Message Series: “Integrity: Part II”

Song / Version / Key / Leader
“You Are Good” – Bethel – Key of F – Female 1 Lead
“Beneath the Waters (I Will Rise)” – Hillsong – Key of A – Female 1 Lead
“My Heart Is Yours” – Kristian Stanfill – Key of A – Male 2 Lead
“Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)” – Hillsong – Key of D – Female 1 Lead

One of the pros and cons to being a church plant, whichever way you decide to look at it, is that sometimes during seasons of transition, you quite possibly will be without a position. In this case, our keyboard player, who is also one of our female worship leaders, was in the process of transitioning out with her husband to help assist and plant another church in the area in which they were moving to. Because of the short transition time, we were still in the process of assimilating other keyboard players.

This adding to the list of reasons why having multiple people rotating and training at every position is so important. However, when you are 7 months old, sometimes this is a dream and not a reality. I say pro and con because from the more negative angle, we were out a keyboard player. However, from the positive angle, it gave our team an opportunity to grow not only musically because they were filling and covering sounds, but also numerically because we were soon adding new gifting and perspective.

With that being said, this particular week, we only had two leaders because of the transition of our female leader and our other male leader being out of town. With our second male leader being fairly new to leading, I had him only lead one song, “My Heart is Yours,” as to not overwhelm him because he was leading on acoustic and I knew he would be pulling double duty with memorization. This song followed the two previous songs we opened with, “You are Good” and “Beneath the Waters (I Will Rise).” The Pastor’s welcome was sandwiched in between the first two songs. So, even though the keys were different, the transition was slightly easier because we used the pad as usual, but the greeting overtop helped distract from the key change.

We then remained in the key of A for the two songs following the opener, which we smoothly bridged with a down chorus before heading into the intro of the third, “My Heart is Yours.” We ended on the tag and let it ring out before changing the pad to the key of D for “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail).” Since we were continuing the “Integrity” series, we came back to “My Heart Is Yours” for response. Thematically the prayer of surrender (surrendering to Christ and letting Him make us whole and complete) facilitated by this song fit well with the theme.