Thursday, June 07, 2007

4th 5th June

Last Monday was the event hosted at Kingsland called Equipping the Levites
Which is basicly a worship training evening for anyone involved in worship, the is one every monday night all this month.
Me and Jason were asked to play, Rob Buckingham was leading.
It seems every time we play at Kingsland there is an incredible freedom during the worship, people were really just giving everything they have. Of course when you get a group of 50 people all involved in worship its gonna be quite special anyway.

One of the things i found most amazing was that there were quite a few drummers there, some from that church, and yet, there i was sitting on thier drum kit. Its something im not really sure even now ive got my head round lol
Its such a humbeling experience looking out and seeing other drummers out there watching you, inc some who i remember watching from when i was 6.
I wouldnt say im a great amazing drummer lol i just seem to have an understanding of what makes good worship music, and letting God flow through that, i guess in a way the talent side of it is not that important, there are several musicians i know who as far as talent goes....well, it dosnt go very far lol but they are so switched on with what Gods doing during a worship set and can feel where the song is going, that its just incredible to be able to work with them.

tuesday was a tad random, ended up going to Lincoln with some of the Kingsland bunch to watch a recording at the NewLife church, some dude called Godfrey!

There was about 200 people in this church and he basicly just said at the beggining, forget the mics, this is just an evening to worship God, i really liked that.
There was a full band on stage, they had clearly done thier homework as far as the songs went, and we hardly needed to repeat anything, however the best bits of the night for me was the inbetween bits of songs.
If he needed to tune up or have a drink or whatever, he would just signal to the keys player, and he would put in an epic pad sound, the elec guitarist had an ebow with him, and the percussionist would be almost knocking on the bongo, was an incredible sound,

then people would just start singing out, the whole idea of singing a new song to the Lord, well there was about 150 new songs written that night lol

I love that the best moments in worship are when we are hardly doing anything.

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