Worship Training Weekend

Well, a rather interesting weekend has just gone by. THRE3, the new band I'm in with Dan and Lee, were asked to go and lead a worship training weekend for the team at Mill End Baptist Church in London.

We had such an AWESOME weekend! It was great to take not only our musical experiance and knowledge, but also the manifest presence of God...The whole weekend was just a huge blessing to us and to them.

I'm still exhausted though, I should have taken more Red Bull!

The weekend kinda went like this:
Friday evening, pack the van up and head to London, Lee and I arrived about 9pm, set up our stuff and went to our Host home. Dan had plans that evening, and joined us at about midnight. Sleep!

Saturday, up and off, first things first, COFFEE! Then a time of worship and then some teaching by Lee. Then Dan and I lead a workshop on band dynamics, orchestrating a song with them - they really enjoyed that, especially the singers! In 10 minutes they had a song with rising and falling dynamics. Then we handed it over to them to arrange a song. They started to get the hang of it.

Lunch! Then followed some teaching by Lee on communication within the team and stuff, all good, then we aksed them to pick a song, they picked a song me and Dan hadn't even heard of before! The challenge was us vs them! Was very funny. We won. (joke). Then we had quite a long Q&A section, followed by DINNER!

In the evening we had a praise and worship time that the whole church was invited to, not a huge amount of people came along, but we led, and God really turned up, the place was filled with his presence, and we got the chance to minister and pray with a few people, everyone else was just chilling out in Gods AWESOME presence.

Sunday morning, we led alongside their band, and Lee preached, it was great, although a bit weird not being in our home churches. Then Sunday afternoon, our hosts prepared the most MASSIVE sunday roast ever, and we filled our bellies before driving home.

Then we led with Lee and some of the Presence crew at Kingsland that evening. And, then we had chinese.

All in all, a FANTASTIC weekend!!!