19th 20th May

Saturday the 19th was Worship Central day!
Me Jason and Adam drove up, and parked next to the church! haha. The day was very good, in the morning Al Gorden led worship which was good, in afternoon we attended talks in 'God in work' and 'The trintiy' both were interesting at times.
Then the evening was Tim Hughes leading with Mark Beswick, which was you can guess was very very good!
One of my fav drummers Paul Evans was playing, there was a short black fella on bass, he had cool writen all over him! But the thing that blow us away was the electric, now this is something that we have struggled with in our church recently, its not just being able to play electric, its having that worship understanding of your instrument, and of course this applys to everything.
There were moments when the strings off the keyboard were playing and the electric was almost singing along, was amazing. Then other moments when everything was really big and all you could hear was this incredible wall of sound off the electric.
Was interesting to see that acc guitars played a very small part of thier arrangments, once the electric was all in then it was pretty much just elec drums bass and keys, which made up the core of the band.

Sunday morning was a bit of a celebration, and for the first time in a long time the whole of our band felt very free in being able to 'go off on one' and in fact at the end of the service we just kept playing as people were being prayed for, and went into this amazing 15 mins of just improv stuff, which was just as powerful, if not more so, than the 'structured' songs.



Xalt next sat which i cant wait for!
and later today im back off to kingsland to do some more recording, in the words of our pastor Keith on sunday morning, "God is Good, ALL THE TIME!!"

The last 7 days

Well i guess the interesting part of the week would be Thursday night.
While playing football i started to feel faint and dizzy and so i sat down. 5 mins later i was throwing up, as you do, and then had to drive home from tiptree feeling like this. Amazingly i made it home (with a stop to throw up into my lap) and then Dad rushed me off to A & E. Everytime i would stand up i would faint, which isnt helpful when going to the toilet...believe me!
Ended up having to stay the night and spent most of Friday there aswell, not really being able to even sit up. But as the evening went on i seemed to perk up, thanks to visits from people and constant prayer from which i found out afterwards from about 200 people. Walked back into my house at 9:30pm on Friday, so was exactly 24 hours. The doctor said it was some kind of blood virus. My aim was to be able to play Sunday morning for our baptism service.

Saturday spent relaxing and drinking pure orange juice.

Then Sunday morning i was feeling fine and drummed at 9:30am at elim!
We had 5 people being baptised, including my friend Cat, which was really good to see, shes had quite a journey in the last 8 months! The place was packed which also was a really good thing to see.


Bank holiday Monday was good fun, me and Jason went round Kristians and did some recording of a song we had writen some time earlyer.
Its not finished yet but its sounding really really nice and am very pleased with it!