Message Series: “Restart: Everyone Deserves A New Beginning”

Song / Version / Key / Leader
“Running” – Hillsong – Key of E – Female 1 Lead
“God Is Able” – Hillsong – Key of B – Male 1 Lead
“Holy Spirit” – Jesus Culture – Key of E – Female 1 Lead
“Lord I Need You” – Chris Tomlin / Passion – Key of E – Female 2 Lead

This set list for our team is a foolproof set. I believe every team should have a set or a couple of songs that can easily be played on the fly, hopefully from memory. Having a set like this comes in handy for when you as a leader are asked to lead a service on short notice or your pastor decides to go into an “extended time of worship” during a service. You will be glad your team has these in their back pocket.

“Running” was chosen as the opener for three reasons: its up-tempo, it has a great lead line (I’m a sucker for a good lead line) and the lyrics spoke well to the message we wanted to articulate, especially for launch Sunday. From that song, we used the midi keyboard to transition the pad from the key of E to the key of B, while the Lead Pastor welcomed everyone. This ensured no dead space and a smooth transition. “God is Able” was then lead by our male leader to give good contrast and unspokenly establish up front that I am not the only worship leader and a co-leader model is important to us, as previously explained above. Then, using the midi keyboard once again we transition back to the key of E for “Holy Spirit,” which has been a staple song for our church before we were even an official church. This song for us, as it is and has been for many congregations, is an anthem song. We concluded with “Lord I Need You,” (led by our second female leader) which was the core song for the message series and also the song we came back to for response time.