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Worship Set List – 11/25/07: The teenagers are taking over the church, adopt a child, and flexing in worship flow

November 25, 2007 at 3:02 pm, by Rich Kirkpatrick

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This morning was an awesome experience for me as a dad, worship
leader and pastor.  My 13-year-old daughter, Emilie, helped me lead
worship with three other teens–two young adults and a high schooler
and Emilie.  One thing that gets me up in the morning is working for
the future of the Church here in America and how we need to raise up
our emerging leaders.  This morning symbolized part of what my life’s
work is about.  When your own daughter is a passionate and gifted
worship leader at such a young age it makes this vision even more
personal.  Each of these young people were invited into our “world” not
just as observers but as contributors.  How else will they learn how to
lead?

We had a special “Adopt A Child” theme where we promoted child
sponsorship church-wide and with Terrence Sutton teaching.  We selected
three organizations that our church people already support. I believe
almost 150 children were sponsored through World Vision, Compassion International and our own God’s Kids orphanages.  This response is what makes being at Sunridge a joy.  Our people have such a heart!

This service was a bit different than our normal weekend with the
sponsorships as part of worship.  This meant that a couple gaffs gaffes would
indeed happen.  However, being flexible allowed us to worry not so much
about the production sheet rather than our goal.

Here are the songs:

How was your worship weekend?

Categories Church Stuff, Emerging Church, Leadership, Music, Worship Leading, Worship Set Lists | Tags:

  • http://every-other-address-is-taken.blogspot.com/ Jeremy Blasongame

    when can we see these things on the SCC website?

  • Mike Dalton

    Emilie ROCKS!!! She is a total blessing to this team. So, every week, that’s good with me.

  • http://www.skiescolliiide777.blogspot.com Sean Pritzkau

    Wow your daughter rocks. Great voice!

  • http://robtremonte.blogspot.com Rob Tremonte

    She is sooooooo anointed. Awesome! I think after today your staff will agree that this was the Lord!

  • http://www.cecworship.wordpress.com klampert

    WOW MAN!!! she can sing great…how cool.

  • Chis Justice

    Emilie is a talented girl. Had no problem hanging with her Dad. So cool to be a part of that.

  • http://pinkhairedgirl.net Crystal Renaud

    umm… wow. she’s phenominal.

  • http://www.ericbeeman.com eric beeman

    Awesome… Couldn’t agree with you more about working with the future of our Church… but what’s a “gaff”?

  • http://rkweblog.com Rich Kirkpatrick

    Thanks all for such encouraging words!

    Now, Eric, I misspelled “gaffe” into “gaff”–a gaffe is a clumsy error, like when the president misspeaks. I corrected the spelling in the post. Perhaps it is a gaffe to use gaffe?

  • http://www.mattolds.org Matt

    That is so cool. Thanks for dinner last night man.

  • http://redneckhaiku.blogspot.com Danny Davis

    Hey
    That’s cool your daughter is singing with you (and singing great, too) – my daughter sings with me sometimes also. She’s 15, and her name is Emelia – weird, huh? She goes by Emmy.

    Maybe I’ll post a video of her on my unread blog sometime – at least you can see her.

    BTW – if you had been talking about gaff tape, you spelled it right. But since you were talking about mistakes, the only gaffe you committed was misspelling gaffe.

  • http://babulife.blogs.com/ Ben

    Rich – Your daughters got mad skills! How cool is that! Awesome. Later!

  • http://lovelaidbare.blogspot.com Chris

    I’m happy for you. Even though I’m not a father, I can imagine how proud you felt and still feel because I know how good I feel when I think I’ve pleased our heavenly Father. And thanks for playing Blessed Be Your Name. It’s my favorite.

  • http://www.RaisingUpWorshipLeaders.com Peter Park

    Awesome. I didn’t even pick up the guitar until I was sixteen. Blessings to you.

  • jes

    too cool!

  • http://jon-walker.blogspot.com Jon Walker

    Dude, well done! Tell Emily that she sounded great and we are proud of her!!!

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