we have in God.

After that we sang “True Love” by Phil Wickham. This was only the 2nd time we’ve done this song, and everyone was much more into it after getting to hear it just once before. Christ did a good job really talking through the song and leading the people to worship God through it. “True Love” is not the best ‘worship’ song, but it is a great song. You really have to get your worship leader to really talk through the song for it to be successful. If you just get up there and sing it, it will feel like your just doing a performance. But I would definitely suggest you go for it. Just make sure you have a good click track or your guitarists won’t really know where the down beat is. We experienced a little of this in the first service, but I’m sure no one knew but us, until now. Oops!

We then sang “Jesus Messiah” by Chris Tomlin for the first time. This is one that we’ve been wanting to do for a while, and Chris asked if we could do it, so we went for it. And it went off in that place! You know those moments where you can tell people are just really worshiping God through the words of a great song? Well that’s what we got with “Jesus Messiah”. Another reason that song went so well is because, again, Christ did a great job really leading the people through that song.

A little side note about Chris, He’s GREAT! When I say he led people through the song, I mean that he didn’t just sing the song and leave out to dry if they didn’t already know it. He would take time to talk about the verse and chorus before he started singing so that the people could be prepared for what was about to happen. He didn’t expect them to just sit back and listen. He made sure the people knew what was happening and called them to act on what was going on through the song. It was great, and he did a great job. Anyways, I can’t wait to have Chris lead “Jesus Messiah” again in the future.

So after “Jesus Messiah”, Greg, our lead pastor, came out and did our announcements and called for the offering. One exciting bit of news, out of the past 2 weeks of services and from our youth camp last week, there have been 50 people gave their life Christ! That’s absolutely amazing. And it’s completely the reason we do church the way we do it at Crossroads. Another exciting thing is that the people at Crossroads have given enough money to give 320 children who live below the poverty level full school supplies for this coming school year! It’s part of our “Give Love Away” campaign which is all about helping those in our community who need it most. It’s so great to be part of a church that sees the needs around them and does something about it. I can’t wait to get to pack some book bags with paper and pencils and notebooks next weekend.

Justin Craig came and gave his message after that. I really enjoy hearing Justin speak, but unfortunately didn’t get to hear much this week. I was around kind of crazy reviewing with the band and talking to the sound engineer and too much other stuff during his message. But I heard nothing but great stuff from other people.

We ended the service pretty killer like the start. We ended by playing “My Glorious” written by Martin Smith, but recorded by everyone under the sun. Justin Craig requested that we do that song because it fit the end of his message SO WELL. Justin ended by talking about the new heaven and new earth, so we ended the service singing about the glory that Christ will be coming in when he comes the 2nd time. “My Glorious” is a little bit of an older song, only maybe 5 years old actually, but it’s a great song. The guitars are rockin really heavy in the song too, which was a great way for us to bang out a huge ending to the service, and the series, although we cut it short the 2nd service because of time reasons.

I was so glad we had out whole a-team band together this weekend. Thank to Chris, Cody, Nathan, Jon, Zac, Dan, and Mandy for doing a killer job! I know this set wouldn’t have worked without you!


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Noisemakers Experiment: The Pantry

28 07 2009

I’m so excited!

I finally have all the details nailed down for the entire month of August for the Noisemakers Experiment!

So, to kick it off, we’re spending Saturday August 1 with a great ministry that Crossroads is partnered with…

The Pantry – Douglas County

We’re going to be spending the morning helping hand out canned food to needing families. They are located right next to Crossroads. Actually Crossroads has given them the space they use, so I’m excited to join in with these guys as they help those in need in Douglasville.

Here’s the address:

5960 Stewart Parkway Douglasville, GA 30135

They have asked that we arrive at 8:00am so they can show us around and get us ready to help. They close up shop at 12:00pm, but be prepared to stay till about 12:20.

If you are interested in being a part of this service, please email me asap at noisemakersunited@gmail.com. I will send you more details with everything you need to know.

Also, some of you have asked if you can bring friends, and absolutely you can! I just need to know by the middle of the week if you’re coming and how many are coming with you so I can let the guys at The Pantry know how many to expect.

I can’t wait to see you there as we offer God just a couple hours of our free time to help the least of those around us. There is nothing greater that we can do with our free time than help those in need.

So please come help and serve others!


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