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Back To The Blues is 2 weeks away! Eight Liberty band members are involved in this year’s line-up and it is gonna be a smoking good time. it’s not too late to spread the word and come on out to this festival. Check out the website for ticket details. Remember, there is camping on site, fun for the kids, and tonnes of hot bands. Liberty Band is playing on Friday night at 7:30pm, and Jason Latreille is leading worship on Sunday morning..
Here are some clips of artists you’ll see this year: Go get your tickets!
This year’s festival is gonna rock! Bring your friends, bring your kids to this awesome event. it is all for a good cause!
Darrell Lahay will be leading the opening band (The Chop Liver Band) and Liberty band’s own Jason Latreille will be leading worship with a team on the Sunday morning.
Check out the website now to get your tickets!
Hey folks!
I am excited about the upcomming opportunity for all of you who are going to be involed with this. It will be a full stage for sure…
If we can all meet at the yarrow Alliance Church at 5pm for sound check and practice that would be great!
Here’s the location:
The team had an amazing time up at blueberry bible camp. God was working all over the place from the moment they left town! Pic’s and testimonies are coming soon so stay posted. We are going back next year as well so be in prayer for us and for the leaders of the camp. They are running an amazing ministry that I fell in love with from the moment I got there!
Curtis Fast has put together a great team to lead worship at one of the biggest annual church services in Chilliwack. Come out and worship with us at Prospera Center on June 27th. Join all of the local Chilliwaack Churches as they worship under one roof, in the spirit of unity.
Shalom!
Come and check this out..the church website is: www.nccmission.com
The church address is 33507 Dewdney trunk Rd. Mission BC
for more details, contact Brian West at: bwest@shaw.ca
SHALOM!
Hey folks! This post is intended as a resource for those of you Liberty Band members who are playing at this gig!!
Click here to download the chord charts: Set List May 7th
The line-up:
Darrell: guitar/vocals
Rachel: piano (or keys)
Margaree: violin/vocals
Melody: sound
Jeremy: drums
Jason: bass
Lisa-Joy: flute
Paul: percussion
Here are some youtube links for the songs to give you an idea..feel free to run through them a couple times..
Taste And See
Days Of Elijah (for this one, it would be good to have some crazy flute and violin instrumental)
Apple Of His Eye (Liberty band version)This is a tricky one for Bass and drums)
WE WILL GET TOGETHER FOR A PRACTICE/SOUND CHECK AT YARROW ALLIANCE CHURCH AT 5PM..
I thought it would be interesting to give a snapshot to all of you pilgrims of the “musical life” of the early church. We don’t exactly know what early services looked like, but through the writings of historians and ancient church fathers we can get a clear glimpse into the devotional language of the early believers. Christ himself sang a hymn at last supper, and on the cross, he quoted the opening lyrics of Psalm Twenty-Two. This psalm ends with a promise of deliverance for a ”people yet unborn”. It was in this spirit, that the early Christians began to sing.
Paul and Silas sang a hymn while imprisoned in Phillipi
As I mentioned, early church gatherings included singing. And, in two of his letters, Paul exhorts us to sing. Records tell us that early church song collections included canticles. Three of the well-known ones are from Luke’s Gospel:
The Magnificat (1:46:55)
The Benedictus (1:68-79)
The Nunc Dimittis Simeon (2:29-32)
All three of these canticles are still sung by some congregations, and are making a come back in such contexts as the Liturgical Revival, and the Ecumenical Movement.
Bible Scholars discern hymns in parts of the Epistles. In fact, it is likely, that Philippians 2:6-11 was a song written by a member of the church.
Early collections of ancient church music have been preserved and handed down to us. One such collection is known as The Odes of Solomon, Likely recorded in the late fourth century. This song book consists of forty-two psalms and is very articulate and beautiful in both syntax and description. I will leave you with this selection from Ode #16
Some puzzle over the rapid spread of Christianity, but it is possible that it can be somewhat attributed to the hymns that were sung, loved, repeated and heard with wonder..
shalom|pastor darrell
I was listening to a podcast this morning by Christian author and apologist Ravi Zacharias. He used a quote that I had heared him use before that so eloquently describes worship. The definition comes from the famed archbishop William Temple who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942 to 1944:
“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose–all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.”
This qoute is worth reading a few times. It would be good for any worship leader to commit this quote to memory.
Shalom | pastor Darrell
