Twice each year when there is a 5th weekend we do a Student Takeover where the students run most of the areas of the church, but this one was especially special. This was the first time Students lead worship alone without any of our worship leaders helping them on stage. And they were amazing!
They parked cars, welcomed everyone, worked in the Coffee House, ran cameras, video directed, ran lights helped with audio, sang and played in the band, there were students that cooked breakfast for the teams and then did all the clean up. We even opened with our children's choir and had a child dedication lead by our Family Ministry Director, Jeanette Chase while Mike Mahek our generations pastor continued teaching in our HOME series - thematically everything supported one another beautifully.
The congregation talked about how much hope it gave them to see students loving Jesus and they talked about the encouragement it brought them, so good! Take a look!
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| These were our front door greeters in their HELLO T-shirts - so good! |
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| The first thing that greeted you was our student parking team! |
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| Dan, Milo and Joci loved working with the kids and when I looked at them it seriously looked like proud parents looking at their kids! Tremendous leaders! |
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| Our children's choir opened the service with a beautiful worship song. |
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| Today was a special Child Dedication for us as our daughter dedicated her daughter Trinity - it was a huge blessing to see these parents make a commitment to lead their children toward the Lord! |
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| The adults worked to get the pastor's mic working correctly, but - funny we were the only ones struggling with equipment! |
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| Jocelyn lead the pre-service meeting, and let me tell you, it takes a huge amount of focus to review each element in the services including transitions and covering all their work in prayer. |
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| Student enjoying running one of the cameras. |
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| Running audio is not an easy job! |
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| Camera student #2 on Camera 1 |
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| Running the video switcher is big work! |
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| Running the CG (character generator) requires great focus! |
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| MacKenzie read from God's Word as part of the worship team - and we got to celebrate her birthday with her! Not sure how many teens would tie up a birthday to serve the Lord! |
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| The most precious moment of the weekend for me personally, was witnessing my daughter dedicating her precious daughter to the Lord! |
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| Child Dedication was the perfect fit on a weekend we were studying the family! |
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| Our students pictured here and below have become very dependable leaders! |
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| Students lead us well! |
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| Pastor's son Jacob was one of our excellent drummers! |
Our setlist:
One Thing Remains - Children's Choir
Child Dedication (9:00 a.m. only) - Jeanette Chase, Family Ministry Director
Announcements - Jesse Rider - High School Student Ministry independent
Alive
Glorious Day
Scripture reading - MacKenzie
When the Fight Calls
Anchor
Message: HOME series - Mike Mahek
Exit Song - Alive
To watch our ministry on-line go to crossroadswired.com
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