It has ears!!
My cardigan, that is. Isn't it nifty? I quite like it... it even has 14 cats on it. I'm getting there! It's just making me even more crazy cat lady like!
We (the youth) are doing the worship tomorrow morning, and I'm actually quite excited. I'm also quite excited that when I go to bed in a few minutes, I'll have an extra hours sleep! Isn't that spiffy? Anyway, my friend Lizzy from Spanish class is leading worship at her church tomorrow too, so we're worship leading buddies :) which is also quite spiffy. We had a big convo bout it the other day, quite agreable. So the final songs for worship tomorrow have ended up as follows: Open the Eyes of my Heart, In the Secret (which we've kind of ended up doing punk styles - so much for "in the quiet place"), God of Wonders, Show Me Your Glory, Above All and High Above. Funny that even though we did God of Wonders four times in last weeks meeting (somehow), we still decided to do it this week coz our other one (Hallelujah - Your Love is Amazing) just wasn't meshing. We'd pulled out Above All to replace God of Wonders, but ended up using it to replace Hallelujah, so all good. Charlene, my sister, is singing the first verse of Above All and she sings that song beautifully, so I'm quite stoked about that. Also, and this is even more exciting - for High Above we have an actual strings section! Okay, a violin and a cello, but still, a strings section!!!! Exciting!!! It's a first for the Youth Worship Band!!! We usually have a brass section, but not always a strings section. Now it's time to get something REALLY epic sounding and have a song where we use both at the same time.
It's really quite astonishing the calibre of musicians we have in our youth worship band. We have three fifths of The Vatican ( http://thevatican.co.nz - go check 'em out) and we've just gained an excellent pianist and vocalist in Kelly, who I have so much respect for as a person in general. Then there's our amazing musician Phil who can step in for almost any instrument - he's an excellent trumpet player, but he's playing bass guitar for tomorrow. And he's an amazing singer, too, so there we go. My sister is a good violinist and a pretty impressive vocalist. Mirjam, our German exchange student, is an awesome celloist. Stewart can crank out some pretty cool sounds on his saxophone. Candice and Kim both have really pretty voices. And then you've got me in the middle of all this, fumbling away on my acoustic/electric, feeling pretty stupid coz the rest of the musicians are just so darn GOOD. Oh well. At least I can sing. And I can kind of lead. Even though, really, I'm just standing up the front and hoping like anything that I know which direction we're going in. Oh well. We have a running order. It's all good.
At the moment, our church is being renovated. Meaning that it's full of holes and bits of broken concrete. Trust me, this is actually quite exciting. I don't think anyone was really prepared for how fast it would all happen, though. It should all be done by the end of May - which is actually quite astonishing. It's going to be awesome. Our facilities are going to be so much better, and I think it could mean that we'll expand even more!!! Yay!!! I just hope it's not tooo messy tomorrow morning.
En tout cas, I'd better go get some sleep. Including my extra hour! Whooo!
Bonne nuit, Buenas noches, Guten Nacht, Good night
ALP,
Rosie
We (the youth) are doing the worship tomorrow morning, and I'm actually quite excited. I'm also quite excited that when I go to bed in a few minutes, I'll have an extra hours sleep! Isn't that spiffy? Anyway, my friend Lizzy from Spanish class is leading worship at her church tomorrow too, so we're worship leading buddies :) which is also quite spiffy. We had a big convo bout it the other day, quite agreable. So the final songs for worship tomorrow have ended up as follows: Open the Eyes of my Heart, In the Secret (which we've kind of ended up doing punk styles - so much for "in the quiet place"), God of Wonders, Show Me Your Glory, Above All and High Above. Funny that even though we did God of Wonders four times in last weeks meeting (somehow), we still decided to do it this week coz our other one (Hallelujah - Your Love is Amazing) just wasn't meshing. We'd pulled out Above All to replace God of Wonders, but ended up using it to replace Hallelujah, so all good. Charlene, my sister, is singing the first verse of Above All and she sings that song beautifully, so I'm quite stoked about that. Also, and this is even more exciting - for High Above we have an actual strings section! Okay, a violin and a cello, but still, a strings section!!!! Exciting!!! It's a first for the Youth Worship Band!!! We usually have a brass section, but not always a strings section. Now it's time to get something REALLY epic sounding and have a song where we use both at the same time.
It's really quite astonishing the calibre of musicians we have in our youth worship band. We have three fifths of The Vatican ( http://thevatican.co.nz - go check 'em out) and we've just gained an excellent pianist and vocalist in Kelly, who I have so much respect for as a person in general. Then there's our amazing musician Phil who can step in for almost any instrument - he's an excellent trumpet player, but he's playing bass guitar for tomorrow. And he's an amazing singer, too, so there we go. My sister is a good violinist and a pretty impressive vocalist. Mirjam, our German exchange student, is an awesome celloist. Stewart can crank out some pretty cool sounds on his saxophone. Candice and Kim both have really pretty voices. And then you've got me in the middle of all this, fumbling away on my acoustic/electric, feeling pretty stupid coz the rest of the musicians are just so darn GOOD. Oh well. At least I can sing. And I can kind of lead. Even though, really, I'm just standing up the front and hoping like anything that I know which direction we're going in. Oh well. We have a running order. It's all good.
At the moment, our church is being renovated. Meaning that it's full of holes and bits of broken concrete. Trust me, this is actually quite exciting. I don't think anyone was really prepared for how fast it would all happen, though. It should all be done by the end of May - which is actually quite astonishing. It's going to be awesome. Our facilities are going to be so much better, and I think it could mean that we'll expand even more!!! Yay!!! I just hope it's not tooo messy tomorrow morning.
En tout cas, I'd better go get some sleep. Including my extra hour! Whooo!
Bonne nuit, Buenas noches, Guten Nacht, Good night
ALP,
Rosie
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