Nothing really stands out because our Christmas Eve service went exceptionally well. A packed service set a high sense of expectation. We brought over chairs from the annex because we ran out of seats. On Tuesday night and in warm up Thursday night we struggled with the songs. We were collaborating as a team on the arrangements all the way, but it was ragged. All of that changed during the service we nailed all the songs and the congregational response was amazing. After the pastor gave the benediction all the people were standing there with their lit candles. The worship team typically does a song while everyone is walking out; I decided to repeat “Emmanuel” since it was the theme of the sermon. No one moved and everyone continued singing with us caught up in the moment. It was a special time of worship and we could sense “God with us.” It’s the best Christmas Eve service I can remember.
Hope you had a great Christmas and Sunday. Here are all the songs we did starting with Sunday:
1 Angels, from the Realms of Glory Christmas/Advent
Public Domain, lyrics James Montgomery, music Henry T. Smart
0 King Of Kings And Lord Of Lords GITS-Jesus
23952 Naomi Batya & Sophie Conty ©1980 Maranatha! Music
-1 God of Wonders GITS-Father
3118757 Steve Hindalong & Marc Byrd ©2000 New Spring Publishing, Inc./ASCAP
SERMON: The All Sufficient One – Colossians 1:15-23
1 Fullness of Grace Christmas/Advent
Keith & Kristyn Getty & Stuart Townend Copyright © Thankyou Music 2004
0 Joy to the World! The Lord Is Come Christmas/Advent
Public Domain Isaac Watts, 1719
1 We Want To See Jesus Lifted High Response-To Each Other
1033408 Doug Horley ©1993 Kingway/ThankYou Music CCLI#1033408
2 'We-I' Balance
MLCC 12/27/2009 Leadsheet
#36.5 Christmas Eve 12/24/2009
-1 What Kind of Throne Christmas/Advent©Joel Payne/RESOUNDworship.org, Administered by The Jubilate Group, UK copyrightmanager@jubilate.co.uk
1 Angels We Have Heard On High Christmas/Advent
Public Domain
1 Infant Holy, Infant Lowly Christmas/Advent
Public Domain, Polish carol; paraphrase by Edith E. M. Reed, traditional Polish melody
1 What Child is This Christmas/Advent
Words: William C. Dix, 1865. Music: Greensleeves, 16th Century English melody
1 Fullness of Grace Christmas/Advent
Keith & Kristyn Getty & Stuart Townend Copyright © Thankyou Music 2004
A word from God – Pastor Mark
1 Silent Night/Emmanuel Christmas/Advent
Lyrics by Joseph Mohr 1816, Music by Franz Xavier Gruber 1818/Bob McGee ©1976 C.A. Music, Jeff Buchan ©1980, 1983 Christian Artists Music
-1 Here I Am To Worship Response-To God
Tim Hughes ©2001 Kingsway's ThankYou Music/PRS
3 'We-I' Balance
MLCC 12/24/2009 Leadsheet
Find out what other songs churches are singing at FredMcKinnon.com
2 comments:
This all looks really strong! We did Here I Am To Worship for Christmas Eve too!
Doug - great setlists! We also ended our Christmas Eve service with people lighting their candles - at our church, as a trio sang O Holy Night.
I really appreciate your selection and use of songs that many consider older (pre-2k). I think we too often "retire" songs... It's easy to get torn, but something I strive to to also.
Happy New Year!
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