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Thanks for this!  Great playlist.  I make a playlist for our congregation each new "season" (Lent/Easter; Fall series; Advent/Christmas) to help them worship during the week, and be ready for Sunday worship, especially with new songs, and to help young families.  I don't mind sharing my Advent/Christmas playlist if you want! 

Build Your Kingdom Here - Rend Collective;  Send Me Out - Steven Fee; Multiply Your love - Andy Park; Father let your kingdom come -Porters Gate; Christ be our Light (LUYH); Show Your Power - Kevin Prosch; Hope of the Nations - Brian Doerksen

Thanks for this.  I have a similar "commissioning" liturgy for when I started at CrossPoint CRC as the Worship Ministry team leader.  I would attach it, but I am not seeing how to do that :-( 
 

Great are you Lord - All Sons & Daughters; Lord I need you - Matt Maher/Chris Tomlin; Multiply Your love - Andy Park; Rising Sun -All Sons & Daughters; Holy Spirit, living break of God - Getty & Townend; They were Waiting (Holy Spirit) -Jeremy Zeyl;  O Praise the Name - Hillsong;  All My Hope - Hillsong;  Cornerstone - Hillsong;  Hear Our Praises - Hillsong (2000); Even So Come - -Kristian Stanfill; Salvation belongs to our God;.

I love the music of "I am They" but maybe not as congregationally-friendly.  But more folksy, very rhythmic.

Vertical Church Band: 1000 Tongues!  we love this one

love, love, love the sound of this!  If I can find a teen or two to go with me,  I will apply for Animate.  Sounds like just what is needed!  Thanks

 

Is there a visual arts webinar this coming Wednesday Nov. 8?  I saw it somewhere, but now can't find it ...  thanks for your help

 

This is a great idea!  I would suggest placing the scripture in a particular "role" in the liturgy: if it's a good call to worship, label it as such and have the kids recite it there.  If it's a scripture that calls us to live God's way and follow Jesus, place it after the confession & forgiveness.  etc.  In other words, let the recitations serve the liturgy. 

This is the most vexing question isn't it?  What key is going to work for "regular" singers?   It's true that in the Key of D, the bridge gets too high, and it stays there, fatiguing the voice.  In the Key of B, the lowest note is actually going to be an F-sharp below middle C which is low, but manageable (maybe let your altos carry the verse?).   The bridge is better in this key, but I still think the chorus repeat up the octave is too high for the congregation to maintain.  And in B the first choruses then don't have that "lift" or energy b/c of the lowness.  What about trying it in C, but not doing the octave jump for the final chorus?  Could that work?  Or do we lose the effect and drive after the bridge if we settle into the "regular" chorus range?  Paul Ryan and his team from the LOFT just did this song at a worship conference in Ontario and as someone worshiping in the congregation, I think it worked.  What key was that, Paul?  

The Inconvenient Indian -Thomas King 

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice 

The Gospel in a Handshake - Kevin J. Adams 

A Rhythm of Prayer - edited by Sarah Bessey

Morning and Evening Prayers - Cornelius Plantinga

Five Little Indians - Michelle Good

In Search of April Raintree - Beatrice Mosionier

A Burning in My Bones - Winn Collier  (biography of Eugene Peterson)

Indian Horse - Richard Wagamese

No Cure for Being Human - Kate Bowler

Right now I'm reading "The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America" by Thomas King.  A few of us are studying it with a small group, using the Canadian Indigenous Ministry Committee's short teaching videos to jump-start our discussion.  Much injustice has been done in the colonizing of our countries, and this learning is one step towards reconciliation and action on my part, and on the part of our church (I hope).  It is a quasi-history written with warmth and wit, honesty and power by master story-teller Thomas King.  I highly recommend it. 

I've also just begun to use Cornelius Plantinga's new book "Morning and Evening Prayers"   His language and word choices, and authenticity help me pray in new ways.  

"Gutter Child" by Canadian Jael Richardson is a powerful first novel, and while it's "fantasy" you will immediately see the parallels to systemic racism in our present world. 

I also really enjoyed "Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah, the comedian born and raised in apartheid South Africa.

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