I haven't done thing in a few weeks—for various and sundry reason—but I'll try to get back in the groove.

Visitor wise, we seemed to have quite a few, and I'm hoping it was partially as a result of an increased awareness among our people for the need to be reaching out personally.

Yesterday was also the first Sunday of my 2009 plan concerning music selection. I've done what someothers out there have done and narrowed our song list down to less than 100 songs. I will mainly choose from that list throughout the year—not counting seasonal needs, special events, special requests, new songs, etc. I'm hoping this will allow the band greater creativity from week to week since they will have definitive list to rehearse, and will foster greater repetition of newer songs for the benefit of the congregation.

I'll let you know as the year goes on how this is working for us. I'm definitely not married to the idea, but am going to give it a shot.

One cool thing of note from yesterday was a visit from our praise band's original drummer. He had moved to California some years ago, and has since gotten married and has moved back in the area. We'll be going out to dinner with them tonight to catch up.

Here's yesterday's set list:

• Love Lifted Me // Rowe & Smith (traditional)
• All the Way My Savior Leads Me // Fanny J. Crosby, Chris Tomlin
• O How He Loves You and Me // Kurt Kaiser
• Unfailing Love // Chris Tomlin

This post is part of Sunday Setlists at Fred McKinnon [dot] com.

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