Sunday, 6.29.08- Camp Sunday @ Mitchell Wesleyan, 9:30 and 11:00
Recap:
       FINALLY! One year after beginning recording sessions and after six months of tune up performances all over Mitchell, I finally got to share "Bricks & Mortar" LIVE with my home church! A lot of people would probably think, 'well, Jason should have no problems and be entirely comfortable singin' for the home crowd'. Those people don't know me very well, nor have they sung in front of my "home crowd". See, most of the congregation has heard me sing countless times and they've heard me sing these songs as offertories or as parts of previous concerts. So it was up to me to present "Word of Hope" and "I am Free" in different ways than I have in the past. Plus we had two services scheduled for Camp Sunday, so I was expected to share two concerts to vastly different crowds at 9:30, then at 11:00. I was NERVOUS but I was up to the challenge.
       "Spotlight" went off without a hitch (so for those keeping score, that's the FIRST and SECOND TIME, respectively, that I've played it right live!) and I wrote a transitional song to sing before WOH: "Jesus, can You hear me?". They really worked well together, so I'll put that in future repertoire. I got pretty personal in my testimony preceding "I am Free" because I truly am thankful to my accountability partners and many loving people at Mitchell Wesleyan for helping me come to grips with my past (still a work in progress, but aren't we all?). And singing "God is on the Move" in front of the very church that inspired the song almost made my heart explode! I was seriously shaking after that one in both services.
       Tons of thanks to Pastor Keith Nash, my pastor and my friend. You changed the course of my life by inviting me to minister at this church 11 years ago! Thank you, young master Rieck, for being a dedicated and professional audio technician. And many thanks to those who gave me words of encouragement that morning (especially Vernon S...I needed to be reminded that I was not alone up there!). In talking with folks after the concert, I truly began to see that God is indeed on the move in this community. May we strive to recognize His hand as He moves in our hearts and lives!

What was played
       Spotlight, Jesus can You hear me?/ Word of Hope, A Mighty Fortress (9:30 service),
I've always loved you (11:00 service), I am Free, God is on the Move

Offertory:
       Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone


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