The Chaos and the Joy of Easter Service Rehearsals

This being Easter week, we are running not just one, but TWO full church services, 3 services on Good Friday and 3 services as usual on Sunday. 

This year I've been able to set up two separate teams to run with each of the days, so that no one is doubled up and therefore completely exhausted at the end of the weekend.  Especially me !!!

So for the first time in my ministry career, I intend to help out in child care with our Lifegroup in one of the Good Friday services, and then to be in the other services with Carina.  I'm looking forward to being in the crowd this year for that service and am very excited about what we have planned.

We are having a choir this Easter Weekend, something of a tradition now, and a chance for us to do something that is not normally a part of our regular worship experience.  There are many reasons for this, but one of the key issues is the technical challenges of miking and mixing the choir along with our usual worship band configuration.  For those of you who are into sound, you know that stage volumes can't exceed the volume coming out of the house speakers, or you get what we affectionately call 'sonic mush'.  With all the mics on stage for the choir, singers, drums, and horns, you have the further issue of all those mics picking up everything else around them which adds to the challenge of isolating each source of sound and each mic.

We rent some extra gear to deal with it, and throughout the rehearsal process I frequently caution the choir that "This may get loud!"   and I also caution the worship team band members that "You may need to play quieter!"  Somehow we  managed to navigate between these last night and practice, although chaotic, was fun, (at least I think so!).  I came home with a bit of a sore throat (yikes!) but also a sense that it's going to be fine, and the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus will be celebrated with great joy this weekend at Creekside!

I am really looking forward to Easter weekend, and love that we have a great team of people working hard together to make it happen!